Sudan clash: Death toll reaches 270, over 2,600 injured
Fighting continued in Sudan as forces loyal to duelling generals fought for strategic positions in the city and accused one another of breaking the ceasefire hours.
Fighting continued in Sudan as forces loyal to duelling generals fought for strategic positions in the city and accused one another of breaking the ceasefire hours.
The states were also asked to focus on timely testing for early identification and ensuring adequate health infrastructure.
Indeed, WHO has upbraided the countries that are asking citizens to take yet another Covid-19 booster shot to mitigate the transmission of the virus.
On the International Day of Older Persons, “The older population continues to be highly vulnerable in the ongoing pandemic. Protecting them against the deadly COVID-19 virus should be our priority," said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region.
"The Delta variant now accounted for 90 per cent of the sequences submitted to GISAID with a sample collection date (between 15 June-15 September 2021)," the global health agency said in its weekly epidemiological update on Tuesday. GISAID, which stands for Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data, is an open-access database.
Globally, 8,464,739 people have been infected with the virus and 4,53,290 people have died due to it, according to Johns Hopkins University tracker.
The announcement came two days after the United States withdrew emergency use authorisations for both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.
Globally, 8,331,135 people have been infected while 448,504 have lost their lives.
The new cases took the number of confirmed infections in Beijing over the past five days to 106, as authorities locked down almost 30 communities in the city and tested tens of thousands of people.
Globally the coronavirus tally has reached 8,015,502 with the death toll at 4,36,406 according to Johns Hopkins University tracker.
