The daily positivity rate was recorded at 15.52 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was 17.17 per cent.
The active cases comprise 0.46 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020.
The number of COVID-19 cases are rising rapidly with 24,000 fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours, he said in an online media briefing.
Until we have these (kinds of) patients come down in numbers, the fear, the mortality is always going to be there
Spain's Paula Badosa, the women's world number 67, was the only player to contract the coronavirus. She was released from hotel quarantine on Wednesday.
The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.37 per cent, according to the health ministry.
The COVID-19 active cases remained below 2 lakh for the ninth consecutive day.
Former India wicketkeeper and Mumbai Indians' talent scout Kiran More has tested positive for COVID-19, the IPL franchise said on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court on Monday said the right of freedom of speech and expression was being 'abused' while hearing the plea of a cartoonist accused of sharing alleged objectionable cartoons of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers on social media.
According to some experts, there is not much difference in the number of seasonal flu cases and that of COVID-19, even though they stressed that surveillance for newer variants should continue in the off chance of a new lineage of coronavirus catching the country off guard.
The active cases further declined to 11,21,671 comprising 3.83 per cent of the total infections.
A total of 5,15,385 COVID-19 patients have recovered so far with 19,870 patients having been cured and discharged in the last 24 hours till 8 am.
The active cases comprise 0.43 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March last year.
Government institutions and pharma industry are examining if a 'cocktail' approach to making a multi-variant Covid-19 vaccine works against multiple strains of the ever-mutating virus, reports Sohini Das.
The death toll climbed to 4,73,537 with 211 fresh fatalities.
The Centre wrote to all states and union territories on Thursday and asked them to make necessary arrangements for this, the Union Health Ministry said.
The club said in a statement that they will observe a period of self-isolation in accordance with league and UK Government protocols on quarantine.
The researchers said 5.6 per cent of the children assessed in the studies suffered from co-infections, such as flu, on top of COVID-19, and a little more than 3 per cent were admitted to intensive care units.
A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai said bodily autonomy and integrity are protected under Article 21 of the Constitution.
China reported 17,166 asymptomatic cases with a majority of them in Shanghai, China's business hub of 26 million.
Covaxin is being developed by Bharat Biotech, in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Virology.
While demanding more outdoor air ventilation, the strategy document calls for a structural modification in the workplace.
There are 2,89,240 active cases of coronavirus infections in the country which comprises 2.86 per cent of the total caseload.
Rao has mild symptoms. He has been advised isolation and is staying at his farmhouse.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 31 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 134 consecutive days now.
'When this COVID-19 restarted, the first thing I observed was that the patients are all below 50 years.'
COVID-19 cases in the visiting teams have forced the postponement of the Liverpool v Leeds United and Wolverhampton Wanderers v Watford games scheduled for Boxing Day, the Premier League announced on Thursday.
Sunita Kejriwal is under home isolation.
Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com reveals how the BMC has contained the spread of COVID-19 in Dharavi, India's largest slum, which WHO wants to know more about.
A senior health official said the probe will find out how the teenager was given the shot even though the government is yet to roll out any anti-COVID 19 vaccination programme for minors.
The active cases comprise 1.47 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 97.20 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The number of active cases remained below 5 lakh for the fifth consecutive day.
Under-fire England head coach Chris Silverwood has tested positive for COVID-19 while quarantining in Melbourne with his family but he is expected to join the team ahead of the fifth Ashes Test in Hobart.
The court took into account that the accused had previously been involved in another case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, advocate Jose said.
Ravichandran Ashwin has not travelled to England along with his team mates for the one-off 'fifth Test' after testing positive for COVID-19
The pandemic has shown that whether any of us have the virus or not, what most of us don't have when confronted by it is simple humanity.
The daily positivity rate dropped to 3.22 per cent. It has been less than five per cent for nine consecutive days, the ministry said, adding the weekly positivity rate has declined to 4.17 per cent.
The six people, who included a man in his 20s and another man in his 30s, helped on the relay in the southern prefecture of Kagoshima on April 27.
Recoveries outnumbered daily new cases for the 32nd consecutive day in the country.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.80 per cent. It has been less than three per cent for last 34 days. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.66 per cent. It has been below three per cent for the last 100 days, according to the ministry.
