COVID-19 News Updates

India's daily positivity rate has declined to 3.50 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 4.69 per cent.

Raising concerns on slow pace of vaccination in the State, Panigrahi said the government is committed to complete the vaccination drive in the stipulated time period.

India's daily positivity rate has marginally risen to 6.14 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate in the country currently also stands at 4.64 per cent.

In the same period, the country reported 40 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide death toll to 5,26,689.

The Centre has also asked these states to increase the pace of vaccination for all eligible population and accelerate the administration of free precaution doses.

The Chief Minister's positive result comes as Karnataka reported 2,042 new Covid cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours.

Several girl students of a school in Rayagada have tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday. 

The death toll climbed to 5,26,600 with 70 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

87 per cent (2.84 cr) people in the State are yet to take booster shots. Only 42,70,487 have taken the precaution doses

The death toll has climbed to 5,26,357 with 39 more fatalities

Fully vaccinated and twice boosted, the President took Paxlovid, an antiviral therapy produced by Pfizer and given to patients with Covid-19.

In the same period, 47 more deaths took the toll to 5,26,258.

The active cases comprise 0.33 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.47 per cent, the ministry said.

Wuhan, a city of 12 million people, became popular across the world as the first place where scientists detected the Covid-19.

"My symptoms were mild, my recovery was quick and I'm feeling great," Biden said on Wednesday in remarks from the Rose Garden.