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Data story: India records 291 new Covid cases, death toll reaches 530,614

India has added 2,432 cases in the past 7 days

Mumbai sees 11 new measles cases, one suspected death, says Official

Mumbai reported 11 fresh measles cases and one suspected fatality, taking the tally of infections to 303, a civic official said on Monday. The number of confirmed deaths from measles stands at eight and the suspected fatalities are three, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official added. The civic body, in a statement, said Mumbai will inoculate 1,34,833 children in the nine months to five years age group, and will receive additional dose (special dose) in 33 health posts from December 1. "A total of 3,496 children in the age group of six to nine months in 13 health posts where measles cases in the age group of less than nine months have been reported will also be given an additional lose of MR vaccine," the statement informed. The BMC has surveyed 53,66,144 houses so far and 4,062 cases of fever with rash were found, it added. The lone death of the day was an unimmunised one-year-old girl residing in Andheri in the western part of the city, the statement said. "It was a kno

Mumbai reports 6 Covid-19 cases, no death; active tally 91 as 10 recover

Mumbai on Monday reported six COVID-19 cases, which took the tally in the metropolis to 11,54,895, while the death toll remained unchanged at 19,743, a civic official said. It is one of the lowest additions to the tally since the pandemic began in March 2020, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official pointed out. The city had recorded 16 cases and no death on Sunday, he added. The recovery count increased by 10 to touch 11,35,061, leaving the city with an active caseload of 91, he said. As per BMC data, the recovery rate is 98.3 per cent and caseload doubling time is 60,638 days. So far, 1,85,55,767 coronavirus tests have been conducted in the city, including 1,226 in the last 24 hours, as per civic data.

Maharashtra reports 23 new Coronavirus infections, no death in 24 hours

Maharashtra on Monday recorded 23 fresh COVID-19 cases, 34 recoveries and zero fatality, the health department said. With new cases, the state's COVID-19 tally rose to 81,35,707 and the death toll to 1,48,406. A day before, the state had logged 64 cases. Mumbai recorded six cases, one of the lowest since the beginning of the pandemic. The tally of active cases stands at 440, the bulletin said. It said 34 patients recovered from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative recoveries in Maharashtra to 79,86,861. The recovery rate in the state is 98.17 per cent. The health department said 3,698 tests were conducted in the state in the last 24 hours, taking the number of samples examined so far to 8,56,20,996. Fresh cases: 23; Fatality: 0; Active cases: 440; Tests: 3,698.

Death toll from earthquake in Indonesia's Java Island jumps to 318

The quake also left 7,729 people injured in Cianjur district, one of the hardest-hit areas, destroyed 58,049 houses and displaced as many as 73,693 people

Mumbai records 15 new Covid-19 infections, 0 death; active case tally at 94

Mumbai on Saturday reported 15 COVID-19 cases, which took the metropolis' tally to 11,54,873, while the death toll stood unchanged at 19,743, a civic official said. The addition to the tally was a dip from the 18 cases reported a day earlier, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official added. The recovery count increased by eight in the last 24 hours to touch 11,35,036, which left the city with an active caseload of 94, he said. So far, 1,85,51,793 coronavirus tests have been conducted in Mumbai, including 5,635 in the last 24 hours, the official said. As per BMC data, the overall growth rate of cases between November 19 and 25 was 0.001 per cent, while the recovery rate was 98.3 per cent. The caseload doubling time in the country's financial capital was 64,204 days, as per civic data.

