COVID-19 News Updates

Rahul Dravid, Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer have reached London after finishing the T20 assignment against South Africa and will travel to Leicester on Tuesday.

Union Health Minister advocated for an inclusive, agile and responsive framework for health emergency management, supported by a global mechanism of surveillance, sustainable financing and equitable distribution of medical countermeasures.

Concerns have increased as around 29 lakh people haven't yet taken the second dose. Even around 40% of healthcare workers haven't taken the precautionary dose.

In the same period, the country has reported 18 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide death toll to 5,24,873.

In the same period, there were 15 new fatalities which took the nationwide death toll to 5,24,855.

This is the first time in 113 days that India has recorded over 13,000 cases.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday authorised emergency use of the Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the prevention of Covid-19 in children down to 6 months of age.

An increase of 4,848 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The Health Department is carrying out surveillance and testing. It has been asked to accelerate Covid testing. We are advising people with Covid symptoms to go for immediate testing

Some individuals with persistent symptoms at six months had any history of pre-existing neurological conditions prior to their SARS-CoV-2 infections.

India's daily positivity rate has slightly jumped to 2.35 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 2.38 per cent.

According to the the ICMR study, administering of Covaxin booster dose will enhance the vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant infection and give protection against the Omicron variants BA.1.1 and BA.2.

Daily Covid Positivity rate has slightly declined to 2.00 per cent, while the Weekly Positivity Rate currently stands at 2.35 per cent.

"Our healthcare workers are going door-to-door to ensure that the vulnerable population is administered the precaution dose," he said, urging the states to also review administration of the precaution dose to 18-59 years age group with the private hospitals on a regular basis.

The death toll climbed to 5,24,771 with 10 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.