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Mumbai sees 202 Covid-19 cases, 1 death; active tally now 1,780

Mumbai on Friday reported 202 COVID-19 cases and one death, taking the tally to 10,55,193 and the toll to 16,686, a civic official said

Covid-19 pandemic: Andhra Pradesh reports 495 fresh cases in last 24 hours

Andhra Pradesh reported 495 fresh cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours ending 9 am on Friday.

Bigger than Wuhan, Hong Kong outbreak defies China's 'Covid Zero' playbook

Daily cases in the city have surged to more than 6,000 from a little over 100 in less than a month

Delhi records 607 fresh Covid-19 cases, four deaths; positivity rate 1.22%

Delhi on Friday reported 607 fresh COVID-19 cases and four deaths, while the positivity rate dropped to 1.22 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. With this, the national capital's case count increased to 18,54,774 and the death toll climbed to 26,095, the latest health bulletin stated. The number of COVID-19 tests conducted a day ago stood at 49,928, it said. Delhi had on Thursday reported 739 cases with a positivity rate of 1.48 per cent, and five deaths. On Wednesday, the national capital reported 766 cases with a positivity rate of 1.37 per cent, and five 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: One more death, 197 new cases in Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir recorded 197 fresh Covid cases on Friday that took the infection tally to 4,51,989, while one more fatality pushed the death toll to 4,746

Covid-19: Kerala records 7,780 fresh cases, 18 deaths in last 24 hours

'As the number of recoveries were more than the new cases, the active cases dropped below one lakh to 85,875'

Omicron subvariant BA.2 may cause severe disease, lab study suggests

A Japanese team led by researchers from the University of Tokyo found that similar to BA.1, BA.2 subvariant of Omicron appears to largely escape the immunity induced by COVID-19 vaccines

Data story: India logs 25,920 new cases; active tally drops below 300,000

India has so far administered 1,746,499,461 vaccine doses. That is 4082.49 per cent of its total caseload, and 124.65 per cent of its population

India reports 25,920 new Covid-19 cases, 492 deaths in last 24 hours

The weekly positivity rate stands at 2.76 per cent.

Oscars to require negative Covid tests for all attendees, vaccines for most

Performers and presenters at the film industry's highest honors also must undergo polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, but will not need to show proof of vaccination, the source said

Japan to relax border controls, cut quarantine period from March: PM

Japan will adjust its ban on new entrants from the current 3,500 to 5,000 per day starting next month and foreign nationals will also be allowed to enter the country for purposes other than tourism

Maha: Thane district's Covid-19 count grows by 114; four more die

Thane's mortality rate is 1.67 per cent

S Korea daily Covid cases top 100,000 for the first time, curfew eased

As cases have surged, South Korea has scaled back the tracking, tracing, and quarantining strategy that helped it keep earlier waves in check

California adopts USA's first 'endemic' virus policy for Covid-19

A disease reaches the endemic stage when the virus still exists in a community but becomes manageable as immunity builds

Global Covid caseload at 419.4 million, fatalities at 5.86 million

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

Top headlines: Big tech in data localisation row, banks told to up UPI cap

States start easing Covid-19 curbs as cases decline. More on that in our top headlines.

Gujarat logs 870 new coronavirus cases, 13 deaths; active tally at 8,014

Gujarat added 870 new coronavirus cases and 13 fresh deaths linked to the infection on Thursday, taking the overall tally to 12,19,082 and the toll to 10,864, the state Health Department said. A department release said 2,221 people were discharged during the last 24 hours, taking the tally of recoveries to 12,00,204. At present, Gujarat has 8,014 active cases, of which 53 patients are on ventilator support, the release said. As many as 10.17 crore doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered to the eligible population so far in Gujarat, of which, 1.82 lakh doses were given on Thursday, the department said. Seven persons recovered in the adjoining Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu in the last 24 hours, while no new case of COVID-19 was registered there, said an official release. Of the total 11,405 persons found positive for coronavirus in the UT so far, 15 are under treatment, four have died while 11,386 have recovered, said the release. ...

Covid-19 pandemic: Mizoram reports 1,571 new cases and one death

Mizoram reported 1,571 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, 45 less than the previous day, taking the state's tally to 2,02,206, an official said. The death toll rose to 640 with a six-year-old girl from Aizawl succumbing to the infection at Zoram Medical College (ZMC), he said. As many as1,871 people have recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total recoveries to 1,92,093. The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients is 95 per cent and the death rate is 0.31 per cent, he said. The single-day positivity rate increased to 25.83 per cent from 23.56 per cent on the previous day, the official said. The northeastern state now has 9,473 active COVID-19 cases. Mizora has so far tested more than 17.78 lakh samples for COVID-19. According to state immunisation officer Dr. Lalmuanawma Jongte, over 8 lakh people have been inoculated till Wednesday and 6.40 lakh of them have been fully vaccinated.

West Bengal registers 467 new coronavirus cases, 15 more deaths

West Bengal's Covid tally went up to 20,12,475 after 467 fresh infections, 28 more than the previous day's figure, were reported from different districts, state health department said in a bulletin

Covid-19 pandemic: Assam records 47 fresh cases and four deaths

Assam reported a dip in new COVID-19 cases as the state recorded 47 new infections, eight less than the previous day, taking the tally to 7,23,861, according to the bulletin