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Chhattisgarh sees 125 new Covid-19 cases, 3 deaths; over 42k tested

Chhattisgarh on Friday reported 125 COVID-19 cases and three deaths, taking the tally of infections to 10,01,906 and the toll to 13,523, a health official said.

No Covid-19 death in Gujarat for 12th day; 21 new infections today

Gujarat added 21 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, taking the tally to 8,24,850, while no fresh death due to the infection was reported in the state, said the Health Department. This was the 12th straight day when no death due to coronavirus was reported in the state and the toll remained unchanged at 10,076. A release by the Health Department said 29 patients were discharged from hospitals during the last 24 hours, pushing the tally of recoveries to 8,14,514. Gujarat's COVID-19 recovery rate is 98.75 per cent, the release said, adding the state now has 260 active cases, of which five patients are on ventilators. According to the state government, 3.29 crore doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered to the eligible population till now, of which 3.43 lakh jabs were given on Friday. Only one new coronavirus case was reported in the adjoining Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 10,615, said an official ...

Mumbai reports 326 Covid-19 cases, 7 deaths, 366 recoveries today

Mumbai reported 326 new coronavirus cases and seven fresh deaths on Friday, taking the tally of infections to 7,35,505 and the toll to 15,808, a civic official said. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said as part of the ongoing data reconciliation exercise with the Maharashtra government figures, 1,393 COVID-19 infections were removed from the cumulative tally of positive cases and the discharge count, while 65 deaths were added to the toll. Significantly, for the 15th day in a row, the daily COVID-19 cases in the city remained below the 500-mark, a period during which fatalities were in the range of five to 14. Mumbai has witnessed a drop in the new COVID-19 cases and fatalities as compared to Thursday, when it had reported 340 infections and 13 deaths. The civic official said 32,285 coronavirus tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. With the discharge of 366 patients, the number of recovered cases jumped to 7,11,073, leaving the financial capital with

Rajasthan records zero Covid-19 fatality, reports 28 new cases today

No death due to COVID-19 was recorded in Rajasthan on Friday, while 28 new cases were reported, the health department said.

Delta variant of coronavirus as contagious as chickenpox, says CDC

The variant was also more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines, but the health authority said such incidents were very rare

Maharashtra: Nashik sees 71 fresh Covid-19 cases; three more casualties

Maharashtra's Nashik district on Friday recorded 71 fresh cases of coronavirus that took its tally of infections to 4,02,397, a health official said.

UP coronavirus update: 42 new Covid-19 infections, 4 more deaths

Forty two more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh, pushing the tally to 17,08,410 on Friday, while the death toll climbed to 22,756 with four more fatalities, a health bulletin said

Maharashtra coronavirus update: 6,600 new Covid-19 cases, 231 deaths

Maharashtra reported 6,600 new coronavirus cases and 231 fatalities on Friday while 7,431 patients were discharged from hospitals, a health official said. The caseload in the state rose to 62,96,756 and death toll reached 1,32,566. The tally of recovered patients rose to 60,83,319. The number of active cases decreased to 77,494 from 78,562 the day before. There are 4,79,553 people in home quarantine and 3,289 in institutional quarantine. Maharashtra's case recovery rate now stands at 96.61 per cent while the fatality rate is 2.01 per cent. The number of coronavirus tests conducted so far climbed to 4,75,59,938 with 2,00,924 samples tested since Thursday evening. Significantly, Bhandara and Nandurbar districts along with Jalgaon and Bhiwandi municipal corporations did not report any new coronavirus infection. Of the eight regions of Maharashtra, Pune region reported the highest 2,327 new COVID-19 cases, followed by 1,852 cases in Kolhapur region. As many as 1,007 new cases were

Kerala records over 20,000 Covid cases for fourth successive day

The test positivity rate was 13.61 per cent, while the total number of active cases was 1,60,824.

Trajectory of Covid cases registering sustained decline after May: Govt

After showing a resurgence from mid-February and peaking in May, the trajectory of Covid-19 cases in the country is now registering a sustained and considerable decline, the government said Friday

Easing curbs, non-adherence to Covid norms behind surge in infections: Govt

The Lok Sabha was informed on Friday

Covid: Delta variant threatens to cool oil demand recovery, shows poll

The survey of 38 participants forecast Brent would average $68.76 per barrel, up slightly from June's $67.48 estimate.

Covid: Delta variant may spread as easily as chickenpox, say reports

The Delta variant is more transmissible than the viruses that cause MERS, SARS, Ebola, the common cold, the seasonal flu and smallpox, states an internal document from the US health authority

380,000 people without photo ID documents vaccinated through CoWIN: Govt

All beneficiaries who have received vaccines in India are registered on the Co-WIN portal, she said in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha

63 new coronavirus infections, three more deaths reported in Delhi

The three fatalities has pushed the death toll in the city to 25,052

AstraZeneca's nasal vax prevents Covid spread in animal models

The trial, led by researchers including from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the University of Oxford, UK, was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

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Covid-19: India records 44,230 fresh cases, 555 more fatalities

With a single-day rise of 44,230 cases, India's COVID-19 tally climbed to 3,15,72,344 on Friday, while the death toll due to the viral disease shot up to 4,23,217 with 555 more people succumbing to it

DATA STORY: Active cases rise for third-day straight; 555 deaths reported

India has so far administered 456,033,754 vaccine doses. That is 1444.4 per cent of its total caseload, and 32.7 per cent of its population

Global Covid-19 caseload tops 196.5 mn, deaths surge past 4.19 mn

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 196.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.19 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.99 billion