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Data story: India adds 2,112 new Covid cases; active tally at 24,043

India has added 14,321 cases in the past 7 days

Mumbai reports 161 Covid-19 cases, 0 death in last 24 hours: BMC

Mumbai on Friday reported 161 new coronavirus infections and zero pandemic-related fatalities, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a release. It took the tally of COVID-19 cases in the city to 11,53,153, and death toll to 19,738. On Thursday, Mumbai had logged 147 new COVID-19 cases and zero fatalities. As many as 5,900 coronavirus tests were conducted since previous evening. The tally of tests conducted so far went up to 1,84,18,471. A day before, 5,122 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the city. Tally of recuperated patients rose to 11,32,395 with 178 patients recovering on Friday. The city has a recovery rate of 98.2 per cent. Mumbai has 1,020 active COVID-19 patients now. Of 161 new COVID-19 cases, only 14 patients were symptomatic. The growth rate of COVID-19 cases in the city was 0.014 per cent for the period between October 14 and 20, while the case doubling rate was 5,123 days.

Data story: India adds 2,141 new Covid cases; active tally at 25,510

India has added 15,198 cases in the past 7 days

Winter is coming: New Covid-19 variants prompt alert for illness season

Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya holds review meeting as experts call for continued vigil

Delhi records 141 fresh Covid-19 infections, positivity rate at 2.04%

Delhi on Tuesday logged 141 new COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 2.04 per cent, according to data shared by the health department. No new fatality due to the viral disease was reported in the city. With these new cases, the national capital's Covid case tally has climbed to 20,05,104, while the death toll stands at 26,506, the department said in the latest bulletin. The new cases were detected from 6,906 tests conducted on Monday, it showed. The national capital on Monday recorded 61 Covid cases with a positivity rate of 3.61 per cent. On Sunday, the city recorded 115 coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 1.59 per cent. On Saturday, 135 Covid cases were reported with a positivity rate of 2.12 per cent. The day before, the city reported 112 cases with a positivity rate of 1.75 per cent. The number of active Covid cases in Delhi now stands at 500, the bulletin stated, adding that a total of 315 patients are under home-isolation. Of the 8,819 beds reserved for Covid .

Maharashtra records 358 new Covid-19 cases, 2 deaths; active tally at 2,788

Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 358 fresh coronavirus cases and two fatalities that raised the tally of infections to 81,28,258 and the toll to 1,48,374, a health department official said. With 370 patients recovering from the infection in the last 24 hours, the count of recoveries reached 79,77,096, the official said. As per a bulletin from the health department, the state is now left with 2,788 active cases. Mumbai recorded 128 fresh cases. Both the fatalities were reported from Nagpur city and district. Maharashtra's (COVID-19) fatality rate now stands at 1.82 per cent and the recovery rate at 98.14 per cent, the bulletin said. A total of 14,475 swab samples were tested in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of tests conducted so far in the state to 79,76,726, it said. Coronavirus figures in Maharashtra are as follows: Total cases 81.28,258, new cases 359, death toll 1,48,374, recoveries 79,77,096, active cases 2,788, number of tests so far 79,76,726.

Data story: India adds 1,542 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,913

India has added 16,036 cases in the past 7 days

Maharashtra sees 462 new Covid-19 cases, 0 death; active tally 2,818

Maharashtra on Saturday reported 462 COVID-19 cases, which took the state's tally to 81,27,259, while the death toll stood unchanged at 1,48,371, a health department official said. A day earlier, the state had seen 477 cases and four deaths, he pointed out. Mumbai circle accounted for 288 of the new cases, followed by Pune (89), Nagpur (25), Akola(17), Aurangabad (16), Nashik (11), Latur (10) and Kolhapur (6) circles. The recovery count increased by 403 in the last 24 hours to touch 79,76,070, leaving the state with 2,818 active cases, he said. Mumbai led with 1,143 active cases, followed by 550 in Pune and 487 cases in Thane, the official added. As per the health department's data, the recovery rate is 98.14 per cent and the fatality rate stands at 1.82 per cent. So far, 8,50,56,146 coronavirus tests have been conducted in Maharashtra, including 18,618 in the last 24 hours, as per official data. Coronavirus figures of Maharashtra are as follows: Positive cases 8127259; fresh ca

Uttarakhand avalanche: Search for two mountaineers continues for 11th day

Search for the two mountaineers who continue to be missing after the October 4 avalanche in the district went on for the 11th day on Friday amid bad weather. Meanwhile, one more body recovered earlier was brought to the district hospital here to be handed over to the relatives after a post-mortem. Inclement weather at the avalanche site located at an altitude of 17,000 feet near Draupadi ka Danda-II peak has been hampering search and rescue efforts for nearly a week. Two mountaineers out of a team of 29 are still missing, Registrar of Nehru Institute of Mountaineering Vishal Ranjan said. Twenty-seven bodies have already been recovered and brought down, he said. Those who went missing after the avalanche are said to have fallen into a crevasse. However, the body of trainee mountaineer Sourav Biswas from West Bengal, which had been recovered earlier was brought to the ITBP camp at Matli and then to the district hospital here on Friday, he said. The body will be handed over to rel

Data story: India adds 2,786 new Covid cases; active tally rises to 26,509

India has added 16,856 cases in the past 7 days

Maharashta records 475 fresh Covid-19 cases, 1 death; active tally at 2,605

Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 475 fresh coronavirus cases, while one more patient succumbed to the infection in the state, the health department said. With these additions, the state's overall COVID-19 tally rose to 81,26,320, while the death toll increased to 1,48,367, the department said in a bulletin. On Wednesday, the state had recorded 476 cases and four fatalities linked to the respiratory illness. Mumbai recorded 179 cases and the lone coronavirus-linked death reported in the state in the last 24 hours, said the bulletin. The state's case fatality rate was 1.82 per cent, while the recovery rate stood at 98.14 per cent. The health department said 324 patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 79,75,348 and leaving the state with 2,605 active cases. It said 19,922 coronavirus tests were conducted in the state in the last 24 hours, taking their overall number to 8,50,13,972.

