What is Contact Tracing

Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya is expected to visit the Delhi airport on Thursday to take stock of the situation

Around 50 per cent of people over 60 years of age are fully vaccinated. Vaccination is significantly lower for the rest of the country

States told to audit Covid-specific facilities, including hospital infrastructure

A new and highly transmissible BF.7 strain of the Omicron variant is behind a widespread surge of Covid infections in China

When somebody dies, there may or may not be a medical death certificate

Doctors say Covid cases rising, but not very severe patients yet

Up to 75 per cent of employees will be allowed to return to workplaces. Wearing masks outdoors will be made optional

Government sources have clarified that even if the curbs are lifted, the use of masks would continue

In metros such as Delhi and Mumbai, the positivity rate has been declining over the last week

So far, 72 per cent of all samples sequenced through INSACOG have been found to be of a Covid-19 variant

Rising weekly positivity rate remains a concern, may point to cases going undetected

Variants of concern have been detected across continents but their designations - as a variant of concern - took varying amounts of time

In Wuhan, mass testing has shown some of its newly reported cases have a high degree of similarity to cases discovered

Delta, the strain first reported in India in October, is the most worrisome detected so far

Jalandhar reported 13 new infections, followed by eight in Patiala and seven in Ludhiana

Mumbai region reported 952 cases, Nashik 909, Latur 315, Aurangabad 97, Akola 38 and Nagpur region reported 26 cases

Currently, there are 1,36,814 people under treatment in the state

Kolhapur division saw 1,963 cases during the day including 691 in the Sangli district

The death toll in the district is 8,494 and the recovery count stands at 3,92,173

Kurnool, which reported nine and eight cases in the last two days, registered 53 on Sunday