Jammu: A healthcare worker conducts Covid-19 testing of a woman as coronavirus case surge countrywide, in Jammu, Saturday, June 11, 2022. (PTI Photo)Coronavirus News Highlights: India recorded 12,847 new Coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, according to data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The number of active cases has risen to 63,063, while the death toll increased to 5,24,817 after 14 more people succumbed to the disease.
Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 4,255 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily count since February 12, while three more patients succumbed to the infection even as the active tally crossed the 20,000-mark, the state health department said. With these additions, the state’s overall COVID-19 tally rose to 79,23,697, while the death toll increased to 1,47,880, the department said in a bulletin. A day before, the state had recorded 4,024 new cases and two deaths linked to the infection.
Meanwhile, Delhi recorded 1,323 new Covid cases, while Tamil Nadu logged 552, West Bengal reported 192, and Goa reported 112. The Nagaland government is monitoring the Covid-19 situation with the number of fresh cases maintaining a rising trend in several parts of the country, an official said on Thursday.
Odisha recorded 25 new coronavirus cases on Friday, 16 less than the previous day, taking the tally to 12,88,762, a health bulletin said.
The toll remained unchanged at 9,126 as there was no more death due to the pathogen in the last 24 hours. Fifty-three other coronavirus patients have died due to comorbidities so far, it said.
There are 185 active cases, while 17 more people have recuperated from the disease, taking the total number of recoveries to 12,79,398, the bulletin said. (PTI)
The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is less likely to cause long Covid risk than the Delta variant, new research in the UK has found.
Analysis by researchers from King's College London of data from the ZOE Covid Symptom study app published on Thursday in a letter to ‘The Lancet' journal found the odds of experiencing long Covid were between 20-50 per cent less during the Omicron period versus the Delta period, depending on age and time since vaccination.
Long Covid is defined by the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines as having new or ongoing Covid symptoms four weeks or more after the start of disease. (PTI)
Covd-19 test positivity rate (TPR) in Mumbai jumped over 15 per cent twice in the current week, civic officials said on Friday, as the metropolis battles a fresh surge in cases after the third wave of the pandemic waned earlier this year.
They said TPR jumped to 15.58 per cent on June 14, when 1,724 people tested positive for coronavirus out of 11,065 tests conducted that day and then again on June 16 the rate shot up to 15.11 per cent when 2,366 new patients were detected on the back of 15,656 tests in a span of 24 hours.
TPR is the proportion of positive cases out of the total tests conducted and it has witnessed a steady rise in the financial capital since the last one month. (PTI)
The Union Territory of Puducherry witnessed a spike in the number of new Covid-19 cases on Friday as 31 people were affected by the viral disease.
The UT had recorded 19 cases on Thursday. A release from the Director of Health G Sriramulu said Puducherry region accounted for 23 new cases out of the total 31 while Karaikal reported six, and Mahe and Yanam regions had one fresh case each.
The active cases tally has gone up to 100 with one patient admitted in hospital and 99 people recovering in home quarantine, the Director said. There were 77 active cases in the UT on Thursday. (PTI)
Once again, Covid-19 has spiralled in Maharashtra with the positivity rate hovering around 10 per cent. As of June 16, active cases stood at 20,634, a 13-fold spike from May 16, when the total number was just 1,526. Not only that, cases are jumping with alarming speed in most metros.
It has never been claimed that vaccinated people will never get infected. Also, if one gets infected, the chances are that they will be asymptomatic or have minor symptoms, Dr Rahul Pandit says. (Read More)
Over 5,300 challans were issued across Delhi between June 10 and 15 and fines to the tune of over Rs 26 lakh were imposed on those flouting Covid norms amid a surge in cases here, officials said.
However, the total fines collected was Rs 14,60,980, almost half of the amount of fines imposed by the districts. Officials explained that while some people pay the fine amount on the spot, there are others who pay the fine later in the court.
The enforcement team of the New Delhi district issued the maximum number of challans while the southwest district administration issued the least number of fines and recorded single-digit number on all six days between June 10 and June 15.
Delhi recorded 1,323 new Covid cases and two deaths on Thursday, while the positivity rate stood at 6.69 per cent, according to data shared by the health department. (PTI)
Thane district of Maharashtra has reported 934 new coronavirus positive cases, which took its infection count to 7,17,090, an official said on Friday.
These cases were recorded on Thursday, a day after the district saw 852 infections. On Tuesday, the district had recorded 607 cases.
There was no fresh fatality and the death toll in the district stood at 11,896, the official said, adding that the Covid-19 mortality rate stood at 1.67 per cent. (PTI)
The researchers from the department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), along with collaborators from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) in Stockholm and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) in Bengaluru carried out computer simulations to analyse the movement of the speech aerosols in the air space between people interacting and if it leads to spread of viruses, including the Coronavirus. (Read More)
One more person tested positive for Covid-19 in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, taking the coronavirus caseload of the Union territory to 10,064 on Friday, a health bulletin said.
There are now 11 active cases in the archipelago, while 9,924 people have recovered from the disease, and 129 patients have succumbed to the infection to date. The administration has thus far tested over 7.46 lakh samples for Covid-19, and fully vaccinated 3.40 lakh people. (PTI)
Thailand is lifting a pre-arrival registration requirement for foreign visitors that was seen as onerous and a drag on the recovery for its ailing tourism industry.
The government's Covid-19 center also said Friday that an outdoor mask mandate would be dropped as of July 1 except in crowded venues. The mask mandate was not controversial in Thailand and generally obeyed.
