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Coronavirus India Update: The national recovery rate is currently at 98.10 per cent.
New Delhi:
India recorded lowest daily rise in Covid cases since early March with 14,146 fresh infections on Sunday. 144 deaths were recorded in the country due to coronavirus, which took the total death count to 4,52,124.
The number of active cases have declined to 1,95,846 and comprise 0.57 per cent of the total infections
The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.10 per cent, highest since March 2020. 19,788 recoveries in the last 24 hours took the total number of recoveries to 3,34,19,749 in India.
The daily positivity rate – number of positive cases identified per 100 – stands at 1.29 per cent, less than 3 per cent for last 48 days. The weekly positivity rate stands at 1.42 per cent in India.
A total of 11,00,123 tests were conducted on Saturday, taking the cumulative tests conducted so far to 59,09,35,381 in the country.
Here are LIVE updates on coronavirus (COVID-19) cases:
Mizoram today registered 249 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest in two months, raising the tally to 1,12,84, while three fresh fatalities pushed the toll to 386, a health department official said.’
On Sunday, the state had registered 948 new cases and the day before 932 infections.
According to the official, the single-day tally is usually less on Mondays as several testing centres, including the RT-PCR laboratory at Zoram Medical College (ZMC), remain closed on Sundays.
Mizoram, however, has been recording below-1000 single-day infections over the past four days, bringing some relief to the administration and people.
People who received a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine followed by an mRNA vaccine shot had a lower risk of infection compared to those immunised with both doses of the AstraZeneca preventive, according to a nationwide study in Sweden.
Since the use of AstraZeneca’s vector-based vaccine against COVID-19 was halted for people younger than 65 years of age due to safety concerns, all individuals in Sweden who had already received their first dose of this vaccine were recommended an mRNA vaccine as their second dose.
“Having received any of the approved vaccines is better compared to no vaccine, and two doses are better than one,” said Peter Nordstrom, a professor at Umea University, Sweden.
Goa schools reopen for Classes 9 to 12 from today; visuals from Bambolim
From today, we are starting offline exams for students. All COVID19 SoPs will be maintained at the school: Principal, Vasantrao Dempo Higher Secondary School Of Science, Commerce and Arts, Bambolim pic.twitter.com/IG2vOXivcJ
– ANI (@ANI) October 18, 2021
New Zealand’s biggest city of Auckland will retain its lockdown for two more weeks in the battle on the Delta variant of coronavirus, as the country pushes to step up vaccinations, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. Once the poster child for stamping out COVID-19, New Zealand is now fighting a Delta outbreak that has spread across Auckland and neighbouring regions despite tough lockdown and border closures.
The Prime Minister said there would be no changes to social curbs, the toughest in the OECD grouping of 34 leading economies, that have run for 62 days in Auckland. “Any interim easing of restrictions will not work towards our plan of minimising cases while we increase vaccinations,” Mr Ardern said.
New Zealand Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern said that the country’s biggest city Auckland will remain in lockdown for another two weeks as it looks to control the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
There will be no changes in the social restrictions that have already been in place for over two months in Auckland under alert level 3, Ardern said at a news conference.
China’s Shanxi province has reported six new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and one asymptomatic case in the last 24 hours. The seven people, including five from Shanghai and two from Haikou, capital of south China’s Hainan Province, are all tourists to Xi’an, Xinhua reported.
Two of them, a couple, were diagnosed as confirmed cases on Sunday and the other five were diagnosed as confirmed or asymptomatic cases at 2:50 a.m. Monday, the commission said.
The seven, aged between 62 and 76, are being treated at a designated hospital in Xi’an.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will chair a crucial meeting of the state’s Covid task force today.
This comes a day after Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said that the Chief Minister along with the health department and the task force will take a decision on relaxing COVID-19 restrictions in the state after Diwali. Meanwhile, Maharashtra reported 1,715 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The total active cases in the state stand at 28,631, as per the state health bulletin on Sunday.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands reported more single-day COVID-19 recoveries than fresh cases as two more persons recuperated from the disease while one new infection pushed the tally in the union territory to 7,642, a health department official said.
The single new case was detected during contact tracing on Sunday, he said.
The archipelago now has eight active COVID-19 case and all the patients are in the South Andaman district of which the capital Port Blair is a part. The other two districts – North and Middle Andaman and Nicobar Islands – are COVID-19 free, the official said.
A total of 7,505 people have so far recovered from COVID-19.
Thane has reported 182 new cases of coronavirus, taking the infection count in the Maharashtra district to 5,63,381, an official said.
Besides these new cases added on Sunday, one death due to the viral infection was also reported, which raised the fatality toll in the district to 11,459, he said. The COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane stood at 2.03 per cent, he added.
In neighbouring Palghar district, the COVID-19 case count has gone up to 1,37,459, while the death toll stands at 3,279, another official said.
US pharmaceutical giant Merck on Monday applied for emergency use authorization of its oral anti-Covid drug in the United States, a major step towards finding a simple pill to treat the disease. Merck has submitted the application for molnupiravir, which it said earlier this month was shown to reduce hospitalizations by 50 percent.
It also prevented 100 percent of deaths compared to a placebo, but the sample size was relatively small and the figure can’t yet be reliably extrapolated.
Merck, which is called MSD outside the United States and Canada, said it was working “with regulatory agencies worldwide to submit applications for emergency use or marketing authorization in the coming months.”
Delhi recorded zero death due to COVID-19 and 32 fresh cases of the infection with a positivity rate of 0.07 per cent, according to the health bulletin issued by the government.
Two fatalities due to COVID-19 have been recorded so far this month in the city, on October 2 and 10, according to official data.
Only five Covid-related fatalities were reported last month, one each on September 7, 16, and 17, and two on September 28, according to official figures. The death toll due to coronavirus in Delhi stands at 25,089.
The Australian government has secured access to two new COVID-19 treatments as the country continues to battle the third wave of infections.
Health Minister Greg Hunt on Sunday announced the government has purchased 15,000 doses of the antibody-based therapy, Ronapreve, which can be administered intravenously for COVID-19 patients in a health care facility and is expected to be targeted for use in unvaccinated people who are at risk of developing severe disease.
If approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Ronapreve will be available to Australian patients by the end of October.
उत्तराखंड जैसे दुर्गम क्षेत्र वाले राज्य में भी कोरोना वैक्सीन की पहली डोज़ सभी पात्र लाभार्थियों को लग चुकी है। PM @NarendraModi जी के मार्गदर्शन में हम निरंतर इस लड़ाई में मज़बूत हो रहे है।
इस उपलब्धि का श्रेय स्वास्थ्य कर्मियों एवं राज्य के प्रसाशन को जाता है। सभी को बधाई! https://t.co/AqFly29ybr
– Dr Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) October 17, 2021
Haryana recorded 15 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday that took the infection count to 7,71,076.
According to the health department’s daily bulletin, no Covid-related fatality was reported and the death toll remained unchanged at 10,049.
After Diwali, on the basis of #COVID19 cases, CM Uddhav Thackeray along with the health department and task force will take the decision over more relaxations in Covid restrictions: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope pic.twitter.com/fVWpE741wb
– ANI (@ANI) October 17, 2021
Coronavirus LIVE Updates: Assam Logs 205 Fresh COVID-19 Cases, 6 Deaths
A total of 205 fresh COVID-19 infections, 245 recoveries, and six deaths were reported in Assam in the last 24 hours. According to the state’s health department, the cumulative caseload has now reached6, 06, 468. This includes 5950 active cases. The north-eastern state has logged 5,97,082 recoveries so far. The death count in the state is 5,950.
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