A team of researchers from the US and Canada projected forward the incidence of Covid-19 cases under a range of vaccine dosing regimes, vaccination rates, and assumptions related to immune responses.
B.1.617.2, or the Delta variant of covid causing Sars Cov2 was the dominant circulating strain and one of the primary drivers for the country's covid second wave.
The Chandigarh administration on Tuesday withdrew night curfew from the Union Territory. Besides, all restaurants and bars will be allowed to remain open with 50 per cent capacity from 8 am to 12 am.
Karnataka married couple ended their lives on the apprehensive of getting infected by Covid-19 and Black Fungus in Mangaluru district.
New Zealand's government took drastic action Tuesday by putting the entire nation into a strict lockdown after detecting just a single community case of the coronavirus.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 49,66,29,524 samples have been tested up to August 16 for COVID-19.
The number of Covid-19 patients in hospital in France passed the 10,000 mark on Monday for the first time since June.
Early this year, the US had put India in Level 4, asking its citizens not to travel to India, which at that point of time was experiencing an unprecedented second wave of COVID-19.
The Uttar Pradesh government issued a mandate to re-open schools in the state with 50 per cent attendance on August 2.
According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry Monday, the country saw a total of 35,909 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery rate at around 97.46 percent and total recoveries to 3,14,11,924.
As part of fresh relaxations in COVID-19 restrictions, all public gardens, playgrounds, Chowpatty, and beaches in Mumbai will now remain open from 6 am to 10 pm.
Delhi recorded zero Covid deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the latest bulletin issued by the health department on Sunday.
In his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, PM Modi said India takes pride in having the world's largest vaccination programme, and over 54 crore people have already taken the COVID vaccines.
Maharashtra CM appealed to people to take the pledge to make the state and the country free of disease.
According to the government release, over 73 lakh vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours.
Delhi recorded 50 new coronavirus cases on Saturday. With this, the tally of COVID-19 cases in the national capital has reached over 14.37 lakh, while the death toll mounted to 25,069.
As of Saturday morning, Delhi had 6,87,150 coronavirus vaccines in its balance stock, of which, 3,96,110 doses were of Covishield and 2,91,040 of Covaxin, according to the Covid vaccination bulletin issued by the government.
The president said that the reality is that no infrastructure, even of advanced economies, could withstand a crisis of such enormous proportions.
Referring to apprehensions that the possible third wave could infect children more, the AIIMS chief pointed out that children would be "more susceptible" because they were not being vaccinated.
The proportion of Covid-19 patients infected in hospitals also rose to between 16 percent and 20 percent in mid-May 2020, long after the peak of admissions in the first wave.
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