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Daily Covid-19 tally rises 40% as Delhi reports 176 new cases

Delhi on Thursday recorded 176 fresh Covid-19 cases, registering a 40% increase over the previous day's count, according to data shared by the state health department.

Covid exposed a need for efficient healthcare delivery system: Amitabh Kant

Covid has exposed a need for efficient healthcare delivery system, said NITI Aayog CEO, adding that technology and research solution that provide data-based information quickly is the need of the hour

Shanghai's Covid lockdown risks becoming biggest crisis of Xi's tenure

The struggle to obtain daily necessities like food and medical care has triggered rare pushback from residents, with some saying the Communist Party's cure is worse than the disease

2 Covaxin shots provide high immunity in breakthrough cases: ICMR

A recent ICMR study has shown that breakthrough cases after full vaccination with Covaxin have shown a significant increase in the immune response against coronavirus' variants of concern

INSACOG testing sewage water samples across 55 sites to detect Sars-CoV-2

'This is called environmental surveillance, and India has done this during the polio campaign,' said N K Arora, co-chair, INSACOG

'XE variant of Covid-19 not more severe than Omicron': Dr Gagandeep Kang

Variants will come because people are travelling. Of what we know of the variant (XE) is that it is not a point of concern, Kang said

CoWIN now allows submitting request to rectify Covid vaccination date

The portal already has a feature that allows one to rectify inadvertent errors in name, year of birth and gender on vaccination certificates

Covid-19 pandemic: Tamil Nadu reports 26 new cases and no deaths

Recoveries outnumbered new cases with 37 people getting discharged in the last 24 hours, aggregating to 34,14,739 leaving 247 active infections, a bulletin said

Shanghai becomes new Covid-19 epicentre with consistent record cases

Shanghai has become Covid-19 epicentre as it set a record of six-straight days of logging around 20,000 cases, as the city ramped up mass testing to tackle the rapid spread of the Omicron variant

Germany lawmakers weigh compulsory covid shots for citizens over 60

German lawmakers are debating Thursday whether to require all people aged 60 and over in the country to be vaccinated against the coronavirus

Covid infection may increase blood clot risk up to 6 months: Study

People infected with Covid-19 are at an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis -- a blood clot in the leg -- up to three months

During Covid, free food helped rein in poverty in India: IMF paper

India has "eliminated low-income poverty (which is based the purchasing power parity or PPP of $1.9 per person a day)", the lead author of the paper said

Tax administration finally being cleaned up, being made more efficient

GST collections dropped below the Rs 1.2 trillion mark only once in the last six months. These are astounding statistics for a tax system that naysayers had written off as being a failure.

India logs 1,033 new COVID-19 cases and 43 fresh fatalities in 24 hours

With 1,033 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,31,958, while the active cases dipped to 11,639, according to the Health Ministry

Global Covid caseload tops 494.8 mn, deaths surge to more than 6.16 mn

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 494.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.16 million and vaccinations to over 11 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Data story: India reports 1,033 new cases; death toll rises to 521,530

India has so far administered 1,852,072,469 vaccine doses. That is 4303.94 per cent of its total caseload, and 132.04 per cent of its population

25% of patients could have caught Covid-19 in all 3 waves: Practo Report

The report 'Understanding Covid-19: Comparing all three waves in India' analyses how Indians accessed healthcare during the three covid waves.

Covid setback for Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin; 3/4th funds unutilised

In 2019-20, the government was able to utilise 82.5 per cent of the allocated funds

Evidence doesn't indicate woman in Mumbai infected with XE variant: Report

INSACOG experts are conducting genomic analysis of the Covid case reported by Mumbai civic officials though scientific evidence so far does not indicate it to be XE variant, official sources said

'Covid variant XE has been around since Jan, no cause of concern as of now'

Rakesh Mishra, Director of the Tata Institute of Genetics and Society, Bengaluru, said the XE variant is a recombinant of BA.1 and BA.2, the sub-lineages of SARS-CoV-2