As Covid cases in China continue to rise, Beijing will soon start distributing Pfizer's Covid-19 drug Paxlovid to the community health centres in the coming days, the CNN reported citing state media.
China and Hong Kong resumed regular passenger traffic on Sunday, ending almost three years of self-imposed Covid-19-related restrictions, even as the second largest economy faces a huge spike in Covid cases.
The 10th edition of the virus prevention and control protocol has been released in accordance to the decision to downgrade the epidemic management from Class A to Class B.
India saw a slight increase in Covid infections on Thursday as it witnessed 188 new cases in the last 24 hours on Thursday, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.
The national capital logged 6 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, with the case positivity rate at 0.13 per cent, stated a bulletin issued by the Delhi Health Department on Wednesday.
The national capital recorded fewer than 10 COVID cases for the second day in a row with 7 fresh infections, according to the Delhi Health Department on Tuesday.
According to Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, Co-chairman of the National IMA Covid task force, XBB.1.5 is an upgraded version of XBB, a recombinant sub-lineage of Omicron that was found a few months ago in multiple countries like Singapore and later in India.
In the last 24 hours, the number of Covid tests conducted was 1,51,186 which is also a substantial increase from 92,955 tests conducted in the previous 24 hours (January 1).