Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, sharing the achievement on Twitter, said that India is close to administering 100 crore COVID-19 vaccines.
The total active cases of COVID-19 in India dipped down to 2,30,971, the lowest In 208 days, the health ministry data showed.
The Prime Minister was responding to a tweet by Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya who had posted a video of health workers carrying the vaccines and navigating a tough terrain, and said their contribution in keeping the country safe will be remembered forever.
The state had on October 5 logged 9,735 cases, which shot up to 12,616 the following day, touched 12,288 on October 7, and came down to 10,944 on October 8.
Delhi recorded 30 new coronavirus cases on Saturday. With this, the tally of COVID-19 cases in the national capital has reached over 14.39 lakh, while the death toll mounted to 25,088.
The curfew will be from 12 pm to 6 am in eight cities.
State Health Minister Veena George said 7,000 more deaths, which occurred before the hospitals started uploading the data of such deaths online, will be added to the COVID death list in the state.
The death toll due to the coronavirus infection in Delhi stands at 25,088.
The current active cases stood at 1,16,645 in the state.
The COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) this week, said a cross-sectional study, which is not yet peer reviewed, focussed on demographic characteristics, including severity of the illness and mortality rate.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 58,00,43,190 samples have been tested up to October 7th for COVID-19.
The British High Commissioner Alex Ellis informed this in a video message on Twitter and thanked the Indian government for close cooperation over last month.
The city's death toll continues to be at 25,088, and the death rate at 1.74 per cent. Delhi has recorded only one death due to the coronavirus infection in October so far.
Addressing a press briefing, Dr. Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the organization again calls on “all countries to ensure the recognition of vaccines proven to be efficacious and safe and certainly that meet WHO Emergency Use Listing criteria”.
Temples of Mahur and Tuljapur in Osmanabad district, including the Goddess Tulja Bhavani temple, along with Jyotirlings of Ghrishneshwar in Aurangabad and Parli Vaijnath in Beed district opened for devotees this morning after remaining closed for nearly 6 months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The State has been showing a decline in the daily fresh cases after crossing the 30,000-mark post-Onam festival in August.
The rate of infection of children and adolescents in the age group of 0 to 18 years now is 14.26 per cent against the previous day’s 13.49 per cent in Odisha.
India recorded 22,431 new COVID cases and 318 deaths in last 24 hours. Of these, 12,616 new cases and 134 deaths were reported in Kerala in last 24 hours.
Besides at-home testing, the Joe Biden administration is also increasing access to free testing, which has been central to the country's Covid response.
Covid toe, which appears to be a side-effect of the body switching into attack mode to fight off the virus, can happen at any age but affects children and teenagers more commonly.
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