Jammu: A healthcare worker collects a swab sample of a passenger for Covid-19 testing amid a surge in coronavirus cases, at Charbagh railway station in Lucknow, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (PTI Photo/Nand Kumar)Coronavirus News Live Updates Today: India recorded a slight uptick in its daily coronavirus caseload, recording 3,688 new infections in the 24 hours ending 8 am on Saturday. The country also recorded 50 deaths, taking the toll to 5,23,803. There are 18,684 active cases in India, which comprise 0.04 per cent of the total infections, according to data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
There has been an increase of 883 active cases in the last 24 hours, while 2,755 patients were discharged on Friday.
In other news, a month after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar raised the issue, China on Friday announced plans to permit the return of “some” Indian students stranded here for over two years following visa and flight restrictions imposed by Beijing after the pandemic. Also, China is facing a”tsunami” of Omicron, a senior official said on Friday, as the country reported over 20,000 Covid-19 cases with its largest city Shanghai continuing to reel under lockdown for over three weeks while over 21 million people in capital Beijing underwent third nucleic acid test amid the growing list of “high-risk areas.”
With the addition of 12 coronavirus positive cases, the infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra rose to 7,09,035, an official said on Saturday. These cases were reported on Friday. As the virus claimed the life of one person during the day, the death toll in the district stood at 11,893, he said, adding that Thane's mortality rate is 1.67 per cent. (PTI)
Singapore has confirmed two Covid-19 cases with the new Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 through active monitoring of the disease and genetic sequencing for surveillance, the Channel News Asia reported. The two community cases were detected as part of the authorities' "active monitoring of the Covid-19 situation and genetic sequencing for surveillance", said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in its daily update on Thursday (April 28) night.
"All cases self-isolated after testing positive for Covid-19," it said.
The ministry noted that BA.2.12.1 is not currently on the World Health Organization's list of variants of concern of interest, or variants under monitoring. Not much is known about BA.2.12.1 - a subvariant of the highly contagious BA.2 Omicron variant - and there is currently no evidence that it causes more severe disease. (PTI)
Delhi has recorded 1,607 fresh Covid-19 cases with two people succumbing to the virus in the last 24 hours, while the positivity rate stood at 5.28 per cent, the city health department said on Saturday. These figures refer to Friday's heath bulletin which was issued by authorities this morning.
With these new cases, the national capital's overall Covid tally has increased to 18,81,555 while the death toll has risen to 26,174. Delhi on Thursday had recorded 1,490 Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 4.62 per cent, and two deaths.
A total of 30,459 tests were conducted on Thursday, according to the Friday's health bulletin. The number of daily Covid-19 cases in Delhi had touched the record high of 28,867 on January 13 this year during the third wave of the pandemic. (PTI)
The Standing Technical Sub-Committee of the NTAGI has recommended inclusion of the Serum Institute’s Covovax in the national COVID-19 vaccination programme for children aged 12 to 17 years, sources said on Friday. India’s drug regulator had approved Covovax for restricted use in emergency situations in adults on December 28 last year and in the 12-17 age group, subject to certain conditions, on March 9. Read more
There are 18,684 active cases in India, which comprise 0.04 per cent of the total infections, according to data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. There has been an increase of 883 active cases in the last 24 hours, while 2,755 patients were discharged on Friday.
The active Covid-19 cases in West Bengal on Friday jumped by 34 to 335, the Health Department said. The state reported 52 new cases, taking the tally to 20,18,205. The toll remained at 21,201 with no fresh deaths registered, it said. At present, there are 309 patients in home isolation and 26 undergoing treatment at different hospitals, it added.
In the last 24 hours, 18 patients recovered. The new cases were detected after testing 12,174 samples. The Covid-19 situation in the state was normal with a very small number of people testing positive daily, a Health official said. "The situation in the state is absolutely fine at the moment. There has been almost no death in the last few weeks. Also, the number of new cases is very paltry," he said. (PTI)
India Saturday recorded 50 deaths in the last 24 hours taking the total death toll to 5,23,803, according to the latest data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
India recorded a slight uptick in its coronavirus caseload, recording 3,688 new Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending at 8 am on Saturday, according to the latest data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
A month after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar raised the issue, China on Friday announced plans to permit the return of “some” Indian students stranded here for over two years following visa and flight restrictions imposed by Beijing after the pandemic.
“China attaches high importance to Indian students’ concerns about returning to China for studies. We have shared with the Indian side the procedures and experience of other countries’ students returning to China,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing in Beijing. Read more
Delhi Friday reported 1,607 fresh Covid-19 infections and a positivity rate of 5.28%. The active cases in the national capital stands at 5,609.
The Delhi government has provided Covid relief assistance of Rs 1 crore to families of 30 ‘Covid warriors’ who lost their lives during the pandemic, said Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia after handing over the ‘Samman Rashi’ to the family of a staffer. Sisodia visited the family of Kamlesh, a sanitation worker at Lok Nayak hospital, who died of Covid while serving patients.
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