Coronavirus updates | December 31, 2020
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Not more than 5 people to assemble at public places in Delhi during night curfew to avoid large gatherings in view of COVID-19
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A vendor wearing a facemask as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus waits for customers at his shop in New Delhi.
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Not more than 5 people to assemble at public places in Delhi during night curfew to avoid large gatherings in view of COVID-19
India has reported five new cases of the mutant variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus four found by NIV, Pune, and one was sequenced in IGIB, Delhi taking the total number of these cases to 25 on Thursday as per information released by the Health Ministry.
On Jan. 30, the WHO declared the coronavirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The first confirmed cases of the disease in Italy on Jan. 31. By March, Europe was considered the active centre of the disease. On March 11, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Public facilities were closed down across east central Saskatchewan. Face-to-face teaching in schools ended. Public events were cancelled. Businesses closed down or found alternate ways to serve their customers. The first case the East Central Recorder could confirm in the region was in Humboldt. The person in question contacted Mayor Rob Muench, who then confirmed with the Saskatchewan Health Authority.
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COVID-19: WHO lists achievements, says vaccination no guarantee of virus eradication
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WHO’s Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed some of its achievements in combating COVID-19 in 2020, noting that vaccination is no guarantee of virus eradication.
WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said this at the last COVID-19 press conference of the year at WHO headquarters in Geneva.
In a speech posted on the agency’s website, the director-general said WHO had worked tirelessly since the virus was reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019.
“If we rewind to the start of 2020, it was on 10 January that WHO published its first comprehensive package of guidance documents for countries, covering topics related to the management of an outbreak of a new disease.