Health

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Sydney's Delta outbreak has not peaked and residents must brace for more deaths, authorities said on Wednesday, as Australia's largest city continued to break records for new daily infections despite a nearly two-month lockdown.

"We haven't seen the worst of it and the way that we stop this is by everybody staying at home," New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney, the state capital.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to his office, who said the Republican is in good health and experiencing no symptoms.

17 Aug 2021; MEMO: Turkey will begin to administer a fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine for those who received two doses of China's Sinovac inoculation in order to meet European standards which do not recognise the drug.

The fourth dose will be made available for those who have already received two doses of the Sinovac and one dose of the Pzifer/BioNTech jabs, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

15 Aug 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Health Ministry said Sunday that most coronavirus cases in the West Bank were caused by the highly infectious Delta variant, reports Anadolu Agency.

"The Delta variant is widely spread with more than 70% of the diagnosed cases were due to the highly contagious strain," ministry official in the West Bank, Wesam Sbeihat, told the official Palestine Voice Radio.

Sbeihat confirmed a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Palestinian territories in recent weeks.

Kanpur: Neither the procession nor Tazia will be taken out during the first ten days of the month of Muharram. Even Tazia will not be kept on public places. No permission was given even to bury the Tazia at the Imambara.

This was made clear by the administrative officers in a meeting held here. 

In the majlis, the participation of only 50 persons is allowed. Tazia can be allowed at the houses.

Assuring the district magistrate Alok Tiwari the Muslim religious heads said the procession would not be taken out.

New Delhi, Aug 9 (PTI) The Supreme Court Monday asked the Centre to submit within two weeks the action taken report (ATR) on implementing the suggestions of of the court-appointed National Task Force (NTF) on allocation of oxygen to states and Union Territories amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

The top court said that since the NTF consists of senior doctors and experts from all over the country, it is imperative for the Centre to take steps to ensure that its recommendations are duly implemented at the policy level to meet any exigencies in present and foreseeable future.

11 Aug 2021; MEMO: Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh stressed yesterday that employees who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will be put on unpaid leave until the pandemic subsides.

Shtayyeh said that this measure is being taken to protect the community against a new wave of coronavirus.

He said the government would impose tight measures and adopt strict plans to avoid a new lockdown, stressing that everyone should take the vaccine.

New Delhi, Aug 9 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea seeking directions for disclosure of data regarding clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines.

A bench of justices L Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose issued notice on the plea, and asked the Centre and others to respond to it within four weeks.

Kanpur: Equipped with advanced healthcare infrastructure a police hospital was inaugurated here. Its upgraded facilities were structured to provide treatment.

Inaugurating the hospital here on Sunday, the DGP lauded the efforts in this regard.

Strings of amplified amenities for the hospital's isolation wards were included. A few more beds with oxygen equipment were also extended to the patients.

There were also given the facilities like the Covid testing, vaccination and OPD.

Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi ordered the health minister to leverage all existing capacities in the country to contain the recent surge in the coronavirus spread.

Raisi told health minister and Khorasan Razavi Province governor-general in separate telephone calls to pursue the condition of coronavirus patients in the country and in Khorasan Razavi Province.

He underlined that all capacities in the country be deployed to acceleration containment of the spread of the virus and treatment of all patients and gave required orders.