Four of the infected patients died after developing complications linked to severe pre-existing illnesses, while health officials said hospitals across Andhra Pradesh have been placed on alert and five samples are undergoing genome sequencing.
Claiming that Odisha is fully prepared to tackle any possible resurgence of COVID-19, Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling said on Tuesday that the public has no reason to panic as the state has implemented all necessary preparedness measures.
Following a new COVID-19 case in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, the health department has appealed to the public to remain vigilant.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that just as the people of the country united to confront the global COVID-19 pandemic, a similar sense of collective responsibility and national spirit is now needed amid the evolving situation in West Asia.
Odisha, endowed with a huge tourism potential, has recorded a substantial increase in the footfall of foreign tourists to coastal state in recent years after a considerable decline in 2020 and 2021 due to the outbreak of Covid-19.
There were 90 more Covid-19 fatalities, taking the overall toll to 1,56,302, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare adding that in the past one month, the country has been recording less than 15,000 new infections daily with the toll not going over the 200-mark.
Whether it was techies working in big firms or digital entrepreneurs looking to launch start-ups, they all seemingly had to be in these megacities despite rocketing housing costs, terrible pollution, being quarantined in tight places, and generally suffering a poor quality of life.
Period poverty is a very real concept in India. According to a March 2020 report of the Ministry of Health, majority of menstruating females in India are largely dependent on unsafe sanitary materials like rags, cloth, hay, sand, and ash as their only alternatives.
The fresh coronavirus cases were identified from 39,065 tests done across the national capital. The cumulative number of those who died of the coronavirus infection in Delhi rose to 10,893, the health bulletin said.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said it was a historic day for Australia.
