Beijing on high alert to curb Covid clusters

A person gives a swab for a COVID-19 test in Beijing on Saturday. Pic/AP

China's capital Beijing has gone on high alert as the situation turned grim following the emergence of clusters of COVID-19, while the country's financial hub Shanghai reported 39 more deaths due to the virus, the highest in a day so far during the current outbreak since last month.

The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 21,796 cases, including 1,566 positive cases and the rest asymptomatic cases mostly in Shanghai, China's National Health Commission reported on Sunday.

Beijing went on high COVID-19 alert as the city braced to test some sections of the population after the city recorded 22 new community cases on Saturday. Shanghai on Saturday reported 39 deaths from COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 87 so far in the city since it went into lockdown at the end of last month following the emergence of the Omicron virus.

7,00,097 No. of new cases reported globally in the past 24 hours
50,58,17,953 Total no. of cases worldwide
62,13,876 Total no. of deaths worldwide

Child dies in mystery liver disease outbreak

The World Health Organisation says at least one death has been reported in connection with a mysterious liver disease outbreak affecting children in Europe and the United States.

The WHO said late on Saturday that it has so far received reports of at least 169 cases of ‘acute hepatitis of unknown origin' from a dozen countries.

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