The Delhi government exaggerated the city's oxygen requirement by four times at the peak of the Covid crisis, a Supreme Court panel has said in a report.
Secy of the State Veterinary Surgeons' Association, Nuwan Hewagamage, said on Thursday that the 12-yr-old lioness 'Sheena' had tested positive for the virus following medical tests performed on her after the male lion called 'Thor' was infected last week, reports Xinhua news agency.
The total cases of COVID-19 in India have now mounted to 3,01,34,445 with 6,12,868 active cases, the data showed. The total death toll in the country is now at 3,93,310.
The Gujarat government on Thursday announced lifting of night curfew from 18 towns and relaxing its timing in the same number of urban centres by one hour.
The passengers can visit Indian Railways website www.enquiry.indianrail.gov.in. for details regarding the halts and composition of trains.
The total cases of COVID in India have now mounted to 3,00,82,778 with 6,27,057 active cases, the data showed.
The medical university's microbiology dept has conducted 20 lakh tests since Feb 2020 till Tuesday through RT-PCR testing.
In its latest update on Wednesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 179,093,146 and 3,880,341, respectively.
Addressing the Health Ministry's media briefing on Covid, Paul said, "The decision (to reopen schools) has to be taken cautiously. We should take risks only when we are protected. Schools are places of large gatherings, which give the virus the opportunity to infect.
As for how widespread is Delta plus is, enough samples have not been genome-sequenced to know. Only about 200 sequences were detected across the globe and just around 30 in India. Initial data suggests that the Delta plus variant shows signs of resistance against the monoclonal antibody cocktail treatment. Know everything about new COVID-19 variant in India
PGI's Dean, Academics, G.D. Puri, said the samples sent from admitted patients in Nehru Hospital Extension Block, where severe and critical Covid positive cases are admitted, belonged to Delta strain. As many as 80 per cent of the patients who had died of Covid-19 harbored the Alpha strain.
A spokesperson of Apollo Hospitals said the facility in Delhi will tentatively start administering 2-dose vaccine by June 25.
The first confirmed case of 'green' fungus was reported in Punjab's Jalandhar on Sunday.
The Uttar Pradesh government has said that it will reimpose corona curfew in any district if it reports over 500 Covid-19 cases in a day.
It said that 28,50,99,130 vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through the Centre- free of cost channel- and through the direct state procurement category.
"We have a huge number of countries currently that have had to suspend the rollout of their second doses of vaccine," Xinhua news agency quoted Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to the WHO Director-General on Organizational Change, as saying on Friday.
To resist the Delta variant, people need to develop as twice antibodies as required before, which has caused the herd immunity level in Moscow to drop from 60 per cent to just 25 per cent, Xinhua news agency quoted Sobyanin as saying on Friday.
During ongoing COVID pandemic, people with lung problems have been at the most risk of getting infected. As Coronavirus targets the respiratory system, it may even lead to dry cough and sore throat, which may persist long after the infection.
More than 2.58 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs and over 19,95,770 doses are in the pipeline, the Union Health Ministry said.
Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Friday said Puducherry did not have a shortage or lack of vaccines to cover all the eligible people in the fight against COVID-19.
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