Covid19 March 22 News: Shanghai, China’s financial hub, is witnessing sharp spike in asymptomatic COVID-19 infections
Coronavirus March 21 Latest News: India seems to be among the nations that are bucking the current trend of increase in daily coronavirus cases around the globe. China’s fresh outbreaks have disrupted to global supply chain whereas Germany and the US and Brazil have been reported higher number of cases for quite sometime now. While the third wave of Omicron-driven infections has completely receded in India, the future remains uncertain as far as the fourth wave is concerned. There have been reports of Deltacron variant being reported from some parts of Southern India, but these updates have not been officially confirmed by either local authorities or the central Covid task force.
While situation looks well under control in India, here’s what health experts have to say. Presenting top 10 Covid updates that you should know today:
1: Dr T Jacob John, a top virologist, recently said that there is no scientific or epidemiological reason to predict fourth Covid wave in India. However, he added that nobody can forecast that India won’t see another wave of coronavirus infections.
2: While the probability remains low, Dr John says that we must remain vigilant. He also says that it is the clusters from smaller pockets that may pose as a challenge for health experts. A constant watch should be maintained as far as genome sequencing is concerned, the virologist added.
3: Looking at the global Covid surge, India is also reducing the gap between two Covishield doses and plan more booster shots.
4: On Monday, India reported 1,549 new COVID-19 cases, the health bulletin said.
5: In one of the good news, the daily Covid death toll is showing continuous decline. For March 21, the government data says that 31 people died due to novel coronavirus related ailments.
6: In overseas news, Hong Kong has lifted flight ban from nine nations. The city has also reduced the quarantine period for foreign travelers arriving in Hong Kong.
7: In China, Disney was forced to shut down the Shanghai park amid growing number of cases.
8: On Monday, over 2,000 local transmissions were reported from mainland China.
9: Meanwhile, back home in Tamil Nadu, latest updates by the health department says that around 18 per cent of the samples were detected to be carrying the BA.2 Sub variant of Omicron. These samples were tested between January and March this year.
10: Samoa, the South Pacific island nation of 200,000 people, is now reporting the first outbreak since the coronavirus pandemic began in 2020. Several new COVID-19 infections are being reported each day since it detecting its first case of community transmission last week.