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.
Currently, there are a few vaccines being administered globally. These include the Oxford- AstraZeneca Covishield vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca from Sweden, Moderna by the US, Pfizer BioNTech, a US-German collaboration, Sputnik V from Russia, Coronavac from China and Covaxin from India.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed 20 lakh on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and?50 lakh on September 16.
Manish Tewari has questioned the procedure of giving the approval of using COVAXIN as he claimed that there is no policy framework to authorise the vaccine for emergency use.
This day also sees India’s total Active Caseload (2,11,033) further slump to account for just 2% of the total positive cases.
Talking about India, she said it was a very dramatic lockdown for a country of this size of the population with people clustered so closely together.
