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Television producer Ekta Kapoor tests positive for Covid-19

The 46-year-old filmmaker took to Instagram to share her diagnosis

Goa shuts schools, colleges amid Covid surge; night curfew to be imposed

Goa reported 10.7 per cent Covid-19 positivity rate on Sunday

Maharashtra: Several spirited kids aged 15-18 queue up for vaccination

As state stands on threshold of a 'third wave' of Covid, lakhs of school and junior college children in the 15-18 age enthusiastically thronged vaccination centres to get their jabs in Maharashtra

India seeks emergency meeting of WTO's General Council to discuss Covid

India has sought an emergency meeting of the General Council of theWTO this month in Geneva to deliberate upon the world trade body's proposed response package, including patent waiver proposal

84% of Covid cases in past 2 days are of Omicron variant: Delhi minister

According to the health bulletin to be issued later on Monday, the capital has recorded around 4,000 new cases of coronavirus and the positivity rate has increased to 6.5 per cent

Omicron common viral fever, but exercising caution important: Adityanath

CM Adityanath said eight Omicron cases have so far been reported in Uttar Pradesh and of the patients, three have recovered and the others are in home isolation

India's Omicron tally reaches 1,700; Maharashtra, Delhi worst-hit

Of the total, 639 people have been discharged

No shortage of medical staff in Delhi hospital, says Satyendar Jain

Health Minister Satyendar Jain informed Delhi Assembly that there was no shortage of medical staff in state-run hospitals and clinics at a time when capital is seeing an uptick in coronavirus cases.

2,000 on board Mumbai-Goa cruise ship stuck after crew tests Covid positive

The crew member was isolated in the ship itself and the RT-PCR tests of 1,471 passengers and 595 crew members were done

Covid-19: India supplies 500,000 more Covaxin doses to Afghanistan

Bharat Biotech on Monday informed that India has supplied another batch of humanitarian assistance consisting of 5,00,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin to Afghanistan.

Covid-19: Tamil Nadu aims to fully vaccinate teenagers by January end

Tamil Nadu Health Minister said that there are 33.45 lakh children in the age group of 15 to 18 in the State and 100 per cent vaccination in this age group will be achieved by January end

Karnataka govt likely to announce more Covid containment measures this week

The Karnataka government is considering more containment measures to control the spread of the virus and the state cabinet is likely decide in this regard later this week after consulting experts

Bangladesh's coronavirus positivity rate highest in 3 months

Bangladesh's Covid-19 positivity rate, or the percentage of people who test positive for the virus, has increased to 2.91 per cent, the highest in nearly three months, govt said

South Korea reports 2 deaths linked to Omicron variant of Covid-19

Two deaths in connection with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 were reported in South Korea on Monday, according to health officials.

PM Scott Morrison upbeat amid Australia's record coronavirus surge

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday said his country's health system can cope with the new wave of coronavirus infections as Victoria state reported a record number of new cases

DRDO's Covid-19 hospital to restart in Varanasi as cases rise sharply

With a sharp rise in the Covid cases in Varanasi and neighbouring districts in the past few days, officials have contacted the DRDO to restart its temporary Covid hospital in the city.

DATA STORY: 129,549 cases added in 7 days; daily positivity rate at 3.8%

India has so far administered 1,456,889,306 vaccine doses. That is 4171.73 per cent of its total caseload, and 104.15 per cent of its population

Afghanistan reports 10,000 Covid-19 cases, 650 deaths in past 5 months

The Taliban informed that at least ten thousand COVID-19 cases and 650 deaths were reported in Afghanistan in the past five months.

La Liga: Getafe ends Madrid's unbeaten streak; virus-hit Bara wins

After watching Real Madrid lose its first match in three months, Carlo Ancelotti had one simple message for his players: The holidays are over

Telangana Congress chief Revanth Reddy tests positive for Covid-19

Telangana Congress chief Revanth Reddy on Monday informed that he has tested positive for Covid-19.