Coronavirus India News Highlights: India reports 2,487 fresh Covid-19 cases, slightly lower than yesterday; active cases at 17,692

Chhattisgarh on Sunday had a Covid-19 clean slate day as no case or death was reported in the state, the feat being achieved for the fifth time since April, an official said. There was no addition to the tally or toll similarly on April 10, 14, 16 and 17, he said.

The active caseload in the state is 20, while 20 districts have no Covid-19 patient at present, he added. (PTI)

Karnataka on Sunday reported 126 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the total infections to 39,49,675 so far, while there were zero fatalities, the Health Department said.In its bulletin, the department said there were 1,891 active cases while 103 people were discharged.

The majority of cases came from Bengaluru urban district which reported 118 infections today. The city had 1,810 active cases. There were infections in six other districts, including two each in Hassan and Ballari.

As many as 6,604 inoculations were done in the State, taking the total vaccinated to 10.72 crore till date. (PTI)

Telangana on Sunday recorded 28 new Covid-19 cases, taking the total number of cases to 7,92,599 so far, said a bulletin from the Health Department. No fresh fatality due to the infection was reported today and the death toll continued to be 4,111, it said.

Hyderabad recorded the highest number of 25 cases. The active cases stood at 408, the bulletin said. (PTI)

The Covid-19 tally in Madhya Pradesh reached 10,41,945 on Sunday after the detection of 42 cases at a positivity rate of 0.5 per cent, while the death toll remained unchanged at 10,735. The recovery count increased by 24, leaving the state with 262 active cases.

A government release said 11,82,94,228 Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far in the state, including 1,180 on Sunday. (PTI)

Gujarat on Sunday reported 33 Covid-19 cases, taking the tally in the state to 12,24,721, while the death toll remained unchanged at 10,944, a health department official said.

So far, 12,13,563 persons have been discharged post recovery, including 37 during the day, leaving Gujarat with an active caseload of 214, he said. Ahmedabad reported 15 cases, followed by 10 in Vadodara, six in Gandhinagar and one each in Surat and Anand, he said.

A government release said 4,516 people received Covid-19 vaccination shots on Sunday, which took the total number of doses administered to 10.83 crore. (PTI)

Tamil Nadu on Sunday logged 30 new Covid-19 infections with zero fatalities recorded in the last 24 hours. Chennai accounted for 16 new infections, Chengalpet recorded seven, Coimbatore and Tiruchirappalli recorded two each while Cuddalore, Sivagangai and Tiruvallur saw one case each.

The number of people who recovered from the disease rose to 34,16,237 with 79 more getting discharged in the last 24 hours. Tamil Nadu currently has 359 active cases. (PTI)

Mumbai on Sunday reported 151 Covid-19 cases and one death, taking the tally here to 10,61,614 and the toll to 19,566, a civic official said. The recovery count increased by 122, leaving the metropolis with 885 cases, he added. (PTI)

India witnessed slight dip in the Covid-19 cases on Sunday as it logged 2,487 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed. On Saturday, 2,858 Covid-19 cases were reported.

With this the active caseload in the country stands at 17,692. The daily positivity rate is at 0.61 %, while the weekly positivity rate of Covid in India is at 0.62%. (ANI)

In order to help the neighbouring country curb the spread of the disease, South Korea intends to hold talks with North Korea next week to discuss Covid-19 relief measures, Sputnik news agency reported.

On Thursday, Pyongyang announced the first wave of Covid-19 cases in the country, as several citizens tested positive for the Omicron BA.2 variant, South Korean agency Yonhap reported on Sunday.

Chinese mainland reported 226 “ locally transmitted” confirmed Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, out of which 166 were in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission’s report on Sunday.

Apart from Shanghai, 10 other provincial-level regions on the mainland saw new local Covid-19 cases, including 33 in Beijing, Xinhua News Agency reported. (ANI)

North Korea has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers as it mobilises more than a million health and other workers to try to suppress the country’s first Covid-19 outbreak, state media reported on Sunday.

Odisha recorded 14 more coronavirus cases on Sunday, while there was no new fatality for the 12th consecutive day, the health department said.

