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Focus on house-to-house survey, prompt testing: Health min to civic bodies
To reduce the case fatality rate, the officials were briefed on measures that include prioritising high-risk and vulnerable segments like elderly people and people with comorbidities while contact-tracing to prevent deaths.
Delhi to assess if there is community transmission of COVID-19 in city
“If community transmission is ascertained at the meeting tomorrow, we will have to change our strategy accordingly,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said
Restrictions, lckdowns substantially slowed the Pandemic,may have helped prevent half a billion Covid cases in 6 countries,research says
The first peer-reviewed analysis of the impact of health policies suggests that the toll would have been vastly worse without lockdowns, social distancing, travel restrictions and other interventions.
Asian companies at higher risk of default this year: data
“We expected the pick-up in default rates to be mostly amongst smaller companies who already had a stretched liquidity profile and less access to alternative funding channels,” said Alaa Bushehri, head of emerging market debt at BNP Paribas Asset Management.
Coronavirus Situation “Worsening” Worldwide: WHO
After East Asia, Europe became the epicentre of the disease, but has now been overtaken by the Americas.
“Although the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is worsening,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva.
BA, Ryanair, easyJet protest over ‘wholly unjustified’ UK quarantine plan
With planes around the world grounded since late March, airlines had hoped to start flying from July, but bosses say quarantine measures will hamper that recovery.
From June 8, almost everyone arriving in Britain will be required to self-isolate for 14 days and to fill in a contact form with details of their accommodation.
Describing itself as a “pre-action protocol letter,” meaning it could be followed by legal action, the letter from British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet said the government had failed to justify the blanket nature of the regulations.
China denies Covid cover-up charges, says virus was first noticed on Dec 27
Researchers from a high-level expert team organised by the National Health Commission (NHC) confirmed that the virus was transmissible among humans for the first time on January 19, hours before they notified the public, and less than a month before the experts were alerted by the newly-discovered disease, it said.According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the coronavirus has infected over 68,00,000 people and killed nearly 4,00,000 across the world. The US is the worst affected country with over 1.9 million cases and more than 1,09,000 deaths, while the total number of cases in China stand at 84,177.
Global coronavirus cases near 7 million,death toll nearing 4,00,000
The number of deaths linked to COVID-19 in just five months is now equal to the number of people who die annually from malaria, one of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases.
Delhi reserves hospital beds for residents as virus cases surge
India on Sunday registered 9,971 new coronavirus cases, taking its tally to 246,628 cases, with 6,929 deaths. The case numbers now lag only the United States, Brazil, Russia, United Kingdom and Spain.
China publishes white paper on outbreak of Covid-19 Pandemic
In the white paper, the Chinese government said the medical cost of all the coronavirus patients in China totalled 1.35 billion yuan ($191 million) as of the end of May.