A high-level meeting was urgently called by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to check the status of India’s preparedness to fight with Covid-19 if the cases start surging in the country. The reason behind the alert is a sharp increase in number of covid cases in several neighboring Asian countries.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has started being vigilant because India has just started recovering from the third wave of Omicron spread. After a gap of more than 2 years the government has decided to resume normal operations of international flights from March 27.
Asian countries that have seen surge in Covid cases are Hong Kong, China, Singapore and South Korea. China imposed very strict lockdown in the country and has successfully managed to lowering down the daily spike in Covid cases. But South Korea has been on a rise where currently it is recording as much as 621,328 cases in a day.
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In these Asian countries Delta and Omicron are the main dominating Covid strains that are affecting people. But in Europe scientists have observed presence of a new variant of corona virus called as BA 2. This new strain is increasing the risk of revival of pandemic in Europe. This new strain has a very high transmissible rate and has been spreading mainly across Germany and Austria.
Health experts in Europe are currently at a position where they are not bothered about another outbreak of corona virus. But Health Minister of Germany Karl Lauterbach has said that the authorities should be alarmed as there have been many deaths in the country due to BA2 outbreak.
The situation is very opposite in France where school teachers and students have decided to ditch their masks after two years of restrictions and United Kingdom is also planning to loosen up the situation in the country.