There are 138 active Covid-19 cases and seven more patients have recuperated from the disease, according to a bulletin. The daily positivity rate was 0.10 per cent and four children were among the newly infected. (PTI)

Puducherry reported three fresh cases of COVID-19 on Sunday taking the overall tally in the Union Territory to 1,65,812, a senior government official said. In a press release, Director of Health G Sriramulu said the number of active cases in the UT went up to 15. There was no recovery of patients in the last 24 hours and overall recoveries remained the same at 1,63,835, the Director said. No fresh fatality due to the virus was reported in the UT and the death toll stood unchanged at 1,962. (PTI)

Supermarkets, malls and restaurants in Shanghai will be allowed to open in a limited capacity starting Monday, officials said, even while it remained unclear whether residents would be let out from their homes. The city's Vice Mayor Chen Tong said Sunday at a daily press briefing that grocery stores, malls, convenience stores and pharmacies will be allowed to reopen while implementing measures that “reduce the flow of people".

Agriculture markets will also be allowed to reopen while ensuring “no contact” transactions. Restaurants will be allowed to serve takeout. However, Shanghai's transportation department said Sunday that all subway lines in the city had stopped operating. It was unclear when those services would restart. (AP)

North Korea said on Sunday a total of 42 people had died as the country began its fourth day under a nationwide lockdown aimed at stopping the impoverished country's first confirmed Covid-19 outbreak. North Korea's admission on Thursday that it is battling an "explosive" Covid-19 outbreak has raised concerns that the virus could devastate a country with an under-resourced health system, limited testing capabilities and no vaccine programme.

State news agency KCNA said the country was taking "swift state emergency measures" to control the epidemic, but there is no sign that Pyongyang was moving to accept international offers of vaccines. "All provinces, cities and counties of the country have been totally locked down and working units, production units and residential units closed from each other since the morning of May 12 and strict and intensive examination of all the people is being conducted," KCNA reported on Sunday. (PTI)

With the addition of 25 new Covid-19 cases, the infection count in Maharashtra's Thane district has gone up to 7,09,337, an official said on Sunday. These new cases were reported on Saturday, he said. The death toll remained unchanged at 11,895, he said, adding that the Covid-19 mortality rate in Thane stood at 1.67 per cent.

In neighbouring Palghar district, the Covid-19 case count stood at 1,63,612 and the death toll at 3,407, another official said.  (PTI)

The Chinese financial and manufacturing hub of Shanghai will gradually begin reopening businesses such as shopping malls and hair salons from Monday after weeks in a strict Covid-19 lockdown, the city's vice mayor told a media briefing on Sunday. Shanghai, which has been locked-down for more than six weeks, is in the midst of a recent tightening in some areas that it hopes marks a final push in its battle with the virus.

Shopping malls, department stores, and supermarkets will begin resuming in-store operations and allow customers to shop in "an orderly way", while hair salons and vegetable markets will reopen with limited capacity, Vice Mayor Chen Tong said, but gave no specifics on the pace or extent of such reopenings. During Shanghai's lockdown, residents have been mainly limited to purchasing necessities, with normal shopping on online platforms largely suspended. (Reuters)

With 2,487 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day India's tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 4,31,21,599, while the active cases dipped to 17,692, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,214 with 13 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

The active cases comprise 0.04 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.74 per cent, the ministry said. A decrease of 404 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.61 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 0.62 per cent, according to the ministry. (PTI)

North Korea has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers as it mobilises more than a million health and other workers to try to suppress the country's first COVID-19 outbreak, state media reported on Sunday. After maintaining a widely disputed claim to be coronavirus-free for more than two years, North Korea announced Thursday that it had found its first Covid-19 patients since the pandemic began.

It has since said a fever has spread across the country “explosively” since late April but hasn't disclosed exactly how many COVID-19 cases it has found. Some experts say North Korea lacks the diagnostic kits needed to test a large number of suspected COVID-19 patients. The additional deaths reported Sunday took the country's reported fever-related fatalities to 42. The official Korean Central News Agency also reported that another 296,180 people with fevers had been tallied, taking the reported total to 820,620. (AP)