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Hong Kong starts Covid vaccine requirement for restaurants, stores

Hong Kong launched a vaccination requirement to enter shopping malls, restaurants and a host of other places as it battles an expanding omicron outbreak

India's cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage exceeds 1.76 bn

With the administration of more than 3,049,988 COVID-19 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 1.76 bn.

India records over 14,000 fresh Covid-19 infections, 302 more fatalities

The daily positivity rate was recorded as 1.22 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.60 per cent

Data story: India logs 14,148 new cases; death toll rises to 512,924

India has so far administered 1,765,231,385 vaccine doses. That is 4116.56 per cent of its total caseload, and 125.99 per cent of its population

Covid-19 pandemic: Assam registers 25 new cases and 2 more deaths

Two fresh fatalities linked to coronavirus pushed the death toll to 7,984

Booster dose: Dose gap, natural infection slow offtake among 60-plus

Experts are also questioning the nine-month gap between the second and the third doses

Covid-19 pandemic: Punjab reports 165 fresh cases and three deaths

Deaths were reported from Hoshiarpur (1) and Mohali (2), taking the toll to 17,692

WHO works to spread Covid-19 vaccine technology to more nations

Vaccines have helped to change the course of the Covid-19 pandemic but this scientific triumph has been undermined by vast inequities in access to these life-saving tools, Tedros said

US Covid-19 vaccination drive is bottoming out as Omicron subsides

About 76% of the US population has received at least one shot; less than 65% of all Americans are fully vaccinated

Delhi logs 583 Covid-19 cases, 3 deaths; positivity rate at 1.05%

The number of tests conducted a day ago stood at 55,504, while 603 patients were discharged in a day, the bulletin said

Coronavirus pandemic: 219 fresh cases in Chhattisgarh, no death

The state's death toll remained unchanged at 14,022 as no patient has succumbed to the infection in the last two days

Covid-19 pandemic: Gujarat reports 305 new cases and five deaths

At the same time, 839 patients were discharged, which pushed the count of recovered cases to 12,07,284, said the department in a release

Covid-19 pandemic: Madhya Pradesh logs 690 new cases, two deaths

The recovery count stood at 10,20,148 after 1,231 people recovered during the day

Covid-19 pandemic: Karnataka reports 667 fresh cases and 21 deaths

There were 1,674 discharges, pushing the total number of recoveries to 38,89,418, a health bulletin said

Covid-19 pandemic: Seven deaths, 190 new cases in Himachal Pradesh

The number of active Covid-19 cases in the state increased to 1,570 on Wednesday from 1,528 on Tuesday, the official said

Covid-19: Zero deaths in Mumbai for 5th time in Feb; 168 test positive

With addition of new Covid-19 infections, the city's caseload increased to 10,55,960, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,690, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in a bulletin

Sanofi, GSK to seek regulatory approval for Covid vaccine candidate

Sanofi-GSK's shot relies on a conventional protein-based approach, compared with the newer mRNA technology used in established Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna

Covid-19 pandemic: Nagaland reports nine new cases, one fresh fatality

Seven days after reporting zero Covid-19 death, the north-eastern state registered a fresh fatality linked to coronavirus in Dimapur district on Wednesday

Mandaviya releases reports highlighting India's Covid vaccination programme

Mansukh Mandaviya released two reports of the Institute for Competitiveness highlighting India's vaccination journey.

Maharashtra records 1,151 Covid cases, 23 deaths; active tally at 11,604

With this, the state's Covid-19 tally reached 78,61,468, while the death toll increased to 1,43,656, the department said in a bulletin