Agency, Bangkok.
Published by: Dev Kashyap
Updated Tue, 08 Mar 2022 03:03 AM IST
Summary
The remote islands of the Pacific Ocean, nearly two years away from the pandemic, are vulnerable to the more contagious Omicron form of the virus and have recorded the first wave and death. In Hong Kong, the entire population of 7.5 million is being screened three times a month after the number of people who lost their lives. More refugees have arrived.
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The remote islands of the Pacific Ocean, nearly two years away from the pandemic, are vulnerable to the more contagious Omicron form of the virus and have recorded the first wave and death. Hong Kong’s entire population of 7.5 million is being screened thrice a month after the death toll in Hong Kong and the autonomous region is realizing the need for China’s ‘no Covid at all’ policy.
Poland, Romania, Hungary and Eastern European countries have high death rates, and these places have attracted more than a million refugees from war-torn Ukraine. Vaccination rates are also low here. Despite the prosperity and availability of vaccines, the number of people who lost their lives to Corona in America has reached close to one million. Pang, former director of research policy at WHO, said the disease is affecting those who have not been vaccinated.
In China, there has been an increase in the number of cases of infection.
In China, new cases of infection are increasing despite the strict approach of ‘zero tolerance’ to deal with COVID. On Monday, 214 new cases came here in the last 24 hours. This shows that the infection has once again started spreading rapidly in the country. New cases of infection have also been reported in Wuhan. In China, in the last 24 hours, 54 cases were reported in Jilin Province and 46 in East Shandong Province. Of these, the maximum number of 69 cases came in southern Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong.
Omicron form found in deer for the first time
According to a research, white-tailed deer living in America are actively infected with the Omicron form of Sors-Cov-2. The virus has been one of the most dangerous forms of COVID-19. A recent post peer-reviewed study on the preprint repository BioRxiv also detected neutralizing antibodies to SORS-Cov-2 in one of Omicron-infected deer. It’s gone. Researcher Vandegrift said, “Our finding suggests that the virus has been present in some of these animals.” The discovery is the first direct evidence of a SARS-CoV-2 virus in a living species.
Thousands of people are leaving Hong Kong every day due to fear of epidemic
According to media reports, thousands of residents are leaving their homes in Hong Kong every day as the city grapples with the worst wave of COVID-19. According to the information, about 90 percent of the people have died due to the fifth wave of infection in the country. Hong Kong’s Center for Health Protection confirmed this and said that most of the deaths were from unvaccinated patients. Voice of America said that Hong Kong residents are migrating very fast. A major reason for this is also the strict restrictions issued here.