Omicron Coronavirus India Live News, Coronavirus Vaccination Statistics and Registration Latest Updates, Covid-19 Cases and Deaths in India Recent Updates, Covid Restrictions Feb 19 Highlights: 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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Chhattisgarh reported 504 COVID-19 cases, taking the state's tally to 11,49,197 on Saturday, while the death toll remained unchanged at 14,021, an official said. The positivity rate, or cases detected per 100 tests, stood at 2.02 per cent, he said. The number of recoveries reached 11,31,637 after 56 people were discharged from hospitals and 765 completed home isolation during the day, leaving the state with an active tally of 3,539, he said. (PTI)
Telangana on Saturday recorded 401 new COVID-19 cases and one death. These pushed the tally till date to 7,86,422 and 4,109. A bulletin said 865 people recovered from the infectious disease and the cumulative number of recoveries was 7,76,667. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) reported the highest number of cases with 124 followed by districts of Medchal Malkajgiri (26) and Khammam (25). The number of active cases was 5,646, the bulletin said. (PTI)
Tamil Nadu on Saturday recorded 1,051 coronavirus cases and seven deaths thereby taking the count to 34,43,980 and 37,977 respectively. Recoveries continued to rise and they included 3,561 patients getting discharged today. The cumulative recoveries increased to 33,87,839. The total active cases, including isolation, were 18,164, according to a bulletin. Chennai accounted for 238 fresh infections, Coimbatore 157, Chengalpattu 96 and Erode 55. Nearly 21 districts saw cases below 50 while 13 other districts had new infections in single digit with Mayiladuthurai reporting one case. (PTI)
Mizoram has eased certain COVID-19 curbs following a gradual decline in daily cases of the pandemic and the union home ministry's directive to all states to ease restrictions due to significant improvement in the situation across the country, an official on Saturday. Night curfew, which has been imposed for nearly two years in the state capital Aizawl has been lifted, he said. All shops and marketplaces will now remain open daily across the state strictly adhering to COVID appropriate behaviour to ensure seamless economic activities. According to the new guidelines issued on Friday all places of worship will now reopen across the state during the day and evening hours with 50 seating capacity. Earlier, places of worship were closed in red zone areas which have a substantial number of COVID-19 cases. Picnic spots, theatres, beauty parlours and spas, gymnasium will be allowed to open and trekking, hiking, leisure activities or outing and adventure sports, which were earlier banned are now permitted in all parts of the state. Sporting competition or tournament is also now allowed without any audience, the guidelines said. Hotels, homestays, tourist lodges, guest houses, restaurants will also now remain open with 50 per cent capacity, it said. (PTI)
The cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country crossed 175.33 crore on Saturday, the Union health ministry said. More than 27 lakh (27,47,926) vaccine doses were administered till 7 pm. The ministry also said that over 1.89 crore (1,89,07,829) precaution doses have been administered to healthcare workers, frontline workers and those aged 60 and above with comorbidities. The daily vaccination tally is expected to increase with the compilation of the final reports for the day by late night. The countrywide vaccination drive was rolled out on January 16 with healthcare workers (HCWs) getting inoculated in the first phase. The vaccination of frontline workers (FLWs) started from February 2. (PTI)
Madhya Pradesh has recorded 1,013 new cases of COVID-19 and two more casualties in the last 24 hours that raised the tally of infections to 10,33,490 and toll to 10,713, an official from the state health department said on Saturday. As many as 2,353 patients were discharged from hospitals, taking the count of recoveries to 10,14,413, the official said. The state is now left with 8,364 active cases and the positivity rate stands at 1.4 per cent, he said. (PTI)
Maharashtra on Saturday recorded 1,635 fresh COVID-19 cases and 29 fatalities, taking the tally of infections to 78,56,994 and the toll to 1,43,576, the state health department said. On Friday, the state had recorded 2,068 cases and 15 fatalities due to COVID-19. With 4,394 patients discharged in Maharashtra in the last 24 hours after treatment, the number of recoveries rose to 76,91,064 so far, leaving the state with 18,368 active cases. Maharashtra's case recovery rate now stands at 97.89 per cent. Mumbai recorded 201 fresh cases and one COVID-19 fatality while Pune city added 278 infections and one fatality. (PTI)
