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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

Moderna, Thermo Fisher partner to manufacture Covid vaccine, other drugs

Thermo Fisher had already partnered with Moderna last year to help scale up production of its Covid vaccine, branded as Spikevax

Covid-19 pandemic: Nashik logs 30 fresh cases; active infections at 475

As many as 48 patients recovered from the infection, while one died of it during the day, taking the count of recoveries to 4,66,148 and toll to 8,890, an official said

Hong Kong Covid-19 cases hit record as compulsory testing looms

With the city's testing, treatment and isolation capacity already stretched to the maximum, University of Hong Kong researchers predicted new infections could peak at 180,000 a day next month

Covid-19: Kerala records 5,023 fresh cases, 13 deaths in last 24 hours

Ernakulam recorded the highest with 825 cases followed by Kozhikode 574 and Thiruvananthapuram 574

Omicron variant of Covid silent killer, recovery takes long : CJI Ramana

Chief Justice N V Ramana on Wednesday said that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is a silent killer and it takes a long time to recover from the strain.

Are variants leading us closer to herd immunity against Covid-19?

Herd immunity is when enough of a population is immune to a virus that it's hard for the germ to spread to those who aren't protected by vaccination or a prior infection

Bill Gates praises Indian vax makers for supplying affordable vaccines

Gates has praised India for its vaccine-manufacturing prowess and applauded the efforts of the country's manufacturers for supplying affordable vaccines across the world.

India records over 15,000 fresh Covid-19 infections, 278 fatalities

Meanwhile, the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 1.80 per cent while daily positivity rate has risen to 1.28 per cent.

Data story: India logs 15,102 new cases; death toll rises to 512,622

India has so far administered 1,761,939,020 vaccine doses. That is 4110.24 per cent of its total caseload, and 125.75 per cent of its population

Global Covid caseload tops 427.3 mn, fatalities surge past 5.9 mn

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 427.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.90 million and vaccinations to over 10.40 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Beijing finds most daily local Covid cases in nearly a month

Beijing on Wednesday reported the highest number of daily local Covid cases since late January, less than two weeks before the opening of China's annual parliamentary meeting in capital on March 5.

Covid vaccine shots unlikely to prompt rare inflammation in kids

COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to trigger a rare inflammatory condition linked to coronavirus infection in children, according to an analysis of US government data published Tuesday.

DDMA likely to meet on Friday to discuss lifting of remaining Covid curbs

Several restrictions like weekend curfew, half seating capacity in metro trains and buses, closure of multiplexes and cinemas, among others, were lifted by the authority in the recent past

Goa logs 55 fresh coronavirus cases and 3 deaths; active tally at 533

A health department bulletin said three deaths linked to the infection in the last 24 hours pushed the toll to 3,795

Covid-19 pandemic: West Bengal logs 236 new cases and nine deaths

The state had registered 200 new cases and 11 fresh fatalities on Monday

Coronavirus pandemic: Assam logs 36 fresh cases and two deaths

The number of Covid-19 deaths remained at two for the third consecutive day

Madhya Pradesh logs 521 new Covid cases, two deaths; active tally now 6,172

Launching his social reforms campaign after a gap of over a month, the chief minister said people must come forward to ameliorate the wrong practice

Local train travel curbs for unvaccinated persons still in force: Maha govt

The government also stressed the need to continue to observe COVID-appropriate behaviour like wearing masks, maintaining social distancing and frequently sanitising hands