Thailand began gradually easing entry requirements late last year. But through April, it still required even fully vaccinated travelers to undergo RT-PCR tests upon arrival and stay in a government-approved hotel for one night until the results were known. Registering for the “Thailand Pass” required online copies of vaccination documents, insurance policies and other documents to be submitted, after which visitors would receive a QR code for use during travel.
The requirement had already been dropped for Thais and will be dropped for foreign visitors on July 1. The registration process — beset at times by delays and glitches — was seen as discouraging tourists to Thailand, where the lucrative tourism sector was battered by the coronavirus pandemic. (PTI)
Covaxin (BBV152) was well tolerated in children aged 2-18 years and induced higher neutralising antibody responses than those observed in adults in whom its efficacy (ie, the prevention or decrease in severity of Covid-19 infection) has been demonstrated.
Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL), on Friday announced that BBV152 (Covaxin), its whole-virion inactivated Covid-19 vaccine candidate, has proven to be safe, well-tolerated, and highly immunogenic in paediatric subjects in phase II/III study. The study was published online in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, a peer-reviewed high-impact journal, on June 16.
Bharat Biotech had conducted phase II/III, open-label, and multicentre study to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of Covaxin in healthy children and adolescents in the 2-18 age group. The clinical trial conducted in the paediatric population between June 2021 to September 2021 has shown safety, less reactogenicity and robust immunogenicity. Read more.
India reported a single-day rise of 12,847 coronavirus infections, taking the overall tally of cases to 4,32,70,577, while active cases also went up by over 4,800, according to the Union Health Ministry data issued on Friday.
The data updated at 8 am also recorded 14 fresh fatalities, pushing the overall death figure to 5,24,817. The active cases now constitute 0.15 per cent of the total infections, while the country's Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.64 per cent, the health ministry said.
The case fatality rate was 1.21 per cent. An increase of 4,848 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. (PTI)
India recorded 12,847 new Coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, according to data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The number of active cases has risen to 63,063, while the death toll increased to 5,24,817 after 14 more people succumbed to the disease.
Covid numbers in Karnataka
New cases in State: 833
New cases in Bengaluru: 791
Positivity rate: 3.47%
Discharges: 458 (Bengaluru-435)
Deaths: 1
Active cases in State: 4,371
Active cases in Bengaluru: 4,199
Tests: 23,990
Maharashtra reports 4,255 new Covid-19 cases today; Active cases rise to 20,634.
More than 7,100 coronavirus cases have been reported in Delhi in the last 10 days as doctors and other medical experts cautioned people to not lower the guard and follow all Covid-appropriate behaviour. Amid a spike in daily cases, the positivity rate too has climbed from 1.92 per cent registered on June 7 to 7.01 per cent on June 15, as per official figures.
Delhi on Wednesday had recorded 1,375 Covid cases, the highest daily tally in a month, and zero death. On May 10, the city had logged 1,118 cases with a positivity rate of 4.38 per cent, and one death, while on May 8, Delhi had reported 1,422 cases with a positivity rate of 5.34 per cent, and zero death.
The number of Covid-19 cases have registered a steady rise in the last ten days, as the daily tally mounted to over 1,300 on June 15 from 247 on June 6, totalling 7,175 cases in this period, according to official data shared by the city health department. This corresponds to a rise of about 450 per cent in the daily cases in this period. While on June 14 and 15, the tally had been over 1,000, from June 10-13, it had stood in excess of 600 on all four days. (PTI)
The active cases comprise 0.13 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.65 per cent, the health ministry said. An increase of 4,578 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.35 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was at 2.38 per cent, according to the health ministry.
Kerala is seeing a gradual rise in Covid-19 cases with 3,419 fresh infections reported, bringing the total active cases to 18,345 and the caseload to 65,89,307 till June 15. On Tuesday, according to data provided on the Government of Kerala dashboard, the number of fresh cases was 3,488, the highest in the state in the last 2-3 months. Eight deaths were also reported on Wednesday, bringing the total casualties in the state due to the pandemic to 69,853 till June 15.
In view of the increase in the Covid-19 cases in Kerala, the health department has announced that there will be a special 6-day long vaccination drive starting from Thursday, June 16, for administering precaution doses of the vaccine to those requiring it. It has advised that no one should skip the precautionary dose believing that they are immune as they have taken two doses of vaccine. (PTI)
North Korea reported an outbreak of an unidentified intestinal epidemic in a farming region on Thursday, putting further strain on the isolated country as it battles chronic food shortages and a wave of Covid-19 infections. Leader Kim Jong Un sent medicines to the western port city of Haeju on Wednesday to help patients suffering from the "acute enteric epidemic", state news agency KCNA said, without giving the number affected, or identifying the disease.
The term enteric refers to the gastrointestinal tract. "(Kim) stressed the need to contain the epidemic at the earliest date possible by taking a well-knit measure to quarantine the suspected cases to thoroughly curb its spread, confirming cases through epidemiological examination and scientific tests," KCNA said. (Reuters)
Mumbai on Wednesday reported 2,293 new Covid-19 cases, up by 569 from a day ago and the highest daily count registered since January 23, while one more patient succumbed to the infection, the city civic body said. With these additions, the tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 10,85,882, while the death toll increased to 19,576, said a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin. The metropolis has crossed the 2,000 daily case mark after almost five months. On January 23, Mumbai had logged 2,550 Covid cases and 13 fatalities.