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Amid low precaution doses, 'Covid Vaccination Amrit Mahotsava' to begin

A 75-day-long 'Covid Vaccination Amrit Mahotsava' will commence from Friday to provide free precaution dose to all eligible adults at government Covid Vaccination Centres (CVCs).

Don't experiment with health, take booster dose: NIV director urges people

National Institute of Virology Director Dr Priya Abraham on Thursday said the present Covid-19 variant, Omicron, can escape antibodies formed after two doses of vaccination

Mumbai records 339 new coronavirus cases, 2 deaths; active tally at 2,805

Mumbai on Thursday recorded 339 fresh coronavirus cases, while two more patients succumbed to the infection, the city's civic body said. With these additions, the city's overall COVID-19 tally rose to 11,20,172, while the death toll increased to 19,627, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in a health bulletin. On Wednesday, the metropolis recorded 383 positive cases and one coronavirus-linked fatality. Of the 339 new cases, 310 patients were asymptomatic, said the bulletin. Giving details about the two fresh fatalities, the BMC said one of them was an 83-year-old woman suffering from comorbidities, diabetes, hypertension and ischemic heart disease. The second was a 40-year-old woman with comorbidities, hypertension and malignancy. The bulletin said 538 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 10,97,740 and leaving the financial capital with an active caseload of 2,805. The city's coronavirus recovery rate stood at 98 per cent. A ...

Maha records 2,229 new Covid-19 cases, 4 deaths; active tally at 16,553

Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 2,229 fresh coronavirus cases, a drop of nearly 350, and four more deaths linked to the infection, down from 10 fatalities a day ago, the state health department said

Delhi logs 520 new Covid-19 cases, one fatality; positivity rate at 3.44%

Delhi on Thursday recorded 520 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 3.44 per cent, while one more person succumbed to the viral disease, according to health department data. With this, Delhi's COVID-19 caseload climbs to 19,42,425 and its death toll to 26,289, it showed. The fresh infections came out of 15,114 COVID-19 tests conducted a day ago, according to the data. On Wednesday, Delhi recorded 490 coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 3.16 per cent and three fatalities due to the disease. On Tuesday, the city recorded 400 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 2.92 per cent and one fatality. The city reported 280 cases of the disease with a positivity rate of 4.21 per cent on Monday. Of the 9,490 beds for COVID-19 patients in Delhi hospitals, only 117 were occupied as on Thursday. Beds at Covid care centres and Covid health centres are lying vacant, the health department said in its bulletin. The number of active COVID-19 cases in Delhi now stands at 1,935,

China likely to report grim economic performance in second quarter

China's coronavirus lockdowns in major cities has affected trade and daily life causing the country to report a grim performance in the second quarter and increasing concerns of a global recession.China's economy may have contracted in the three months ending in June, The Washington Post newspaper reported citing experts, adding that it is likely that Beijing will report modest growth.Mercator Institute for China Studies' chief economist Max Zenglein said, "The government will not acknowledge a contraction.""The further growth is from zero, the less credible the official figure will be," Zenglein added.China's grim performance in the second quarter will be a setback for the country.Several countries including the United States reopened and lifted their restrictions in their rebound from the pandemic.However, China doubled down their "zero covid" policy stating that too many will die if the restrictions were lifted and the country was reopened.The approach eventually became ...

Increase uptake of Sputnik V vaccine precautionary doses: Centre to states

In a letter to all states and UTs, the Health Ministry on Thursday suggested some measures to increase the uptake of Sputnik V booster doses

With 804 new cases, Odisha reports highest Covid infections in 5 months

Odisha reported 804 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest in nearly five months, the health department said. The positivity rate jumped to 4.18 per cent as the cases were detected after testing 19,218 samples. Seventy-one children were among the new patients, it said. Khurda, where the capital Bhubaneswar is located, reported the highest number of 307 cases, followed by 119 cases in Cuttack. On February 17, the state reported 886 cases. The toll remained at 9,127 as there were no new deaths. The active cases climbed to 4,262, out of which 1,694 patients are in Khurda. As many as 420 more people recovered from the virus, taking the total recoveries to 12,82,690. The state has so far reported 12,96,132 cases.

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin hospitalised after testing Covid positive

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, who tested positive for COVID recently, was admitted to a private hospital in Chennai for "investigation and observation for COVID19-related symptoms"

Mizoram logs 105 new Covid-19 cases, zero deaths in last 24 hours

The single-day positivity rate dipped to 16.75 per cent from 25.59 per cent on the previous day as 627 samples were tested for Covid-19

Nasal spray lowers Covid viral load by 94% in 24 hours, reveals Lancet

A nasal spray administered in high-risk adult COVID-19 patients in India reduced viral load by 94 per cent within 24 hours and 99 per cent in 48 hours

LIVE: Lankan Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa headed to Saudi Arabia, says report

Live news upedates: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is headed to Saudi Arabia via Singapore

Nationwide Covid surge could lead to return of masks to Los Angeles

Los Angeles County, home to 10 million residents, is facing a return to a broad indoor mask mandate later this month if current trends in hospital admissions continue

New Zealand reports 11,382 new Covid community cases, 23 deaths on Thursday

Currently, 765 Covid patients are being treated in hospitals, including 11 in intensive care units or high dependency units

Assam logs 590 new Covid cases, highest single-day spike in over 5 months

The state registered a nearly 36 per cent jump in daily infections from the previous day

Data story: India logs 20,139 cases; biggest single-day spike since Feb 19

India has added 123,250 cases in the past 7 days

Maharashtra's Thane reports 190 fresh Covid-19 infections, 1 death

A total of 190 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Maharashtra's Thane district, taking its tally of infections to 7,31,937, a health official said on Thursday

France reports over 127,000 Covid cases ahead of its national day

France has reported 127,642 new Covid-19 cases, one day ahead of the country's national day.

New Covid cases in S Korea more than double in a week, to near 40,000

South Korea's new Covid cases more than doubled in a week to near 40,000 on Thursday, as the country has experienced a resurgence of infections amid spread of highly contagious new omicron subvariant

Death toll from Covid-19 surpasses 200,000 in UK, reveals ONS data

The grim milestone has been reached in late June, but not revealed until Wednesday due to a delay in registration. Up to the start of July, a total of 200,247 Covid-19 deaths have occurred, said ONS