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Data story: India adds 2,430 new cases of Covid; active tally at 26,618

India has added 17,110 cases in the past 7 days

Data story: India adds 2,786 new Covid cases; active tally rises to 26,509

India has added 16,856 cases in the past 7 days

Biden administration extends Covid public health emergency till Jan 11

The Biden administration said on Thursday that the COVID-19 public health emergency will continue through January 11 as officials brace for a spike in cases this winter. The decision comes as the pandemic has faded from the forefront of many people's minds. Daily deaths and infections are dropping and people many of them maskless are returning to schools, work and grocery stores as normal. The public health emergency, first declared in January 2020 and renewed every 90 days since, has dramatically changed how health services are delivered. The declaration enabled the emergency authorisation of COVID vaccines, testing and treatments for free. It expanded Medicaid coverage to millions of people, many of whom who will risk losing that coverage once the emergency ends. It temporarily opened up telehealth access for Medicare recipients, enabling doctors to collect the same rates for those visits and encouraging health networks to adopt telehealth technology. Since the beginning of thi

Maharashtra records 476 new Covid-19 cases, 4 deaths; active tally at 2,455

Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 476 new coronavirus cases and four fresh deaths linked to the infection, while 404 more patients recovered in the state, the health department said. With these fresh additions, the state's overall COVID-19 tally rose to 81,25,845, while the death toll increased to 1,48,366, said the health department in a bulletin. The state had recorded 384 cases and four fatalities due to the respiratory illness on Tuesday. Mumbai recorded 194 cases and one fatality, said the bulletin. Cities of Solapur, Nagpur and Akola recorded one coronavirus-linked death each, it said. The state's case fatality rate stood at 1.82 per cent, while the coronavirus recovery rate was 98.14 per cent. The department said 404 patients recovered from the coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 79,75,024 and leaving the state with 2,455 active cases. It said 19,430 new tests were conducted to detect COVID-19, pushing up their total number in the

Data story: India logs 2,139 new Covid cases; death toll reaches 528,835

India has added 16,599 cases in the past 7 days

India's first Covid cure Vincov-19 completes second phase clinical trial

Completes phase 2 trials successfully on 200 patients

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Data story: India records 1,957 new Covid cases, lowest count in 140 days

India has added 16,928 cases in the past 7 days

Data story: India adds 2,424 new Covid cases; active tally at 28,079

On October 10, it added 2,424 cases to take its total caseload to 44,614,437

Data story: India adds 2,696 new Covid cases; active tally at 28,593

India has added 17,526 cases in the past 7 days

Maharashtra sees 480 coronavirus cases, two deaths, 521 recoveries

Maharashtra on Saturday recorded 480 COVID-19 cases and two deaths, which took the tally to 81,24,299 and the toll to 1,48,357, a health official said. This was a rise from 366 cases registered on Friday, which had also seen five persons succumb to the infection, he pointed out. The two deaths were recorded in Pune and Mumbai, which also accounted for 130 of the new cases, the official added. The recovery count rose by 521 in the last 24 hours to touch 79,73,675, leaving the state with an active caseload of 2,267, he said. State health department data revealed the recovery rate was 98.15 per cent and the fatality rate stood at 1.82 per cent. So far, 8,49,34,657 coronavirus tests have been conducted in the state, including 20,174 in the last 24 hours, as per official data. Maharashtra coronavirus cases for the day: Fresh cases: 408; Fatality: 2; Active cases: 2,267; Tests: 20,174.

India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeds 2.19 billion mark: Report

India's COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 218.88 crore (2,18,88,17,589) as per provisional reports, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday

Data story: India logs 2,529 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,745

India has added 21,103 cases in the past 7 days

Data story: India records 2,468 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,733

India has added 22,846 cases in the past 7 days

As cases decline, Delhi to dismantle its last three Covid care centres

On Wednesday, the capital reported 96 fresh Covid cases with a positivity rate of 1.42 per cent

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One in every two South Koreans have been infected with Covid-19: Report

Nearly one in two South Koreans have been infected with Covid-19, with the reinfection rate on the rise, the government said Wednesday

Maharashtra's Thane records 40 new Covid-19 cases; active tally at 302

As many as 40 new COVID-19 cases have been detected in Maharashtra's Thane district, taking its infection count to 7,45,189, a health official said on Wednesday. With the addition of the latest cases on Tuesday, there are currently 302 active COVID-19 cases in Thane, which comes under the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, he said. The death toll in Thane remained unchanged at 11,962, he said, adding that the recovery count has reached 7,33,653.

14.8 million US children infected with Covid-19 since pandemic's onset

Nearly 14.8 million children in the US have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association

Mainland China reports 250 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases

The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 250 locally transmitted confirmed Covid-19 cases, including 151 in Inner Mongolia and 27 in Guangdong, according to the National Health Commission's report