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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya today informed that 80 per cent of adults in India have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. “Vaccine for all, free vaccine. India has crossed the historic figure of administering both doses of Covid-19 vaccines to 80 per cent of adult population. Under PM @NarendraModi’s leadership, the country is advancing rapidly towards 100 per cent vaccination,” Mandaviya said in a tweet. Around 96.5 per cent of the country’s adult population has been administered the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, as per the official data.
Meanwhile, the government of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday announced the decision to lift the Covid-19 induced night curfew across the state. The decision comes after the state observed a sustained decline in Coronavirus infections. The night curfew in the state was initially between 10pm to 6am. The timing was relaxed by an hour from February 13. Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said the decision to end night curfew was taken following the decline in COVID-19 cases, reported PTI.
India on Friday recorded 22,270 new Coronavirus infections and 325 related deaths, as per the official data shared by the Union Health Ministry. The number of daily Covid cases in the country have remained below one lakh for 13 consecutive days now. The active case load stands at 2,53,739 which comprises 0.59 per cent of the total infections. The Ministry informed that the national recovery rate has further improved to 98.21 per cent.
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➡️ Over 75.81 Cr COVID Tests conducted so far.
➡️ Weekly Positivity Rate currently at 2.50%.
➡️ Daily Positivity Rate stands at 1.80%. pic.twitter.com/vF53jSkIHF
— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) February 19, 2022
Tokyo recorded 13,516 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, up 1,751 from a week earlier, national broadcaster NHK reported. It is the first daily rise from week-earlier levels since Feb. 8, NHK said, adding that the Japanese capital recorded 27 deaths, the highest this year. A Japanese health panel on Friday approved a plan for more targeted COVID curbs across much of the nation. (Reuters)
Mainland China reported 137 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Feb. 18, the country's national health authority said on Saturday, up from 87 a day earlier. Of the new cases, 80 were locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said, compared with 40 a day earlier. These included 46 cases in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia. (Reuters)
China is giving COVID-19 booster vaccines using technologies different from the initial injections, in an effort to improve immunisation strategies amid concerns that its most-used jabs appeared to be weaker against variants such as Omicron. Boosting population immunity could be crucial to preparing China to eventually reopen its borders and pivot from its “dynamic zero” strategy, which involves travel curbs and mass testing following dozens of local infections. (Reuters)
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— Office of Dr Mansukh Mandaviya (@OfficeOf_MM) February 19, 2022
Hong Kong health authorities on Saturday reported 6,063 new COVID-19 cases and 15 new deaths as the city grapples to contain an outbreak of coronavirus that has overwhelmed its healthcare system. Authorities reported about 7,400 additional preliminary positive cases. (Reuters)
Eighteen coronavirus patients, including a teenager, have died in Odisha and 534 people tested positive for the pathogen, the Health Department said on Saturday. The daily positivity rate was 1.1 per cent and 147 children were among those newly infected. The infections are the lowest since 424 cases on January 3. The state had logged 671 COVID-19 cases and 15 deaths on Friday. (PTI)
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) February 19, 2022
➡️ India's Active Caseload currently at 2,53,739.
➡️ Active Cases presently constitute 0.59% of Total Cases. pic.twitter.com/OsQS7p8bX2
— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) February 19, 2022
Carnival Cruise Line plans to make masks optional for its guests from March 1 after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eased its warnings for cruise ships, the company said in a statement late on Friday. The company said masks would be recommended but not required. (Reuters)
Hong Kong until recently had an enviable record battling COVID-19, but as an Omicron wave now overwhelms the city, the steps that saved lives are making life unbearable for many of its 7.4 million people. Like an immune system overreacting and harming the person it is meant to protect, the “dynamic zero-COVID” policies that had crushed the virus in Hong Kong have contributed to current woes, experts say. Patients lie in beds in cold, wet parking lots outside overflowing hospitals, isolation facilities are filling up and thousands queue for hours outside testing venues. (Reuters)
The World Health Organization said on Friday six African countries – Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia – would be the first on the continent to receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines. The technology transfer project, launched last year in Cape Town, aims to help low- and middle-income countries manufacture mRNA vaccines at scale and according to international standards. (Reuters)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had found four batches of AstraZeneca Plc's COVID-19 vaccine manufactured at the troubled Emergent BioSolutions facility that were fit to be shipped outside the United States. The health agency said it does not, however, expect to make any more decisions on the remaining lots of the vaccine manufactured at Emergent's Baltimore facility. (Reuters)
Australia recorded 43 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, as it readies to welcome international tourists on Monday for the first time in nearly two years. The country, which shut its borders in March of 2020, has been gradually reopening since November, allowing first Australians to travel, then international students and workers, and now leisure travellers. Once a champion of a zero-COVID strategy, the country has moved to live with the coronavirus in the community, chiefly through high vaccination rates that have resulted in less severe cases and fewer hospitalisations. (Reuters)
Arunachal Pradesh's COVID-19 tally rose to 64,244 after 44 more people tested positive for the infection, a senior health official said here on Saturday. The COVID-19 death toll climbed to 296 after a woman succumbed to the disease on Thursday, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said. Of the 44 fresh cases, 14 were registered at Tawang, five each from West Kameng and Namsai, four from Longding, three each from Upper Siang and Capital Complex Region, two each from Lohit and Lower Subansiri, while Upper Subansiri, Lower Siang, Leparada, East Siang, Changlang and Papumpare reported one new case each, the official said. (PTI)
Puducherry logged 30 new coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours ending 10 a.m. on Saturday, marking a steep fall in number of daily infections. The overall caseload now stood at 1,65,564. The number of fresh cases reported on Saturday was 50. Director of Health G.Sriramulu said in a release that the 30 new cases identified at the end of examination of 1,881 samples were spread over Puducherry 20, Mahe 2 and Karaikal and Yanam regions 4 each. He said the active cases also fell to 495 as against 586 reported on Saturday. (PTI)
US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy has announced that he along with his wife and two young children have tested positive for COVID-19 despite best efforts to stay safe and urged fellow Americans to get vaccinated against the deadly disease that has claimed over nine lakh lives in the country. In a series of tweets on Friday, the Indian-American physician said that his 4-year-old daughter last week tested positive for the virus first with fever and sore throat. (PTI)
Andaman and Nicobar Islands reported six new COVID-19 cases, two less than the previous day, pushing the tally to 10,000, a health department official said on Saturday. Twenty-eight more people recovered from COVID-19, taking the total number of recoveries 9,810, the official said. The archipelago now has 61 active COVID-19 cases. The COVID-19 death toll remained at 129 as no fresh fatality was reported in the last 24 hours, he said. (PTI)
Ladakh's COVID-19 caseload increased to 27,746 on Saturday as 51 more people tested positive for the viral disease, officials said. The death toll remained unchanged at 228, they said. While Leh district reported 38 fresh cases, Kargil reported 13, the officials said. Of the total 228 deaths, 168 were in Leh and 60 in Kargil. There are 320 active COVID-19 cases in Leh and 85 in Kargil, the officials said. As many as 62 more people — 51 in Leh and 11 in Kargil — recovered from COVID-19 in Ladakh. With this, the total number of recoveries has increased to 27,113, they said. (PTI)
