COVID-19 News Updates

The weekly positivity rate currently stood at 2.27 per cent, the daily positivity rate increased to 1.68 per cent.

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 78,457,081 and 934,951, according to the CSSE.

Covaxin is India's indigenous Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech, which has been developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Virology (NIV)

Around 99 percent of the eligible adult population have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Odisha, the Director of Health and Family Welfare, Bijay Panigrahi, informed on Saturday.

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There are 7,099 active COVID-19 cases, including 1,303 in Khordha, which is in the yellow zone. As many as 50,536 samples were tested in the past 24 hours, a bulletin stated.

Tedros called on all countries to fill the urgent financing gap of $16 billion for the Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator to make vaccines, tests, treatments and personal protective equipment available globally.

The 2,53,739 active cases comprise 0.59 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has further improved to 98.21 per cent, the ministry said.

The second worst hit country in terms of cases is India (42,780,235 infections and 510,905 deaths), followed by Brazil (28,072,238 infections and 643,340 deaths).

Gajapati’s sample was earlier collected for RT-PCR test and his report came out to be positive for the infection today

BA.2 has started outcompeting BA.1, suggesting that it is more transmissible than the original Omicron, the researchers said.

Vaccination of children in the age group of 15-18 years began on January 3 across the country.

As per the latest notification, the government has announced to lift night curfew restrictions from all urban areas in the State.

While the weekly positivity rate currently stood at 2.76 per cent, the daily positivity rate increased to 2.07 per cent.

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 78,274,553 and 931,504, according to the CSSE.