China logs 35,909 new Covid cases in a day, third consecutive daily record

Friday saw no new deaths from COVID-19, with the total death toll at 5,232

Data story: India records 347 new Covid cases; active tally at 5,516

With 3 new deaths, its Covid-19 death toll reached 530,604

Indonesian rescuers focus on landslide as earthquake toll rises to 271

On the fourth day of an increasingly urgent search, Indonesian rescuers narrowed their work on Thursday to a landslide where dozens are believed trapped after an earthquake that killed at least 271 people, more than a third of them children. Many of the more than 1,000 rescue personnel are using backhoe loaders, sniffer dogs and life detectors as well as jackhammers and bare hands to speed up the search in the worst-hit area of Cijendil village, where a landslide set off by Monday's quake left tons of mud, rocks and trees. Around 40 victims are believed still stuck in the soil and rubble of collapsed buildings in Cugenang sub-district. Rescuers are also working on other impacted areas to make sure there are no more victims that need to be evacuated, said Henri Alfiandi, chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency. We hope all victims can be found soon, Alfiandi said on Thursday. On Wednesday, searchers rescued a 6-year-old boy who was trapped for two days under the rubble of

6 people, assailant dead in Walmart shooting in US' Virginia: Police

A shooter opened fire in a Walmart in Virginia late on Tuesday, leaving six people dead, police said, in the second high-profile mass killing in a handful of days. The assailant is also dead. The store in Chesapeake is now safe, Officer Leo Kosinski said in the early hours of Wednesday. The shooting came three days after a person opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado late on Saturday, killing five people and wounding 17. Earlier in the year, the country was shaken by the deaths of 21 when a gunman stormed an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Tuesday's shooting also brought back memories of another at a Walmart in 2019, when a gunman police say was targeting Mexicans opened fire at a store in El Paso and killed 22 people. Earlier, Kosinski said he couldn't say how the gunman died but that he didn't believe police fired shots. The shooting had apparently stopped when police arrived at the store in Chesapeake, which is Virginia's second-largest city and lies next to the seasid

Morbi bridge collapse: Court denies bail to 8 accused, order reserved on 1

A court here on Wednesday rejected bail applications of eight out of nine persons arrested in connection with the Morbi suspension bridge collapse tragedy. Principal district and sessions judge P C Joshi said he will pass order on the bail plea of the ninth accused, Devang Parmar, on Thursday. The British-era suspension bridge collapsed on October 30, claiming 135 lives. The bail applications of Deepak Parekh, Dinesh Dave, Prakash Parmar, Mansukhbhai Topia, Madevbhai Solanki, Alpeshbhai Gohil, Dilipbhai Gohil and Mukeshbhai Chauhan were rejected, said public prosecutor Vijay Jani. Devang Parmar is a co-proprietor of Dev Prakash Fabrication. Those arrested include Deepak Parekh and three others from the Oreva Group that was managing the suspension bridge. Arguing against their bail pleas, the prosecution had submitted a forensic lab report which noted that the bridge had rusty cables, broken anchor pins and loose bolts, and these and other issues were not dealt with while ...

Mumbai logs 14 new Covid-19 cases, no death; active tally below 100

Mumbai on Wednesday reported 14 new COVID-19 cases, which took its overall infection tally to 11,54,830, while the active case count dropped below the 100 mark, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. Since nobody succumbed to the infection during the day, the death toll remained unchanged at 19,743, it said. On Tuesday, Mumbai had witnessed 12 COVID-19 cases and zero fatality. The active case count dipped to 98 cases from 114 cases a day before. The recovery count reached 11,34,989 after 30 patients recuperated from the infection in the last 24 hours, the BMC said. The city's COVID-19 growth rate between November 16 and 22 is 0.002 per cent. As many as 3,296 swab samples were tested in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of tests conducted in the state so far to 1,85,39,286. The recovery rate stands at 98.3 per cent, while the doubling rate is 47,452 days, the civic body said.

