South Korea logs more than 16,000 new Covid cases - most recent updates

ADIS ABEBA 28 JANUARY 2022 (VOE WORLD) South Korea has detailed 16,096 new Covid cases, one more every day record in the wake of posting 14,518 per day prior, in the midst of the spread of the exceptionally irresistible Omicron variation, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency has said.

US wellbeing office has 'constant lacks' in its emergency reaction

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has "tireless inadequacies" in its capacity to get ready for and react to general wellbeing crises, the US legislative guard dog cautioned in a report delivered on Thursday, refering to worries raised by the Covid-19 pandemic.

HHS is at "high danger" of botching a future emergency, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Congressional reviewing organization, said, taking note of that the office neglected to carry out a few recently made suggestions to work on its pandemic reaction.

The GAO said in its report that past the pandemic, there are different dangers that highlight the requirement for being ready.

"As pulverizing as the Covid-19 pandemic has been, more continuous outrageous climate occasions, new infections, and agitators who take steps to hurt loom, making the lacks GAO has distinguished especially concerning," the report said.

"Not being adequately ready for a scope of general wellbeing crises can likewise contrarily influence the time and assets expected to accomplish full recuperation."

Many new passings in Mexico

Mexico's Health Ministry has detailed 495 additional fatalities from Covid-19 and 49,150 new diseases, bringing the general loss of life to 304,803 and the quantity of cases to 4,828,446.

Brazil reports 228,954 new instances of Covid, 672 passings

Brazil has announced 228,954 new instances of the novel Covid in the beyond 24 hours, and 672 Covid-19 passings, the Health Ministry has said.

The South American nation has now enlisted 24,764,838 affirmed cases since the pandemic started, while the authority loss of life has ascended to 625,085 as indicated by service information.