Page 24 - Coronavirus Tests

Data story: India records 1,968 Covid cases, 7 deaths in 24 hours

India's new Covid cases count, at 1,968, was the lowest in 133 days

Data story: India adds 3,011 new Covid cases; active tally at 36,126

India has added 25,255 cases in the past 7 days.

Data story: India adds 3,375 new Covid cases; death toll reaches 528,673

India has added 26,373 cases in the past 7 days

India reports 3,947 fresh Covid-19 cases, 18 deaths in last 24 hours

India reported 3,947 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, against 4,272 reported on the previous day, said the Union Health Ministry on Friday

Thane records 55 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours; active tally at 364

As many as 55 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Maharashtra's Thane district, taking its tally of infections to 7,44,961, a health official said on Thursday. With the addition of the latest numbers on Wednesday, the district currently has 364 active COVID-19 cases, he said. The death toll in Thane remained unchanged at 11,962. The recovery count has reached 7,33,347, the official said.

Data story: India logs 4,272 new Covid cases; active tally at 40,750

India has added 30,318 cases in the past 7 days

Simple blood test with AI help can predict who will get long Covid

As long Covid becomes a burden for health care providers globally, researchers now report that a blood test taken at the time of infection could predict who is most likely to develop the same

Data story: India adds 3,615 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,584

India has added 31,489 cases in the past 7 days

Spike protein vaccines may help fight Covid variants: IIT-M study

Researchers sought to gauge the response in cases where post-vaccination infections were caused by a variant other than the original Wuhan strain

Data story: India logs 3,230 Covid cases; active tally declines by 1,057

India has added 37,213 cases in the past 7 days

LIVE: Ghulam Nabi announces new party, names it 'Democratic Azad Party'

MLAs loyal to the Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, who is set to contest for the post of Congress president, reached the assembly speaker's residence to submit their resignation on Sunday

Data story: India records 4,129 new Covid cases; active tally at 43,415

India has so far administered 2,176,835,714 vaccine doses

Data story: India records 4,777 new Covid cases; 23 deaths in 24 hrs

India has so far administered 2,175,667,942 vaccine doses

India reports 5,383 new Covid-19 cases; active tally declines to 45,281

With 5,383 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,45,58,425, while the active cases declined to 45,281, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,28,449 with 20 fatalities which includes eight deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.10 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate increased to 98.71 per cent, the ministry said. A decline of 1,061 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and thr

Data story: India logs 5,443 new Covid cases; active tally at 46,342

India has added 36,563 cases in the past 7 days

Data story: India adds 4,510 news Covid cases; death toll at 528,403

India has added 37,542 cases in the past 7 days

Data story: India logs 4,043 Covid cases; active tally declines marginally

India has added 38,140 cases in the past 7 days

Puducherry reports 63 fresh Covid-19 cases, overall tally rises to 174,002

The union territory of Puducherry logged 63 new coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours pushing the overall tally to 1,74,002. The Puducherry region alone accounted for 33 of the 63 infections while Karaikal added 26 and Mahe and Yanam had two each, Director of Health G Sriramulu said in a release on Tuesday. The new cases were detected after the examination of 1,217 samples, he added. The union territory had reported 48 fresh infections on Monday. A 85-year-old woman succumbed to the infection in JIPMER, taking the death toll to 1,971. The number of active cases stood at 502 which included 15 patients undergoing treatment in hospitals while the remaining 487 were in home quarantine. As many as 88 persons recovered during the last 24 hours ending 10 AM Tuesday and the overall recoveries rose to 1,71,529. The Department of Health has so far examined 23,97,641 samples and found 20,32,074 out of them to be negative, Sriramulu said. The test positivity rate was 5.18 per cent whi

Maha's Thane logs 49 new Covid-19 cases, 1 death; active case tally at 731

As many as 49 new cases of coronavirus and one death due to the disease have been reported in Maharashtra's Thane district, a health official said on Tuesday. With the addition of the latest cases and death on Monday, the infection tally in the district, which is part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, has gone up to 7,44,504 and the fatality toll to 11,959, he said. There are currently 731 active COVID-19 cases in Thane, he said, adding that the count of recoveries has reached 7,32,518.

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