16 dengue deaths, 9559 cases in Punjab this year, says health minister

Punjab has reported 16 dengue deaths and 9,559 cases so far this year, Health Minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra said on Wednesday. Jouramajra, who is currently campaigning in Gujarat for the Aam Aadmi Party, took stock of the situation on vector-borne diseases in a meeting with health officials by videoconference. There have been 9,559 cases of dengue and the state has 1,206 active patients, out of which 193 patients are admitted in hospitals, according to an official statement. Sixteen persons died due to dengue so far in comparison to 55 fatalities last year, it said. The patients who are at their homes are being monitored on a daily basis by the rapid response teams of the health department, Jouramajra said. The minister directed the health officials to coordinate with the local government and rural development departments to step up fogging activities. He stressed on the need to create awareness regarding prevention of dengue and urged people to follow the health department's

One person dead, 21 others injured after two explosions in Jerusalem

One person was killed and 21 others injured in two separate explosions at bus stops at the entrances to Jerusalem on Wednesday, in what seemed like a coordinated terror attack, Israeli police and rescue officials said. The first explosion occurred close to the main entrance of Jerusalem in Givat Shaul, shortly after 7 AM when people were on the way to their offices and students to their educational institutions. Seventeen people at the bus stop were injured in the blast, including two critically and two seriously, medical officials said. One of the victims later died at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, hospital officials said. A second blast occurred shortly after at 7:30 AM at Ramot junction, another entrance to Jerusalem, which is normally jam-packed in the morning. Four people were injured in the explosion. The devices were packed with nails to maximise casualties and controlled by nearly identical remote devices, the police said in its initial response. Israel Police Commissioner

Data story: India adds 360 new Covid cases; death toll at 530,596

India has added 3,399 cases in the past 7 days.

Death toll from earthquake in Indonesia's Java island jumps to 268

The death toll from an earthquake on Indonesia's main island of Java jumped to 268

Quake topples Indonesia's Java island; at least 162 dead, hundreds injured

An earthquake shook Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday, killing at least 14 people, damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents into the capital's streets for safety. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 5.6 quake was centered in the Cianjur region in West Java province at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). It killed at least 14 people and injured 17 others, National Disaster Mitigation Agency chief Suharyanto said. Dozens of buildings were damaged, including an Islamic boarding school, a hospital and other public facilities, the agency said. Information was still being collected about the extent of casualties and damage, it said in a statement. The quake was felt strongly in the greater Jakarta area. High rises in the capital swayed and some were evacuated. The quake felt so strong. My colleagues and I decided to get out of our office on the ninth floor using the emergency stairs, said Vidi Primadhania, an employee in South Jakarta. Earthquakes occur ..

Maharashtra logs 29 new Covid cases - lowest since early days of pandemic

Maharashtra on Monday recorded 29 new cases of coronavirus -- the lowest daily tally since the early days of the pandemic more than two years ago -- taking the overall count to 81,35,242, while no fresh death linked to the infection was reported in the state, the health department said. Dr Pradip Awate, state surveillance officer, said the daily infection figure is the lowest since the cases that were registered in initial days when the pandemic began in March 2020. The toll remained unchanged at 1,48,404, while the count of recoveries reached 79,86,087 after 89 patients recuperated from the infection in the last 24 hours, the official said. Maharashtra currently has 751 active cases, he said. "We had never seen daily figures dropping this low in the first, second and the third wave. It is prior to the start of the first wave. The figures are similar to what we had seen in March (2020) when the initial cases were recorded," Dr Awate told PTI. At least 9,470 swab samples were test

India records 492 new Covid infections in a day; active cases dip to 6,489

India logged 492 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,46,69,015, while the active cases dipped to 6,489, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,30,574 with four fatalities which includes three deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated. One death has been reported from Maharashtra in a span of 24 hours. The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate increased to 98.79 per cent, according to the ministry website. A decrease of 293 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,31,952, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent. According to the ministry's website, 219.86 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. India's COVID-

India records 656 new Covid-19 infections in a day; active tally declines

India logged 656 new coronavirus infections taking the tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,46,67,967, while the active cases declined to 7,034, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,30,553 with seven fatalities which includes two deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.02 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate increased to 98.79 per cent, according to the ministry website. A decrease of 141 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,30,380, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent. According to the ministry's website 219.84 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on Augus