India should be prepared for another wave of Covid, experts expressed concern; WHO said - MPox will end soon

Amid the rise in Covid cases in many countries including the US and South Korea, an expert on Friday said that India should be prepared for another wave of Covid. Covid infection is increasing in 25 states of America. Covid cases are also increasing in South Korea.

According to the World Health Organization, between June and July this year, 908 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in India and two deaths occurred. Virologist Professor Deepak Sehgal of Shiv Nadar University, Noida, the virus has definitely re-emerged. The recent outbreak of Covid has been caused by the KP variant - which is related to the Omicron variant.

Though the situation in India is not serious, we have to be fully prepared for the same. In India, KP 2 was first detected in Odisha in December 2023. Meanwhile, many states of India are seeing a rise in Covid cases. There are 279 active cases of coronavirus in India. Earlier, lakhs of people died in two waves of corona.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, still believes Mpax' outbreak in Africa can be curbed within the next six months. He added on Friday that the first consignment of vaccines will reach the Congo in some days. Congo has the highest outbreak of Mpax.

WHO Director-General Ghebreyesus said, we believe that we can stop the outbreak of Mpax in the next six months. In the last few weeks, Ampox infections have been increasing rapidly, but there have been relatively few deaths. Gebreyesus also said that patients have been identified in Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Sweden, and Thailand.

It is worth noting that after the outbreak of this virus in Congo, the WHO has again declared the situation of Ampox a global public health emergency this month. Earlier in July 2022, Ampox was declared a global health emergency. Ampox is an infectious viral disease. Its symptoms include rashes, blisters, fever, and body pain.