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Focus on speeding up vaccination and ensuring Covid appropriate behaviour

New Delhi: The Central government on Friday said that the coronavirus situation in 11 states/Union Territories is a matter of “serious concern” and urged the Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police concerned to take appropriate action in this regard. The directions were given during a review meeting Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba held with Chief […]

The number of active COVID-19 cases in the state stood at 7,338, the highest since the 7,427 on December 1

Besides educating people about Covid norms through the public address system as well as arranging flexies, cases have also been registered against the people who were found without face masks

Chennur Rural Inspector K Nagaraju gave away masks to scores of motorists and created awareness among them over Covid-19

The country also reported 32,231 recoveries on Sunday, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,13,55,993, informed the union health ministry on Monday morning.

"As many as 40 people including students and a professor -- were found positive in tests conducted at the institute and they were isolated," said Mehul Acharya, deputy health officer, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.

According to an official statement on Friday, the woman, identified as Heera Devi belongs to Barsana town of the district and she had tested positive for COVID-19 on March 3 at the Deen Dayal Veterinary University.

The recovery rate in the state was 98.14 per cent, while it was 95.1 per cent in the country.

Registering an increase for the 16th day in row, the active cases have increased to 4,21,066 comprising 3.55 per cent of the total infections.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 30,076,486 and 546,507, respectively, according to the CSSE.

A total of 157 persons recovered on Wednesday taking the cumulative Covid-19 recoveries in the State to 2,99,427 with a recovery rate of 98.24 per cent.

Mumbai on Wednesday reported its highest one-day rise in COVID-19 cases so far with 5,185 new infections coming to light.

The death toll increased to 1,60,692 with 251 daily new fatalities.

On Tuesday, Brazil hit a single-day record of 3,251 COVID-19 deaths and authorities fear that April could be as grim as March in the country's overwhelmed hospitals.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 30,009,386 and 545,237, respectively, according to the CSSE.

Collector Karnan and CP Tafseer Iqubal on Wednesday received the first dose of Covaxin at Govt District Hospital as part of the second phase of the Covid vaccination drive.

The University will soon release a revised time table for the exams

Genome sequencing and analysis have been carried out on samples from arriving international travellers, contacts of those positive for VOC and community samples from most of the states.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation continued to report the highest number of cases with 111 followed by Medchal Malkajgiri (37) and Ranga Reddy district (31).