Fourth wave scare News

The death toll due to coronavirus has climbed to 5,26,110 with 36 new fatalities.

Amid rising COVID-19 cases in Uttarakhand, the state government said that it has been following all guidelines related to coronavirus India on Thursday saw a single-day rise of 21,566 coronavirus cases, the highest in 152 days, taking its COVID-19 tally to 4,38,25,185 The number of active cases in the country climbed to 1,48,881 on Thursday, according to Union health ministry data

As many as 4,32,777 Covid-19 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said and added that India's daily coronavirus positivity rate now stands at 4.22%, while the weekly positivity rate is at 4.08%.

Covid-19 fourth wave scare persists in India India has recorded a rise in active coronavirus infections Active Covid cases have risen to 1,15,212

India reported 16,135 fresh cases in the past 24 hours It also registered 24 deaths during this period There are 1,13,864 active cases now.

Karnataka currently has 5,707 active coronavirus infections. According to state health department data, Bengaluru is the worst-hit city with 5,393 active Covid-19 cases.

India recorded 14,506 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours. Country's total tally of such cases has now increased to 4.34 crore. India also reported recorded 30 deaths due to coronavirus.

Almost five per cent of the samples genome sequenced from central and south east Delhi tested positive for the BA.5 sub-variant of Omicron and nearly two per cent samples from south Delhi showed its presence, news agency PTI reported. 

With 614 new Covid-19 infections, Delhi's tally of cases has now increased to 19.13 lakh, while the death toll remained unchanged at 26,221.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya urged States/UTs to strengthen the surveillance and focus on genome sequencing for identifying new Covid-19 mutants/variants in the country.  

India's daily Covid-19 tally on Sunday crossed 8,000-mark for second consecutive day. An increase of 4,143 coronavirus cases was recorded in active caseload in a span of 24 hours. The weekly positivity rate currently stands at 2.02 per cent.

Beijing is experiencing an 'explosive' Covid-19 outbreak connected to a bar. 'The recent outbreak ... is strongly explosive in nature and widespread in scope,' Beijing said. Two districts have closed some entertainment venues.

The national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.70 per cent India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4, 2021, and three crore on June 23 The total number of Covid vaccine doses administered in the country so far has exceeded 194.76 crore

For second consecutive day, India sees almost 40% spike in Covid cases The country reported 8 deaths in 24 hours WHO has cautioned countries against dropping guard

Maharashtra, which has been witnessing a surge in daily Covid-19 cases from the past few days, reported over 1,000 coronavirus infections on Monday for the fifth consecutive day.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai had indicated that his government is likely to take a decision on imposing certain Covid-19 control measures, aimed at containing the uptick in daily cases.

Covid-19 Fourth Wave scare: Mumbai in the last 24 hours recorded more than 700 Covid cases, the highest since February 2022.

The Centre has written to 5 major states for ‘pre-emptive action’ as Covid-19 cases are rising In its letter, the Centre told the states to take pre-emptive action if required These 5 states are - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Delhi HC has told DGCA to take action against those who violate Covid-19 norms at airports The HC asked the DGCA to physically remove fliers and book them for violations The HC said that those passengers should be placed on the no-fly list

Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar has said that the use of face masks will have to be made mandatory if the spike continues Pawar's statement came in view of Maharashtra recording 1,081 COVID-19 cases, the highest daily rise after Feb 24, on Wednesday