China Covid

NK Arora, the chief on the Centre's Covid panel claimed that recent outbreak in China is being caused by cocktail of viruses.

"Even if a Covid wave does emerge, hospitalization and death rates are anticipated to be modest"

"Karnataka has not yet witnessed any cases of the BF.7 strain, the Omicron variation that is currently responsible for the Covid outbreak in China."

China will stop releasing daily statistics for Covid-19 cases and fatalities, the National Health Commission (NHC) announced on Sunday

If true, the infection rate would far exceed the previous daily high of 4 million, which was achieved in January 2022.

another death caused by the Covid illness was announced, bringing the total to 5,233.

China's "zero-Covid" strategy failing ?

China recorded its largest number of fresh Covid infections since late April, just one day after Beijing introduced a slew of new measures, including shorter quarantines