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Coronavirus: Don't allow home quarantine to Covid patients with comorbidities, says Assam CM

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Jun 05, 2021, 04:32:23 IST

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Coronavirus: Don't allow home quarantine to Covid patients with comorbidities, says Assam CM

India's daily new Covid-19 cases reported a decline on Friday as the country recorded 1,790 less cases as compared to Thursday. Down from yesterday's 1,34,154 cases, India today reported 1,32,364 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the country's infection tally to 2,84,41,986, according to the health ministry. Stay here for all live updates

08:55 (IST) Jun 03

Health ministry has finalised advance arrangement with Hyderabad based Biological-E for 30 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses

08:52 (IST) Jun 03

Maharashtra: Thane's Covid-19 count rises by 568, death toll by 44, reports PTI

08:49 (IST) Jun 03

Zydus: 80% of enrolment over for vaccine trial in 12-18 age group

Zydus Cadila, the first in India to be developing DNA-based Covid vaccine, has completed 80% recruitment for trials in children aged between 12-18, raising hope for youngsters as the Centre deliberates their inclusion in the Covid vaccination drive. ZyCov-D, the Zydus vaccine, is a three-dose indigenous DNA vaccine developed with support from the Centre’s National Biopharma Mission as part of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, department of biotechnology.

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08:42 (IST) Jun 03

Serum Institute of India (SII) seeks indemnity protection against liabilities, reports ANI quoting sources

08:41 (IST) Jun 03

Joe Biden to announce details of global distribution of 80 million Covid vaccine doses

President Joe Biden will announce within days the details of a plan to export 80 million coronavirus vaccine doses to other countries "without any political strings attached," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. "In a few short days, in fact possibly as early as tomorrow, the president is going to announce in more detail the plan that he put together to push out 80 million vaccines around the world," Blinken said at the US embassy in San Jose on his last day of a Latin American visit. "We're going to do that in coordination with Covax... based on science and needs... without any political strings attached," the top US diplomat said, referring to the global vaccine-sharing program. Read full story

08:04 (IST) Jun 03

Read: India may get Pfizer's vaccine against Covid-19 in July

The government's decisions to ease regulatory norms for clearing foreign-made vaccines for use in India and an in-principle consensus on an indemnity waiver are intended to facilitate supply of Pfizer's vaccine against Covid-19, which officials hope can be made by July. The final agreement between the government and the American drug-maker on indemnity and procurement norms are still pending, though the two parties have arrived at an in-principle consensus, sources said.

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07:58 (IST) Jun 03

Coronavirus: Number of Delhi death certificates up 250% to 35,000 in April-May

More than 34,750 death certificates were issued by the three municipal corporations in the city during April and May, when the second Covid-19 wave was raging. This is a 250% increase over the figure of 9,916 certificates issued in the corresponding period last year. With the severity of the pandemic peaking around April-end this year, bulk of these death certificates have been issued in May. The death registration data for May this year shows that 24,000 certificates were issued, while during the same month in 2020, 5,475 death certificates were issued by the municipal bodies, an additional 18,525 certificates in May alone.

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07:55 (IST) Jun 03

Digital divide will exclude marginalised from jabs: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Wednesday relied on central government data amplifying the deep urban-rural digital divide and said the Centre’s policy mandating compulsory registration on CoWin app for a vaccination slot could leave out a large population belonging to marginalised communities from the universal vaccination drive.

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07:38 (IST) Jun 03

Covid positivity rate drops to 1.63% in Gurugram

The Covid-19 positivity rate in Gurugram district has come down to 1.63 per cent from 34.9 per cent within 32 days. Similarly, the recovery rate has also increased to 98.79 per cent, a district administration official has said.

07:24 (IST) Jun 03

Corona-free village competitions will be held in Maharashtra to encourage steps to curb the spread of Covid-19. Three village panchayats will be awarded for doing good work in Covid-19 management in each revenue division: State Rural Development Minister Hasan Mushrif

06:47 (IST) Jun 03

Ladakh reported 91 Covid cases, 140 discharges, and one death on Wednesday

Active cases: 1,531
Total discharges: 17,119
Death toll: 191

06:35 (IST) Jun 03

Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee says it donated more than 20 kg gold and silver from its reserves for setting up of 125-bed Covid-19 hospital in national capital

06:23 (IST) Jun 03

India has been continuously scaling up Covid-19 vaccine production capacity, 1 crore vaccine doses to be produced daily by coming July: Union Minister Pradhan

05:36 (IST) Jun 03

Kerala: A special camp was organised for vaccination of people with disabilities in Malappuram yesterday.

05:25 (IST) Jun 03

Make cos use CSR funds for Covid battle: Bombay high court

Upset over the failure of industries in Vidarbha to share their CSR funds for Covid-19 management, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Wednesday orally directed the Maharashtra government to wield the stick of law to act against them by cancelling their registrations.

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05:24 (IST) Jun 03

The trend in India is consistent with the global patterns as other hotspots -USA, Brazil, Argentina and so on are also cooling off. However, despite the fall in cases, India’s case count is about four times of 30,000 cases reported by Brazil the world’s second worst-hit country in terms of fresh cases.

05:18 (IST) Jun 03

Covid-19: For the past seven days, new cases have remained below 2 lakh

Fresh infections continued to fall as it has been seven days since cases have not breached 2 lakh mark. With few exceptions, the overall declining trend is largely consistent since the first week of May when cases peaked in the country. Deaths, however have not seen a proportionate decline. Today was the 44th consecutive day of over 2,000 daily Covid deaths reported from the country. Overall the day reported 1,33,765 cases and 2,619 Deaths (doesn’t include Jharkhand’s tally).

04:54 (IST) Jun 03

Zydus: 80% of enrolment over for vax trial in 12-18 age group

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04:53 (IST) Jun 03

National Covid -19 recovery rate further improves to 92.48%

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04:48 (IST) Jun 03

Covid clots now causing intestinal gangrene

After blood clots in the arteries of limbs, heart and brain, Covid patients are experiencing intestinal clots and gangrene. Nearly a dozen cases have been treated by city physicians and surgeons.

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