Data story: India logs 235,532 cases; active cases see massive dip
India on Saturday reported a net decrease of 101,278 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 2,004,333. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at…
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Data story: India logs 333,533 new cases; tally crosses 38-million mark
India on Sunday reported a net increase of 73,840 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 2,187,205. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at…
Decision to vaccinate children ‘unscientific’: Senior AIIMS epidemiologist
A senior epidemiologist at AIIMS who is the principal investigator of Covaxin trials for adults and children at the institute on Sunday termed the Centre's decision to…
India opens vaccination for children, booster shots for frontline workers
Amid fears of the Omicron variant virus spreading rapidly across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that vaccinations for children aged between 15-18,…
India would need nearly 250 million more doses to cover new cohorts
On Saturday, in an address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will be opening its vaccination for children aged 15 and over. The prime…
As Omicron looms, large swathes of India still remain unvaccinated
Ever since South Africa announced on November 25, 2021 that it had detected the new, highly mutated B.1.1.529 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19,…
India to scale up daily Covid testing to 45 lakh a day by end June
Currently, 20 lakh tests are conducted daily and this will be increased to 25 lakh tests a day by May 31 and 45 lakh by June end.The Covid-19 testing capacity in the country will be increased to 45 lakh tests a day by June 30, Balram…