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2021 could be more difficult than 2020 for COVID-19, claims WHO

January 14, 2021, 2:29 PM

Sneha Shah | New Delhi

Mike Ryan

Mike Ryan

During an online session with other World Health Organization (WHO) officials, on late Wednesday, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme Michael Ryan warned that the second year of COVID-19 pandemic could be more difficult than the first one, over the transmission dynamics.

Given the transmission dynamics and other issues they have seen so far, 2021 is looking tougher, especially in Northern Hemisphere, Ryan said.

At least two variants of Coronavirus have been identified in Britain and South Africa, which are shown to be more transmissible, if not more dangerous and has raised concern in European countries.

Ryan said that it was important to learn from what has worked and not worked in every country to fight the virus in all aspects- science, public communication, governance and find the best combinations of all that learning.

At the end of last year, during the holiday period, there was a deceptive drop in reporting on the infection, creating an appearance of a lull in the pandemic. However, in the last week, the cases picked up again, with 5 million cases added globally and 85,000 deaths, he said.

He said that except for Southeast Asia, all regions of the world had shown increase in infections over the past week, with America leading away, accounting for half of all cases globally and 45% of all deaths.

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Europe still accounted for one-third of new cases but showed a 10% drop from the previous week, Ryan said.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.