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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicCoronavirus cases

Topic: coronavirus cases

With 28,204 new Covid cases, India registers lowest daily count in 147 days

According to the health ministry data, the active coronavirus cases dropped to 3,88,508 and comprise 1.21% of the total case tally, the lowest since March 2020.

India adds 46,617 new Covid cases, recovery rate surpasses 97%

A net decline of 13,620 cases has been recorded in the total number of active Covid cases in a span of 24 hours, the health ministry report stated.

Blocked by Eli Lilly, Bajaj Healthcare moves patent office to make Covid drug Baricitinib

BHL says it can produce Baricitinib for as cheap as Rs 14 (for 1mg). US pharma giant Eli Lilly, which holds exclusive licence for the drug, manufactures it at an average cost of Rs 3,230.

Coronavirus could possibly spread through faeces of infected patients, ICMR study finds

The study by the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology, Pune, observed a family of four patients and found the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in all their stool samples.

India records 1.32 lakh new Covid cases, recovery rate crosses 93%

According to health ministry data, daily positivity was recorded at 6.38% while active cases were below 20 lakh for the fourth consecutive day.

India adds 1.32 lakh new Covid cases, active infections stay below 20 lakh for second day

According to health ministry data, the country recorded 3,207 Covid deaths in the last 24 hours and the daily positivity rate dropped to 6.57%.

India records 1.27 lakh new Covid cases, 2,795 deaths in last 24 hours

According to health ministry data, the death toll was the lowest reported in 35 days, and total active cases have gone below 20 lakh after 43 days.

Before Wuhan row, how US-China created SARS-like virus in 2015 to show its pandemic potential

The 2015 study is an example of a ‘gain of function’ research that scientists from University of North Carolina in US & China's Wuhan Institute of Virology had been involved in for several years.

Desperate Indians are calling Switzerland for oxygen concentrators

For the past two weeks, retailers Raphael Koch and Dino Vivarelli have been busy fielding a flurry of phone calls, mostly from Indians looking for oxygen concentrators.

Patients lying unattended, ambulance queue, pleas for bed — horror outside Delhi hospitals

A woman lost her husband as he lay unattended & a 38-year-old man was declared brought dead after several hospitals turned him down — scenes outside GTB, LNJP hospitals were scary.

On Camera

MCD is rounding up sterilised, friendly dogs just for optics—a moral and scientific failure

Since 1982, the resident dogs of JLN Stadium have peacefully coexisted with athletes, spectators, and staff. There hasn’t been a single recorded bite in over four decades.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.