COVID Stats - India VIEW FULL COVERAGE
ACTIVE CASES
13,433
TOTAL RECOVERED
4,25,14,479
TOTAL DEATHS
5,22,062
POSITIVITY RATE
0.49%
TOTAL VACCINATIONS
1,87,07,08,111
Last Updated: 21-04-22, 09:27 AM IST
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Chinese tourists slow to return to Europe
Europe's vacation destinations are hoping for the return of tourists from China following years of pandemic disruption. Expectations for this segment of the tourism market are high, despite few bookings.

Published on Feb 03, 2023 03:07 PM IST
Deutsche Welle | Posted by Parmita Uniyal
US will end public health emergency for Covid in May: What it means
Covid In US: White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said that the declarations will expire in the coming months.

Published on Jan 31, 2023 05:59 AM IST
Covid still a global emergency: World health body
Covid-19: The WHO director-general concurs with the advice regarding the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and determines that the event continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern.

Published on Jan 30, 2023 02:55 PM IST
AFP |
Will continue to monitor Covid situation in China, Japan says
Covid In China: The comment came a day after the Chinese embassy in Japan said it had resumed the issuance of ordinary visas for Japanese citizens travelling to the country.

Published on Jan 30, 2023 09:00 AM IST
Reuters |
Long Covid might teach us how to prevent Alzheimer’s
Researchers are uncovering links between viruses and brain diseases, which could point to a whole new approach to treatment.

Published on Jan 28, 2023 07:26 PM IST
Bloomberg | | Posted by Parmita Uniyal
China says Covid deaths down by nearly 80% since 2023
China covid: A wave of virus cases has washed over the world's most populous nation since Beijing abruptly ended its zero-Covid policy last month.

Published on Jan 26, 2023 11:17 AM IST
AFP |
Covid infection could damage foetuses of pregnant women: Study
Foetuses and placentas of pregnant women, especially those infected with COVID-19 at earlier points in the pandemic, were found to bear a greater risk of experiencing growth impairment or vascular lesions in organs and brain, according to a new research.

Updated on Jan 24, 2023 08:29 PM IST
PTI | | Posted by Parmita Uniyal, London
Masking emotions: Here's how children show signs of mask dependence
Psychiatrists concerned as children show signs of mask dependence after Covid-19. Here's all you need to know about kids masking emotions

Updated on Jan 22, 2023 03:48 PM IST
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Zarafshan ShirazCovid outbreak has infected 80% of China's population: Report
China Covid: The mass movement of people during the ongoing Lunar New Year holiday period may spread the pandemic, boosting infections in some areas.

Published on Jan 21, 2023 03:34 PM IST
Reuters |
China denies Covid-19 vaccines to defectors from North Korea: Report
North Korean defectors in China have not received even a single dose of vaccination since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, NK news reported, and are thus being left unprotected.

Published on Jan 21, 2023 01:52 PM IST
ANI |
‘Will Twitter have guts?’: Jairam amps up attack on minister over Pfizer vaccine
Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar shared a video on Twitter on Friday about Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla's encounter with a journalist at Davos 2023, and blamed Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Rahul Gandhi and P Chidambaram for pushing the case of foreign Covid-19 vaccines in India.

Updated on Jan 21, 2023 01:24 PM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
Germany saw 180,000 excess deaths during three years of Covid-19: Report
While the reasons for the surprising acceleration in 2022 are unclear, summer heat waves and outbreaks of flu at the end of the year probably played a role, said Joachim Ragnitz, the managing director of Ifo’s Dresden branch.

Published on Jan 20, 2023 02:23 PM IST
Bloomberg |
China masses take Covid fight into own hands as Xi sits back
For 1.4 billion Chinese citizens that had the government dictate their movements since the pandemic began, the past six weeks have forced them to suddenly figure out how to survive on their own.

Updated on Jan 19, 2023 09:16 PM IST
Bloomberg |
China slams 'some Western media' on Covid coverage: ‘Hype, smear, manipulation’
Covid In China: The move in December to end mass testing and quarantines led to a sharp rise in cases, with some hospitals and crematoriums overwhelmed with victims.

