COVID-19 News Updates

At the press meet to announce marathon runner Sunil Sharma and some others joining the Aam Admi Party, Jain, citing the Jahangir Puri communal violence, said that the city's law and order situation is not good in the city.

The team explained that SARS-CoV-2 can cause severe paediatric disease, including acute Covid-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome. Published reports associating SARS-CoV-2 with upper airway infection, such as laryngotracheobronchitis (croup), have been limited to small case series.

The weekly positivity rate in the country currently stands at 0.32 per cent. Meanwhile, the daily positivity rate has reported a considerable rise at 0.83 per cent.

The survey received inputs from 11,743 citizens located in all districts of Delhi and NCR where 67 per cent of the respondents were men and 33 per cent were women.

According to the report, the global death toll from the pandemic has found that vastly more people died than previously believed -- a total of about 15 million by the end of 2021, more than double the official total of six million reported by countries individually.

Meanwhile, the number of India's active caseload has risen to 11,558 which is 0.03 per cent of the country's total positive cases

The University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death toll stood at 504,079,223 and 6,196,927 respectively

The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.32 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 0.26 per cent, the ministry said

India opened up vaccination for the 15-18 years age-group on January 3.

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The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 3,472 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, besides 20,782 asymptomatic cases, according to the National Health Commission (NHC).

The US is followed by India and Brazil, which have recorded cases exceeding 43 million and 30 million respectively, as well as 521,737 and 661,493 deaths.

"I have got reports from a few schools in the past few days where parents have informed about their child testing positive. The Education Department will tomorrow (Friday) issue guidelines to schools in this regard," Sisodia added.

ILS Bhubaneswar Director said the fear of Covid has not abated completely and hence, people should not get complacent

WHO's director of emergencies, Michael Ryan warned that as the virus continues to evolve, the world "cannot simply afford to lose sight of it".