The pandemic has greatly disrupted normal life and business, but it has also given an opportunity to look at things differently and be self-dependent in the future to tackle such sudden challenges, DST Sec Ashutosh Sharma has said.
With the new cases, the overall infection tally in the city rose to 14,36,401 out of which 14,10,809 patients have recovered from the disease.
Meanwhile, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation on Sunday claimed to have become the only civic body to have tested 92.86 per cent of the population or a total of 13.93 lakh people for coronavirus infection so far.
Meanwhile, around 150 people participated in a religious procession in the Surendranagar district of Gujarat in violation of the coronavirus norms, following which police have registered an offence against two organisers of the event and a disc jockey (DJ) operator.
After battling with the virus for long, a 45-year-old woman was discharged from the hospital on Friday post 100 days of recieving treatment.
Karachi Expo Centre stopped its inoculation drive following chaos after hundreds of people rushed to get themselves vaccinated.
The Florida Hospital Association said Friday that statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations are nearing last year’s peak.
Over 48.78 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through all sources and further 68,57,590 doses are in the pipeline.
The active cases of COVID-19 in India are now at 4,08,920, the data showed. The total death toll in the country is now at 4,23,810.
The document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlines unpublished data that shows fully vaccinated people might spread the Delta variant, first identified in India, at the same rate as unvaccinated people.
As many as 42,360 patients recovered during the last 24 hours, taking the total recoveries to 3,07,43,972. The recovery rate is currently at 97.38%
Zhangjiajie started massive nucleic acid testing in three regions on Wednesday, said Wang Jianghua, director of the municipal health commission.
The Delta variant is becoming the dominant strain of the virus in several of these countries, with infections mostly being reported among people who have yet to be vaccinated.
In the last 24 hours, 1,96,902 samples were tested and the TPR was found to be 11.2 per cent. So far, 2,67,33,694 samples have been tested, it said.
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said it recorded around 16.9 lakh passenger journeys till 8 pm on Tuesday, after trains were allowed to run with full seating capacity.
The corona curfew will last for two weeks from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
The United Nation's deputy humanitarian chief on Monday warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting conflict-ridden and impoverished countries much worse this year than in 2020.
In his briefing obtained by AP, Rajasingham said that so far in 2021 almost 3-quarters of countries needing humanitarian aid have recorded more cases or deaths than in all of 2020.
According to Pulungan, over 800 children younger than 18 have died from the virus in Indonesia since the pandemic began, but the majority of those deaths have occurred only in the past month.
The active cases of COVID-19 in India are now at 4,11,189, the data showed. The total death toll in the country is now at 4,20,967.
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