Covid-19 4th Wave in India updates: According to the official data shared by the Ministry of Health on Friday morning, India recorded 2,841 new Covid-19 infections and nine deaths in last 24 hours. The country’s active caseload currently stands at 18,604. A decrease of 463 cases has been recorded in the active caseload. Overall 18,604 Covid active cases have been recorded, which is 0.04% of the total caseload. As per the official data, the number of deaths has reached 5,24,190. The daily positivity rate has declined to 0.58% and the weekly positivity rate dipped to 0.69%, according to the Ministry.
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— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) The Ministry of Health on Thursday announced that Indian citizens & students travelling overseas can now take the precaution dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 as required by the guidelines of the destination country. This new facility will be available soon on the CoWIN portal, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in a tweet.
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Mumbai on Friday reported 155 new COVID-19 cases and one death, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. The caseload in India's financial capital thus rose to 10,61,332 while death toll reached 19,564. The city recorded a COVID-19-related death for the first time after April 30, BMC data showed. As many as 116 patients recovered during the day, taking the total of recoveries to 10,40,870. There are 898 active patients in the metropolis now. (PTI)
Gujarat's COVID-19 tally reached 12,24,657 on Friday after 35 cases were detected in the last 24 hours, while the death toll remained unchanged at 10,944, a health department official said. The recovery count increased by 12 to touch 12,13,502, leaving the state with an active caseload of 211, he added. Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 12,24,657 new cases 35, deaths 10,944, discharged 12,13,502 active cases 211 and people tested so far - figures not released. (PTI)
Maharashtra on Friday recorded 263 new coronavirus infections and two pandemic-related deaths, the state health department said. The state's COVID-19 caseload rose to 78,80,337 and death toll reached 1,47,853. On Thursday, the state had recorded 231 new cases and one fatality. Mumbai recorded 155 new cases and one death on Friday. Another fatality was reported from neighbouring Thane district. The case fatality rate in Maharashtra stands at 1.87 per cent. (PTI)
The number of COVID-19 cases in Nashik reached 4,76,075 on Friday after four persons were detected with the infection, while the death toll remained unchanged at 8,899, an official said. So far, 4,67,162 persons have recovered, including two during the day, leaving the district with an active caseload of 14, he added. (PTI)
Locked-down Shanghai aims to ringfence its COVID outbreak over the next week, officials said on Friday, while residents in China's capital Beijing largely heeded the advice of authorities to work from home to stem the virus' spread. Easing weeks of punishing restrictions in the commercial hub would bring relief to China's battered economy, although there is growing concern that Beijing may yet take a similar course of action if it fails to get a nascent outbreak under control. Shanghai's deputy mayor, Wu Qing, said the city of 25 million aims to eliminate COVID outside of quarantined zones within the next week or so. After that, the city's lockdown will be "lifted in batches", with shops opened and traffic restictions eased, he said in the announcement which confirmed a Reuters story from Sunday. (Reuters)
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, becomes almost immediately nonviable if deposited on a cash banknote, according to a study. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, suggests that the use of credit and debit cards over cash as a COVID-19 prevention measure is not advisable. The researchers found that the virus shows greater stability on plastic money cards, with the live virus still being detected 48 hours after initial deposition. However, no viable virus was detected on either cash or card that was randomly sampled in the study, the researchers said. (PTI)
Those travelling abroad for jobs, education and business purposes can take the precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine anytime after three months from the second dose as required by the destination country, the Centre said on Friday, a day after it relaxed the stipulated nine-month waiting period for international travel.
In a letter to states and union territories, the Centre said necessary provisions have been made on the Co-WIN portal to enable updation of the precaution dose so administered and citizens will not be required to upload documents such as visa.
