Opinion | India on full alert after fresh outbreak of Covid in China
India | Dec 22, 2022, 06:13 AM ISTAt a high-level review meeting on Wednesday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya chalked out a strategy to tackle the emerging crisis.
At a high-level review meeting on Wednesday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya chalked out a strategy to tackle the emerging crisis.
Covid Omicron Subvariant BF.7 cases in India: The first case of BF.7 in India was detected in October by Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre. So far, two cases have been reported from Gujarat while one case has been reported from Odisha.
China Covid outbreak: In a letter to states and UTs, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said such an exercise will enable timely detection of newer variants, if any, circulating in the country and will facilitate undertaking of requisite public health measures.
China Covid Explosion: The deaths in mainland China is being hugely underreported outside of China. Through a survey of hospitals, funeral parlors and related funeral industry chains in Beijing, there is a recent explosion in funeral services caused by the sharp increase in deaths.
China Covid news: According to one estimate, over 70 per cent of the city’s population has been hit by the virus, which confined millions of people to their homes.
World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday (December 14) called on China to share the requested data concerning Covid-19 in a bid to understand the origins of the virus.
China: Official data showed a fall in new cases, but those no longer cover big parts of the population after the government ended mandatory testing for many people.
Covid leaked from Wuhan: Epidemiologist Andrew Huff in his latest book 'The Truth About Wuhan' claims that the pandemic was caused by the US government's funding of coronaviruses in China, according to excerpts of the book.
China Covid lockdown protest: Thousands of protesters turned out in Shanghai, where people were bundled into police cars, BBC reported. Students were also seen demonstrating at universities in Beijing and Nanjing, among other places.
For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, a majority of Americans dying from Covid were at least partially vaccinated, according to the new analysis of federal and state data.
COVID-19 vaccine: Data on vaccinations and infections from all Danish registrations were analysed for the study, which was published in the journal PLOS Medicine.
Covid: While critics have questioned China’s Covid numbers, and specifically its death toll, its intensive approach to trying to contain infections has prevented massive outbreaks and kept new daily cases lower than in many other countries.
Covid19 news: A news release from the police department in the Shandong city of Linyi said public security would take strong measures against those who “illegally violated the legal rights of personal protection of citizens.”
The active caseload declined by 324 in 24 hours and now comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.78 per cent, according to the ministry website.
COVID-19: The total active cases in India have decreased to 15,705, the health ministry data showed on Friday.
COVID: The researchers found the spike protein of the virus was enough to start the process and was further exacerbated when there were already proteins in the brain linked to Parkinson's.
China: In the past few days, people have been captured fleeing shops - including a Shanghai branch of Swedish furniture giant Ikea - and workplaces as they try to avoid being trapped inside.
Dr Neeraj Gupta, a senior pulmonologist and additional medical superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital, however, stressed that vulnerable people such as the elderly and those having co-morbidities will still require similar precautions as needed for other infections such as influenza and pneumonia.
In view of the detection of newer sub-variants of Coronavirus, the Karnataka government has issued an advisory urging people to follow COVID appropriate behaviour and isolate themselves if they test positive for the virus.
SII Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla said booster vaccines have no demand as there is general lethargy among people and also because they are fed up with the pandemic.
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