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No experience, no resume and you're hired! Hotels fight for staff

Europe's largest hotelier Accor is running trial initiatives to recruit people who haven't previously worked in the industry

Recovery tracker: Surge in workplace attendance up despite rising cases

Power generation, vehicle registrations decline, recreation visits down

Delhi logs 420 new Covid cases in a day; test positivity rate at 5.25%

The national capital witnessed a dip in the new COVID-19 cases with 420 fresh COVID cases recorded in the last 24 hours, according to a health bulletin by the Delhi government on Monday.The active cases stand in the city at 2,938 with a daily positivity rate of 5.25 per cent. One patient succumbed to the virus, with this the death toll in the capital at 26,272.Delhi reported 648 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday with a positivity rate of 4.29 per cent. With this, the active cases in the city are reduced from 3,268 cases on Sunday to 2,938 today.As many as 749 COVID patients recovered in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries from the disease since the beginning of the pandemic to 19,08,223.The bulletin said that 3,91,23,969 tests for coronavirus have been conducted so far and 8,002 persons were tested against the disease in the last 24 hours.Delhi administered 9,701 doses of COVID vaccines in the last 24 hours out of which 518 beneficiaries got their first dose while 1,470

Covid-19: Experts bat for mixing vaccines in the wake of BA.2.75 variant

Senior research fellow at Oxford say BA.2.75 has several mutations in the spike protein, two of which are unique to it when compared to its parent strain BA.2

Mumbai reports 43% drop in new Covid cases at 431; active tally at 7,040

Mumbai on Monday logged 431 new coronavirus cases, 43.36 per cent less than the previous day, and two more deaths linked to the infection, the city civic body said. With these additions, the overall COVID-19 tally in the metropolis jumped to 1,115,473, while the death toll increased to 19,619, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in a bulletin. Mumbai's daily cases went down for the fifth consecutive day. The metropolis has logged 330 less COVID-19 cases as compared to the previous day when the tally was 761 besides three fatalities. Since the beginning of July, Mumbai has been witnessing less than 1,000 COVID-19 cases, indicating the recent surge in infections, which started around mid-May, has ebbed. Also, 1,060 patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, pushing up their total count to 10,88,814 and leaving Mumbai with 7,040 active COVID-19 cases, the bulletin said. The cumulative count of tests done so far increased to 1,75,69,917 with the .

Maha logs 50% drop in new Covid cases at 1,515; active tally below 22k

Maharashtra on Monday reported 1,515 new COVID-19 cases, nearly 50 per cent less compared to the previous day, and three more deaths linked to the infection, said the state health department.

LIVE: India achieves complete vaccination of 90% of its adults, says govt

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South Korea reports 6,253 new coronavirus cases, four deaths on Monday

For the past week, the daily average number of confirmed cases was 9,499. Among the new cases, 164 were imported, lifting the total to 35,926

Assam reports 74 new Covid-19 infections; positivity rate jumps to 8.89%

Assam has reported 74 new COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 724,926, according to the National Health Mission (NHM) bulletin

New Zealand reports 6,498 new community cases of Covid-19, 8 deaths

New Zealand has recorded 6,498 new community cases of Covid-19 and eight more deaths, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Monday

Malaysia reports 2,536 new Covid-19 infections, 5 more deaths till Sunday

Malaysia reported 2,536 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national total to 4,573,891, according to the health ministry

Thane reports 472 new Covid-19 infections; active case tally at 4,724

As many as 472 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Maharashtra's Thane district, taking its infection tally to 729,440, a health official said on Monday

Data story: India logs 16,135 new Covid cases, active tally at 113,864

India has added 111,518 cases in the past 7 days

Active Covid-19 infections in Italy surpass 1 million after surge in cases

The number of active cases of coronavirus surpassed 1 million in Italy on Sunday, the result of a swift increase in cases over the last two weeks

648 new Covid cases, five more deaths in Delhi in a day; TPR at 3.98%

Delhi on Sunday recorded 648 fresh COVID cases with a positivity rate of 4.29 per cent, while five more people succumbed to the viral disease, according to data shared by the health department here.

Hindi box office sheds the coronavirus blues, closes gap with 2019

Movies contributed Rs 1,716 crore to domestic earning in the first half of the 2022 calendar year

Covid-19: Mumbai reports 761 fresh cases, three deaths; active count 7,671

Mumbai on Sunday recorded 761 new coronavirus positive cases and three fatalities, the city civic body said. With this addition, the city's overall infection tally rose to 11,15,042 and death toll to 19,617. Of the 761 new patients, 720 are asymptomatic, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in its bulletin. Of the three patients who succumbed to the infection during the day, two deceased - a 76-year-old man and a 33-year-old man - had co-morbidies. The third patient was a 88-year-old man. The health bulletin said that 11,500 tests were conducted in the city in the last 24 hours, taking its cumulative test count to 1,75,60,865. It said Mumbai's COVID-19 recovery rate stands at 98 per cent and the doubling rate is 584 days. There are a total of 7,671 active cases in the city at present. The overall growth rate of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai from June 26 to July 2 stands at 0.113 per cent.

Beijing and Shanghai resume flights, trains as Covid-19 cases come down

Kerala on Sunday recorded 3,322 fresh COVID-19 cases and two deaths which raised the total caseload in the State to 66,53,272 and the fatalities to 70,048 respectively. The State reported that 3,258 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours and that the active cases increased to 28,720, according to official data. On Saturday, the southern State reported 3,642 fresh cases and nine deaths. In view of the gradual increase in COVID cases this month when the State has been, on an average, reporting over 3,000 cases daily, the Police Department recently ordered all district police chiefs to ensure implementation of a State government direction to make wearing of masks mandatory in public and workplaces, gatherings, and while using transportation. In an order dated June 22 circulated to all district police chiefs "for urgent implementation and remarks", the Police Department referred to an April 27 directive of the State Disaster Management Authority making it compulsory to

India has new Covid sub-variant of Omicron, may be alarming: Israeli expert

However, the Indian Health Ministry is yet to officially confirm the detection of the sub-variant in the country

Maharashtra records 2,962 new Covid cases, 6 deaths in last 24 hrs

The state is now left with 22,485 active cases