Page 18 - Latest Updates on Omicron
Data story: India logs 8,822 new Covid-19 cases, death toll at 524,792
India has added 55,235 cases in the past 7 days
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Data story: India logs 6,594 new Covid cases, active tally over 50,000-mark
India's active cases tally stands at 50,548
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Maharashtra sees 2,956 new Covid cases in a day; active tally tops 18,000
With these additions, the state's COVID-19 tally reached 79,15,418, while the death toll increased to 1,47,875, the department said in a bulletin.
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At 1,724, daily Covid cases jump 54% in Mumbai in last 24 hours; two die
With this, Mumbai's tally of infections climbed to 10,83,589 and the Covid-19 death toll to 19,575, it said.
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Delhi records 1,118 new Covid cases in a day; positivity rate at 6.5%
It was on May 11 that the national capital had last recorded more than one thousand cases with a positivity rate of 3.34% and one death
Delhi reports 614 new Covid cases, positivity rate rises to 7.06%
This is the highest positivity rate since May 4 when 7.6% of the people tested turned out Covid positive. Also, this is the fourth consecutive day that Delhi has recorded over 600 cases in a day
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Mumbai reports 1,118 new Covid-19 cases, no deaths in past 24 hours
With this, the city's tally of COVID-19 cases increased to 10,81,865, while the death toll remained constant at 19,573, said a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin.
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Sanofi, GSK say Covid booster shot works better against Omicron variant
The companies point to the risk of new variants and waning immunity that could lead to an increase in demand for additional booster shots in some populations.
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Covid: 3 cases of BA.4 and 1 of BA.5 Omicron sub-variants found in Mumbai
BA.4 and BA.5 are sub-variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain of the coronavirus which had triggered the third wave of the pandemic in the country
Data story: India logs 8,084 new Covid cases; active tally at 47,995
India has added 48,766 cases in the past 7 days
Statsguru: Six charts show Covid-19 concerns rising again in India
Even as cases in the country rise, the pace of vaccination is falling
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Russian health watchdog detects Omicron subvariant BA.4, confirms official
A more contagious subvariant of the Covid-19 Omicron strain has slipped into Russia, a senior official at the national consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said.
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Panic buying triggered in Shanghai as mass Covid-19 testing returns
The mass testing announcements sparked fears of a return to stringent, prolonged lockdown among Shanghai residents, many of whom had been confined to their homes for two months or more since March
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Data story: India logs 8,329 Covid cases, active tally crosses 40,000-mark
India has added 40,888 Covid cases in the past 7 days
Data story: India logs 7,584 new cases, over 36,500 added in last 7 days
With 3,791 new daily recoveries, India's recovery rate stands at 98.70%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%
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Mumbai sees slight dip in Covid cases, reports 1,702 new infections
The active case count has risen to 7,998 from 7,000 in the last 24 hours and the recovery rate dipped to 97 per cent from 98 per cent, the BMC said.
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Maharashtra logs 2,813 Covid cases, highest in nearly four months; 1 death
State capital Mumbai recorded 1,702 infections and the lone death during the day.
Omicron sub-variants behind rising Covid-19 cases in India: Doctors
The Union Health Ministry said on Thursday that India registered 7,240 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, up from 5,233 infections logged the previous day.
India's Serum Institute to make Novavax's Covid vaccine for US market
The company has indicated in the first quarter earnings call that it has reached a major milestone in its pathway to an emergency use authorisation from the US Food and Drugs Administration
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Moderna's new booster produces stronger response against Omicron
Moderna has been studying the so-called bivalent vaccine, which targets both Omicron and the original coronavirus strain to determine if it works better against the variant
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