Ratings agency Crisil termed the government's relief package for the tourism sector as a 'timely' move that will gear up the industry for recovery with the easing of lockdowns post the second waveof the COVID19Pandemic.
Coronavirus Highlights | The single-day rise in fresh cases was recorded below 40,000 after 102 days, bringing the COVID-19 infection tally to 3,03,16,897, while the daily fatalities remained below 1,000 for the second consecutive day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. India saw 37,566 new cases being reported in a day, while the COVID-19 death toll rose to 3,97,637 with 907 daily fatalities, the lowest in 77 days. According to the data published at 7 am, 32.90 crore cumulative vaccine doses have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. The number of active cases has further declined to 5,52,659, comprising 1.82 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 96.87 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed. A net decline of 20,335 cases has been recorded in the COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. Also, 17,68,008 tests were conducted on Monday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 40,81,39,287, while the daily positivity rate has declined to 2.12 per cent . It has been less than 5 per cent for 22 consecutive days, the ministry said. The weekly positivity rate has declined to 2.74 per cent. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7; 30 lakh on August 23; 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28; 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed one crore on December 19. India crossed the grim milestone of 2 crore on May 4 and 3 crore on June 23.
Ratings agency Crisil termed the government's relief package for the tourism sector as a 'timely' move that will gear up the industry for recovery with the easing of lockdowns post the second waveof the COVID19Pandemic.
We are facing shortage of vaccines. Centre has directed to allot 25% to private hospitals but we have decided to allocate 5% of vaccine to private hospitals. We are sending this proposal to Central Govt: Jharkhand Health Minister Banna Gupta
A team of US researchers has developed face masks with biosensors that can be customised to detect pathogens such as the SARSCoV2, virus causing #COVID19, and toxins and alert the user.
So far, there are no cases of the Delta Plus variant of coronavirus in the state. We are confident that we will be able to tackle the possible third wave of COVID19. I appeal to tourists coming to the state to follow all COVID19 protocols: Himachal Pradesh CM Jairam Thakur
Punjab reports 218 new positive cases, 485 recoveries, and 16 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Total positive cases: 5,95,351
Active cases: 3,347
States should closely monitor case positivity, bed occupancy on regular basis, taking districts as administrative units: Union home ministry.Focus should be on five-fold strategy of COVID-19 management -- test, track, treat, vaccination, Covid-appropriate behaviour: MHA to states
Russia's Sputnik V shot around 90% effective against Delta variant, developers say.
Tamil Nadu reports 4,512 new COVID19 cases, 6,013 recoveries, and 118 deaths
Active cases: 39,335
Total recoveries: 24,03,349
Death toll: 32,506
The findings of serosurvey conducted by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation shows that antibodies prevalent in more than 50% of children: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope
Telangana reports 987 new COVID cases, 1,362 recoveries, and 7 deaths
Active cases: 13,487
Total recoveries: 6,05,455
Death toll: 3,651
The Chief of Lancet COVID19 Commission has dismissed claims by the Chinese government that he is being pushed by the US government to favour the Wuhan lab-leak theory, the media reported.
These are medical issues, medical experts will be better placed than me to respond. Every approval process of vaccines must be conducted on its own merit: Ugo Astuto, Ambassador of EU to India on, "Why Vaxzevria (vaccine) of same AstraZeneca is permitted in EU & not Covishield?"
It is to clarify there is no banning on Covishield, we have set up in place a new system of Digital Covid Certificate which is meant to facilitate travel within the European Union. Basically, this certificate is proof that a person is vaccinated against COVID or received a negative test or recovered from COVID19. So this is meant as a facilitator but it is not a precondition for travel. For example, people who are not vaccinated should still be allowed to travel, subject to the usual restrictions like testing, quarantine, self-isolation measures related to covid health policy: Ugo Astuto, Ambassador of the European Union to India
