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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Oct 03, 2021, 10:25:37 IST
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Coronavirus in India live updates: 'WHO to give approval to Covaxin this month'
India reports 24,354 new cases and 234 deaths in the last 24 hours. Active caseload at 2,73,889; lowest in 197 days, says Ministry of health and family welfare. Stay here for all live updates
08:32 (IST) Oct 01
Fully vaccinated Australians can enter and leave the country freely from November onwards though some states will have their own timetable, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday. "In line with the national plan, our government is balancing the need to minimise the risk that the spread of Covid-19 presents, with the need to live with the virus," Morrison said in a statement.
08:25 (IST) Oct 01
As many as 31 states and UTs have covered more than 60% of their adult population above 18 with at least one dose of Covid vaccines and 25% of this cohort has received the full two doses. Overall, 69% of the total adult population of the country has received at least one dose of vaccine. As a share of the entire population, the coverage works out to 46% and India has administered 889 million shots. India’s shots per 100 population has risen to a respectable 63, with the world average at 79.4.
07:15 (IST) Oct 01
Explaining why a discussion on booster doses is not “pertinent” at present, ICMR director General Dr Balram Bhargava said studies have found around 95% of antibodies generated through Covid vaccines persist for over a year.
07:12 (IST) Oct 01
Meanwhile, Kerala reported 15,914 fresh cases on Thursday, up from 12,161on the previous day. The spike raised the day’s all-India Covid count to 27,363, the highest in five days. There were 276 deaths from the virus reported in the country on Thursday.
07:12 (IST) Oct 01
The second has so far seen over 2.3 crore cases, over 68% of all cases since the outbreak of Covid in India. The death toll in the second wave, at 2,93,871 so far, accounts for 65.5% of all deaths caused by the virus in India.
07:12 (IST) Oct 01
The CFR during the second Covid wave so far (March to September 2021) stands at 1.29%, as opposed to 1.41% in the first wave (March 2020 to February 2021).
03:44 (IST) Oct 01
September is only the fourth month to record a death rate below 1%, the other months being February (0.78%), March (0.52%) and April (0.7%). The CFR during the second Covid wave so far (March to September 2021) stands at 1.29%, as opposed to 1.41% in the first wave (March 2020 to February 2021).
03:44 (IST) Oct 01
Since then, the monthly toll had risen to nearly 1.2 lakh in May before falling to 68,576 in the following month. India’s overall CFR since the beginning of the Covid pandemic is 1.33%.
03:44 (IST) Oct 01
During the same period, Covid deaths fell by 36.7%, declining from 14,653 in August to 9,272 in September. The toll from the pandemic in September was the lowest in monthly terms since March this year, when 5,755 fatalities were reported.
03:43 (IST) Oct 01
India reported just over 9.5 lakh cases during the month, a 17.4% decline from August, when more than 11.5 lakh cases were logged, as per TOI’s Covid database.
03:43 (IST) Oct 01
While India continued to report a decline in fresh Covid cases as well as deaths from the virus, the fall in deaths was sharper than the drop in cases in September, leading to a decreased death rate.
03:43 (IST) Oct 01
For the first time since April this year, India recorded less than 1% deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic during the period of a month. The case fatality rate (CFR or death rate) dropped to 0.97% in September from a high of 3.07% in June.
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