A health worker in personal protective equipment collects a swab sample from a woman during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronaviruses disease COVID - 19 at a railway station in Mumbai, India, Aug 27, 2021. Francis Mascarenhas REUTERS SEOUL ISLAMABAD KUALA LUMPUR NEW DELHI WELLINGTON New Zealand could be hit by another wave of COVID 19 before the end of the year, a COVID 19 modeler warned on Tuesday.
Factors such as waning immunity and new Omicron subvariants BQ are also included. The descendant of 5 is another subtype, BA. He said that 2 and 2 have been combined to contribute to the formation of another wave in the future.
He noted that many New Zealanders were no longer masking up and the border opened up last month.
The new cases per day reached 1,422 over the last week. The country has seen the number of daily cases go down steadily from 10,000 cases nationwide in early July.
India's daily COVID 19 caseload fell below the 2,000 mark, officials said.
According to federal health ministry data released on Tuesday morning, 1,968 new cases of COVID-19 were reported during the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 44,599, 466 in the country.
The death toll was moved to 528,716 since the beginning of the epidemic, as the country recorded 15 related deaths during the past 24 hours.
The Indian government is focusing on improving booster dose coverage as the uptake for the third dose has been low. The goal is to increase immunity of the people in the wake of the detection of new variants.
Malaysia reported 1,244 new COVID 19 infections as of midnight Monday, bringing the national total to 4,845, 109, according to the health ministry.
There are four new imported cases, with 1,240 cases being local transmissions, according to data released by the ministry's website.
There were five deaths and 36,380 deaths, which leaves the death toll at 36,380.
The country reported 896 vaccine doses administered on Monday, and 86.1 percent of the population received at least one vaccine, 84.2 percent are fully vaccinated and 49.7 percent have received the second booster.
Pakistan has 16 new COVID 19 cases on Monday, the ministry of health said on Tuesday.
A total of 30,619 people have died in Pakistan of COVID 19, with no new deaths reported in the country during the last 24 hours, according to the ministry.
People wait to get the coronaviruses COVID 19 test at a coronavirus testing site in Seoul, Republic of Korea on July 15, 2021. KIM HONG-JI REUTERS South Korea reported 16,423 new COVID 19 cases as of midnight Monday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 24,848, 184, the health authorities said Tuesday.
The daily average number of confirmed cases was 24,947 for the past week.
106 of the new cases were imported from overseas, lifting the total to 68,018.
There were nineteen deaths and 28,528 deaths, which left the death toll at 28,528. The total fatality rate was 0.11 percent.