Vadodara | Creating shock and astonishment among his family members and neighbours, a resident of Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, declared dead of Covid in a Gujarat hospital during the second wave of the pandemic in 2021 and his ‘remains’ cremated, has returned home. The incident was reported from Karodkala village in Dhar when Kamlesh Patidar, 35, […]
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Keep all preparedness for Covid-19 management, Centre to states
New Delhi | Alarmed by the resurgence of Covid-19, Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday chaired a meeting of health ministers of all states and Union Territories and advised them to keep all preparedness for Covid management. Continuing the rising trend, Covid cases crossed 6k-mark this morning, the Union Health Ministry data showed. “The […]
India sees highest one-day rise in Covid cases since September 2022
New Delhi | India on Wednesday reported 4,435 new Covid-19 cases, the highest single-day jump since September 2022, according to the Union ministry of Health and Family Affairs. The number of active cases stands at 23,091, the data showed. With the surge in the past 24 hours, the tally has climbed to 4,47,33,719. Also, 15 deaths […]
Delhi reports 416 Covid cases, highest daily tally in over seven months
New Delhi | In a concerning development, the national capital reported 416 fresh Covid cases on Saturday, the highest daily count in over seven months, as per the health bulletin issued by the health department. The city’s positivity rate also remained high at 14.37 per cent. To address the concerns surrounding the spike in the number […]
India reports 40% jump in new Covid cases, Delhi govt calls emergency meet
New Delhi | At 3,016 cases, India registered a 40 per cent jump in the new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, said the Union Health Ministry on Thursday. In view of the rising cases, the Delhi government has called an emergency meeting. The daily positivity rate has been recorded at 2.7 per cent and […]
435 more Covid cases recorded than the previous day, 5 deaths
New Delhi | India on Wednesday recorded 1,134 new Covid cases, a significant surge from the previous day’s 699 infections, according to the Union health ministry data. Currently, the active caseload stands at 7,026 which is 0.01 per cent of total cases. In the same time span, the country has also reported five Covid deaths one […]
Covid cases cross 100 in UP
Lucknow | For the first time this year, the active tally of Covid-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh has crossed the 100 mark. The tally, by Monday night, stood at 102 while the state capital had 12 active cases. Vikasendu Agrawal, the state surveillance officer, said: “The number of Covid cases has gone up but there is […]
India reports highest number of Covid cases in 113 days
New Delhi | A day after Health Ministry wrote to states and UTs asking them to remain vigilant and to focus on fivefold strategy to curb the infection, India on Sunday reported 524 new Covid cases in last 24 hours, the highest in 113 days. As per the Health Ministry data, the active caseload has risen […]
China says 80% of population have had Covid-19
Beijing | Eight in 10 people in China have now been infected with Covid-19, a prominent government scientist has claimed. Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the present “wave of epidemic has already infected about 80 per cent of the people” in the country of 1.4 billion […]
Random testing: 53 international arrivals found Covid positive
New Delhi | A total of 53 travellers have tested Covid-19 positive after the Centre started the 2 per cent random testing process of the international passengers arriving at the airports across the country from December 24 onwards, a highly placed source said on Saturday. The source told IANS that 5,666 samples of passengers were collected […]