The total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Britain now stands at 131,854. These figures only include the deaths of people who died within 28 days of their first positive test.
According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Monday, the country saw a total of 44,157 discharges in the last 24 hours.
The camps will be set up at all the major hospitals in the state and a trial camp was launched at the premises of the Directorate of Public Health, Chennai on Saturday.
Among districts, Lucknow is the only one in the state where more than five lakh people are fully immunised.
Meanwhile, automotive fuel sales volumes decreased by 2.9 pc over the month, marking 1st monthly fall since Feb 2021, the ONS data showed.
High-quality masks and proper ventilation should be used in combination to mitigate the threat posed by indoor aerosol accumulation as much as possible.
The Centre is fully ready to tackle a possible third wave of COVID-19 and a provision of Rs 23,123 has been made for this purpose, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said.
All the vaccines used in US- including the J&J vaccine- still are doing their job of preventing hospitalizations and deaths from COVID.
Sydney has been locked down since late June after the more contagious delta variant was detected in a limousine driver who became infected while transporting a US cargo aircrew from Sydney Airport.
The total active cases of COVID in India have now declined to 3,63,605, lowest in 150 days; the ministry data showed.
"On July 21, 2021, India had tested 45 cr COVID samples, which reached the 50-cr mark on Aug 18, 2021," the ICMR said.
In a statement, the Minister said that the facility will be inaugurated by CM MK Stalin, which is coming up at the DMS campus, will be opened within the next ten days.
"We believe clearly that the data does not indicate that boosters are needed," Swaminathan said at a news conference in Geneva. She expressed more understanding for a recent U.S. decision to administer boosters to people with weaker immune systems.
The delta variant has complicated the question of when to give boosters because it is so much more contagious and much of the data gathered about vaccine performance is from before the delta variant was widely circulating.
The total active cases of COVID in India have now mounted to 3,67,415, the data showed.
Curfew timings have been relaxed and inter-district movement of passengers allowed, except to and from Kamrup Metropolitan district in Assam.
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.
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.
According to the government release, over 73 lakh vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours.
Mansukh Mandaviya is also likely to visit Guwahati in Assam on August 17 for holding a review meeting, sources said.
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