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No plan to impose lockdown in Gurugram district: Deputy Commissioner

He also said rumours of workers returning to their states are false and misleading

Maharashtra's Covid-19 case tally sharply rises to 46,723; 32 more die

The new cases included 86 Omicron infections

Joe Biden sending more Covid tests to schools to keep them open

The new initiative comes as the White House faces mounting criticism over long lines and supply shortages for testing

MP logs 3,639 new Covid-19 cases, 1 death; active tally at 14,406

The positivity rate stood at 4.5 per cent as against 3.9 per cent on Tuesday

No new Omicron case in Gujarat for 2nd day; tally unchanged at 264

Ahmedabad city has so far reported the highest number of Omicron cases

Covid-19 pandemic: Rajasthan sees three deaths, 9,488 new cases

Rajasthan has 38,448 active cases

Covid-19 pandemic: West Bengal logs 22,155 new cases, 23 fresh deaths

Kolkata accounted for 7,060 cases, 495 more than what was reported on Tuesday

Covid-19 pandemic: Nagpur sees 1,461 cases, 497 patients recover

On Tuesday, the district had recorded 799 infections

Vaccination is critical pillar of our Covid-19 response: Dr VK Paul

Dr VK Paul, a Niti Aayog member encouraged people to get vaccinated against coronavirus and said, 'vaccination is the critical pillar of our Covid-19 response and they are helpful to an extent'

Delhi logs 27,561 Covid cases, second-highest daily rise so far, 40 deaths

The city currently has 87,445 active Covid cases

HC pulls up govt, oppn as Karnataka records 21,390 fresh Covid cases

Court asks state govt why Mekedatu padayatra was allowed amid rising cases; issues show-cause to Congress for violating Covid curbs

Kerala clocks 12,742 fresh Covid-19 cases, 199 deaths in last 24 hours

Kerala on Wednesday crossed the 10,000 mark in fresh Covid-19 cases after a gap of nearly three months, with the state reporting 12,742 new infections which raised the caseload to 53,04,022

Sputnik seems to be more effective against Omicron compared to other: Putin

Sputnik demonstrates very high efficacy against Omicron variant and appears to be more effective than other vaccines against the new strain, said Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

Ramp up Covid-19 vaccination of school students: Directorate of Education

The Directorate of Education (DoE) on Wednesday directed its officials to take various measures to ramp up COVID-19 vaccination of children in the age group of 15-17.

Covid: Weekly case positivity in 300 districts over 5%, says govt

Sharp surge in Coid infections noted in India, case positivity rose from 1.1% on Dec 30 to 11.05% on Jan 12, says govt

Covid-19: Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in Britain, US

Scientists are seeing signals that Covid-19's alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the US, at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically

Strictly follow Covid-19 norms: Mamata Banerjee to Gangasagar pilgrims

Minister Mamata Banerjee urged pilgrims visiting Gangasagar Mela to strictly follow Covid-19 guidelines and asked her administration not to send too many people to Sagar Island for the annual fair

'Vaccine nationalism' could spawn new variants, warns medical expert

Attempts by developed nations to monopolise the production of coronavirus vaccines and hoard them, a phenomenon described as 'vaccine nationalism', could weaken the fight against the pandemic and lead to spawning of new virus variants with vaccine resistance, a leading medical expert has warned. This assumes significance in the wake of the massive spread of Omicron and detection of a new COVID-19 variant in France, temporarily named as 'IHU'. "The narrow, self-centric, behaviour may not only turn out to be epidemiologically self-defeating and clinically counterproductive, but is also bound to prolong the pandemic by perpetuating the spread of the contagion in and across unprotected populations," according to Prof (Dr) Yatish Agarwal, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. If the majority of the world population goes unvaccinated, the toll taken by COVID-19 illness will continue to wreak havoc, Prof Agarwal writes in an article that appears in the ...

Odisha logs 8,778 fresh Covid cases, positivity rate rises to 11.7%

Odisha on Wednesday registered a 24 per cent increase in fresh coronavirus cases as compared to the previous day as 8,778 more people tested positive for the infection

China hands out jail terms as long as 4 years for coronavirus lapses

Chinese authorities are especially protective of the nation's capital, often requiring negative Covid tests to enter by plane or train, and strictly tracking people's movements