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Shadow of second wave of the virus spoils world leaders’ efforts to restore normality
From Italy to New Zealand, irrespective of how well the virus was contained, governments acknowledge that fresh waves of the deadly coronavirus are likely and that the policy tools to mitigate the damage are limited.The hope is that localizing quarantines to towns, cities and regions will be enough to snuff out bouts of infections as they come.
Record numbers of coronavirus cases in every global region
“We will not be going back to the ‘old normal’. The pandemic has already changed the way we live our lives,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this week. “We’re asking everyone to treat the decisions about where they go, what they do and who they meet with as life-and-death decisions – because they are.”
WHO chief says comments questioning his independence ‘untrue and unacceptable’
A WHO advance team has been in China for nearly two weeks, organising a WHO-led international mission to investigate the origins of the virus. Scientists believe it emerged in a food market in the central city of Wuhan late last year.Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the WHO was seeing intense transmission of the coronavirus in relatively few countries.
“Two-thirds of all cases are from 10 countries. Almost half of all cases reported so far are from just three countries,” he said, referring to the United States, Brazil and India.
COVID-19:Record single-day spike of 49,310,death toll mounts to 30,601,tally at 12,87,945
Around 63.45 per cent people have recovered so far.There are 4,40,135 active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country.
Scavengers in India risk health to sift coronavirus debris
Dinesh Raj Bandela, an expert in biomedical waste at the Delhi-based think tank Centre for Science and Environment, said protocols for disposal of biomedical waste were not necessarily being followed during the outbreak, putting those who sift through landfills at risk.
About 400,000 global airline jobs lost or at risk due to virus
Job losses in related industries including aircraft manufacturers, engine makers, airports and travel agencies could reach 25 million, according to the International Air Transport Association. The hotels and lodging sector in the U.S. sees 7.5 jobs lost for every one in aviation. Airbus SE and Boeing Co. are cutting more than 30,000 positions.
Floods claim 10 lives in Bihar,nearly 1 million people affected in 10 districts
According to the state disaster management department’s bulletin, a total of 9.60 lakh people have been affected by floodwaters in 529 panchayats of 74 blocks in 10 districts.
India has one of world’s lowest Covid infection & death rate, says Harsh Vardhan
He explained that a series of actions were initiated in a graded way that included issuing of travel advisories, point-of-entry surveillance, community-based surveillance, enhancement of laboratory and hospital surge capacities, wide dissemination of technical guidelines on managing different aspects of disease outbreak and communicating risk to the public.
WHO reports record daily increase in global coronavirus cases, up over 284,000
The WHO reported 69,641 new cases in the United States, 67,860 in Brazil, 49,310 in India and 13,104 in South Africa. The largest increases in new deaths were 3,876 in Peru, 1,284 in Brazil, 1,074 in the United States, 790 in Mexico and 740 in India.
Covid-19 Pandemic:Record 45,720 new cases,deaths rise by 1,129,tally crosses 12-lakh mark in India
The coronavirus caseload in the country surged to12,38,635,while 7,82,606 people have recovered so far in the country,the data updated at 8 am showed
Of the 1,129 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 18 are from Tamil Nadu, 280 from Maharashtra, 65 from Andhra Pradesh,?55 from Karnataka, 39 from West Bengal, 34 from Uttar Pradesh, 29 from Delhi, 28 from Gujarat, 14 from Madhya Pradesh and 10 from Jammu and Kashmir