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Hours after announcing the suspension of its Jan Aakrosh Yatra in Rajasthan in view of the Covid-19 surge globally, the Bharatiya Janta Party on Thursday said it will continue the yatra.

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Covid news: The Covid surge in China might be attributed to a low level of immunity in the Chinese population from the previous infection.

Sources said BF.7 cases were reported in India in July, September and November and there are four cases so far and added that three cases were reported from Gujarat and one from Odisha. They said more cases have not been reported and the infection has not been found to be strong.

Odisha government on Wednesday issued instructions for surveillance and whole genome sequencing (WGS) for Covid-19 management in view of the recent explosion of Covid cases in China, Japan, the US, South Korea and Brazil and detection of four confirmed cases of the new Omicron BF.7 strain in four Indian states, including Odisha.

A tragedy of monumental proportions is unfolding across China as a result of the Chinese Communist Party lifting its Zero-COVID policy and embracing the “forever COVID” policy demanded by the US and European imperialist powers.

The anticipated COVID-19 surge will take place amid a massive rise in pediatric hospitalizations across the US due to respiratory syncytial virus and an unusually harsh beginning to the influenza season.

The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG) is likely to issue a bulletin regarding Omicrons new sub-variants BA.5.1.7 and BF.7 reported in India.

This week's CDC data shows three Omicron subvariants account for 20% of genetically sequenced COVID-19 cases. It was 17.5% last week.

2 new sub-variants of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 have been detected in China, and have been described as dangerous by experts.