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Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, State Health and Family Welfare Commissioner D. Randeep said: “There are seven cases [of AY.4.2] in the State — three in Bengaluru and four in different parts of the State.” Maintaining that COVID-19 instances in the state are under control, Mr. Randeep stated that the government is making a negative RT-PCR test report, obtained 72 hours before arrival, essential for those traveling to the state from outside the country.
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In-person classes are currently only allowed in New Delhi schools for students in Class 9 and higher.
After attending Wednesday’s meeting of the DDMA, Manish Sisodia said: “The government, the officials in the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), and experts are of the opinion that suspension of in-person classes in schools is tremendously affecting overall growth in children. The authority feels it is now safe to restart schools fully. From November 1, all public and private schools will be allowed to open all classes for in-person attendance.”
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Meanwhile, the number of active cases fell to 1,63,816, the lowest level in 241 days. For the past 31 days, the daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been below 30,000, and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for the past 120 days.
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The country’s active caseload has dropped to 167,695, the lowest in 239 days, and accounts for fewer than 1% of overall infections, according to the health ministry.
The recovery rate in the country has risen to 98.18 percent, the highest level since the outbreak began. According to the health ministry, the weekly positivity rate was 1.24 percent and the daily positivity rate was 1.43 percent.
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]]>The state on Saturday reported five cases of COVID-19, with state Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk warning that a lockdown could be needed to stop the spread of the virus.
However, the state said testing had yet to detect any further cases, avoiding the need such a measure.
“We’re not out of the woods yet, but this is the best result we could have hoped for at this point in the outbreak,” Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles told reporters in Brisbane.
The result is a boost for Australia’s A$2 trillion ($1.5 trillion) economy, which is at risk of slipping into its second recession in as many years as a result of lockdowns of the country’s two most populous states, Victoria and New South Wales.
Victoria on Sunday recorded 392 COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, down slightly from the 450 cases recorded in the state a day earlier.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by The Edge Media staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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]]>So far, they haven’t blinked — even as local infections surpass numbers reached when Singapore implemented its “circuit-breaker” shutdown in April 2020 and pushed cases so low that it became one of the stars of the Covid Zero approach to the pandemic. Previously, infection spikes like this were met with stringent restrictions like bans on indoor dining and closing gyms.
The country reported 450 cases of local infection on Thursday, while those who are seriously ill or in intensive care ticked up to 33 people, according to data by the health ministry.
A high rate of vaccination, Singapore is currently ranked seventh in the world, has helped contain hospitalizations and deaths. But those numbers are likely to climb in the weeks to come, as some early infections turn deadly.
Whether or not Singapore keeps to its reopening and normalization plan as the pathogen starts to circulate more widely will determine the future of the financial and business hub that has been considered a key entry point into Asia.
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]]>Here’s a brief run-down of the entire situation surrounding the Havana Syndrome:
Cases
On Tuesday, US vice-president Kamala Harris delayed for several hours a trip to Vietnam after the US embassy in Hanoi reported a possible case involving “acoustic incidents” there, raising concerns she could be a target. Ultimately Harris did go to Hanoi, but the US state department said it was investigating a case of what the federal government officially dubbed an “anomalous health incident” or AHI. It was later unofficially called the ‘Havana Syndrome’ by the media.
However, it is important to understand that the ‘Havana Syndrome’ is not new. Dozens of such cases were reported by US diplomats and intelligence officers since 2016, first in Cuba, then in China, Germany, Australia, Taiwan, and in Washington, DC itself.
In July, the New Yorker magazine reported there have been dozens of cases among the US officials in Vienna, Austria since the beginning of 2021. However, the actual number of incidents reported among American officials has been kept under the wraps for security reasons.
Why is it called the ‘Havana Syndrome’?
The syndrome was first named after Havana after the administration of former US President Donald Trump pulled the country’s officials out of the Cuban capital and expelled 15 Cuban diplomats from Washington, hinting that either its government or Russia was behind the attacks.
After Trump accused Cuba of perpetrating the attacks, the US government reduced staff to the embassy in the country to a minimum. The Cuban foreign minister, in turn, accused the US of lying about the incident and denied any involvement.
Concerns
There are concerns among officials of the US state department that a powerful rival, possibly Russia, is mounting the attacks, reported the AFP news agency.
Following Kamala Harris’ delayed trip to Vietnam, former CIA operative Marc Polymeropoulos, himself a victim of the same syndrome in Moscow in 2017, said the volume of attacks appeared to be mounting.
“This is a message that they can get at our senior VIPs,” he said, adding that the volume of attacks now includes intelligence officers, diplomats, and US military officers.
Symptoms
People who have been reported to be down with the Havana Syndrome have often mentioned hearing a “focused, high-pitched and sharp sound” that left them nauseated. In some cases, the afflicted had bloody noses, headaches, and other symptoms that resembled concussions.
Cause
At the end of 2020, the National Academy of Sciences studied the available cases and concluded they appeared to represent a distinctive set of symptoms, unlike any other known disorder. Their report noted that the symptoms vary among those affected, and not all of them were tied to a perceived sharp, directed sound.
However, the academy noted in its report that the best explanation for the syndrome would be “pulsed, directed microwaves”. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has also created a task force to study the issue in detail.
(With inputs from agencies)
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]]>On Tuesday, India received 37,642 new cases, the highest single-day total since August 13. According to statistics, Kerala accounted for roughly 65 percent of the Covid total. This comes just a day after Kerala nearly equaled India’s Covid total with 24,733 cases discovered.
The 24,296 cases reported on Tuesday were the most in a single day since the state recorded 28,798 on May 26. This increase in instances follows days of low testing and detections due to Onam.
Kerala reported 17,106 Covid-19 cases and 83 deaths on Onam day, as markets throughout the state reported crowding ahead of the celebration. The test positivity rate in the state was 17.73 percent. The test positivity percentage increased to 18.04 percent on Tuesday, the highest level in recent weeks.
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]]>New South Wales recorded 681 new cases, Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters on Thursday in Sydney, where stay-at-home orders have been enforced for almost two months. Meanwhile, Victoria state recorded 57 new infections — more than double from the previous day, and its highest tally since September — as Melbourne endures its sixth lockdown since the pandemic began.
New South Wales, Victoria and Australian Capital Territory recorded a combined 754 cases in their communities on Thursday, surpassing the nation’s previous high of 725 recorded in early August 2020, when Melbourne was in the midst of a lockdown that lasted for three months.
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]]>The city entered its sixth pandemic lockdown last Thursday after a fresh Delta variant cluster emerged at a Melbourne school and quickly spread.
Daniel Andrews, the premier of the state of Victoria, said lockdown rules will be extended until at least August 19, after 20 new cases were detected overnight including several “mystery” cases.
There are too many cases, the origins of which are not clear to us… for us to safely come out of lockdown now,” he said.
In Sydney, more than five million people are enduring their seventh week under stay-at-home orders, currently scheduled to remain until the end of August.
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