Coronavirus Pandemic April 11 Latest News: India is seeing a steady decline in daily Covid-19 cases. The health ministry bulletin released on Monday showed that the country reported 861 new coronavirus infections and six Covid deaths in the last 24 hours. While on national level, situation seems stable, there has been a silent surge in the new cases in both Delhi and Gujarat. It should be noted that over the weekend, Gujarat had also reported the detection of highly transmissible XE variant of the novel coronavirus.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain says that the government is keeping a close eye on the hospitalisation as well as daily case count. He also said that there is no need to panic on the news of new strain of novel coronavirus. Until the authorities designate a new variant of concerns people should not worry, Jain said.
In other development, two students studying at a school in Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram have tested positive for Covid-19. The school authorities have decided to suspend offline classes for next three days.
Talking about the booster drive, the Sunday launch saw lukewarm response. Officials say that the pace of vaccination may pick up from Monday.
While India is seeing the booster drive, the US is preparing for next health emergency. An AP report says that the Pentagon has ordered the team handling Covid-19 cases to prepare for future health crisis, whenever it happens. In other news from the US, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has tested positive for novel coronavirus.
Meanwhile in China, Shanghai continues to struggle with sharp surge in daily Covid-19 cases despite tough lockdown. Companies located in the financial hub are also finding it difficult to meet the supply targets. Even as Shanghai is battling the Covid outbreak, China has decided to shut down Guangzhou, the manufacturing hub of the country. Most of the arrivals have been banned in Guangzhou.
In Europe, Germany reported a 30,789 new coronavirus cases.
The World Health Organization said on Monday it is tracking a few dozen cases of two new sub-variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain of the coronavirus to assess whether they are more infectious or dangerous. It has added BA.4 and BA.5, sister variants of the original BA.1 Omicron variant, to its list for monitoring. It is already tracking BA.1 and BA.2 – now globally dominant – as well as BA.1.1 and BA.3.The WHO said it had begun tracking them because of their “additional mutations that need to be further studied to understand their impact on immune escape potential”.
(With agency inputs)
