COVID-19 News Updates

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 80,208,763 and 982,576, according to the CSSE

The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 81,494,990 and 997,123, according to the CSSE.

The ministry said that over 1.91 crore (1,91,47,026) vaccine doses have been administered in the 12-14 years age group so far.

The Hyderabad-based company on Monday announced that it has been selected as a recipient of mRNA technology.

The active case count comprises 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 80,155,397 and 982,565, according to the CSSE.

The WHO said in a statement late on on Saturday that the Covaxin suspension was in response to the outcomes of its post EUL (emergency use authorisation) inspection, held between March 14-22, and the need to conduct process and facility upgrades to address recently identified GMP (good manufacturing practice) deficiencies.

The state had logged 40 cases and zero fatality on Saturday.

Bharat Biotech on April 1 announced the temporary slowing down of production of its covid-19 vaccine Covaxin across its manufacturing facilities, having completed its supply obligations to procurement agencies and foreseeing the decrease in demand.

The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 80,40,160 and 982,334, according to the CSSE.

Early-day estimates indicate a community growth rate advantage of 10% as compared to BA.2. However, this finding requires further confirmation, it said.

The daily positivity rate was 0.10 per cent and the 40 new infections were detected out of 39,291 samples tested, it said.

In January, the Russian news agency TASS reported that the nasal vaccine against Covid-19 will be in civil circulation and available for Russians in three to four months.