Experts Urge Enhanced Sewage Surveillance as Covid-19 Cases Surge in India, ET HealthWorld

Experts Urge Enhanced Sewage Surveillance as Covid-19 Cases Surge in India, ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: As Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the country, experts have called for intensified waste water-based epidemiological surveillance and genome sequencing to detect outbreaks and assess threats faster. This was stressed at a meeting held by the network of laboratories, which was set up to monitor genomic variations of the Covid-19 virus in…

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3,961 Active Cases and 4 Deaths as Kerala, Maharashtra, and Delhi Lead, ET HealthWorld

3,961 Active Cases and 4 Deaths as Kerala, Maharashtra, and Delhi Lead, ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: India’s active Covid-19 case count climbed to 3,961 on Monday, June 2—up by 566 since Sunday—as Kerala, Maharashtra, and Delhi continued to report the highest number of infections, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The country has recorded 32 Covid-related deaths since January 1, including four deaths…

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