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DATA STORY: First daily increase of less than 300,000 Covid cases in 25 days

India has so far administered 182,926,460 vaccine doses. That is 732.72 per cent of its total caseload, and 13.14 per cent of its population

Drive-through vaccination: A four-hour journey to the Covid-19 jab

The reason for the tortoise pace is clear: there are just two people administering jabs

India registers 281,386 Covid-19 cases, 4,106 deaths in last 24 hours

India's Covid tally mounted to 2,49,65,463 on Monday with 2,81,386 fresh cases, the lowest in 27 days, while death toll climbed to 2,74,390 with 4,106 fatalities, according to Union health ministry

Uttarakhand govt directs hospitals to provide data of Covid-19 deaths daily

The Uttarakhand health department has given strict instructions to hospitals to provide data of Covid-19 deaths to the State Control Room on the same day

New US guidance don't permit widespread removal of masks: CDC Director

The new mask guidance for vaccinated individuals does not grant permission for widespread removal of masks, the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said

21 more members of vulnerable tribal groups test Covid positive in Odisha

Twenty-one more members of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) in Odisha were afflicted with coronavirus, taking their number to 45, official sources said on Sunday.

Post-Covid offices emphasise on empathy, wellness to get workers back

Paperspace Asia, a Southeast Asian firm that connects designers, lighting consultants and sound engineers with companies grappling with one of the biggest global post-Covid labor market challenge

Saudi Arabia lifts quarantine requirement for vaccinated foreign visitors

Saudi Arabia on Sunday announced that it will lift the mandatory quarantine requirement for foreign visitors who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19

Global Covid-19 caseload tops 162.7 mn; death tally surge to 3.37 mn

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 162.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.37 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

'This is a moral crisis': Desperate India falls prey to Covid-19 scammers

Scams, profiteering represent the flip side of an online help system that has emerged to fill the void left by the government.

S Africa to vaccinate 5 mn citizens, at highest risk of dying, by June

South Africa has announced an ambitious plan to vaccinate by the end of June its five million citizens at the highest risk of dying from Covid in second phase of its programme to combat the pandemic

India's states under pressure to cut budgets, sell assets for vaccination

States will have to foot about $5 billion in vaccination costs after the centre suddenly made them responsible for inoculating most adults.

Covid surge during second wave attributed to double-mutant strain: PGIMER

The PGIMER on Sunday confirmed that the surge in COVID-19 cases due to the second wave has somewhat been attributed to the B.1.617 variant strain

Approval given for 9 medical oxygen plants in Ghaziabad, 3 in Noida: UP CM

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday announced that nine medical oxygen plants have been approved for Ghaziabad and three for adjoining Gautam Buddh Nagar district

Covid-19: Delhi left with 1 day Covaxin stock for people aged 45 and above

While Covishield stock will last for five days for the same group of beneficiaries, AAP MLA Atishi Marlena informed on Sunday

Fire breaks out at pharma godown in Indore; Covid-19 medicines destroyed

Medicines and medical equipment worth Rs 20-25 lakhs used for the treatment of Covid-19 patients were destroyed in a fire that broke out at a pharmaceutical godown in Indore on Sunday

Rajnath Singh to release first batch of DRDO's 2DG Covid medicine today

The first batch of the 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) drug developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for treatment of Covid-19 will be released by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

Police arrests Navneet Kalra in oxygen concentrator black marketing case

The Delhi Police arrested businessman Navneet Kalra Sunday night for alleged black marketing and hoarding of oxygen concentrators amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials said

Shahid Jameel quits as chairman of govt's Covid genome surveillance project

Senior virologist Shahid Jameel on Sunday resigned as the chairman of scientific advisory group of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, a forum set up by union government in December last year

Coal India Jharkhand arm Central Coalfields loses 47 personnel to Covid-19

Many others and their family members are battling for life, the Jharkhand arm of the Coal India Limited said