The active cases comprise 0.06 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.74 per cent, it said.
The top court was hearing a plea, where it is monitoring various state governments for the distribution of Rs 50,000 fixed by the NDMA as compensation to the family members of persons who died due to COVID.
Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has asked states that there should be a continued focus on the five-fold strategy, Test-Track-Treat-Vaccination and adherence to Covid Appropriate Behaviour.
As part of intensified surveillance, patients being hospitalised with ILI and SARI will again be tested for COVID-19 and positive samples will be sent for genome sequencing.
He also wrote that he and his wife, Michelle, "are grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, and she has tested negative".
The national transporter, which had also suspended the service of providing meals and most of its concessions on tickets, has reintroduced majority of the facilities.
Twenty districts of the state were above 90 per cent in full immunisation, and the remaining 10 districts were below 90 per cent.
With the administration of over 21 lakh Covid vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India's Covid inoculation coverage has reached 178 crore as of Thursday morning, the ministry said. This has been achieved through 2,05,41,983 sessions.
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued new guidelines for celebration of the famous festival at the Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneswar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the role of Indian scientists in the fight against Covid-19 was praiseworthy and due to their hard work, it was possible to manufacture the 'Made in India vaccine'.
For the first time since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March 2020, students belonging to the elementary and primary classes are going to receive structured classroom teaching in schools from the last day of this month.
With a continuous drop in daily Covid cases in the State and particularly in the capital city of Bhubaneswar, the local urban body, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has decided to close down all Covid Care Centres operating in the city from February 28, 2022.
As per a notification issued by the municipal authorities, devotees will now no longer be required to produce vaccination certificates or ID proofs for visit to any religious institutions in the State Capital city.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) stalwart Rehman Malik, who was the Interior Minister when 10 LeT terrorists launched a brazen attack on Mumbai in 2008, died at a hospital here on Wednesday due to coronavirus-related complications. He was 70.
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