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 12,012,720 people have been infected with the virus while 548,914 people have died due to it.
Among all the imported cases, 1,877 had been discharged from hospitals after recovery, and 72 remained hospitalized, with no one in severe condition, the commission said.
Globally 11,799,443 people have been infected with the virus while 5,43,558 people have died due to it according to Johns Hopkins University tracker.
Localised lockdowns across the city have been eased in recent days, with people living in areas of the city considered "low risk" now allowed to travel freely again.
India is now the third worst-affected country after the United States which has 2,935,712 cases and Brazil which has reported 1,623,284 cases of infection according to Johns Hopkins University tracker.
