Shanghai's Covid surge stalls construction of China's 3rd aircraft carrier

the city had 447 home isolation patients on 11 April, the number increased to 504 on 13 April and saw a significant increase to 574 the next day.

review meeting chaired by Chief Minister Basvaraj Bommai.

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covid cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said today. With the new infections, the total cases in the country have gone up to 4,30,60,086 including 16,522 active cases. Of the fresh cases recorded, Delhi accounts for 1,083 cases which is 57.37 per cent of the cases recorded in the country.

Polio vaccination, Djibouti, March 2022. ©WHO 

SARS-CoV-2, according to news agency PTI report.

Millions of locked-down Shanghai residents entered their fourth week of a nerve-wracking Covid-19 lockdown, while authorities said on this morning that they were looking to shift to a targeted enforcement of rules in smaller zones around confirmed cases.

vaccination and previous infection, and better tests, treatments and disease surveillance."

Covid-19 cases in the country over the last two weeks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be chairing a meeting to assess the situation with Chief Ministers on April 27 via video conferencing.

ANI reported.

COVID-19 virus, suggests a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.“We’ve really tended to forget that we’re in a pandemic of a communicable disease, which means that our actions affect those around us,” Dr. David Fisman, the study’s coauthor and professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, told Global News.

Reuters report.

COVID-19, the second day in a row the province reported a decline after hitting a sixth-wave high of 2,410 patients on Friday.The number of hospitalizations also dropped Saturday by 39 patients.There were 90 patients listed in intensive care Sunday, an increase of one patient compared to the previous day.Last week, the province’s interim public health director, Dr. Luc Boileau, said there were indications that community transmission was beginning to slow and new daily hospitalizations were trending down.But Boileau announced mask mandates for indoor public spaces and public transit would remain in place until mid-May as the situation remains difficult despite promising signs.In addition to 20 deaths on Sunday, authorities reported 34 deaths on Saturday attributed to COVID-19.

Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB) Board of Trustees suggests that masking is still required by staff and students unless local health units intervene.Lori-Ann Pizzolato tweeted at 6:50 p.m. Friday that “out of an abundance of concern for the health and safety of all… masking in TVDSB building is required until the Local Public Health Units in TVDSB explicitly advise otherwise.”During a meeting Tuesday, trustees voted to approve a motion put forward by Trustee Corrine Rahman to enact a masking requirement.It came in response to a growing number of staff absences at TVDSB that have been linked to illness amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.pic.twitter.com/rdgqZ5gTKl— Lori-Ann Pizzolato (@lapizzolato) April 22, 2022However, TVDSB general legal counsel Ali Chahbar told trustees that while they had the right to pass the motion, TVDSB would not be able to enforce a masking requirement.“When the government of Ontario decided to lift that mask requirement as of March 21 of this year, the end result of that was that it served to remove the enforcement mechanism that existed,” Chahbar said at the time.Pizzolato’s tweet recognizes that the masking requirement is separate from that of the province’s, stating, “We recognize that this may be a challenge for some and is a safety measure above provincial mandates, exemptions will be provided to all students and staff who choose to opt-out.”Speaking with 980 CFPL, Pizzolato specified that the TVDSB is not enforcing a mask mandate, but instead, a mask requirement.“The Trustees just wanted ‘required.’ They’re not saying we have to ‘mandate’ it,” she said.

LE TOUQUET-PARIS-PLAGE, FRANCE - APRIL 24: Emmanuel Macron salutes voters as he leaves his house with Brigitte Macron to go vote on April 24, 2022 in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France. Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen were both qualified on Sunday Apri PARIS - French polling agencies are projecting that centrist President Emmanuel Macron will win France’s presidential runoff Sunday, beating far-right rival Marine Le Pen in a tight race that was overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and saw a surge in French support for extremist ideas.If the projections are borne out by official results, Macron would be the first French president in 20 years to win a second term, since Jacques Chirac in 2002.

the state have stood at 40,057 for over a month now.

vaccines that still offer very strong protection against COVID-19’s worst outcomes, said Dr. Beth Bell of the University of Washington, an adviser to the U.S.

AP, Moderna and Pfizer are testing 2-in-1 Covid-19 protection that they hope to offer this fall. Each “bivalent" shot would mix the original, proven vaccine with an Omicron-targeted version.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has welcomed a "significant milestone", as the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 falls below 500.

Delhi's R-value was recorded at 2.1 this week. This means that every infected person is infecting two others in the national capital

1. Covid updates

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Ma Subramanian, along with Principal Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan and senior department officials, inspected the IIT-M campus today to take stock of the situation.

COVID-19 on Sunday and a further 212 in intensive care.That is a decrease of 322 people in hospital compared to the previous day, according to data released by the provincial government. The number of people in an ICU remained steady.Ontario reported 1,684 people in hospital and 212 in intensive care on Saturday. The province did not report data last Sunday due to the Easter Sunday holiday.

Maharashtra on Sunday witnessed 144 new coronavirus cases and two deaths, taking the official tally of infections to 78,76,841 and the death toll to 1,47,834. Both the fatalities were reported from Pune city. 

Chie Matsuda learned from a morning TV show here on Wednesday that passengers on U.S. airplanes had just been allowed to take off their masks.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said that the state government will bring coronavirus guidelines after video conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the ongoing Covid-19 situation on 27 April.

city's financial district Pudong under a local government directive, as per reports. 

Shanghai reported 39 Covid deaths, official data showed, its highest daily toll since a weeks-long lockdown started, while China's capital Beijing warned of a "grim" situation with rising infections.

coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,57,545.

NEW DELHI :

Navabharat Times, Swaminathan asserted, COVID is an airborne virus in which closed, crowded places with poor ventilation are at risk. “So, as long as covid continues to spread among people, it is good to maintain caution."

New Indian Express, “As per GISAID data, we have found BA.2.10 and BA.2.12, both sublineages of BA.2, in a few samples from Bengaluru. However, we need more samples and data to know more on this mutation. It is an alias of B.1.1.529.2.10, lineage from pango designation issue #496." 

India on Sunday reported over 2,593 Covid cases, and with that, the active tally touched 15873, Health Ministry data showed. On Saturday, a total of 2,527 new coronavirus infections were reported. 

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Dominican Republic after five of its crew members were among 11 people detained in the country when 200 packages of presumed cocaine were seized onboard an aircraft in early April.Pivot Airlines told Global News its crew members, detained at the beginning of the month, had now been released on bail but were required to remain within the country.The alleged drugs bust was made on April 6 at Punta Cana International Airport, according to the country’s National Directorate for Drug Control.Pivot Airlines said that five of its crew members discovered and reported what they believed to be contraband in the maintenance compartment of the plane. They were then detained, the airline said.

Maharashtra's coronavirus figures are as follows: Fresh cases 194; fresh fatality one; cumulative cases 78,76,697, toll 1,47,832, active cases: 869, tests conducted: 26,694

city also logged two Covid related deaths in the last 24 hours.

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The number of people with Covid-19 in hospital has fallen to the lowest level this year.

Christine Laverty has been appointed as chief officer of Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) and will take up post on Monday.

The major financial hub of Shanghai in China has reported 12 new Covid-19 related deaths, up from 11 the previous day, as frustrations among residents continue to boil over amid a harsh lockdown.

Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J.Radhakrishnan on Saturday said that 25 more people have tested positive at IIT-Madras taking the total number of infected cases to 55 up from 30 and turning the educational institute into a Covid-19 cluster.

@mvankerkhove (in the video below) is an infectious disease epidemiologist & @WHO's COVID-19 Technical Lead.