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A high-level meeting was summoned on Wednesday by the Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to track preparedness and the level of Indian alertness because several Asian countries reported another surge in the case of Covid-19. India has just begun to revive itself from the third wave of omicron led pandemic. The center recently announced plans to continue international flights from March 27 after a two-year gap.
Covid surge in Asia
Countries including China, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea recently reported a surge in Coronavirus infection. While the Covid Chinese outbreak seems to slow down this week, the new Covid-19 South Korean daily infection reached a record 621,328.
Emergence of Covid-19 variant BA.2
While Delta and Omicron continue to dominate the wave of Asia Covid-19, a new variant related – BA.2 – is setting the stage for the rise of a risk of pandemic in Europe. Regarded as a transmission strain that is faster than the omicron variant, the virus has spread rapidly in Germany and Austria.
Most health officials in Europe have ignored it, showing a slight appetite to impose the sidewalks that have just subsided. However, the German health minister Karl Lauterbach is one of the few that raises alarm, saying that the outbreak has shown signs of deteriorating and causing “many deaths”
In France, millions of secondary school students and teachers removed the mask for the first time in almost two years this week, while England planned to bring down his last restriction on Thursday and ended free mass testing on April 1.
Italy also showed signs of an increase in infection with around 120,000 school children, around 2.5% of the total, in quarantine for a week ending March 5 – the latest government data shows. In the southern city of Cerchiara in Calabria, the mayor has closed all the schools again this week because of the increasing case.
Covid surge in the US
More than a third of the centers for Waste Control and Prevention Network (CDC) (CDC) (CDC) (CDC) that monitored Covid-19 sample sites throughout the US showed a trend of Covid-19 which increased in March to March 10, at a rate of almost two times more high as the same period in February. While people in many parts of the country have begun to return to the office with the rules of masks that have been relaxed, the authorities are wary of the risk of new transmission.
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