BY DIRAMAKINI
ON the third anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines.
A U.S. agency was reported by the Wall Street Journal to have assessed the pandemic had likely been caused by an unintended Chinese laboratory leak, raising pressure on the WHO to come up with answers. Beijing denies the assessment.
Finding Covid-19's origins is a moral imperative: WHO's Tedros.Discovering the origins of Covid-19 is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, the head of the World Health Organization said, in his strongest comments yet that the UN body remains committed to finding how the virus arouse.
The health secretary on Saturday said there is a need to remain vigilant and focus on the five-fold strategy of test, track, treat, vaccination and adherence to Covid-appropriate behaviour.
“While the Covid-19 trajectory has decreased substantially in the last few months, the gradual rise in Covid-19 test positivity rate in some states is a concerning issue that needs to be promptly addressed,” Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan wrote in a letter to states and UTs. Spike in daily cases comes a day after Centre's letter to states. The Centre had on Saturday expressed concern over a gradual increase in the Covid-19 positivity rate in some states and said it needed to be promptly addressed.
The Covid case tally was recorded at 4,46,90,492, ministry data states. India has reported 524 new coronavirus cases after a gap of 113 days, according to Union health ministry data updated on Sunday. The active caseload has risen to 3,618, the data stated.
Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso has tested positive for Covid-19, and will continue working remotely, the office of the presidency said in a statement on Saturday. The office said Lasso was in good health and will stay in isolation for four days, in accordance with medical recommendations
The Covid case tally was recorded at 4,46,90,492, ministry data states. India has reported 524 new coronavirus cases after a gap of 113 days, according to Union health ministry data updated on Sunday. The active caseload has risen to 3,618, the data stated.
Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso has tested positive for Covid-19, and will continue working remotely, the office of the presidency said in a statement on Saturday. The office said Lasso was in good health and will stay in isolation for four days, in accordance with medical recommendations
"While the Covid-19 trajectory has decreased substantially in the last few months, the gradual rise in Covid-19 test positivity rate in some states is a concerning issue that needs to be promptly addressed," Bhushan wrote.
In a letter to states and UTs, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said operational guidelines for integrated surveillance of respiratory pathogens presenting as cases of influenza-like illness or severe acute respiratory infection need to be followed.
The Centre on Saturday expressed concern over a gradual increase in the Covid-19 positivity rate in some states and said it needed to be promptly addressed. Centre raises concern over gradual increase in Covid positivity rate in some states amid rising H3N2 cases. In Odisha state that affected record is 59.
In a letter to states and UTs, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said operational guidelines for integrated surveillance of respiratory pathogens presenting as cases of influenza-like illness or severe acute respiratory infection need to be followed.
The Centre on Saturday expressed concern over a gradual increase in the Covid-19 positivity rate in some states and said it needed to be promptly addressed. Centre raises concern over gradual increase in Covid positivity rate in some states amid rising H3N2 cases. In Odisha state that affected record is 59.
So, to be fully alert, Chinmaya Foundation, a leading international social welfare peoples organization for peace and harmony based in Babalpur village of Jajpur district of Odisha state has been continuously alerting people for 1087 days and distributing relief items and covid kits to the poor and needy. In this context, under the initiative of the founder chairman of the foundation Mr. Chinmaya Dash, the young socialists of the foundation, Mr Sagar Mallik & Shreekshetra Sahoo are distributed the Covid Kit & Relief in the foundation's day number 1080 to 1086 (from Monday to Sunday) for seven long days, provided dresses, masks, soap, sanitizer, hand gloves, O.R.S , insta vegetable wash, phinyl, Dettol, dry food, fruits to the poor and needy in various places of Jajpur and Kendrapada districts of Odisha State.