India last made it to the AFC Women's Asian Cup in 2003. And when they hosted the tournament in 2022, a COVID outbreak in the team meant that India had to withdraw after only the first game and the results were declared void, as per the AIFF official website..
Speaking to ANI, Das said, "Crimes against women have spread like a pandemic in Odisha." He linked the increase in sexual crimes to poor governance and a lack of seriousness in addressing women's safety.
The National Institute of One Health (NIOH), currently being established in Nagpur, will feature a specialised National Outbreak Response Team aimed at swiftly identifying and analysing the root causes of disease outbreaks.
Commissioner-cum-Secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department of Odisha, Aswathy S, said that cholera has so far been detected only in Jaipur district and has not spread to other areas such as Puri.
A sudden spike in diarrhoea cases has gripped Cuttack district, with 64 patients reported so far. Of these, 55 have been admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital, while nine others are receiving treatment at City Hospital, Cuttack.
The Kailash Mansarovar Yatra had not taken place since 2020 following the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent non-renewal of Yatra arrangements by the Chinese Side.
Ghana has reported 45 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the past month, marking its worst outbreak since 2022, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
The Uttar Pradesh government ordered the closure of Etawah Lion Safari and zoos in Lucknow, Kanpur, and Gorakhpur for seven days after bird flu was confirmed in a dead tigress at Gorakhpur's Shaheed Ashfaqulla Khan Zoological Park.
The Chinese government has said that "substantial evidence" suggested that COVID might have emerged from the US earlier than the outbreak in China, while insisting the lab leak theory was "extremely unlikely" in a white paper.
Immunisation efforts are increasingly at risk as misinformation, population growth, ongoing humanitarian crises, and funding cuts jeopardise progress and leave millions of children, adolescents, and adults at risk, warned WHO, UNICEF, and Gavi during World Immunisation Week (April 24-30).