Shanghai: The wave of coronavirus in Europe and East Asia does not seem to be slowing down. There has been a two-stage lockdown in Shanghai, China. Testing will now be increased for nine days in a city with a population of more than 2.6 crores. The surge in Covid cases continues in European countries. In both cases, Omicron’s sub-variant BA.2 is the reason for the increasing cases. Israeli Prime Minister Naphtali Bennett has been found to be Corona virus-positive. However, in the countries of India, the epidemic is now continuously weakening. According to the data released on Monday morning, the overall recovery rate has reached 98.75%. Meanwhile, quoting sources, it is reported that the caller tune of Covid will be stopped soon.
China is once again battling Corona havoc. On Monday, it imposed a lockdown in large parts of its largest city, Shanghai. Along with this, corona testing has been started on a large scale in the city. According to the local administration, a lockdown has been imposed in Pudong and its surrounding areas from Monday to Friday. Pudong Financial District. The second phase of the lockdown in Shanghai will see a five-day lockdown beginning Friday in the western area of the Huangpu River that divides the city.
According to the administration, the lockdown will have to be strictly followed and people will have to stay in their homes. Any item or goods delivered will be left at the checkpoint to close out external contact. During the lockdown, all commercial establishments except essential businesses will remain closed and public transport will also remain closed. Simultaneously, a massive corona investigation campaign has been started in Shanghai. Earlier, the Disney theme park in Shanghai has also been closed.
So far, more than 56 thousand corona cases have been found in China in March. Most of these have been found in the northeastern province of Jilin. However, the least number of cases have been found in Shanghai so far. Let us tell you that China had rapidly controlled Covid-19 earlier as well. He follows the ‘Zero Covid Policy’, so the epidemic is controlled rapidly by taking strict measures.
New cases of corona in Singapore: 4,848 new cases of the corona were reported in Singapore in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 1,072,005. According to health ministry data on Sunday, 543 of the new cases were detected by PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test and 4,305 by ART (antigen rapid test) test.
New patients in Indonesia: 3,077 new cases of the corona were reported in Indonesia in the last 24 hours, taking the number of cases to 5,998,953. This information was given by the Ministry of Health of the country. According to the ministry, the death toll from corona in the country has increased to 154,670, while 12,499 people have been cured in the last 24 hours.
WHO indicated the new stage?
Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead for Covid-19 at the World Health Organization (WHO), has said that the coronavirus is on its way to becoming endemic. He said that does not mean that it is not dangerous Kerkhov said, ‘Now is not the time to give up. Now is not the time to say that the pandemic is over. Unfortunately, if this is not the case, then we will have to increase vaccination for the most vulnerable people in every country. Along with this, easy measures will also have to be adopted to stop the spread.
Testing decreased in India, with 1,270 new cases
Due to yesterday being Sunday, there was a huge shortage in the testing of coronavirus. Yesterday, only 4.5 lakh people were tested for coronavirus across the country, out of which 1,270 people were found to have corona infection. During this period, the infection rate has been recorded at 0.29 percent. In the last 24 hours, 1,567 patients have recovered from the coronavirus and 31 people have lost their lives due to it. During this period 328 active cases have come down and now only 15,859 active cases are left, which is 0.04 percent of the total cases. On the other hand, the recovery rate is getting better. Now it has reached 98.75 percent and the death rate is 1.21 percent.NBT
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