India recorded 93,337 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 1,247 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s tally to more than 5.3 million, according to the Union Health Ministry on Saturday. The Health Ministry dashboard showed at 8 am that there were 1,013,964 active cases of Covid-19 …
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The northwestern and southwestern districts of Delhi together accounted for almost one in three active Covid-19 cases in the capital, which is seeing an increase in cases, albeit thanks to higher testing. And Delhi’s most densely populated northeast district, which has around 40,000 people per km2, has only 894 active …
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Maharashtra is a clear outlier in terms of how it has been affected by the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). It ended on Wednesday with 1.12 million cases – it is the province with the most cases in the world – and 30,883 deaths, according to the HT panel. His cumulative positivity …
Read More »Delhi Reports 38 Covid Deaths and 4,432 New Cases; RT-PCR tests drop below 10,000
The national capital registered 4,432 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Thursday, even as the number of more accurate RT-PCR tests fell again below the 10,000 mark despite high daily tests in the city. The city also reported 38 deaths on Thursday, which is the highest in 63 …
Read More »Covid-19: the government faces the heat of the house due to the closure, migrants and cases
In the first substantive discussion on the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Parliament on Wednesday, the Opposition questioned the government about its handling of the pandemic, the way the shutdown, the slipping of the economy, was announced and managed, the suffering. of migrant workers and the Center’s approach to the States …
Read More »IMA publishes a list of 382 doctors who died due to Covid-19 and demands that they be treated as martyrs
Making an exception to the fact that Health Minister Harsh Vardhan did not mention the death of health workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the IMA on Wednesday published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated …
Read More »Covid-19: what you need to know today
In Dispatch 156, I wrote about why it didn’t make sense to use rapid antigen tests all the time, or to rely too much on them, as Delhi is still. In short, these tests return too many false negative results (identifying an infected person as not infected) to be reliable. …
Read More »India’s Covid-19 count surpasses the 5 million mark as cases continue to rise at an alarming rate
The number of coronavirus infections in India surpassed the 5 million mark with 91,136 new cases reported on Tuesday as infections continued to rise at an alarming rate in the nation with the worst case rate ever recorded. India’s total case count is 5,017,914, behind only the United States, which …
Read More »Three of the top six candidates should work early next year, says Bill Gates
Bill Gates file photo. (Image: Jeff Pachoud / Getty Images) Bill Gates India will play a big role in the development of the coronavirus vaccine because the largest volume vaccine manufacturers in the world who have done a fantastic job are in the country. News18.com Last update: September 15, 2020 …
Read More »India’s Covid-19 Recovers Highest in the World, Data Shows
Although India continues to have the second highest number of coronavirus cases in the world, it has also become the country with the highest number of recovered cases. On Monday, India surpassed Brazil to have the highest number of Covid-19 recoveries globally, data from the United States-based John Hopkins University …
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