The Health Ministry received several requests for the early administration of precaution dose to those who need to undertake international travel for educational purpose, employment opportunities, participation in sports tournaments, attending bilateral and multilateral meetings as part of India's official delegation, and business commitments, Additional Secretary in the ministry Manohar Agnani said. (PTI)
Odisha reported 19 more COVID-19 cases on Friday, the health department said. The toll remained at 9,126 as there was no new fatality for the 10th successive day, it said. There are 121 active cases and 33 more patients recovered from the disease, it added. The new cases were detected after testing 14,608 samples, recording a positivity rate of 0.13 per cent. So far, the state has recorded 12,88,272 cases. (PTI)
Puducherry added five new coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours as the overall tally went up to 1,65,806, a senior Health department official said on Friday. The five fresh infections were identified at the end of the examination of 418 specimens during the last 24 hours ending 10 AM Friday, Director of Health Department G Sriramulu said in a release here. Sriramulu said that the overall caseload in the union territory was 1,65,806 while the recoveries remained 1,63,832. The death toll remained at 1,962 with no fresh fatalities being reported during the last 24 hours. The number of active cases stood at 12. (PTI)
Shanghai will try again to reopen in a few days after it has eliminated COVID-19 transmission among the population at large as an outbreak in China's largest city subsides, an official said Friday. The strict lockdown of the city — now in its seventh week but moved, lifted and reinforced at times to the frustration of residents — is part of the ruling Communist Party's “zero-COVID” goal that has exacted a mounting economic toll and that even the World Health Organization says may be unsustainable. The goal in Shanghai is to achieve “elimination in society,” meaning any new cases would only be in people already in isolation, Vice Mayor Wu Qing said at a news conference. That would allow for an “orderly opening, limited (population) flow, and differentiated management,” Wu said. No exact date beyond the middle of the month was given, nor did Wu say how the reopening would occur except that the city intends to gradually restore industrial production, education and medical services. (AP)
Gujarat on Thursday recorded 28 new cases of coronavirus that raised the tally of infections to 12,24,622, an official from the state health department said. With 23 patients discharged from hospitals, the count of recoveries reached 12,13,490, while the toll stood at 10,944 as no new casualties were reported during the day, the official said. The state currently has 188 active cases, he added. Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 12,24,622 new cases 28, deaths 10,944, discharged 12,13,490 active cases 188 and people tested so far - figures not released. (PTI)
Telangana on Thursday registered 39 fresh coronavirus cases taking the tally to 7,92,474. Hyderabad reported the highest number of cases with 28. A health department bulletin said 28 people recuperated from the disease in the last 24 hours and the cumulative number of recoveries till date was 7,87,961. The recovery rate stood at 99.43 percent. No fresh fatality occurred due to the viral infection and the toll continued to be 4,111. The bulletin said 13,422 samples were tested on Thursday. The number of active cases was 402, it said. (PTI)
The COVID-19 tally in Madhya Pradesh rose to 10,41,832 on Thursday after the detection of 40 new cases, while no fresh death linked to the respiratory disease was registered in the state, a health department official said. The death toll remained unchanged at 10,735, the official said. The positivity rate, or cases detected per 100 tests, stood at 0.5 per cent, he said. The recovery count increased by 29 to touch 10,30,867, leaving the state with 230 active cases, the official informed. (PTI)
At least one person confirmed to have COVID-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of country's first confirmed outbreak of the pandemic. (Reuters)
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India's active caseload currently stands at 18,604
Recovery rate currently at 98.74%
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South Korea plans to provide COVID-19 vaccines and other medical supplies to the North, President Yoon Suk-yeol's office said on Friday, a day after the neighbouring country confirmed its first outbreak of coronavirus. "We will discuss detailed plans for assistance with North Korea," Yoon's spokesperson said in a statement. (Reuters)
President Joe Biden on Thursday commemorated the COVID-19 deaths of 1 million people in the United States, marking what he called "a tragic milestone" and urging Americans to "remain vigilant" during the ongoing pandemic. In a statement, Biden acknowledged the impact of the deaths on families left behind and urged the country not to "grow numb to such sorrow." (Reuters)
Mizoram on Friday reported 50 fresh COVID-19 cases, raising the tally to 2,27,899, a health department official said. The death toll stood at 697 as no new fatality was reported since May 3. The daily positivity rate stood at 14.24 per cent and the recovery rate at 99.59 per cent, he said. The northeastern state now has 219 active cases, while 2,26,983 people have so far recovered from the disease. It has tested more than 19.26 lakh samples for coronavirus till date. According to State Immunisation Officer Lalmuanawma Jongte, over 8.53 lakh people have been inoculated till Thursday. (PTI)
