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Topic: Coronavirus

Coronavirus or Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is a viral disease that turned into a pandemic in early 2020. The first known case was recorded in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Coronavirus has multiple variants such as Delta and Omicron, and its most common symptoms are fever, chills and sore throat.

Govt expert panel recommends regular market approval for Covishield, Covaxin

Payal Banerjee -
Serum Institute & Bharat Biotech's Covid vaccines, currently authorised only for emergency use in India, were granted approval by DCGI on certain conditions, official source said.

Covid positivity rate not low enough to lift restrictions in Delhi, says Satyendra Jain

PTI -
Delhi Health Minister Jain said the city is likely to see around 13,000 cases today and informed that daily hospital admissions have not increased for one week.

India extends suspension of scheduled international flights till 28 February

PTI -
In a circular Wednesday, DCGA mentioned that the restriction will not be applicable to international 'all-cargo operations and flight' approved by the aviation regulator.

SC pulls up state govts over failing to disburse claims to Covid victims’ next of kin

PTI -
The top court summoned chief secretaries of Andhra Pradesh & Bihar govts at 2 pm to explain why disbursals of ex-gratia amount of Rs 50,000 for Covid death are less in their states.

Xi Jinping’s zero-tolerance strategy gets weaker with every Omicron case in China

Bloomberg News -
Despite firmly closed borders and a vaccination rate near 90%, the highly transmissible variant has been reported in 7 out of 31 provinces and all of China’s biggest cities.

India logs 2.82 lakh fresh covid cases, 441 fatalities in last 24 hours

PTI -
Active cases have climbed to 18,31,000, highest in 232 days, and comprise 4.83 % of the total infections, while the national recovery rate has decreased to 93.88%.

No foreign chief guests at R-Day parade, Central Asian leaders to skip event ‘due to Covid’

ANI -
India had sent formal invitations to the heads of state of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan for Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi.

What it will take to vaccinate the world against Covid

Clara Ferreira Marques -
A Q&A with vaccine scientist Peter Hotez, author of 'Preventing the Next Pandemic', on developing a low-cost Covid vaccine, and why Omicron won’t be the end of the pandemic.

Increase Covid testing in strategic manner immediately, Centre asks states

PTI -
Additional Health Secretary Arti Ahuja cited a decline in Covid testing in the states and said strategic testing can avert the progression of the disease to a severe category.

Blanket travel ban can be counterproductive, adopt risk-based strategies: WHO’s India head

PTI -
WHO India lead Roderico H Ofrin stressed that the risk-based approach 'remains a wiser public health practice to counter the pandemic' in the country.
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