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Nine people died and more than 1,000 were injured in the nation after the island was hit by its biggest earthquake in at least 25 years on Wednesday (April 4) morning. While its earthquake monitoring agency said the quake was 7.2 magnitude, the US Geological Survey (USGS) put it at 7.4.
The epicentre of the quake was located just 18 kilometres south-southwest of Hualien County, which is situated in east of this nation. Multiple aftershocks were experienced, and one of them was 6.5 magnitude, according to USGS.
The island and its surrounding waters have registered about 2,000 earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.0 or greater since 1980, and more than 100 earthquakes with a magnitude above 5.5, according to the USGS, a report by The Associated Press said.
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India is one of the countries with the highest burden of hepatitis — an infection that causes liver inflammation, damage and may lead to liver cancer — with 2.9 crore people living with Hepatitis B infection and 0.55 crore living with Hepatitis C infection, according to the Global Hepatitis Report 2024 released on Tuesday. There were over 50,000 new Hepatitis B cases and 1.4 lakh new Hepatitis C cases reported in 2022. And these infections killed 1.23 lakh people in India in 2022 as per the report. Both infections are transmitted from mother to child during delivery, during transfusion of blood that hasn’t been screened properly, during contact with the blood of an infected person or while sharing of needles by drug users. Since hepatitis B can be prevented through vaccination, the report highlights the need to ensure coverage.
