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Over 17K new Covid cases in UP; active infection count surpasses 100,000

Lucknow reported a maximum of 2,392 new cases

Lyricist-poet Ibrahim Ashk dies of Covid-19 complications

Ashk was admitted to the city's Meditech Hospital on Saturday after he complained of breathlessness

Covid tests in Delhi 3 times the number recommended by ICMR: Satyendar Jain

Delhi on Saturday reported 20,718 Covid-19 cases and 30 fatalities

Covid-19 pandemic: Gujarat sees 10,150 new cases, eight fatalities

Gujarat is now left with 63,610 active cases

Eighty-two new cases push Nagaland's Covid-19 tally to 32,916

The state's coronavirus death toll remained at 703 as no patient succumbed to the disease for the ninth consecutive day

UK considers scrapping all Covid-19 tests for vaccinated travellers

A positive test requires a 10-day quarantine

Madhya Pradesh logs 6,380 fresh Covid-19 cases, two fatalities

The positivity rate stood at 7.7 per cent against 6.6 per cent recorded on Saturday

Indian Olympic Association chief Batra, his wife test positive for Covid-19

Both Batra and his wife are asymptomatic

Jammu and Kashmir sees six more coronavirus deaths, 3,499 cases

The infection count rose to 3,59,373

Covid-19 pandemic: Karnataka reports 34,047 cases and 13 deaths

Bengaluru urban district saw most of the cases with 21,071 infections and five deaths.

Goa reports 3,232 Covid-19 cases; state's positivity rate touches 45.85%

1,922 people were discharged during the day

Covid-19: 2021 worst year on record for online child sexual abuse, says IWF

The year 2021 was the worst on record for child sexual abuse online, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).

Telangana records 2,047 new cases of Covid-19 and three deaths

The number of active cases stood at 22,048

Govt will consider reopening of schools in 15 days: Maha health minister

The demand for reopening of schools in Maharashtra will be considered after 10-15 days as there is a low incidence of coronavirus infection in children and students are suffering education loss

Kerala records 18,123 new coronavirus infections, 158 fatalities

The state had tested 59,314 samples in the last 24 hours

Covid-19 pandemic: Sikkim logs 313 new cases, tally rises to 34,712

The state's coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 413

Omicron a 'deviant' from Covid progression script: Virologist T Jacob John

Omicron, the highly infectious variant of coronavirus, is driving the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India.

70% adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19: Mandaviya at stamp launch

Seventy per cent of India's adults have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 while 93 per cent received the first jab, said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya

India's R value drops to 2.2 between January 7 and 13: IIT Madras analysis

India's 'R-value', which indicates how rapidly COVID-19 is spreading, was recorded at 2.2 between January 7 and 13, a drop from the previous 2 weeks, according to a preliminary analysis by IIT Madras

Global Covid caseload tops 323.1 million, deaths surge to over 5.52 million

Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 323.1 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.52 million and vaccinations to over 9.58 billion