• Coronavirus live updates: Beijing admitted last week that it has become 'impossible' to track the scale of the outbreak following the end of mandatory mass testing.
Random Covid testing of arriving international passengers continued at the Delhi airport for the second day and some passengers have tested positive, according to an official. At the Delhi airport, random coronavirus testing of 455 passengers has been done from 10 am on Saturday to 7 pm on Sunday. Less than half per cent of them are positive cases, said an official at Genstrings Diagnostic Centre.
Meanwhile, China will no longer publish daily figures on Covid-19 cases and deaths, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday, ending a practice begun in early 2020.
After Beijing abruptly ended its zero-Covid regime earlier this month, cities across China are grappling with rising virus cases, resulting in pharmacy shelves bare and overflowing hospitals and cremation grounds.
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26 December 2022, 06:25:11 AM IST
Delhi Airport: Random Covid test of international passengers continues for second day
Random Covid testing of arriving international passengers continued for the second day on Sunday at the Delhi airport and some passengers have tested positive, according to an official.
The government has made random coronavirus testing mandatory for two per cent of passengers arriving on every international flight from Saturday, amid a surge in coronavirus cases in various countries, including China.
26 December 2022, 06:22:53 AM IST
China's economy is showing increasing stress from the Covid tsunami
China's economy slowed in December as a massive COVID-19 outbreak spread across the country, slowing activity as more people stayed home to avoid getting sick or recovering.
26 December 2022, 06:21:45 AM IST
China's COVID-19 surge spells trouble for new coronavirus mutants
Scientists don't know but there is concern that it may happen. It could be similar to the Omicron variant circulating out there now. It could be a combination of strains. Or something completely different, they say.
"China's population is huge and has limited immunity. And it looks like that's the setting in which we could see an explosion of a new variant," said Dr. Johns Hopkins University, an infectious disease expert. Stuart Campbell Ray said.
26 December 2022, 06:20:55 AM IST
Covid screening of foreign tourists at Taj Mahal; found a positive
Agra's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Arun Kumar Srivastava said that a person who recently returned from China was found positive for COVID-19 at Agra's Taj Mahal on Sunday.
To know the variant, the sample has been sent to Lucknow for genome sequencing.
26 December 2022, 06:19:55 AM IST
China to stop publishing daily Covid data: NHC
After Beijing abruptly ended its zero-Covid regime earlier this month, cities across China are grappling with rising virus cases, resulting in pharmacy shelves bare and overflowing hospitals and cremation grounds.
The decision to scrap the daily virus count comes amid concerns that the country's burgeoning wave of infections is not being accurately reflected in official figures.
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