WHO concerned about 'risk to life' in China amid COVID surge
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday the agency is “concerned about the risk to life in China” amid the coronavirus’ explosive spread across the country and the lack of outbreak data from the Chinese government.
India witnessed a single-day rise of 3,095 fresh Covid-19 cases with the active caseload increasing to 15,208, according to Union Health ministry data updated on.. IndiaTimes
US Economic Growth , Lost Momentum in 2022.
CNN reports that the U.S.
economy grew at a slower pace than
economists had predicted in the fourth quarter. .
For the last three months of 2022, inflation-adjusted
gross domestic product increased 2.6%, according
to the U.S. Commerce Department. .
The department's third and final
reading for the quarter was
originally estimated to be 2.9%. .
The actual GDP, the broadest measure of economic
activity, ended up coming in below the
department's revised estimate of 2.7%.
According to Refinitiv, economists
had also predicted that GDP would hold
steady at 2.7%, which it failed to do.
Associated Press reports that in 2022,
the U.S. economy expanded just 2.1%,
a significant drop from 5.9% in 2021. .
Overall, the report suggests
the economy was losing
momentum at the end of 2022. .
Previously, the government had
estimated a 1.4% increase
in consumer spending. .
Previously, the government had
estimated a 1.4% increase
in consumer spending. .
The annual consumer spending
rate in 2022 ended up rising
just 1% last quarter. .
AP reports that it was the weakest quarterly
gain since the COVID pandemic first impacted
the economy in the spring of 2020.
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Shilpa Shetty’s husband and businessman Raj Kundra has tested positive for COVID-19, again. As per reports, Raj Kundra is in isolation, away from his dear family.
Meanwhile, popular television actress Mahhi Vij has also tested positive for Covid-19, she has revealed she tested positive for COVID-19, On Thursday, She took to Instagram and shared her health update. She said that 'this time around the strain is more severe than the previous one.' A few days back Pooja Bhatt shared an update that she has been tested positive for COVID-19. She took to her social media handle and asked everyone to mask up and to take care as COVID-19 is still very much a reality. Not only Pooja Bhatt, Anupam Kher's wife Kirron Kher, too shared that she had tested positive for COVID-19. She took to her social media handle and asked the others who met her in the past few days to get themselves tested.
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Sir Keir Starmer brands Rishi Sunak "Mr One Percent" as the Labour leader launches his party's campaign for the May local elections. Speaking in Swindon, Wiltshire, Sir Keir claims: "One percent of asylum claims from those arriving on small boats actually processed. One percent of the fraud that was lost during Covid actually recovered". Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
The Delhi government has issued an advisory regarding the rise in Covid cases in the national capital, with the likelihood of masks being brought back to the.. DNA
The World Health Organization revised its Covid-19 vaccine recommendations amid the new phase of the pandemic and the high population-level immunity due to infection and vaccination.
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India achieved the "elimination of leprosy as a public health problem" as per World Health Organization (WHO) criteria of less than one case per 10,000.. IndiaTimes
Tanzania has announced its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), after five fatalities and three further cases were reported at a hospital in the country’s north-west Kagera region. Through contact tracing, approximately 161 people have been identified as at risk of infection, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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The World Health Organisation rebuked Chinese officials for withholding scientific research that may reveal the origin of the coronavirus , The New York Times reported. The WHO, on Friday also asked the Chinese official about the reasons behind not revealing the data three years ago and why, after it was published online in January, it could not be found now.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease in Equatorial Guinea saying that the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine deaths in the country. The health agency confirmed the epidemic after samples from Equatorial Guinea were sent to a lab in Senegal last week.
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Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebeyesus, World Health Organization Director-General: "We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalizations and deaths, as well as more..