Covid LIVE: India's cumulative vaccination coverage crosses 506 million

Johns Hopkins' Center for Systems Science and Engineering revealed the current global caseload, death toll stood and vaccination tally stood at 201,690,263, 4,276,940 and 4,346,167,629, respectively

8:22 PM

Over 5 mn vaccine doses administered today till 7 pm

India’s cumulative COVID vaccination coverage has crossed 506.2 million, as per the 7 pm provisional report today. More than 5 million vaccine doses have been administered today, as per the 7 pm provisional report. More than 187 million vaccine doses have been administered in the age group 18-44, so far.

8:12 PM

1,969 new cases in Tamil Nadu

7:38 PM

Night curfew to continue in 2 Karnataka districts

7:01 PM

72 new cases in Delhi in last 24 hours

6:42 PM

1,610 new cases in Karnataka

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1,908 new cases in Andhra

4:35 PM

All airlines barring one have restarted operations, says Goa Airport Director

4:21 PM

Goa reopens for tourists who are fully vaccinated

2:14 PM

Got EUA from India on August 7: J&J

1:25 PM

Kazakhstan sets new record of nearly 7,900 daily COVID-19 cases

A record 7,899 new coronavirus cases -- the highest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic -- has been recorded in Kazakhstan over the past day, the national coronavirus response center said on Saturday.

 

The previous record of 7,803 cases was registered on August 1.

 

"Over the past day, 7,899 new cases of the coronavirus were registered [in Kazakhstan]," the center said in a statement, adding that the total number of those infected has reached 626,412.

1:11 PM

US now averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day

The US is now averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, returning to a milestone last seen during the winter surge in yet another bleak reminder of how quickly the delta variant has spread through the country.

 

The U.S. was averaging about 11,000 cases a day in late June. Now the number is 107,143.

 

It took the U.S. about nine months to cross the 100,000 average case number in November before peaking at about 250,000 in early January. Cases bottomed out in June but took about six weeks to go back above 100,000, despite a vaccine that has been given to more than 70% of the adult population.

12:54 PM

Pondy clocks 102 new Covid 19 cases, one death reported

Puducherry saw 102 fresh cases of coronavirus during last twenty-four hours ending 10 am on Saturday, taking the overall caseload to 1,21,523.

 

The new cases were identified at the end of examination of 5521 samples and were spread over Puducherry 69, Karaikal 9 and Mahe 24.

12:49 PM

Arunachal Pradesh reports 227 new COVID-19 cases, 1 more death

Two hundred and twenty-seven more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the virus tally in the frontier state to 49,668, a senior health department official said here on Saturday.

 

The COVID-19 death toll in the northeastern state increased to 237 with one more person succumbing to the infection on Friday, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said.

12:30 PM

800 mn Indians got free ration during coronavirus pandemic: PM Modi

As many as 800 million Indians got free ration during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.

 

These include five crore people from Madhya Pradesh, Modi said, during a video interaction with Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana beneficiaries from the state.

 

Describing the coronavirus pandemic as the biggest disaster faced by humanity in the last 100 years, Modi also said people should continue to wear masks, sanitize hands and maintain social distancing to check the spread of the virus.

12:25 PM

Once largely Covid free, Asian economies now upended by Delta

The delta variant is challenging the part of the world that’s been most successful in blunting the economic impact of Covid-19, with Asian countries that snuffed it out locking down again as the virus returns, and others seeing the world’s highest death rates.