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, 7,500,777 confirmed coronavirus infections have been reported according to Johns Hopkins University data. There have been 420,993 known deaths so far.
In the biggest single-day day jump, India recorded 9,996 Coronavirus cases and 357 fatalities in 24 hours.
Accoding to the ministry, the total number of confirmed infections had risen to 739,503, the second-highest caseload in the world, after the US.
Maria Van Kerkhove had said that on the basis of studies carried out in several countries, transmission of the virus by an asymptomatic person seemed 'very rare'.
Globally, the number of infections has reached 7,238,723 with the death toll at 4,11,177 according to Johns Hopkins tracker.