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Aug 25, 2021 Outlook Web Bureau The active cases comprise 0.99 per cent of the total infections.
Aug 25, 2021 Jeevan Prakash Sharma The spread of infection during the second wave was not evenly distributed in every district in the country.
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Aug 24, 2021 Outlook Web Bureau On August 5, MyGov and WhatsApp had introduced the ability for users to download vaccine certificates from the chatbot
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,17,20,112, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.34 per cent, the data stated.
Covid explained: New viral strains can also develop via recombination, when viruses acquire genes from other viruses or even from their hosts.
The active cases have declined to 3,33,924, the lowest in 155 days, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 97.63 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the health ministry said.
All the vaccines used in the U.S. — including the J&J vaccine — still are doing their job of preventing hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.
COVAX was created last year to try and ensure vaccines are distributed fairly and is led by public health agencies including the World Health Organization.
Kappa is a sub-lineage of B.1.617 variant, first reported in Maharashtra, India, in October 2020.
A reduction of 3,286 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
Children below 18 years of age, if accompanied by parents or guardians with vaccination certificate for both doses or negative RTPCR/RAT reports are exempted from e-registration
Researchers and health officials have been monitoring the real-world performance of the COVID-19 vaccines to see how long protection lasts among vaccinated people.
New Zealand has reported just 26 virus deaths since the pandemic began.
Out of the new cases, Kerala reported 12,294 new cases, 142 deaths while Maharashtra had 4,145 new infections and 101 fatalities.
Speedy inoculation is protecting a significant percentage of the infected population from developing severe disease and causing death.
The benefits of mixing two vaccines are to prevent the development of immunity by the virus against a viral vector-based vaccine.
This is the ninth time, since the starting of the second wave of the pandemic in the national capital that zero fatality has been logged in a day.
A farmer sits near his red chillies at a deserted APMC market, during the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka government to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Hubballi.
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Delhi Chief Minister & AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal being welcomed by women supporters during his door-to-door campaign ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, in Goa.
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A health worker collects swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test, amid concerns over rising Omicron cases, in Gurugram.
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Traffic jam on a road at Shalimar Bagh during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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The Lajpat Nagar market wears a deserted look during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
PTI Photo/ Shahbaz Khan
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
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