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As per World Health Organization’s statistics, “Nearly 267 million Indians are chronic tobacco users and around 100 million people use tobacco in form of smoking.”

AIDS which stands as an abbreviation for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is a life-claiming disease caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Every year it claims and infects millions of lives worldwide.

The number of people with presbyopia -- loss of near-distance focus -- is projected to increase from 1.8 billion in 2015 to 2.1 billion by 2030, she said on the occasion.

Drug inspectors in Uttar Pradesh will carry out surprise checks from Friday to seize any pack of the four cough syrups for which the WHO has sounded an alert.

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has sent the samples of the same batch of the four Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd-manufactured medicines, on which the WHO issued alert, for testing and further course of action will be decided after the results are received, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.

WHO has recommended all countries detect and remove these products from circulation to prevent further harm to patients.

WHO data says that every year around a quarter of global burden of diseases is directly linked to the environmental causes.

"(Covid-19) pandemic is not over, but the end is in sight ... Being able to see the end does not mean we are at the end," WHO chief.

Tedros likened the pandemic response to a marathon race.

Omicron remains the dominant variant, with the BA.5 sub-variant representing more than 90% of sequences shared with the WHO.

In total, some 41600 infections and 12 deaths have been reported to the WHO from 96 countries since the beginning of the year.

Earlier a monkeypox outbreak in the US was linked to prairie pet dogs, but no human to animal transmission was reported.

In almost every country, the gap between rich and poor is getting wider and the global cost of living crisis is driving more people into poverty, Tedros said.

The foreign national was admitted two days ago to the LNJP hospital which has been designated by the government as the nodal hospital for treatment of the infection.

At the time, five monkeypox-related deaths were reported from Africa.