Europe's Covid boom continues, with Shanghai making a significant move on curbs
Key Takeaways:
- Despite the fact that China is witnessing one of its worst local outbreaks since the pandemic began, Shanghai has opted to loosen the restrictions imposed on its 25 million inhabitants.
Although China has been experiencing one of its biggest local outbreaks since the epidemic began, Shanghai has decided to relax the lockdown placed on its 25 million residents. Meanwhile, in Europe, Italy and Germany continue to report an unusually high number of cases.
Although the proportion of highly transmissible Omicron variant infections in everyday infections increases in the United States, the country has yet to experience a surge.
In seven points, here are global Covid updates:
1. Despite reports of more than 25,000 new Covid-19 illnesses, authorities in Shanghai, China's financial capital, announced they would begin lifting the lockdown in some districts on Monday, according to Reuters.
2. Despite the enormous number of cases, 'no new deaths have been documented in the Shanghai wave,' according to city officials, presumably because the Omicron variety is less lethal than prior forms.
3. According to the Robert Loch Institute, Germany added almost 30,700 new instances of coronavirus infections on Sunday. There have also been 13 new Covid-related deaths reported. The overall number of confirmed cases since the start of the epidemic is 22,677,986.
4. The number of Covid cases in Italy increased to 53,253 on Sunday, down from 63,992 the day before, according to the country's health ministry, while the number of deaths decreased to 90 from 112.
5. With 28 more deaths reported in France on Sunday, the total number of 'deaths in hospital' has risen to 114,695. The number of Covid-19 patients requiring acute care in France is rising.
6. After news of the XE variation in India surfaced last week, the chairman of India's Covid-19 working committee, NTAGI, claimed that "there is nothing to fear about." "Omicron spawned a slew of new varieties...these variants will continue to appear." Dr. NK Arora stated, "At the present, Indian data does not suggest a very rapid spread."
7. According to The Guardian, the Omicron subvariant currently accounts for roughly 72 percent of Covid cases. Despite the increased prevalence of Omicron variants in Covid patients, there has been no increase. Covid hospitalizations in the United States were likewise at an all-time low during the pandemic.