Singapore's health minister Ong Ye Kung said that over 25,900 cases were recorded between May 5 and May 11, more than 13,700 detected the previous week. He advised people to start wearing masks again and those at greater risk of disease to get vaccinated.
In a circular, the High Court advised against large gatherings in the common and waiting areas to avoid any further spread of the virus.
Covid19: The decision was taken at a review meeting on the issue of rising covid cases.
The active cases now comprise 0.07 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.74 per cent, the ministry said.
Delhi COVID updates: The services of health care workers who were hired on contract in Covid hospitals have been extended till the end of the year.
In last 10 days, active Covid-19 cases have breached 6,000-mark in Tamil Nadu where Chennai had accounted for more than half the share.
Maharashtra cabinet minister, Aslam Shaikh stated that the people of the state should use masks in buses, trains, cinema halls, auditoriums, hospitals, colleges, schools and all crowded places.
Many north Indian states, especially the ones around the national capital have advised the citizens to wear masks in crowded places, despite making them optional a mere while ago. On Thursday, India had reported over 2,000 fresh cases in 24 hours.
Delhi on Wednesday reported 123 coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 0.50 per cent, while there was one fatality due to the infection, according to data shared by the health department. With these fresh cases, the national capital's tally increased to 18,64,857. The death toll stands at 26,151, it stated.
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The decision was made per new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a press release, Xinhua news agency reported.
Officials encouraged the use of cloth masks in the spring of 2020 as a desperate measure to slow the spread of Covid-19 after previously recommending against masks and continued to boost them in the months after. Now, though, more experts are saying that the masks are not helpful, the report said.
As per a new study, the risky activities which have increased the transmission of COVID-19 infection over the past two years are: going outside for shopping, leaving home for work, using public transport, eating at restaurants, playing sports, going to indoor and outdoor parties.
Sunwing Airlines cancelled the return charter flight from Cancun that had been scheduled for Wednesday and Air Transat and Air Canada also both said they will refuse to carry the passengers.
The rules, which bring England in line with other parts of the United Kingdom, are to be brought in on a temporary basis in time for students to return to classrooms after the Christmas holidays next week.
On the sidelines of the event at Nashik in Maharashtra, some reporters asked the Rajya Sabha member why he was not wearing a mask, a norm to be followed to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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Wednesday's announcement comes a day after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised that fully vaccinated people mask up in public indoor settings in places where community spread is high or substantial.
The announcements come amid a sharp increase in virus cases, many of them the highly transmissible delta variant that has proliferated since California fully reopened its economy on June 15.
A team of US researchers has developed face masks with biosensors that can be customised to detect pathogens such as the SARS-CoV2, virus causing Covid-19, and toxins and alert the user.
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