COVID-19 Cases in India: 13,052 New Covid Cases in India, Marginally Less Than Yesterday
New Delhi:
With 13,052 new coronavirus infections being reported in one day, India’s COVID-19 count has risen to 1,07,46,183, while the number of people who have recovered from the disease has risen to 1.04 , 23,125, according to the Union. Data from the Ministry of Health updated on Sunday.
The national recovery rate has risen to 96.99%. The death count rose to 1,54,274 with 127 new deaths, updated data showed at 8 a.m.
The number of people who have recovered from the disease increased to 1,04,23,125. The COVID-19 fatality rate is 1.44 percent.
Total active COVID-19 cases remained below 2 lakh for the twelfth consecutive day.
There are 1,68,784 active coronavirus infections in the country, representing 1.57 percent of the total number of cases, according to the data.
Meanwhile, the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker, is hoping to launch Covovax, developed in partnership with American vaccine developer Novavax, by June, CEO Adar Poonawalla said on Saturday. In a UK trial, the US-based pharmaceutical company’s Covid jab was found to be 89.3 percent effective.
The Pune-based Serum Institute has already requested local trials for the candidate vaccine in India. “Our partnership for a COVID-19 vaccine with @Novavax has also published excellent efficacy results. We have also requested to start trials in India. We look forward to launching #COVOVAX by June 2021!” Adar Poonawalla tweeted this afternoon, “read Poonawalla’s tweet.
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A complicated mix of good and bad news makes any forecast for the coming months confusing, but scientists have a clear and sobering message: The pandemic is far from over.
Mutation-laden variants are on the move, and that includes one first identified in South Africa and confirmed in an adult from the Baltimore area, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Republican, said Saturday. It was the third known case of the variant in the United States, after two cases announced Thursday in South Carolina. The person in Maryland had no travel history, which is evidence of community transmission.
Odisha’s number of COVID-19 cases on Sunday rose to 3.35,072 after 114 more people tested positive for the infection, a health department official said.
The state’s coronavirus death count stood at 1,906 as no recent deaths have been reported for the past six days, the official said.
The new cases were detected in 19 of the state’s 30 districts, with 68 reported from different quarantine centers, while the remaining 46 are local contact cases.
Sundergarh district had the highest number of new cases of 21, followed by Bargarh (11) and Khurda (9). Of the 19 districts, only two districts reported new double-digit positive cases.
Eleven other districts did not register any new positive cases since Saturday.
The Australian city of Perth will begin a quick five-day lockdown after a security guard at a quarantined hotel tested positive for Covid-19, authorities announced Sunday.
About two million city residents must stay home as of Sunday night, as do those living in nearby Peel and Southwest regions.
The scheduled return from schools for Monday will be delayed, and locals will only be allowed to leave their homes for exercise, medical care, essential work or to buy food.
The new rules follow the first case of community transmission in the state of Western Australia for 10 months, authorities said.
The Haryana Congress will organize a peace march in each block of the state from February 3-5 in support of farmers protesting against central farm laws, the chairman of the state Pradesh Congressional Committee (HPCC) said on Saturday, Kumari Selja.
“The Haryana Congress will organize a peace march in each block of the state from February 3-5 in support of farmers protesting against central agricultural laws and also to promote brotherhood and harmony,” Selja told reporters .
“The BJP government was crossing all boundaries of shamelessness. The party was adopting all tactics to declare the farmers as traitors,” he alleged.
The head of the state party asked “what kind of patriotism is the BJP exhibiting? It must be remembered that the families of these peasants have sacrificed their lives for the country. Their family members are on the borders.”
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EU officials on Saturday confessed to a “mistake” in invoking Northern Ireland’s emergency Brexit powers during a clash with Britain over vaccines, and London said it hoped its supply of COVID-19 injections would not be interrupted. .
The European Union has lagged far behind Great Britain and the United States in the race to vaccinate their public. It announced on Friday that it would impose export controls on vaccines, widely seen as a threat to prevent doses from being shipped to Britain.
But he was forced to reverse part of the announcement within hours, after both Britain and Ireland complained about plans to impose emergency controls on the export of vaccines across the land border between Ireland and governed Northern Ireland. for Great Britain.
China on Sunday reported the largest daily increase in new coronavirus cases in six days, fueled by an increase in infections in a northeastern city.
Mainland China reported 92 new confirmed cases by January 30, the National Health Commission said in a statement, the highest since January 24.
Of the new confirmed cases, local transmissions accounted for 73, with Tonghua City in Jilin Province contributing the majority of the new infections. North Hebei Province reported one new confirmed case, while Heilongjiang reported nine. Beijing and Shanghai had neither.
The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, rose to 19 from 16 a day earlier.
Pharmaceutical company Cutis Biotech’s move to prevent the Serum Institute of India from using the trademark “Covishield” has been rejected by a civil court in Pune, Serum Institute lawyers said in a media note.
Earlier this month, Cutis Biotech filed a lawsuit in civil court to prevent Adar Poonawalla’s Serum Institute from using the trademark “Covishield” or other similar names for its COVID-19 vaccine.
Maharashtra-based Cutis Biotech, which makes pharmaceuticals, claimed it has been using the “Covishield” brand before the Serum Institute.
A new world order will take shape after the coronavirus pandemic and India will have a major role to play in it, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a meeting of the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Saturday. the center.
“Addressing the NDA leaders meeting, Prime Minister Shri @NarendraModi ji said today that after the pandemic, a new world order is about to take shape and India has a great role to play in the new order. emerging world, “said Parliamentary Union Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi tweeted.
“He said this decade is very important, just like the decade after WWII, unlike before, we will not be a dumb bystander. We will rise to the occasion based on our traditions and ideals of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. , the Prime Minister added, “Joshi wrote.
The Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States Department of Justice) announced on Saturday that it is pausing the vaccination of detainees at Guantanamo Bay against COVID-19, ANI reported.
Gujarat reported 323 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths on Saturday, taking the infection
the count at 2,61,224 and the death count at 4,387, PTI reported.
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