Covid India News Live Updates: First cases of Omicron’s BA 4 & BA5 sub-variants detected in Maharashtra – The Economic Times
Covid India Cases Updates: First cases of B.A. 4 & 5 variants have been found in Maharashtra. Four patients of B.A. 4 variants and three patients of B.A. 5 variants were listed in Pune, as per the latest report of the Whole Genomic Sequencing.Maharashtra reported 529 new COVID19 cases, 325 recoveries, and zero deaths in the last 24 hours. Active cases at 2,772.
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Leaders of France, Germany urge Putin to hold talks with Ukraine’s president
- French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke to Mr Putin by phone for 80 minutes.
- The pair “insisted on an immediate ceasefire and a withdrawal of Russian troops”, the German chancellor’s office said.
- Russia’s leader said Moscow was open to resuming dialogue with Kyiv, according to the Kremlin.
First cases of Omicron’s B.A. 4, B.A.5 sub-variants detected in Maharashtra
- The subvariants have been detected in at least 7 people from Pune.
- A total of four infections caused by the BA.4 sub-strain of Omicron coronavirus variant, and three cases of BA.5 sub-strain have been detected.
- All of them had only mild symptoms and were treated at home
- The cases of this subvariants have been reported in the state, days after the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) on Saturday confirmed cases with BA.4 and BA.5 variants in Tamil Nadu and Telangana for the first time in India.
- As per the INSACOG report, 19-year-old female in Tamil Nadu was found infected with the BA.4 variant of SARS-CoV-2 and a male from Telangana was tested positive for the BA.5 variant.
Beijing reports 14 new coronavirus cases
China’s capital Beijing reported 14 new domestically transmitted symptomatic coronavirus cases for May 28, down from 18 a day earlier
Shanghai reports 93 COVID cases
Shanghai reported 93 new domestically transmitted asymptomatic coronavirus cases for May 28, down from 131 a day earlier
Russia takes small cities, aims to widen east Ukraine battle
- Russia asserted progress in its goal of seizing the entirety of contested eastern Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin tried Saturday to shake European resolve to punish his country with sanctions and to keep supplying weapons that have supported Ukraine’s defence.
- The Russian Defense Ministry said Lyman, the second small city to fall this week, had been “completely liberated” by a joint force of Russian soldiers and Kremlin-backed separatists, who have waged war for eight years in the industrial Donbas region bordering Russia.
Landslides and floods kill at least 31 in northeast Brazil
- Landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 29 people in the state of Pernambuco in northeast Brazil.
- In Alagoas, another state in the region, two people died when they were swept away in river flooding on Friday
- More than 1,000 people have been forced to leave their homes because of the flooding in Pernambuco
India-Bangladesh train services to resume from May 29
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