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Lata Mangeshkar not doing well, put back on ventilator: Doctor

Singing legend Lata Mangeshkar's health has deteriorated and she has been put back on a ventilator, a doctor treating her said on Saturday. The 92-year-old singer tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms and was admitted on January 8 to Breach Candy Hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) where she is being treated by Dr Pratit Samdani and his team of doctors. "She is not doing well. She continues to be in the ICU under treatment and has been put on a ventilator again," Samdani told PTI. On January 29, Samdani had said Mangeshkar was showing signs of marginal improvement and was taken off the ventilator but continued to be under observation in the ICU. Regarded as one of Indian cinema's greatest playback singers, Mangeshkar started her career at the age of 13 in 1942 and has sung over 30,000 songs in various Indian languages. In her over seven-decade career, she has sung a host of memorable tracks, including "Ajeeb dastan hai ye", "Pyar kiya to darna kya" and "Neela asman so ...

Active Covid-19 cases in Pune down by 50%: Deputy CM Ajit Pawar

Considering the trend, schools for Classes 1 to 8 can function full day as opposed to the half-day timings, he said

Data story: India logs 127,952 new cases; test positivity rate drops to 8%

India has so far administered 1,689,817,199 vaccine doses. That is 4015.66 per cent of its total caseload, and 120.61 per cent of its population

Global Covid caseload tops 390.5 mn, deaths surge to more than 5.72 mn

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 390.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.72 million and vaccinations to over 10.02 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

SC asks states to pay Covid death compensation to families in 10 days

The apex court said that the endeavour of legal services authority would be to reach to those sufferers/victims who have yet not approached for whatever reasons

Two-thirds of India's 500,000 Covid deaths are from urban districts: Data

While India ranks third in terms of total Covid deaths, if deaths per million population are calculated, the country stands in 131 position

Gujarat sees 6,097 new coronavirus cases, 35 deaths; over 12,000 recover

Gujarat reported 6,097 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 11,91,634, while the toll increased by 35 to touch 10,614

Covid-19 pandemic: Maharashtra cases drop to 13,840; 81 more die

Maharashtra on Friday recorded 13,840 fresh coronavirus cases, a drop of 1,412 from a day ago, and 81 fresh fatalities

Delhi records 2,272 Covid cases, 20 deaths; positivity rate down to 3.85%

Delhi on Friday reported 2,272 fresh COVID-19 cases and 20 deaths, while the positivity rate dropped to 3.85 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. With this, the national capital's case count increased to 18,40,919 and the death toll climbed to 25,952, the latest health bulletin stated. The number of COVID-19 tests conducted a day ago stood at 59,036, it said. Delhi had on Thursday reported 2,668 cases with a positivity rate of 4.3 per cent, and 13 deaths. The number of daily cases in Delhi has been on the decline after touching the record high of 28,867 on January 13. The city had recorded a positivity rate of 30.6 per cent on January 14, the highest during the ongoing wave of the pandemic. It took just 10 days for daily cases to drop below the 10,000-mark.

Covid-19 pandemic: Meghalaya logs 211 new cases, 2 fresh fatalities

Meghalaya's Covid-19 tally rose to 92,021 as 211 more people tested positive for the infection, while two fresh fatalities pushed the northeastern state's coronavirus death toll to 1,538

China's pandemic Olympics begins, with Covid lockdown and boycotts

The country where the coronavirus outbreak emerged two years ago launched a locked-down Winter Olympics on Friday

Kerala records 38,684 fresh coronavirus cases, 595 fatalities

Daily COVID-19 cases in Kerala further decreased on Friday with the state recording 38,684 fresh infections which raised the total caseload to 62,11,116.

Third wave may get over by mid-March as cases declining, says Maha minister

He said the state, which was reporting 48,000 cases per day during the third wave which started some weeks ago, was now seeing the tally increase by 15,000 daily

Triple vaccinated can fight Omicron variant efficiently, study finds

The study, published recently in the journal Nature Medicine, tracked the antibodies of vaccinated and recovered individuals for two years

US: Surging omicron infections and worker shortage likely hurt hiring

Last month's huge wave of omicron infections is thought to have weakened hiring in January, though the pullback is considered all but sure to prove a temporary one.

Omicron variant may not be 'milder' itself, US scientists caution

The Omicron variant was first documented in Botswana and South Africa in late November 2021.

India records over 149,000 fresh Covid cases, 1,072 more fatalities

The national recovery rate improved to 95.39 per cent

Data story: India logs 149,394 cases; death toll crosses grim 500,000 mark

India has so far administered 1,684,716,068 vaccine doses. That is 4015.75 per cent of its total caseload, and 120.24 per cent of its population

Thane records 620 fresh Covid-19 infections, two more fatalities

The mortality rate was 1.67 per cent

Global Covid-19 caseload at 387.5 million, fatalities at 5.71 million

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths