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Covishield booster post Covaxin priming improves immune response 58x: CMC

So far, India has not allowed heterologous boosting of vaccines

Delhi logs 1,060 Covid cases, 6 deaths in a day; positivity rate at 10.09%

This is the highest test positivity rate recorded in the capital since January 24 when 11.8 per cent of the people tested had turned out Covid positive.

TRIPS waiver deal in WTO to help countries make Covid vaccines: Goyal

Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said TRIPS waiver for five years agreed in the recently concluded WTO will help countries manufacture Covid vaccines to deal with the pandemic.

2,345 new Covid-19 cases, 2 deaths in Maharashtra; active tally at 24,613

The state is now left with over 24,000 active cases after 1,485 patients were discharged after Covid-19 treatment in the last 24 hours, taking the overall number of recoveries to 77,65,602.

Over 27.5 mn people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in Myanmar

Myanmar has fully vaccinated more than 27.5 million people, or 50.18 per cent of the country's 54.8-million population, against Covid-19, according to its Ministry of Health.

Data story: India logs 12,781 fresh Covid cases, 18 new deaths reported

India has so far administered 1,961,866,707 vaccine doses

Covid-19 active case tally crosses 500-mark in Lucknow, 2,500 in UP

The number of active Covid cases in Lucknow have crossed the 500-mark after a gap of nearly four months

Thane reports 849 new Covid-19 cases, infection tally at 718,884

Thane has reported 849 new cases of coronavirus, raising the infection count in the Maharashtra district to 718,884, an official said on Monday.

Bharat Bandh called today over Agnipath scheme: All you need to know

The call for Bharat Bandh comes as the nation has been witnessing violent protests in several parts for the last few days after the central government announced the Agnipath scheme

Delhi logs 1,530 new Covid cases in 24 hrs; positivity rate rises to 8.4%

This was the fifth consecutive day that Delhi has recorded over 1,300 cases in a day. The fresh cases were detected out of 18,183 Covid tests conducted the previous day

Telangana: Active cases zoom past 2,000-mark with 236 fresh infections

No fresh fatality occurred due to the infection in the state and the death toll continued to be 4,111

Kerala reports 2,786 new Covid cases, five deaths in last 24 hours

With the new infections on Sunday, the case load stands at 66,01,884

Maharashtra logs 4,004 new Covid cases in 24 hrs; active tally at 23,746

A day earlier the state had reported 3,883 cases and two Covid-19 fatalities

4 cr Indians experienced long Covid symptoms in last two years: Study

Long Covid is defined as having new or ongoing symptoms four weeks or more after the start of disease; symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, loss of concentration and joint pain

Data story: India logs 12,899 new cases, active tally crosses 70,000 mark

India has added 74,675 cases in the past 7 days

Delhi records 1,534 Covid cases, 3 deaths; positivity rate at 7.71%

The fresh cases pushed Delhi's coronavirus tally to 19,20,559 while the death toll rose to 26,229, the department said in its latest bulletin.

Thane logs 957 new Covid-19 infections, two deaths in last 24 hours

The coronavirus infection count in Maharashtra's Thane district rose by 957 to reach 718,047, an official said on Saturday.

India's Covid-19 case tally sees a jump, 13,216 infections reported

India's Covid-19 tally increased to 43,283,793 on Saturday as 13,216 more people tested positive for the viral disease and the active caseload climbed to 68,108, according to health ministry data

Mumbai records 2,255 new Covid-19 infections, two deaths in last 24 hours

Mumbai on Friday reported 2,255 new coronavirus infections, a dip from the daily cases reported in the last two days, and two pandemic-related deaths, a civic official said

WTO's vaccine patent waiver may have little impact on ground now: Industry

Serum Institute says while patent waivers for Covid-19 vaccines are 'encouraging', demand for vaccines today is declining