COVID-19 News Updates

These horrifying visuals show a massive fire at Ahmednagar District Hospital in Maharashtra on Saturday (Nov 6). As per reports, the fire broke out at the Covid Ward’s ICU Unit at the government hospital and at least 10 people have died in the mishap.

Covaxin uses the same Vero Cell manufacturing platform as other childhood vaccines, including the inactivated polio vaccine.

The active cases comprise 0.43 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March last year.

In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 34,333,754 cases and Brazil third with 21,862,458 infections.

As per the health ministry report, a total of 5,65,276 vaccine doses have been administered in the last 24 hours. India's mass vaccination coverage has exceeded 107.70 crore and stands at 1,07,70,46,116 as per provisional report till 7 a.m. on Friday. This has been achieved through 1,08,69,517 sessions.

Two sites of outbreaks in Hebei Province -- Xinji and Shenze -- were also found to have been related to schools and kindergartens. On Wednesday, Hebei found 23 new confirmed cases, 20 from Shenze county and the other three from Xinji.

On the other hand, amid the rising cases of Covid-19 cases in China and European countries, despite massive vaccinations, the Director of Family Welfare and nodal officer of Covid vaccination, Dr Bijay Panigrahi appealed to the people to get the second vaccine as soon as possible.

"Har Ghar Dastak vaccination campaign has been launched on November 2 in the state to complete double dose administration of all the left out beneficiaries and second dose due beneficiaries as early as possible,"

A rise of 343 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said the decision "follows a rigorous review of its safety, quality and effectiveness" and made it the "first oral antiviral for the treatment of Covid-19 to be approved", the CNBC reported.

A decline of 2,630 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours, as per the data.

In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 34,308,140 cases and Brazil third with 21,835,785 infections.

As per the notification issued by SRC, to make quick payment of such assistance, an online application platform — CAPS (Covid-19 Assistance Payment System) — has been developed by the IT Department.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) granted Emergency Use Listing approval to India's indigenously-developed Covid vaccine, Bharat Biotech's Covaxin on Wednesday.

India's drug regulator, the Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) has approved the extension of shelf life of indigenously-developed Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin from nine to 12 months.