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Shanghai reported most of the new cases China reported a total of 360 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, of which 261 were reported solely in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission's report on Thursday, while people in Shanghai are falling sick after consuming some of the food supplied by the local administration. Shanghai reported most of the new cases. The city reported a total number of 261 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. Moreover, a total of 4,390 local asymptomatic cases were reported, the municipal health commission... read more

Stressing on the need for increasing global surveillance, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist warned of the likelihood of an even more fatal and transmissive variant of Covid Billionaire Bill Gates has warned that Covid pandemic is far from over, with the worst remaining yet to unfold. Stressing on the need for increasing global surveillance, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist warned of the likelihood of an even more fatal and transmissive variant of Covid, the Financial Times reported. Gates stated that even though he does not want to... read more

  The fresh infections have taken the number of active cases in the state to 198 Eight more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sikkim in the last 24 hours, taking the Himalayan state's virus tally to 32,382, a Health Department bulletin said. The COVID-19 death toll of the state stood at 405 as no fatality was reported in the past 24 hours, the bulletin said. The fresh infections have taken the number of active cases to 198, while 341 others have migrated to other states and 31,438 persons have recovered from the disease. East Sikkim has so far registered the highest number of cases at 18,031 followed by 7,133 in South Sikkim, 6,205 in West Sikkim, and 671 in North Sikkim. The state has so far tested 2,72,855 samples for COVID-19. Sikkim's Covid-19 daily positivity rate stood 2.3 per cent, while the daily recovery ratio remained at 98.1 per cent.

  The death toll due to the viral infection remained unchanged at 10,095 Gujarat recorded 61 new cases of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours which took the tally of cases in the state to 8,27,806, the state health department said on Tuesday evening. The death toll due to the viral infection remained unchanged at 10,095 with no death reported during the day. The tally of recoveries went up to 8,17,339 with 39 persons getting discharged from hospitals. Of 372 active cases, nine patients are on ventilator while 363 are stable. As many as 8.35 crore doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered in the state so far, including 3.82 lakh given during the day. No new cases of COVID-19 were registered in the... read more

  The number of active cases currently in the state is 1,218 The number of fresh  coronavirus  infections in Assam declined to 150 on Tuesday as against 182 on the previous day, a National Health Mission (NHM) bulletin said. The new cases were detected from 22,239 samples, less than 36,201 clinical examinations conducted on Monday. The bulletin said the positivity rate dipped from 0.50 per cent on Monday to 0.45 per cent during the day. The number of active cases currently in the state is 1,218 as against 1,197 on Monday. One COVID-19 patient in Darrang died during the day, taking the... read more

  Kolkata and North 24 Parganas accounted for 258 fresh cases West Bengal on Tuesday reported 507 new COVID-19 cases, 42 more than the previous day, with the tally rising to 16,20,229, a health department bulletin said. Kolkata and North 24 Parganas accounted for 258 fresh cases, it added. Nine new fatalities due to the infection raised the death toll to 19,562, it said. North 24 Parganas accounted for four fresh COVID deaths while two were reported in Kolkata, and one each in South 24 Parganas, Hooghly and Dakshin Dinajpur districts, the bulletin said. At least 512 more people were cured of the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 15,93,091. The discharge rate stood at... read more

 At least 182 students reside in the hostel of the residential school. Nine girls of a government residential school in Odisha's Jajpur district tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, an official said. Some students of the Kasturba Girls' High School at Dasarathpur block developed symptoms of the infection, following which their swab samples were collected and sent for testing, he said. "Test results of nine students were positive and they have been placed in isolation," the school authorities said. As a precautionary measure, all the students and staffers of... read more

  The World Health Organization says the global risk from the omicron variant of the coronavirus is very high based on early evidence, and it could lead to surges with severe consequences. The  World Health Organization  says the global risk from the omicron variant of the  coronavirus   is very high based on early evidence, and it could lead to surges with severe consequences. The UN health agency, in a technical memo to member states, says “considerable uncertainties remain about the new variant that was first detected in southern Africa. But it says the likelihood of possible further spread around the world is high. 

  The Coronavirus outbreak (officially known as Covid-19), which started in China, has so far killed 5,225,521 people across the globe and infected 262,457,910 (as on November 30, 2021). The virus has spread to 224 countries. In India, 34,587,822 confirmed cases and 468,980 deaths have been reported so far, according to official figures released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). To check the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, or Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced nationwide lockdown till May, meaning the country’s 1.3 billion citizens — except those engaged in providing essential services — would not step out of their homes. This lockdown was extended a couple of times and lifted in a graded way starting June 2020.  Coronavirus in India and elsewhere: Total number of cases in India (state-wise) and all countries of the world…  TRACK What is coronavirus? Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses that are common among anim...