COVID19 | Karnataka reports 1,137 new cases and 20 deaths today; Active cases tally at 13,431 (ANI)
Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday recorded 166 fresh Covid cases, which took the tally to 4,52,155, while no death due to the virus was reported in the past 24 hours, officials said. Out of the fresh cases, 103 were reported from the Jammu division and 63 from the Kashmir division of the Union Territory, they said. The officials said Jammu district recorded the highest of 51 cases followed by 23 cases in Doda district. (PTI)
Goa on Saturday reported 70 fresh COVID-19 cases and one fatality, taking the count of infections to 2,44,673 and the toll to 3,789, the state health department said. With 199 COVID-19 patients being discharged during the day after treatment, the number of recoveries in Goa went up to 2,40,207, a health official said. With 2,121 new tests, the total number of tests conducted in Goa so far has gone up to 18,65,563, he added. (PTI)
Nagaland's COVID-19 tally rose to 35,355 on Saturday as 15 people tested positive for the infection, three more than the previous day, a health official said. The coronavirus death toll stood at 753 for the fourth consecutive day as no fresh fatality was recorded, he said. Nagaland now has 295 active cases, while 32,831 people have recovered from the disease so far, including 36 in the last 24 hours. The recovery rate has improved to 92.86 per cent. A total of 1,476 patients have migrated to other states to date. (PTI)
Three more people died from coronavirus in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday as 253 fresh cases pushed the state's infection count to 2,81,971, a health official said. So far, 4,075 people have died from the infection in the state. A man and two women, aged between 75 and 81, died on Saturday, the official added. Two of them died in Hamirpur district and one in Sirmaur district, he said. (PTI)
Maharashtra's Nashik district on Saturday recorded 88 new cases of COVID-19, raising the tally of infections to 4,75,298, an official said. As many as 229 patients were discharged from hospitals, while one died of the infection during the day, taking the count of recoveries to 4,65,566 and toll to 8,886, the official said. With this, the district is now left with 846 active cases, he said. (PTI)
Multiple Chinese cities have announced cash rewards for tip-offs about people illegally crossing into the mainland from Hong Kong which is experiencing a massive fifth COVID-19 wave, overwhelming the local health system, state media reported on Saturday. Zhuhai, Huizhou and Dongguan in China's south Guangdong province close to Hong Kong have announced cash rewards for people who report suspected illegal crossings from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) amid reports of people fleeing to mainland by road and sea to escape the spread of the contagion, state-run Global Times reported on Saturday. Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China, reported 6,063 infections in addition to 7,400 preliminary-positive cases on Saturday, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post newspaper reported. (PTI)
Delhi records 635 fresh Covid cases and two deaths; positivity rate 1.12 per cent: Authorities. PTI
Kerala registers 6,757 new Covid19 cases, 16 deaths and 17,086 recoveries today; Active cases stand at 75,017, death toll 64,053
Andhra Pradesh witnessed 425 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Saturday and took the total till date to 23,15,950. According to the latest bulletin, the total recoveries touched 22,93,882 after 1,486 infected persons got cured in 24 hours ending 9 AM today. The overall death toll increased to 14,710 with two fatalities, the bulletin said. The number of active cases remained at 7,358. (PTI)
Drug firm Hetero on Saturday announced positive results of Phase III trials of Movfor (Molnupiravir), an investigational oral antiviral COVID-19 medicine. The results, presented as an Oral Abstract at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) held virtually February 12–16, 2022, demonstrated that Molnupiravir along with standard of care (SOC) reduced the risk of hospitalisation by over 65 per cent compared to SOC alone. Early viral clearance (negative RT-PCR) and significant clinical improvement were observed within five days of administering the antiviral drug, the Hyderabad-based drug maker said in a statement. (PTI)
Eighty per cent of India's adult population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Saturday. The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 175 crore, according to official data. (PTI)
➡️ 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)
