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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 3,805 fresh Covid-19 cases, 26 deaths: Health Ministry

In the last 24 hours, India reported 3,805 fresh Covid-19 cases ad 26 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.

Amrit Mahotsav campaign pushed Covid booster dose coverage to 27%

The 75-day-long Amrit Mahotsav campaign also helped salvage wastage of vaccine doses

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

No link between heart dysfunction, Covid booster vaccines in India: Experts

New Delhi [India], September 28 (ANI): Clearing the air around the effects of a booster dose of the vaccines, the health experts have said that there is no definite link between heart dysfunction and the precaution doses of the COVID shots.With social media flooded with questions revolving around the effects of booster dose on the human heart, the experts came out in defence of the vaccines.According to Dr Vivek Chaturvedi, Professor & HOD, Cardiology, Amrita Hospital, Faridabad, there have been some instances of heart-related issues in the patients after vaccination, however, there is no conclusive evidence to prove this."This is a very thorny question because we do see heart attacks happening. Not just attacks, sometimes fluid around the heart, sometimes Arrhythmias of the heart after vaccination. But it is very difficult to confirm this because these were happening in the past also," he said.However, Dr Vivek said that COVID can have effects on the heart and the person ...

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

SII's Poonawalla makes clarion call for global certification of vaccines

Multilateral organisations like the UN and the WTO should take it upon themselves to harmonise the certification of vaccines especially ahead of another pandemic as witnessed one induced by the COVID-19 virus that has badly hit the global economies, CEO of Serum Institute of India, Adar Poonawalla has said. Making this clarion call at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore on Monday, Poonawalla said I'm proposing it (such a certification treaty)." "Multilateral organisations such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation should take it upon themselves to harmonise the certification of vaccines," he told PTI on the sideline of the conference, adding that "the world needs it if we want to be prepared in the future". Responding to a question on lessons learned from COVID-19, Poonawalla was quick to acknowledge the challenges of having such a proposal given the concerns of world leaders. I will keep advocating for it (the proposal), though getting the world leaders

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

What is Khosta-2? A vaccine-restraint virus found in Russian bats

It is classified as a sarbecovirus, a member of the Coronavirus family. It attaches to the same protein, ACE2 that Coronavirus uses to penetrate into human cells

Covid-19: Canada won't require masks on planes, drops vaccine mandate

The Canadian government announced Monday it will no longer require people to wear masks on planes to guard against COVID-19.. Transport Canada said the existing rules for masks will come off Oct. 1 We are able to do this because tens of millions of Canadians rolled up their sleeves and got vaccinated, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said. Government officials also confirmed Canada is dropping the vaccine requirement for people entering the country at the end of the month. Canada, like the United States, requires foreign nationals to be vaccinated when entering the country. No change in the mandate is expected in the U.S. in the near term. Unvaccinated foreign travellers who are allowed to enter Canada are currently subject to mandatory arrival tests and a 14-day quarantine. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has agreed to let a cabinet order enforcing mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements at the border expire Sept. 30. The Associated Press reported last week Trudea

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

Only 19% aged above-18 have taken third Covid vaccine dose: Delhi govt

Only 19 per cent of those aged between 18 to 59 have taken the precautionary doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in Delhi, according to official data. As of now, the overall percentage of precautionary dose vaccination stands at 24 per cent. In the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) meeting held on Thursday, there was a consensus that this percentage needs to be brought up to at least 40-50 per cent. Out of a total of 1.33 crore beneficiaries eligible for the precaution doses, only 31.49 lakh (24 per cent) had taken them till September 20. According to official data, as of September 20, a total of 1.14 crore beneficiaries were due for precaution doses in the age group of 18 to 59 with only 21.21 lakh taking it. In the age cohort of those aged above 60, 13.20 lakh beneficiaries are eligible, with nearly half of them -- 6.33 lakh or 48 per cent -- taken the precautionary dose. Among the healthcare and frontline workers, 61 per cent of the eligible beneficiaries have taken the ...

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

47 people charged in largest ever Covid-19 relief fraud scheme in US

US prosecutors have charged 47 people in connection with the largest ever Covid-19 relief fraud scheme, with the suspects accused of stealing a whopping $250 million from a government aid programme

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

Canada likely to drop vaccine requirement for entry by September: Official

Canada will likely drop the vaccine requirement for people who enter Canada by the end of September, an official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Canada, like the United States, requires all people to be vaccinated when entering the country. It is not immediately known whether the U.S. will make a similar move by September 30. The official said that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to give final sign off on it but that the government will likely be dropping the requirement as well as ending random COVID-19 testing at airports. Filling out information in the unpopular ArriveCan app will also no longer be required. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. Unvaccinated professional athletes like major league baseball players would be allowed to play in Toronto in the playoffs should the Blue Jays make the postseason. They currently are not allowed to cross the border into Canada. When ne

India's Covid vaccination programme stunning: Roche's Hoffmann, Duschmale

'They (the next 125 years) look more challenging than the past 125 years. The world has changed. We have to make quicker decisions'