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On 1 January 2024, the Deputy Education Minister Wong Kah Woh encouraged teachers and students to wear face masks, and staff members to do self-tests if they have COVID-19 symptoms. [5] On 12 January, Health Minister Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad stated that the Health Ministry would not be setting up field hospitals following a decrease in COVID-19 ...
8 April – A study led by Imperial College London suggests that people with long Covid have evidence of continuing inflammation in their blood, which could help understanding of the condition and how it may be treated. [52] 15 April – The spring COVID-19 booster vaccine programme begins in England for those aged over 75 or with a weak immune ...
The 2023-2024 norovirus season is well underway in the United States. Cases of the highly contagious stomach bug, which causes diarrhea and vomiting, are climbing steadily across the country.
On 3 April, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the pandemic in Wuhan in February 2020. [14] On 4 April, officials in Suzhou announced a new mutation of the Omicron variant was detected in Changshu.
In April 2024, researchers identified a novel subgroup of clade I of mpox in Kamituga, a mining town in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [3] [118] Epidemiologists reported that the new variant—later named "clade Ib" [116] [117] or "clade 1b" [117] —had the potential to spread with greater ease compared to other mpox strains. [3]
In early and mid-January, the virus spread to other Chinese provinces, helped by the Chinese New Year migration. Wuhan was a transport hub and major rail interchange. [204] On 10 January, the virus' genome was shared publicly. [205] A retrospective study published in March found that 6,174 people had reported symptoms by 20 January. [206]
2024 Kenya floods. Widespread flooding occurs in Nairobi, Kenya, with tens of thousands of people affected. Law and crime. National Security Act, 2024. Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. US President Joe Biden signs the PAFACA Act into law.
This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in April 2020, the virus which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.