Published on Jan 19, 2023 01:29 PM IST
AP |
China provinces spent billions on Xi Jinping's zero-Covid policy: Report
Covid In China: Total Covid-related spending surged by about 50 percent during three years, hitting a peak of 71.1 billion yuan in 2022, the report said.

Published on Jan 17, 2023 05:04 PM IST
World Health Organisation issues fresh Covid guidelines: 6 things to know
World Health Organisation On Covid: WHO said, “Without testing, for patients with symptoms, the new guidelines suggest 10 days of isolation from the date of symptom onset.”

Published on Jan 17, 2023 12:13 PM IST
China's population dips 1st time since 1960s, India likely to overtake soon
The latest official data showed that China's population stood at around 1,411,750,000 (1.4 billion) at the end of 2022, which is a drop of 850,000 from the end of the previous year.

Updated on Jan 17, 2023 10:47 AM IST
Sharangee Dutta, New Delhi
China economy grows 3% in 2022, one of weakest in 40 years: Official data
Beijing had set itself a target of 5.5 per cent, a rate already much lower than the performance of 2021, when the country's GDP increased more than eight percent.

Published on Jan 17, 2023 08:52 AM IST
AFP |
No new Covid cases in Delhi after 1,027 days
The city last saw a zero Covid-19 case count on March 24, 2020, also the day that Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the country would be locked down from midnight, as part of hard measures to contain the then relatively unknown infection.

Updated on Jan 17, 2023 04:17 AM IST
Centre unlikely to procure more Covid vaccine jabs
Studies have shown that immunity gained from a vaccine shot typically wanes in four to six months . According to government’s Cowin dashboard, only 223 million persons have taken the booster shot dose.

Updated on Jan 17, 2023 04:21 AM IST
Keep us in loop, World Health Organisation tells China on Covid outbreak
Covid In China: Following this, the World Health Organisation said that the announcement “allows for a better understanding of the epidemiological situation."

Published on Jan 15, 2023 02:09 PM IST
Delhi govt hoping to administer booster doses door-to-door from next month
Delhi government data shows that till December 21, 2022, over 37.3 million (or 3.73 crore) doses have been administered in the capital.

Updated on Jan 15, 2023 02:25 AM IST
China records nearly 60,000 Covid-related deaths in a month: Health body
Covid In China: This included 54,435 deaths of people infected with Covid but with underlying conditions, such as cancer or cardiovascular diseases, the director informed.

Updated on Jan 14, 2023 04:23 PM IST
Air travel recovers in China amid Covid infection rise. This is the major worry
Covid In China: The industry needs to "fully understand the special nature, and complexity of the Spring Festival migration in 2023", Song said in a statement on Friday.

Published on Jan 14, 2023 03:46 PM IST
Reuters |
Almost all of Beijing residents to get Covid by January end: What a study shows
Covid In China: The study reflects the rapid spread of China's Covid outbreak as infections rise after Beijing abruptly relaxed its ‘zero-Covid’ policy in December.

Published on Jan 14, 2023 02:52 PM IST
14 Covid warriors to get ₹1crore each in Delhi
The Delhi government will give an ex-gratia amount of ₹1 crore to the families of 14 Covid Warriors who died from the infection while on duty during the pandemic, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said on Friday

Updated on Jan 14, 2023 02:56 AM IST
Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 may be dominant in Europe soon: Health agency
XBB.1.5 In Europe: The health body said that the risk associated with the subvariant was estimated to be low.

Published on Jan 13, 2023 10:40 PM IST
Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 accounts for 43% of US Covid cases: Health body
Covid In US: The variant which is considered the most transmissible yet is an offshoot of XBB which was first detected in October.

Published on Jan 13, 2023 09:29 PM IST
How many people in China may have Covid? About 900 million, says study
Covid In China: This comes as a top Chinese epidemiologist warned that cases will surge in rural China over the lunar new year.

Published on Jan 13, 2023 08:40 PM IST
China Covid wave's peak to last 2-3 months, expert says with a dire warning
Covid In China: The holidays officially start from January 21 and are also referred to as the world's largest annual migration of people.

Published on Jan 13, 2023 03:31 PM IST