COVID-19 News Updates

Nearly half of ventilated patients in the study (47 per cent) died because of COVID-19, a figure that is comparable to national and international death rates, they said.

The countrywide vaccination drive was rolled out on January 16 last year with healthcare workers getting inoculated in the first phase. Vaccination of frontline workers started from February 2 last year.

The death toll has climbed to 5,24,490 with 31 fatalities reported from Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.

India accounts for the second highest caseload at 43,138,393.

Ghebreyesus said the Covid-19 pandemic had demonstrated why the world needed the WHO

The Directorate emphasised that the validity of the passport of Saudis who intend to travel to non-Arab countries must be more than six months.

India's daily positivity rate has slightly increased to 0.69 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 0.49 per cent.

The genome sequencing body further said that the contact tracing of the BA.4 and BA.5 patients is being undertaken as a precautionary measure.

A total of seven new positive cases were detected across the State in the past 24 hours.

The team's test protocol was trialled with several captive and around 250 wild bats as part of a larger study. They discovered none were positive for SARS-CoV-2, although some were positive for other coronaviruses.

The active caseload currently stands at 14,995 cases, accounting for 0.03 per cent of the country's total positive cases.

The current global caseload and the death toll stood at 527,127,837 and 6,288,589, respectively

In the same period, 25 new fatalities were reported which increased the overall death toll to 5,24,348

The current global caseload and the death toll stood at 526,690,884 and 6,287,461, respectively.

Union Health Secretary also stressed on a clear and effective communication strategy for increasing the pace of the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination, noting that customised regional communication best practices have yielded appreciable results in vaccination coverage.