Incidentally, the scale of the current outbreak of the Covid infections has made it difficult for the authorities to track the Covid infections, following the end of the mandatory mass testing as part of the easing of Covid restrictions.
According to an internal document of the Chinese CDC, 248 million people were infected by the coronavirus between December 1 and 20. As of now, the total number of Covid infections has reached 665 million globally while 6.69 million people have died, Asia Times reported.
Two days after a third Russian was found dead near the coast of Odisha, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said it would not link the deaths of three Russian nationals who recently died in India, as the probe is underway in all the cases.
This comes as WHO held a high-level meeting with counterparts in China last week to discuss the surge in cases and hospitalisations. Subsequently, WHO's Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution and the COVID-19 clinical management expert network groups both met with Chinese
Telugu Desam Party leader Varla Ramaiah on Monday suspected the role of the "sleeper cells" of the ruling YSRCP behind the death of three persons in the stampede at Chandrababu Naidu's public meeting in Guntur.
The Chief Minister directed the officers that Intensity Care Units should be functional in all districts and there should be no shortage of medicines, specialists and technicians.
As the Odisha Police Crime Branch team continued their investigation into two Russian nationals death case on the third day, DGP Sunil Kumar Bansal said that the probe team has not found any indication of any kind of foul play in the case so far.
"China has always been publishing information on COVID-19 deaths and severe cases in the spirit of openness and transparency," Jiao Yahui, head of the Bureau of Medical Administration under the National Health Commission, said at a press briefing held on Thursday.