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Topic: COVID-19

India registers 83,876 fresh Covid cases, 7.25% positivity rate in last 24 hours

The number of active cases in the country declined further to 11,08,938, comprising 2.62% of the total infections. The national Covid-19 recovery rate improved to 96.19%.

Single-day COVID-19 tally dips below 500-mark in Bihar, positivity rate 0.34 pc

Patna, Feb 4 (PTI) Bihar’s single-day COVID-19 tally dipped below 500 on Friday, the first time since January 3, as 496 new cases were...

India’s Covid fatalities crosses 5 lakh, becomes country with 3rd highest death rate in world

Trailing behind the US and Brazil, the country took 217 days to reach 5 lakh deaths from 4 lakh recorded on July last year, the longest time taken to record 1 lakh fatalities.

Vaccination significantly reduces risk of death from Covid, finds ICMR study 

Study analysed patients admitted in 37 hospitals under the National Clinical Registry of Covid 19. An overwhelming number of people who died had comorbidities.

If there’s a poster child for a govt’s poor Covid response anywhere in the world, it’s Iran

Iran's Covid infection rates were among the highest in the world. It has had five death waves, but vaccine hesitancy is still high.

India reports 1.67 lakh fresh Covid cases, 1,192 fatalities in last 24 hours

The daily positivity rate was recorded at 11.69 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate was 15.25 per cent, according to the health ministry.

India reports 2.09 lakh fresh Covid-19 cases, 959 fatalities in last 24 hours

Active cases decreased by 53,669 to reach 18,31,268 and comprise 4.43% of the total infections, while the country's recovery rate stands at 94.37%, according to the health ministry.

Karnataka lifts night curfew, to reopen schools from 31 January

The state govt also allowed pubs, restaurants and hotels to operate at 100% capacity. However, cinema halls, multiplexes, swimming pools and gyms can't exceed 50% occupancy.

What causes long Covid? US study finds 4 factors, including viral load & Type-2 diabetes

Preliminary findings of study — conducted by Institute for Systems Biology and University of Washington, in association with Swedish Medical Center, US — published in 'Cell'.

Covid will return ‘like the flu’ after Omicron, but won’t be a pandemic: US researcher in Lancet

According to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) director Christopher JL Murray, over 50% of the world will have been infected by the Omicron variant by March-end.

On Camera

Haryana win is redemption, J&K defeat is vindication. BJP is walking out of Lok Sabha poll fog

A leader's charisma is a big plus. But don't underestimate the craft of mounting an election campaign. Haryana is BJP's reward for mastering it. All-round participation and peaceful polling in J&K too is a win.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?