Thane district of Maharashtra reported 25 new coronavirus positive cases, which took its infection tally to 7,09,293, an official said on Friday. These cases were reported on Thursday. As the virus did not claim anybody's life during the day, the death toll in Thane remained constant at 11,894, he said, adding that the district's COVID-19 mortality rate is 1.67 per cent. In neighbouring Palghar district, the caseload stood at 1,63,612, while the death toll is 3,407, another official said. (PTI)
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Shanghai is aiming to reach zero-COVID at the community level in the next few days and will then start to steadily ease traffic restrictions and open shops, the city's deputy mayor Wu Qing said on Friday. Though the situation is improving, the fight against China's biggest-ever COVID-19 outbreak "still requires the joint exertions of every citizen", Wu told a briefing. "Our current goal is to achieve social zero in the middle of this month," Wu said. "We've already seen that the light is getting closer and closer." When Chinese officials refer to cases "at the community level" they mean outside tightly regulated quarantine zones. Cases outside the quarantine zones are most closely watched for an indication of if the outbreak is spreading or not. (Reuters)
North Korea said Friday that six people died and 3.5 lakh have been treated for a fever that has spread "explosively" across the nation, a day after its first acknowledgement of a COVID-19 outbreak. The true scale is unclear, but a big COVID-19 outbreak could be devastating in a country with a broken healthcare system and an unvaccinated, malnourished population. North Korea, which likely does not have sufficient COVID-19 tests and other medical equipment, said it did not know the case of the mass fevers. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said of the 3.5 lakh people who developed fevers since late April, 1,62,200 have recovered. It said 18,000 people were newly found with fever symptoms on Thursday alone, and 1,87,800 people are being isolated for treatment. (AP)
A total of 42 more people, including a returnee from New Delhi, tested COVID-19 positive in Tamil Nadu in the last 24 hours, aggregating to 34,54,512, while the death toll remained unchanged at 38,025 with nil fatalities recorded in the same period, the Health Department said on Thursday.
The number of recoveries grew to 34,16,049 with 43 people getting discharged in the last 24 hours, leaving 438 active infections, a bulletin said here.
Among the new cases, 22 are men and 20 women, the bulletin stated.
Chennai accounted for 24 cases, Chengalpet five, Tiruvallur four, Coimbatore and Kancheepuram recorded two each while Kanyakumari, Nilgiris, Salem, Tirunelveli reported one case each.
The State capital leads among districts with 223 active infections and overall there were 7,52,029 coronavirus cases till date.
A total of 15,926 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative number of tests to 6,63,56,068 so far, the bulletin said.
Meanwhile, the government said the State public health laboratory, operating under the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, has got accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) and termed it as another 'milestone' in public health.
State Public health Laboratory has fulfilled all necessary criteria without any non-conformities and received the Certificate of Accreditation by NABL making it as the only lab to obtain the recognition for COVID-19 RT-PCR testing in Tamil Nadu.
Till date, a total of 26.57 lakh tests were carried out by the laboratory and has always been a backbone of laboratory support for public health.
Chief Minister M K Stalin had inaugurated the Whole Genome Sequencing of SARS CoV-2 virus in September 2021 and the lab was, at present, tracking the emergence of new variants of SARS CoV-2 virus, the release said.
"This was team work carried out by the SPHL staff under the leadership of the Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and that is truly another milestone in public health," the release said. (PTI)
Chhattisgarh on Thursday recorded four new COVID-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 11,52,331, while no fresh death due to the infection was registered in the state, an official said.
The death toll remained unchanged at 14,034, he said.
The four cases, at a positivity rate of 0.10 per cent, were reported from Raipur (3) and Balrampur (1), he added.
The recovery count increased by two to touch 11,38,262, leaving the state with 35 active cases, the official said.
With 4,017 swab samples examined during the day, the tally of tests carried out so far in Chhattisgarh went up to 1,76,84,755, he added.
Chhattisgarh's coronavirus figures are as follows: Positive cases 11,52,331, new cases 4, death toll 14,034, recovered 11,38,262, active cases 35, total tests 1,76,84,755. (PTI)
The government may not allow precaution dose of a COVID-19 vaccine other than the one used for primary vaccination in light of a CMC Vellore study which showed lack of uniformity in results upon mixing of jabs for booster shots, sources said on Thursday.
The Covid Working Group of NTAGI which reviewed the findings of the Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore study last week stated that scientific evidence showed that administering a booster dose of Covishield after primary vaccination with Covaxin gives 6 to 10 times higher antibody level as compared to when Covaxin is given as the precaution dose after a gap of six months after the primary schedule. | READ MORE
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