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The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has surged to 30,503,166, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.34 per cent

Covid-19, Coronavirus, Pakistan

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	India&#39;s tally of Covid-19 infections rose by 39,097 in a day to reach 31,332,159, while 546 more people succumbed to the viral disease during the same period taking the death toll to 420,016 on Saturday, according to Union Health Ministry data.</div>
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	The number of active cases in the country has increased to 408,977, accounting for 1.34 per cent of the total caseload while the national Covid-19 recovery rate stood at 97.35 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.</div>
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	Meanwhile, the overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 193.1 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.14 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.78 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.</div>

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The year 2022 is coming to an end and a lot has happened that shaped the world in the year. Let's have a look at some of these significant events

In February 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine&amp;#39;s capital, Kyiv, from the north in an attempt to overthrow President Volodymyr Zelensky&amp;#39;s government. In the months following, artillery bombardment and street fighting continued, with Russia seizing multiple cities.

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After a slew of scandals in his term spanning three years, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned from office in July. Johnson was succeeded by Liz Truss, who took over the office in September.
						
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In September, 22-year-old Iranian girl Mahsa Amini died after being detained for allegedly violating Iran&amp;#39;s laws requiring women to wear a headscarf. Authorities said she died of illness, but her family claimed she fell into a coma after being mistreated by the police. Sources said the police beat Amini with a baton and banged her head against a vehicle. At her funeral on September 17 in Saqez, women protested by ripping off their hijabs. Protests sparked by her demise have since roped in ethnic minorities and even school children. Thousands of women since then have been showing solidarity by cutting their hair and burning their hijabs in public.
						
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In October, Chinese President Xi Jinping was handed a historic third term in office. He became the first leader of the ruling Communist Party after party founder Mao Zedong to get a third term in power.
						
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Chhattisgarh sees 156 COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths, 410 recoveries

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	Chhattisgarh on Saturday reported 156 COVID-19 cases and three deaths, taking the tally to 10,01,037 and the toll to 13,511, an official said.</div>
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	He said the recovery count touched 9,84,737 after 129 people were discharged from hospitals and 281 completed home isolation, leaving the state with 2,789 active cases.</div>

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	No death due to COVID-19 was recorded in Delhi on Saturday, while 66 fresh cases were reported with a positivity rate of 0.09 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department.</div>
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	This is the second time since the starting of the second wave of the pandemic in the national capital that zero fatality has been logged in a day.</div>

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	The Haryana government Saturday extended the coronavirus lockdown in the state by another week till August 2 to curb the spread of the pandemic.</div>
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	&quot;The Mahamari Alert-Surakshit Haryana is extended for another week, that is from July 26 (5 am onwards) to August 2 (till 5 am) in the state of Haryana,&quot; according to an order issued by Chief Secretary Vijai Vardhan in exercise of powers under the provisions of the Disaster Management Act, 2005.</div>
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	According to the order, the conduct of entrance and recruitment examinations by different universities, institutions, government departments and recruitment agencies are allowed in the state while adhering to Covid protocols.</div>

Nashik sees 105 new Covid-19 cases, 139 recoveries

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	Nashik district in Maharashtra on Saturday reported 105 fresh coronavirus positive cases, taking the tally to 4,01,843 while two fatalities pushed the toll to 8,491, officials said.</div>
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	With 139 patients getting discharged during the day, the count of recoveries in the district rose to 3,92,022. With 5,902 new tests, the number of samples tested so far in Nashik district went up to 21,96,020, officials added.</div>

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	Goa&#39;s coronavirus caseload went up by 144 and reached 1,70,416 on Saturday, while the toll remained unchanged at 3,126 and 213 people got discharged, an official said. The recovery count in the state is 1,66,052, while the active caseload is 1,238, the official informed.</div>
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	With 5,991 samples being examined in the past 24 hours, the number of tests in Goa went up to 10,27,335, he added. Goa&#39;s COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 1,70,416, new cases 144, death toll 3126, discharged 166052, active cases 1238, samples tested till date 10,27,335.</div>

Rajasthan reports 27 new Covid cases, no deaths

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	Rajasthan reported 27 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, while no deaths due to the infection took place in the state, according to an official report. Maximum of eight fresh cases were reported from Jaipur, it said.</div>
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	The number of active cases in the state has reduced to 328. A total of 9,53,522 persons have tested positive so far and 9,44,242 of them have recovered. A total of 8,952 Covid patients have also died in the state.</div>

Sikkim registers 225 new cases, 1 fresh fatality

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	Sikkim&#39;s COVID-19 tally rose to 24,823 on Saturday as 225 more people tested positive for the infection, while one fresh fatality pushed the Himalayan state&#39;s coronavirus death toll to 330, a health bulletin said.</div>
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	West Sikkim district reported the highest number of new cases at 81, followed by East Sikkim (72), South Sikkim (71), and North Sikkim (one).</div>
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	Sikkim now has 2,849 active cases, while 21,380 people have recovered from the disease, and 264 patients have migrated to other states so far, it said.</div>

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	Kerala today recorded 18,531 fresh Covid-19 cases pushing the infection count to 32,54,064, with the test positivity rate (TPR) falling to below 12 per cent.</div>
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	The TPR had crossed 11 per cent on July 19 after remaining below it for several weeks and had continued to rise till 13.63 per cent, on July 23. The number of people who succumbed to the virus rose to 15,969 with 98 more deaths.</div>

