India has added 86,128 cases in the past 7 days
The count of active cases across India on June 20 saw an increase of 2,613
The addition to the tally was 1,305 or 55 per cent more than the 2,354 cases reported a day earlier
India has so far administered 1,961,866,707 vaccine doses
No fresh fatality occurred due to the infection in the state and the death toll continued to be 4,111
A day earlier the state had reported 3,883 cases and two Covid-19 fatalities
Long Covid is defined as having new or ongoing symptoms four weeks or more after the start of disease; symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, loss of concentration and joint pain
India has added 74,675 cases in the past 7 days
India has so far administered 1,958,403,471 vaccine doses
The Standing Technical Sub-Committee (STSC) of the NTAGI on Thursday recommended reducing the gap between the second and precaution doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the current nine to six months
The Union Ministry of Health has made amendments to the Drugs Rules, 1945, to implement this
The cumulative vaccine doses administered in the country have exceeded 195.67 crore, according to the Health Ministry's provisional reports till 7 am on Thursday.
India has so far administered 1,956,737,014 vaccine doses
India on Thursday reported 12,213 fresh Covid cases in a single-day rise as against the previous day's count of 8,822 infections, the Union Health Ministry said
The agenda for the NTAGI's meeting includes discussion on CMC Vellore study on the feasibility of allowing precaution dose of a Covid vaccine separate from the one used for primary vaccination
India has added 55,235 cases in the past 7 days
India's active cases tally stands at 50,548
British health officials have detected another 104 cases of monkeypox in England in what has become the biggest outbreak beyond Africa of the normally rare disease.
Three patients of BA.4 and one of BA.5 Omicron sub-variants of coronavirus have been found in Mumbai and all of them have already recovered from the infection
BA.4 and BA.5 are sub-variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain of the coronavirus which had triggered the third wave of the pandemic in the country