Covid-19 updates: North Korea reports 6 deaths after admitting outbreak; South Korea to provide vaccines to neighbour

Covid-19 updates: Six people have died and 350,000 have been treated for a fever that has spread “explosively” across North Korea, state media said Friday, a day after the country acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak for the first time in the pandemic. 

The North’s Korean Central News Agency said of the 350,000 people who developed fevers since late April, 162,200 have recovered. It said 18,000 people were newly found with fever symptoms on Thursday alone, and 187,800 are being isolated for treatment. 

Meanwhile, South Korea has announced that it will send Covid-19 vaccines and other medical supplies to the North. “We will discuss detailed plans for assistance with North Korea,” President Yoon Yoon Suk-yeol’s spokesperson said in a statement, according to Reuters.

India recorded 2,841 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s latest update. The total number of active cases is presently at 18,604.

Shanghai will try again to reopen in a few days after it has eliminated COVID-19 transmission among the population at large as an outbreak in China’s largest city subsides, an official said Friday. The strict lockdown of the city — now in its seventh week but moved, lifted and reinforced at times to the frustration of residents — is part of the ruling Communist Party’s “zero-COVID” goal that has exacted a mounting economic toll and that even the World Health Organization says may be unsustainable

Covid-19 updates: India records 2,841 new Covid-19 cases; Mumbai logs 139 Covid-19 cases, highest since Feb 23; At global Covid summit, PM Modi calls for streamlining WHO's vaccine approval process.

India adopted a people-centric strategy against pandemic: PM Modi at second Global Covid Summit.

Stating that the COVID pandemic continues to disrupt lives, supply chains and test the resilience of open societies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said that India has adopted a people-centric strategy against the pandemic. He was speaking at the second Global Covid Summit.

“We have made the highest-ever allocation to our annual healthcare budget. Our vaccination programme is the largest in the world. We have fully vaccinated almost 90 per cent of the alien population and more than 50 million children. India manufactures four WHO approved vaccines and has the capacity to produce 5 billion doses this year,” Modi said.

He further stated: “We must build a resilient global supply chain and enable equitable access to vaccines and medicines. WTO rules need to be more flexible. WHO must be reformed and strengthened to build a more resilient global health security architecture.”

“Last month we laid the foundation of WHO Centre for Traditional Medicine in India with an aim to make this age-old knowledge available to the world. It is clear that a coordinated global response is required to combat future health emergencies,” the PM added.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Maharashtra Minister Seeks Action Over 'Godse For Gandhi Of Baramati' Tweet

Image
Mumbai:  Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Jitendra Awhad on Friday demanded strict action against a Twitter user who allegedly wrote on the micro-blogging site that the time has come to prepare "Baramati's Nathuram Godse for the 'Gandhi' of Baramati". The Twitter user, however, did not mention the name of any leader or political party in his purported comment. Baramati, a town in the Pune district of the state, is the home turf of NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar. Godse was the man who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, 1948. "At what level all this is happening...take strict action against this wicked individual," Housing Development Minister Awhad tweeted in Marathi. Mr Awhad tagged police officials, including the state's director general of police and Mumbai's police commissioner, as he raised the demand on the micro-blogging site.   As per the screenshot shared by the minister along with his tweet, the social media user by the name of ...
Read more

Southwest monsoon onset over Kerala likely on May 27, says IMD

Image
The onset of the southwest monsoon over Kerala is expected on May 27, nearly four days in advance of its normal date, June 1. If realised, it will be the first time since 2010 that the monsoon has arrived over the southern state as early as May 27, as per the onset dates data maintained by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) In its bulletin on the monsoon onset released on Friday, the IMD said, “This year, the onset of the southwest monsoon is likely to be earlier than the normal date of onset. The monsoon onset over Kerala is likely to be on May 27 with a model error of four days on either side.” On Thursday, the IMD said that the monsoon’s arrival over the South Andaman Sea was expected within the next two-three days.  In association with the enhanced cross-equatorial winds, conditions are becoming favourable for the advance of the southwest monsoon into the South Andaman Sea, Nicobar Islands and parts of the southeast Bay of Bengal around May 15.  The normal date for ...
Read more