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.
Gloablly 10,278,458 people have been infected with virus while 504,936 have died due to it according to Johns Hopkins University tracker.
The United States added 288 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours, the Johns Hopkins University tally showed on Sunday, with the infection rate remaining high as the country struggles to control a new surge of the disease.
Globally 10,117,326 have been infected with the virus while 5,01,281 have died due to it according to Johns Hopkins University tracker.
City officials have urged people not to leave the city, closed schools again and locked down dozens of residential compounds to stamp out the virus.
Lee also mentioned in his speech the importance of "vaccine multilateralism" in the fight against the pandemic.