US purchased extra 200 million doses of Covid jab: Pfizer

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	The US government has purchased an additional 200 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. This brings the total number of doses to be supplied by Pfizer and BioNTech to the US government under its existing supply agreement to 500 million.</div>
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	About 110 million of the additional doses will be delivered by December 31, 2021, while the remaining 90 million doses will be delivered by April 30, 2022, Pfizer and BioNTech announced in a statement on Friday.</div>

China reports 13 new locally transmitted Covid cases

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	The Chinese mainland has reported 13 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, with 12 in Jiangsu and one in Sichuan, the National Health Commission said on Saturday.</div>
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	Also reported were 22 new imported cases, of which five each were reported in Guangdong and Yunnan, four in Fujian, three in Sichuan, two in Shanghai and one each in Tianjin, Henan and Hubei, reports Xinhua news agency. No new suspected cases or death were reported in the day.</div>

Kerala dealt with Nipah, Covid due to admirable efforts of health dept: CM

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	Kerala was able to face the challenges posed by Nipah and Covid-19 due to the admirable efforts of the State public healthdepartment, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Saturday.</div>
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	He was speaking at the online inauguration of several projects and schemes, worth Rs 25 crore, which have begun or will begin soon. He said that the state&#39;s public health infrastructure has been appreciated by many countries and its work is something to be proud of as throughits &quot;admirable efforts&quot;, Kerala was able to face and deal with challenges posed by diseases like Nipah and Covid-19.</div>

39 new cases push Jharkhand's tally to 3,46,885

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	Jharkhand&#39;s tally rose to 3,46,885 on Saturday as 39 more people tested positive for the infection, a health bulletin said. The state&#39;s coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 5,122 as no fresh fatality was reported, it said.</div>
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	East Singhbhum district registered the highest number of new cases at nine, followed by five in Ranchi. The state now has 299 active cases, while 3,41,464 people have recovered from the disease so far. The administration has tested 61,196 samples for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, it added.</div>

Mizoram logs 653 fresh infections; 14-yr-old girl becomes state's youngest Covid victim

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	Mizoram&#39;s Covid-19 tally soared to 31,145 on Saturday as 653 more people, including 137 children, tested positive for the infection, while three fresh fatalities, that included a 14-year-old girl, pushed the northeastern state&#39;s coronavirus death toll to 134, a health official said.</div>
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	The girl, who hailed from Aizawl, is the youngest person in Mizoram to succumb to the disease, the official spokesperson on Covid-19, Dr Pachuau Lalmalsawma said.</div>

MP govt issues SOP for reopening of schools for Classes 11, 12 from July 26

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	The Madhya Pradesh government has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for reopening of schools for Classes 11 and 12 with 50 per cent attendance starting July 26, an official said on Saturday.</div>
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	As per the SOP released on Friday, physical classes for students of Classes 9 and 10 standard classes will resume once a week from August 5, the official said.</div>
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	Classes will be held twice a week for students of Classes 11 and 12, and virtual sessions will continue simultaneously, he said.</div>

Odisha registers 1,864 new cases, 68 fresh fatalities

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	Odisha&#39;s Covid-19 tally soared to 9,65,715 on Saturday as 1,864 more people tested positive for the infection, while 68 fresh fatalities pushed the state&#39;s coronavirus death toll to 5,445, a health official said.</div>
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	As many as 1,082 new cases were reported in quarantine centres, while 782 fresh infections were detected during contact tracing.</div>
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	High daily test positive rate (TPR) in the coastal belt remains a major cause of concern for the state government as it was 5.18 per cent in Cuttack, 4.34 per cent in Khurda and 3.43 per cent in Kendrapara on Friday, and is witnessing a rising trend.</div>

Odisha sanctions Rs 2.55 crore ex-gratia to family members of 17 journalists who died of Covid-19

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	The Odisha government has sanctioned an ex-gratia of Rs 2.55 crore to the family members of 17 working journalists of the state who died due to COVID-19, an official release said.</div>
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	Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved a proposal in this regard put-forth by the Information and Public Relations (I&amp;PR) Department on Friday. An assistance of Rs15 lakh each has been sanctioned for the families of 17 working journalists of the state, who died due to the infection.</div>
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CoronaVac vaccine: Results patchy, but the world can't ignore its usefulness

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	China&#39;s vaccine-development system has been busy during the pandemic. Two Chinese vaccines are now being used around the world: the Sinopharm vaccine and the CoronaVac vaccine.</div>
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	The latter, developed by the Sinovac Biotech company, is the latest Covid-19 vaccine to be authorised for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO). Because of this, the CoronaVac vaccine could have a big role to play in turning the tide of the pandemic.</div>

Arunachal reports 480 new Covid-19 cases, 4 more fatalities

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		At least 480 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, taking the tally in the state to 45,188, a health department official said on Saturday.</div>
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		The death toll rose to 212 after four more persons from Tawang, Lohit, Changlang and Upper Subansiri districts succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, State Surveillance Officer Dr Lobsang Jampa said.</div>
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China administered total 1.5249 bln doses of Covid-19 vaccines as of July 23

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	China administered a total of 1.5249 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines as of July 23, data from National Health Commission showed on Saturday.</div>

San Francisco Covid cases rose faster than California, Bay Area

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	The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases increased faster in San Francisco alone in the past week, as compared to the Bay Area and entire state of California, according to new data.</div>
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	This was a rare occurrence for the city, which has had among the lowest virus rates in major US metropolitan areas throughout the pandemic, Xinhua news agency quoted the San Francisco Chronicle as saying in a report on Friday.</div>
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	According to the California Data Coalition, the total number of new cases recorded over the past seven days in San Francisco was up 81.6 per cent from the previous seven-day period.</div>

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The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has surged to 30,503,166, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.34 per cent

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