New Delhi: In the past 24 hours as many as 62,480 new Covid-19 positive cases were detected in India, as reported by the Union Health Minist...
New Delhi: In the past 24 hours as many as 62,480 new Covid-19 positive cases were detected in India, as reported by the Union Health Ministry on Friday. While 88,977 more people recovered from the disease, 1,587 deaths were recorded in the same period. The total cases till now are 2,97,62,793 and recoveries are 2,85,80,647 while the death toll has gone up to 3,83,490. The cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered so far in the country stands at 26,89,60,399.
Meanwhile, a third wave has started in Africa. Confirmed Covid-19
cases in Africa were surging by 20 percent on a weekly basis as most countries
in the continent were under the third wave of the pandemic, a World Health
Organization official said.
Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, in a statement
on Thursday, said the continent is already reeling from the third wave that
could overwhelm the already fragile public health systems, reports Xinhua news
agency.
“Africa is in the midst of a full-blown third wave. The sobering
trajectory of surging cases should rouse everyone into urgent action,” Moeti
said in the statement. Public health measures must be scaled up fast to find,
test, isolate and care for patients and to quickly trace their contacts, he added.
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