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Three family members of Punjab CM Channi test positive for Covid-19

Three family members of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi have tested positive for Covid-19, a senior health official said on Saturday.

Delhi may record 20,000 fresh Covid cases with positivity rate of 19%: Jain

Delhi is likely to record around 20,000 Covid cases on Saturday with a positivity rate of around 19 per cent, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said.

Bengal govt relaxes Covid curbs; allows salons to operate with 50% capacity

The West Bengal government Saturday relaxed its Covid curbs in the state, allowing salons and beauty parlours to operate with 50 per cent capacity till 10 pm.

Over 20 mn children in 15-18 age group vaccinated with first dose so far

'Great Going, my Young Friends,' tweeted Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya

Pondy sees big jump in daily Covid-19 cases, test positivity rate rises

Puducherry witnessed a big jump in the number of fresh coronavirus cases with 280 infections being reported during the last 24 hours ending 10 a.m. on Saturday pushing up the overall tally to 130,278

Markets shut, roads empty on first day of weekend curfew in Delhi

The people stepping out of their homes for work welcomed the move of the government and a resident of the locality said that the curfew will help contain the spread of the virus

Data shows Omicron variant driving third wave of pandemic across states

The third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic across all states is being driven by the fast-spreading Omicron variant, official sources said on Saturday, citing the latest data. Till a few days ago it was only in the western region of the country that the surge in Covid cases was due to Omicron, while in the northeastern states, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Odisha the Delta variant was predominant. A source said, however, the latest data suggests that all eastern states have also reported high numbers of Omicron cases. "So going by that it can be said that the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic across all states is being driven by the fast-spreading and highly transmissible Omicron variant," the source said. India saw a single-day rise of 1,41,986 new coronavirus infections taking the total case tally to 3,53,68,372, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The government has reiterated and urged people to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and avoid mass ...

Odisha logs 3,679 fresh coronavirus cases, highest since June 18

Odisha registered 3,679 fresh COVID-19 cases, a 36-per cent rise over the previous day and the biggest single-day spike in more than six months, the Health Department said on Saturday. The coastal state's coronavirus tally stood at 10.66 lakh. The daily test positivity rate rose to 5.15 per cent from 3.92 per cent on Friday., it said, adding, the new infections include 384 children. The death toll stood at 8,468 as no fresh fatality was reported in the past 24 hours. Fifty-three other Covid patients have died due to comorbidities so far, officials said. Khurda district reported one-third of the fresh cases with 1,223 infections, followed by 582 in Sundargarh, 372 in Sambalpur, 310 in Cuttack, 134 in Jharsuguda and 100 in Puri, the department said in a bulletin. Single-day cases in the state jumped more than 12-fold from 298 infections on January 1 and nearly doubled in just two days from 1,897 on Thursday. Odisha now has 11,663 active cases, a steep climb from 8,237 a day earlier

Covid-19: Study predicts India to witness third wave peak between Feb 1-15

India's R-naught value which indicates the spread of COVID-19 was recorded at 4 this week, suggesting a very high infection transmission rate, according to a preliminary analysis by IIT Madras

Covid-recovered at 3-5 times more Omicron reinfection risk: WHO

Individuals who have recovered from Covid-19 are 3 to 5 times more likely to be reinfected with the Omicron variant compared to Delta, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)

Data story: India logs 100,806 net active cases; positivity rate at 9.7%

India has so far administered 1,506,192,903 vaccine doses. That is 4258.58 per cent of its total caseload, and 107.67 per cent of its population

India reports 141,986 new Covid-19 cases, Omicron tally reaches 3,071

India reported 1,41,986 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the daily positivity rate in the country to 9.28 per cent, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday.With this, the country's COVID-19 case tally has gone up to 3,53,68,372.According to Health Ministry, the country has so far reported 3,071 cases of Omicron of which 1,203 have been recovered.Maharashtra accounts for the highest number of Omicron cases (876), followed by Delhi (513) and Karnataka (333).The Ministry informed that India's active caseload presently is at 4,72,169. It accounts for 1.34 per cent of the country's total cases.The weekly positivity rate is at 5.66 per cent, while the daily positivity rate is at 9.28 per cent.With the recovery of 40,895 patients in the last 24 hours, the cumulative tally of COVID recovered patients, since the beginning of the pandemic, now stands at 3,44,12,740. The current recovery rate is at 97.30 per cent.The country also reported 285 new fatalities in ..

721 new Covid-19 infections in Noida, active cases highest in UP

Gautam Buddh Nagar on Friday logged 721 new COVID-19 infections that pushed the number of active cases in the district to 2,404, the highest in Uttar Pradesh, official data showed. Gautam Buddh Nagar's tally of active cases is followed by Ghaziabad (1,767) and Lucknow (1,718) and Meerut (1,207), with the four being the only districts in the state to have more than 1,000 active cases, the statistics showed. So far Gautam Buddh Nagar district has recorded 468 deaths due to the pandemic, none of them in the third wave. Meanwhile, 21,165 people got vaccinated for coronavirus in Gautam Buddh Nagar on Friday, District Immunisation Officer Dr. Neeraj Tyagi said. Of those vaccinated, 8,541 were children in the 15+ age group who got their first dose, Dr. Tyagi said. Among those aged above 18, a total of 5,280 people got their first dose while another 7,344 were administered their second dose, he added. So far, 33.95 lakh COVID-19 vaccinations have been recorded in Gautam Buddh Nagar inclu

173 passengers from Rome test Covid-19 positive at Amritsar airport

As many as 173 of the 290 passengers of an international flight from Italy's Rome tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival at Amritsar airport on Friday

India will have Omicron wave peak by next month, says US-based expert

We expect that the peak of hospital admissions in India will be about a quarter of what you had for the Delta wave, and deaths should be lesser too, the expert said

Top headlines: Quarantine for flyers from abroad, CCI probe against Google

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DDMA meeting on Monday to discuss more curbs to tackle Covid-19 menace

Delhi on Friday recorded 17,335 fresh Covid cases

Covid-19: Euro zone inflation touches record 5% amid Omicron spread

Euro zone economic sentiment dropped more than expected last month

Omicron spread: Seven-day quarantine must for flyers from abroad

No registration needed for booster vaccination

Lupin launches Molnulup for treatment of Covid-19

Molnulup is Lupin's brand name for antiviral medication Molnupiravir