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New Delhi: India reported a slight rise in coronavirus cases, recording 3,688 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday. The country had registered as many as 3,377 COVID-19 cases on Friday. The Health Ministry informed that active cases in the country have increased […]
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Chennai: The Covid-19 cluster at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) has increased to 171 despite authorities saying that there was nothing to worry about. The institute is also continuing to function. According to Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan, the state government and the IITM authorities are trying to prevent the infection from spreading […]
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New Delhi: India logged 3,377 new COVID-19 cases taking the country’s total tally of cases to 4,30,72,176, while the active cases rose to 17,801, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,23,753 with 60 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana on Thursday reported 40 positive Covid-19 infections, taking the cumulative number of Covid infections in Telangana to 7,91,946. With no fatalities reported, the overall number of deaths as on Thursday has continued to remain at 4,111, the health bulletin said. The health department conducted 14,662 Covid tests on Thursday out of which results […]
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New Delhi: India on Thursday reported 3,303 fresh COVID-19 cases that took its tally to 4,30,68,799, while the active cases increased to 16,980, according to Union health ministry data. The daily cases crossed the 3,000-mark after 46 days. The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 5,23,693 with 39 more fatalities, the data updated at […]
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London: Novak Djokovic will be allowed to defend his title at Wimbledon, despite not being vaccinated against Covid-19, because the shots are not required to enter Britain, All England Club chief executive Sally Bolton said Tuesday. Djokovic, a 34-year-old Serb who is ranked No. 1, missed the Australian Open in January after being deported from […]
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Hyderabad: Bharat Biotech International announced that its Covaxin has received emergency use approval in children aged between 6 and 12 years. It had conducted phase II/III, open-label, and multicenter studies to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity Covaxin in healthy children and adolescents in the 2-18 age group. The clinical trials conducted in the paediatric […]
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New York: Patients hospitalised with the Omicron or Delta variants of Covid-19 required similar levels of respiratory support and intensive care, according to a new study. Even though Omicron has generally been touted as mild, the findings led by Johns Hopkins University researchers indicate that infections with the highly contagious variant should not be underestimated. […]
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New York: People hospitalised during the pandemic both for Covid and other conditions have a higher rate of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections compared to patients hospitalised before the pandemic, according to a study. An estimated 1.2 million people worldwide died in 2019 from antibiotic-resistant infections, and this number is predicted to increase ten-fold by 2050. There […]
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New Delhi: With 2,541 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,60,086, while the active cases increased to 16,522, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 5,22,223 with 30 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. […]
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New Delhi: With 2,593 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,57,545, while the active cases increased to 15,873, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,22,193 with 44 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. […]
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New Delhi: With 2,527 coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s total tally of cases rose to 4,30,54,952, while active cases have increased to 15,079, according to Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll has climbed to 5,22,149 with 33 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases […]
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London: An immunocompromised UK patient suffered the longest known days, 505, with Covid infections, claim researchers. Previously the longest known PCR confirmed case is thought to be 335 days. Researchers at the King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust studied nine immunocompromised patients, between March 2020 and December 2021, who tested […]
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New Delhi: With 2,067 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,47,594 while the active cases increased to 12,340, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,22,006 with 40 fresh fatalities being reported from Uttar Pradesh, the data […]
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By Pramod K Nayar When Sue Coe, a celebrated artist known for her activist-art against animal cruelty in works like Factory Pharm (2001), set out to capture the horrors of Covid-19, she did so with a realism that can only be termed traumatic. What Coe does is to align human suffering from the virus with the history […]
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New Delhi: India logged 2,183 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,30,44,280, while the active cases declined to 11,542, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 5,21,965 with 214 fresh fatalities, including 213 from Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated. […]
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New Delhi: India logged 1,007 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,30,39,023, while the active cases rose to 11,058, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 5,21,737 with one fatality reported from Maharashtra, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active […]
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Hyderabad: The BA2 variant of the SARS-CoV-2, which is behind the recent surge of Covid infections in China, South Korea, Europe and US, has continued to remain the dominant strain in Telangana and in the country, based on the data from Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortium (INSACOG). The genome sequencing of Covid samples by INSACOG, which […]
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New Delhi: India recorded 796 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,30,36,928, while the active cases dipped to 10,889, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll climbed to 5,21,710 with 19 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]
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New Delhi: India logged 861 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,30,36,132, while the active cases dipped to 11,058, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 5,21,691 with six fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]
