Tuesday, January 07, 2025 | 06:22 PM ISTEN Hindi

Covid LIVE: India's cumulative vaccination coverage at 590-mn mark

Coronavirus LIVE updates: Maharashtra recorded 4,141 fresh Covid-19 cases, 4,780 discharges, and 145 deaths in the last 24 hours. Stay tuned for corona-related news

BS Web Team New Delhi

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6:50 PM

AP adds 1,002 Covid-19 cases

Andhra Pradesh's Covid-19 tally increased to 20,03,342 as 1,002 new cases were added afresh in 24 hours ending 9 am on Monday.

The total recoveries went up to 19,75,448 as 1,508 more people got cured during this period, a health department bulletin said.

With 12 fresh deaths, the gross toll climbed to 13,735, it said.

6:30 PM

UP's steepest Covid decline, cases below ten

Uttar Pradesh on Monday witnessed the steepest decline in the number of fresh Covid cases as the state logged new infections below 10 for the first time since the second wave.

Uttar Pradesh limited the number of fresh infections to 7, making it the lowest daily-case count for the state so far. The state had recorded 19 new cases on Sunday.

6:29 PM

Delhi reports 17 Covid-19 cases; positivity rate 0.04%

Delhi reported zero daily deaths due to Covid-19 for the fourth day on the trot on Monday and 17 new cases of the infection, while the positivity rate stood at 0.04 per cent, according to the health department here.

This is the 14th time since the beginning of the second wave of the pandemic that the national capital has logged zero fatality due to the disease in a day.

6:28 PM

13,383 Covid-19 cases, 90 deaths in Kerala

5:12 PM

Covid situation under control, EC must announce by-elections: Mamata

4:55 PM

Explain process of vaccine procurement, allotment: Bombay HC to Centre

The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Union government to file an affidavit explaining the process of procuring Covid-19 vaccines and allotting them to states.

A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni, which is hearing PILs seeking redressal of issues faced by citizens while booking vaccination slots on the CoWin portal, asked the Centre to file the affidavit by August 27.

2:41 PM

Bus service between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka resumed from midnight

2:37 PM

India's own mRNA candidate likely to move into Phase 3 trial soon, says official

1:31 PM

Australians warned of Covid disaster payment scams

The Australian government on Monday warned of scams targeting people relying on Covid-19 disaster payments.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently revealed that along with major banks, it has identified a slew of scams related to coronavirus support payments, reports Xinhua news agency.

According to the ACCC, 69 scams have been reported and in four cases more than A$37,000 ($26,401) were stolen.

Linda Reynolds, the Minister for Government Services, described scammers targeting vulnerable Australians amid widespread outbreaks of Covid-19 as a "low act".

"The agency is acutely aware of the unfortunate risk of scams and provides secure ways of claiming online," she was quoted as saying by The Canberra Times on Monday.

1:05 PM

Coronavirus LIVE updates: Recovery rate increases to 97.63%; highest since March 2020

India's recovery rate increases to 97.63%; highest since March 2020

1:03 PM

Coronavirus third wave peak likely in October: NIDM report

The National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), under the Ministry of Home Affairs, has warned of a third Covid-19 wave peak in October in its recent report to the Prime Minister's Office.

The NIDM's report quoted the Reuters' opinion survey of 40 experts that forecasted that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to hit India between July 15 and October 13, 2021.

On whether the Delta-Plus Variant will be the driver of the third wave, NIDM said the Delta-Plus variant formed due to the mutation in the B.1.617.2 (Delta variant) that drove the fatal second surge in India. This new variant of concern is a sub-lineage of the Delta variant that has acquired a spike protein mutation 'K417N' which is alsofound in the Beta variant (first detected in South Africa).

12:06 PM

Coronavirus live updates: Cannot enforce guidelines at gunpoint, say experts on rising Kerala infections

Relaxations in movement during the festival season coupled with people not following Covid guidelines are behind Kerala's rising TPR and the state accounting for more than half of the country's virus caseload, medical experts said on Sunday and added that people cannot be made to follow the norms at gunpoint, rather they need to modify their behaviour on their own.

As the festival season has not yet ended, the effect of the relaxations and non-Covid appropriate behaviour by people who ventured out for celebrations and shopping would be seen in the test positivity rate (TPR) which, according to the experts like Dr Amar Fettle and Dr Kannan, is expected to rise further from Saturday's 17.73 per cent.

11:09 AM

Coronavirus LIVE updates: IBM provides health facilities to 3 states to fight potential third wave

Technology firm IBM India has provided healthcare facilities like pediatric ICU beds and oxygen concentrators to Karnataka, Haryana and Uttarakhand which would help them tackle a potential third wave of COVID-19, according to senior company official.

The healthcare facilities have been provided as part of IBM India's corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative in partnership with the Nasscom Foundation.

Speaking to PTI, IBM India and South Asia Head-CSR Manoj Balachandran said, "While a lot of relief like oxygen cylinders was coming in to address the immediate short term need, we decided to work on mid to long term requirements with the state governments." Read on...

10:39 AM

UAE to issue tourist visas, with a 14-day rider, to Indian passport holders

Indian passport holders, who have not been to the country in the last 14 days, can get tourist visas to the UAE, according to a media report on Sunday.

The facility has been exteded to Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Uganda, other than India, the Gulf News reported.

Presently, only UAE citizens and transit passengers are allowed to fly to the UAE, due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Approval of tourist visas for Indian passport holders, who have not been in the country in the last fortnight, comes as the UAE is slowly opening up its arrivals. Read on...

10:26 AM