COVID-19 News Updates

The oral antiviral drug, which is a combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir tablets, "is the best therapeutic choice for high-risk patients to date", according to the global health body.

At their last follow-up in early 2022, the patient with ongoing infection had been infected for more than one year (412 days).

As Covid-19 infection is on an upward surge in the country, the trend can’t be discarded in the State fully, said State Health Director Bijay Mohapatra

The Weekly Positivity Rate in the country currently stands at 0.43 per cent, while the Daily Positivity rate has reported considerable rise at 0.53 per cent. However, Delhi's positivity rate stands at 5.70 per cent as per the health bulletin issued on Wednesday.

India began administering precaution doses of vaccines to healthcare and frontline workers and those aged 60 and above with comorbidities from January 10.

Women were found to be less prone to develop a severe disease than men, but few studies have assessed sex-differences in Long-COVID syndrome, they said.

While the weekly positivity rate currently stood at 0.43 per cent, the daily positivity rate has reported a considerable rise to 0.53 per cent.

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 80,801,505 and 990,206, respectively, according to the CSSE.

According to the US drug major, the new vaccine targets several mutations abd produced a stronger immune response against the major virus variants, including Omicron and Delta, than the company's current shots, CNBC reported.

Officials said the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), in its meeting, also decided not to shut schools, but chose to come up with a separate Standard Operating Procedure in consultation with experts.

The Odisha government on Tuesday ordered all local administrative authorities to enhance precautionary surveillance measures as several states in the country stare at a fresh surge of Covid cases which has triggered concerns over a fourth wave of the pandemic.

The weekly positivity rate in the country currently stands at 0.38 per cent, while the daily positivity rate has reported considerable rise at 0.49 per cent.

With 414 patients recovering in the last 24 hours, the total number of recoveries has gone up to 18,41,576 so far.

Though Covid cases are rising in Delhi and its satellite towns, the focus should be on hospital admissions that have remained the same or changed just marginally, say several scientists, underscoring that the uptick is not an indication of a fourth wave in the country at this point.

The researchers wanted to evaluate the association of Long COVID with demographics and clinical characteristics in order to devise the most effective treatments.