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On 15 April 2021, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a weekend curfew along with tight restrictions on weekdays in order to curb the second wave of COVID-19 infections. On 17 April 2022, Delhi saw a rise in cases, but the positivity rate has relatively reduced from 5.33% to 4.21% [22]
The 2022–2023 mpox outbreak in India is a part of the ongoing outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus.The outbreak was first reported in India on 14 July 2022 when Kerala's State Health Minister Veena George announced a suspected imported case which was confirmed hours later by the NIV.
In March 2022, Ocugen registered a Phase 2/3 trial for 400 people in the US to compare the immune responses to those in people in the Indian phase 3 trial, as well as safety and tolerability. [44] The trial also aims to assess the vaccine as a booster after other Covid vaccines used in the US.
By late April, India led the world in new and active cases. On 30 April 2021, it became the first country to report over 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period. [ 15 ] [ 6 ] Experts stated that the virus may reach an endemic stage in India rather than completely disappear; [ 16 ] in late August 2021, Soumya Swaminathan said India may be in some ...
In May 2022, the UK Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance (HAIRS) group [63] warned that the virus could reach wildlife and become endemic as a result. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] There was a concern that if the ongoing outbreak is prolonged, it "could establish new ecological niches in wild animals" in regions outside of Africa.
Mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus have been detected in another Hamilton County community. A group of mosquitoes recently trapped on Foley Road in Delhi Township tested positive for West ...
COVID-19 vaccination roll out in AIIMS, New Delhi, India on 16 January 2021. India began its vaccination programme on 16 January 2021, operating 3,006 vaccination centres on the onset. [23] Each vaccination centre will offer either Covishield or Covaxin, but not both. [24] 165,714 people were vaccinated on the first day of availability.
The disease had been circulating and evolving in human hosts over several years before the outbreak and was caused by the clade IIb variant of the virus. [14] On 23 July 2022, the Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), stating that "we have an ...