Adapting to new technologies with low bandwidth solutions and enhancing capacity remain priorities for ongoing progress in digital health, says Lav Agarwal, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
The release further noted that precautionary measures other than the RT-PCR based COVID-19 testing will be followed shall continue to apply for airlines as well as international travellers.
According to a Bloomberg report, citing a memo, the Department of Health and Human Services notified the Wuhan institute about the suspension on Monday and told the lab it’s seeking to cut it off permanently.
Claims made by a Chinese scientist have raised concerns among prominent Indian scientists, and they suggest that the theory of the virus being used as a bio weapon should be thoroughly examined.
The report said that while "extensive work" had been conducted on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute (WIV), the agencies had not found evidence of a specific incident that could have caused the origin of the pandemic
More than three years later, the virus has caused an estimated 764 million cases globally and about 5 billion people have received at least one dose of vaccine.
The death toll from the pandemic on Sunday increased to 5,31,533 with 25 deaths, which includes nine reconciled by Kerala, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday
As per the data updated on Thursday, the daily positivity rate has been recorded at 4.08 per cent and the weekly positivity rate is 5.36 per cent. The total tally of Covid cases stands at 4.49 crore.
At 67,806, the active cases now comprise 0.15 per cent of the total infections. The national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.66 per cent, according to the health ministry website.