Data story: India logs 2,139 new Covid cases; death toll reaches 528,835

India has added 16,599 cases in the past 7 days

Mumbai logs 129 new Covid-19 cases, no death; active tally at 881

Mumbai on Tuesday recorded 129 new cases of coronavirus, taking the tally of infections to 11,51,582, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. The count of recoveries rose to 11,30,965 after 155 patients recovered from the infection during the day, while the toll remained unchanged at 19,736, the official said. The city's daily tally of cases has crossed the 100 mark on the fifth consecutive day. On Monday, Mumbai had logged 111 new COVID-19 cases and a single fatality. As per a bulletin issued by the civic body, 4,146 swab samples were tested in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of tests done so far to 1,83,65,681. With a recovery rate of 98.2 per cent, Mumbai is now left with 881 active cases, it stated. Of the latest cases, only eight patients were symptomatic, it said. The overall growth rate of cases in the city is 0.010 per cent for a period between October 4 and October 10, while the doubling rate was 7,390 days, the bulletin said.

Data story: India records 1,957 new Covid cases, lowest count in 140 days

India has added 16,928 cases in the past 7 days

Kyiv, multiple Ukrainian cities hit by Russian missiles at rush hour

Russia unleashed a lethal barrage of strikes against multiple Ukrainian cities on Monday, smashing civilian targets including downtown Kyiv where at least eight people were killed. The intense, hours-long attack marked a sudden military escalation by Moscow. It came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin called a Saturday explosion on the huge bridge connecting Russia to its annexed territory of Crimea a terrorist act masterminded by Ukrainian special services. At least eight people were killed and 24 were injured in just one of the Kyiv strikes, according to preliminary information, said Rostyslav Smirnov, an adviser to the Ukrainian ministry of internal affairs. The sustained barrage on major cities hit residential areas and critical infrastructure facilities alike, portending a major surge in the war amid a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive in recent weeks. It came a few hours before Putin was due to hold a meeting with his security council, as Moscow's war in Ukraine

Mumbai records 111 Covid-19 cases, 1 death; active tally now 907

Mumbai on Monday recorded 111 COVID-19 cases and one death, which took the tally in the city to 11,51,453 and toll to 19,736, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official said. He said the recovery count rose by 65 and stood at 11,30,810, leaving the city with an active caseload of 907. Of the new cases, only 11 are symptomatic, which had taken the number of people hospitalised for the infection to 60, the official added. So far, 1,83,61,535 samples have been examined for coronavirus, including 4,009 in the last 24 hours, as per BMC data. The recovery rate is 98.2 per cent, while the overall growth rate between October 2 and 8 stands at 0.009 per cent, as per official data. The caseload doubling time is 7,781 days.

Data story: India adds 2,424 new Covid cases; active tally at 28,079

On October 10, it added 2,424 cases to take its total caseload to 44,614,437

Data story: India adds 2,696 new Covid cases; active tally at 28,593

India has added 17,526 cases in the past 7 days

Uttarkashi avalanche triggers debate, experts differ over factors

The recent avalanche near Draupadi Ka Danda-II peak that killed at least 26 mountaineers in Uttarkashi district has triggered a debate among scientists and experts about the contributing factors. While there is no unanimous view on the possible reasons, most of them feel attributing the avalanche to a mild earthquake that rocked Uttarkashi two days earlier was incorrect. The tremor, measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale, hit Uttarkashi on October 2. It was too mild and its epicentre too far from the avalanche site, said a scientist at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology here. "The mild-intensity earthquake occurred two days before the avalanche and its epicentre was in a village whose aerial distance from the peak is around 25 km," Manish Mehta, a scientist at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology here said. "So it is least likely that the avalanche was caused by the earthquake." One expert attributed the avalanche to higher snowfall in the region. Snowfall in the upper Himalaya

Death toll rises to 9 in explosion at gas station in Ireland village

The death toll in an explosion at a gas station in a small village in northwest Ireland has risen to nine, police said on Saturday, as emergency workers combed piles of rubble for more victims. Irish police said they did not expect to find more survivors from Friday's explosion in Creeslough, County Donegal. Eight people are in hospitals after a blast tore through the Applegreen service station in the community of about 400 people. The search and recovery for further fatalities continues," said the police force, An Garda Siochana. The cause of the blast is under investigation. Emergency responders from Ireland and neighbouring Northern Ireland are involved in what police said was now a search and recovery operation. Sniffer dogs combed the debris, and a mechanical digger lifted piles of rubble from the site. The explosion levelled the gas station building, which holds the main shop and post office for the village, and damaged an adjacent residential building. Irish Prime Minister