Coronavirus LIVE: India Reports 29,689 Fresh Covid Cases, 415 Deaths In Past 24 Hrs
Coronavirus LIVE: Govt has geared up in making arrangements to counter third wave of Covid and control spread of Coronavirus. Meanwhile, total vaccinations administered in country stand at 44.19 Cr.
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Coronavirus LIVE, Tuesday July 27: The U.N.'s deputy humanitarian chief has expressed concerns over COVID-19 pandemic which is hitting conflict-ridden and impoverished countries much worse this year than in 2020, with many facing higher caseloads and rising deaths.
Meanwhile, Governments have geared up in making arrangements to counter third wave of Covid-19 and control the spread of Coronavirus. Data from the government’s Co-WIN system shows that close to 10% of India’s eligible population has now been fully vaccinated for Covid-19
Aus state set to end Covid lockdown
The state of South Australia (SA) will end its Covid-19 lockdown on Wednesday after successfully suppressing a new outbreak with 19 cases linked to an infection cluster, Premier Steven Marshall announced on Tuesday. Marshall said that the statewide lockdown will end as scheduled unless there was a significant rise in community cases, reports Xinhua news agency.
The announcement comes one week after strict restrictions were introduced to prevent the spread of Covid-19 after new cases were found in the community. Marshall praised state residents for abiding by lockdown rules but warned that restrictions would be eased gradually as the state takes it "one day at a time".
"We won't be going back to directly where we were with the lowest level restrictions in the country," he said.
As of Wednesday, schools and universities will return to face-to-face learning in South Australia. Offices, restaurants, cafes, bars, and gyms will be allowed to re-open but must adhere to strict capacity limits. Masks will remain mandatory in high-risk settings including personal service industries such as hairdressers, on public transport and in health care services.
Delta variant identified in Chinese city's clusters
The virus strain behind the latest Covid-19 infection cluster in Nanjing, the capital city of China's Jiangsu province, has been identified as the highly infectious Delta variant, local authorities said on Tuesday.
The recent spike in infections in Nanjing can be attributed to the special location of the outbreak and the highly contagious nature of the strain, Xinhua news agency quoted Ding Jie, vice director of the city's centre for disease control and prevention, as saying at a press conference.
Nanjing, a mega-city with a population of more than 9.3 million, has witnessed single-day spikes of locally transmitted Covid-19 cases since a few airport workers tested positive for coronavirus last week.
It has launched a second round of all-inclusive nucleic acid testing and urged residents not to leave the city unless necessary.
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India Reports 29,689 Fresh Covid Cases, 415 Deaths In Past 24 Hrs
India reports 29,689 fresh COVID cases, 42,363 recoveries, and 415 deaths in the past 24 hours
Active cases: 3,98,100
Total recoveries: 3,06,21,469
Death toll: 4,21,382
Total vaccination: 44,19,12,395
Chinese mainland reports 31 new locally transmitted Covid cases
The Chinese mainland in the past 24 hours reported 31 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, all in Jiangsu Province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday.
Also reported were 40 new imported cases, of which 19 were reported in Yunnan, 13 in Guangdong, four in Shanghai, three in Jiangsu and one in Sichuan, Xinhua reported.
Four new suspected cases from outside the mainland were reported in Shanghai. No new deaths related to Covid-19 were reported Monday.
44.19 crore vaccine doses administered across India
Ministry of Health informed that more than 44.19 crore vaccine doses have been administered cumulatively, with 66 lakh doses inoculated yesterday.
4 new COVID-19 cases in Olympic Games village, two of them athletes
Four residents of the Olympic Games village, including two athletes, are among the seven new COVID-19 cases that the event organisers announced on Tuesday. With this, the total Games-related COVID cases shot up to 155, 20 of them in the Games village. The four fresh cases in the village include two Games-concerned personnel.
On Monday, Dutch tennis player Jean-Julien Rojer was forced to withdraw from after testing positive for the virus. Rojer and his doubles partner Wesley Koolhof, who were scheduled to play Marcus Daniell and Michael Venus of New Zealand, pulled out of their second-round match on Monday following Rojer's positive test result.
The contingents that have been hit by COVID-19 after landing in Tokyo include Czech republic, the USA, Chile, South Africa and the Netherlands among others.
Of these, the Czech Republic is inquiring into possible health safety protocol violations by its contingent after four athletes tested positive for the virus, forcing withdrawals from beach volleyball and road cycling events.
'COVID hitting poor and conflict nations worse this year' warns UN
The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting conflict-ridden and impoverished countries much worse this year than in 2020, with many facing higher caseloads and rising deaths, the U.N.'s deputy humanitarian chief warned Monday.
Ramesh Rajasingham said in a closed briefing to the U.N. Security Council that these surges are being fueled by a lack of access to vaccines, an easing of public health measures, increased social mixing, and the spread of the delta variant to at least 124 countries, including 17 fragile and conflict-affected nations.
This pandemic is far from over, he said. We are arguably in one of the most dangerous periods for the poorest people on our planet.
In his briefing obtained by The Associated Press, Rajasingham said that so far in 2021 almost three-quarters of countries needing humanitarian aid have recorded more cases or deaths than in all of 2020.
And in over one-third of those countries, he added, at least three times more cases or deaths have been recorded this year compared to last.
He called these numbers just the tip of the iceberg, saying that testing capabilities in many of these countries are inadequate so the U.N. doesn't have a true sense of the actual scale of the crisis.
Today, we have a two-track pandemic -- one trajectory for the rich world, and one for the poor -- characterized by dramatic differences in vaccine availability, infection rates and the ability to provide policy support, he said.
Rajasingham urged the international community to respond by ensuring that the poorest countries have access to protective equipment, oxygen, testing kits and other critical supplies.
To tackle the pandemic and the worsening impact on the poorest people, he said, the global humanitarian system is appealing for USD 36 billion to help 161 million people.
Rajasingham said fragile and conflict-affected countries also must have access to vaccines. To date, he said, 80 million vaccine doses have been delivered to countries where the U.N. has appealed for humanitarian assistance.
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