Coronavirus in India live updates: India reports 4,369 new Covid-19 cases, 20 deaths in last 24 hours

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India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 215.47 crore, as per provisional reports till 7am today. Currently, more than 4.17 crore balance and unutilized Covid Vaccine doses are still available with the states/UTs to be administered.

Active caseload

In the last 24 hours, 5,178 people recovered from the infection, taking the total recoveries in the country to 4,39,30,417.

Covid-19 deaths

India reports 4,369 new Covid-19 cases & 20 deaths in last 24 hours

Daily Covid-19 cases

The active cases comprise 0.10 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate increased to 98.71 per cent, the Union health ministry said.

A decline of 829 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The Covid-19 death toll climbed to 5,28,185 with 20 fatalities, which includes seven deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8am stated.

The country's active cases currently stand at 46,347: Union health ministry

India reported 4,369 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours

Another researcher Dr Nitish Kumar Singh said: "We navigated through hundreds of immune pathways known to us using high throughput sequencing and analysis." The researchers found that the immune system could not produce the defence molecules against the Delta variant as effectively as other variants.

“On viral infection, the first line of attack by the host’s immune system is by producing certain defence chemicals that breakdown the viruses. We infected thehuman cells in a cell culture system with different variants and monitored the production of known immune defence molecules and the activation of signalling pathways associated with them,” Dixit Tandel, the first author of the study, said.

A Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) study has found that the Delta variant of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) could evade the human immune system more than other variants. The researchers studied five different SARS-CoV-2 variants and how the human immune system responds to them. They studied variants including Alpha, Deltaand three other that emerged before Alpha variant. Of all the variants, the Delta variant is the deadliest and escapes the immune system.

China's capital Beijing reported 10 new local symptomatic cases and six asymptomatic cases, compared with 15 symptomatic and zero asymptomatic cases a day earlier, according to local government data. Financial hub Shanghai reported no local symptomatic or asymptomatic cases, compared with no symptomatic and three asymptomatic cases the day before, local government data showed.

There were no new deaths, as a day earlier, keeping the nation's fatalities at 5,226.

China reported 1,048 new Covid-19 infections on September 12, of which 242 were symptomatic and 806 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday. The figures include local cases and imported cases. That is compared with 1,094 new cases a day earlier – 226 symptomatic and 868 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately.

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