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Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J.Radhakrishnan on Saturday said that 25 more people have tested positive at IIT-Madras taking the total number of infected cases to 55 up from 30 and turning the educational institute into a Covid-19 cluster.

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As part of the latest phase of the NHS’ vaccination drive, all five to 11 year olds in England are being invited to book their Covid jabs.The development - already rolled out in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - means that almost five million children can now be protected from potential infections. “Thankfully most children do not get seriously unwell from Covid-19 but some children do get hospitalised,” says GP Dr Rachel Ward, who insists it’s important to remember that some children can become seriously unwell from Covid, even though most only show mild symptoms. “We also know that children can get long Covid - and there is strong evidence that vaccination reduces your risk of developing this potentially debilitating condition.” Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

exclusively to the Daily Star about some of their defining moments.These days, the iconic British boyband comprises Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson and Sean Conlon, without the other two original members Abz Love and Jason Brown.The group first parted ways in 2001 and had a very turbulent ending with bandmates clashing and multiple members struggling with their mental health.Talking about some of his lowest moments, Ritchie explained: "I remember there were times on stage back in the day where there was so much going on in your head but you could physically do the performance because the moves were that integrated into your body."But I remember having such insecurity one night that I felt like the most worthless member of the band and all these 15,000 people had only come to see the other four."I was having its proper mental battle and I did have a 'couple of nights on the vodka' and it was the third night I was at it but I remember you could be doing it all and all the movies but you just wouldn't be feeling it."The 2022 trio all agreed that things are definitely different this time around and actively communicate with one another when things may get a little rocky.Scott also said: "Now, if I'm struggling on a night, I would phone them or knock on their hotel room door and say 'I'm having a moment'."Then we would talk about it through the night but you wouldn't have done that back in the day because it wasn't spoken about."The group performed to an intimate crowd at the Snug Presents event and played some of their biggest bops.Also, be sure to check out Five's new album Time which is available on all music platforms to support the stars and listen to some of their new tunes. For more of the latest showbiz and TV news

Covid-19, was recorded at 2.1 this week, implying that every infected person is infecting two others in the national capital, according to news agency PTI report.

LOS ANGELES - Dramatic video shows the moments a group of suspects tried to chase down a victim in a brazen robbery attempt in the Melrose District.According to the Los Angeles Police Department, a man noticed he was getting followed by two men coming from a nearby alley in the Melrose District on April 10 at around 6 p.m. The man, who told LAPD he was wearing an expensive watch at the time, sprinted into a store on Melrose Avenue before the suspects followed the man and started firing six shots in the man's direction.Get your top stories delivered daily! Sign up for FOX 11’s Fast 5 newsletter. And, get breaking news alerts in the FOX 11 News app. Download for iOS or Android.LAPD said the suspects fired about six rounds toward the man's direction.

Being Mortal, a complaint of inappropriate behaviour against actor Bill Murray is also being investigated.Murray, 71, is slated to star in the film, which began principal photography in late March.Deadline was the first to report of the allegations against Murray. The full details of the complaint are unknown.

Two years of dealing with Covid-19 have made people tired of taking precautions, getting tested and asking about other people’s status

ALLEGAN COUNTY, Mich. (FOX 2) - Twenty-two years after a Michigan man disappeared while fishing, it was confirmed that his remains were recovered in 2014.In 2014, a jaw bone washed up along the Lake Michigan shore in Allegan County's Ganges Township, and was found by a jogger.

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Netflix’s share value plummeted this week on the news that the streaming platform lost roughly 200,000 subscribers in the last quarter.The Los Gatos, Calif., company also told investors to expect deeper losses in the months ahead, signalling that the days of unlimited growth for the streaming pioneer might be over.It’s a far cry from two years ago, when lockdowns tied to the COVID-19 pandemic were forcing consumers indoors with little else to do than watch Netflix.Now, not only is the global economy reopening to consumers eager to take in concerts and activities outside the home, but the streaming landscape has filled up with competitors launching or expanding their offerings to take more of the pie from Netflix. Netflix Canada raises prices to start 2022 The company showed in a letter to shareholders this week that while its share of the overall streaming market grew over the past year, so too has the amount taken up by Disney+, Amazon Prime, and assorted other on-demand platforms, including traditional cable giants launching their own collections.“Two years into the pandemic, the streaming market is a very different place,” says Carmi Levy, a Canadian tech analyst who’s been following Netflix’s struggles.As Netflix sees its subscriber growth dwindle and even start to reverse, Levy says the company has less free rein to jack up its subscription prices to offset revenue losses, lest it risk pushing consumers into the hands of an increasingly tight market.“It takes a lot less for consumers to drop one service and move to another,” he says.

Russian military over a week to acknowledge that one serviceman died and two dozen others were missing after one of its flagship cruisers sank in the Black Sea, reportedly the result of a Ukrainian missiles strike.The acknowledgment happened after families started searching desperately for their sons who, they said, served on the ship and did not come home, and relatives are posing sharp questions about Russia’s initial statement that the entire crew was evacuated.Russia’s Defense Ministry said Friday in a terse announcement that one crew member died and 27 went missing after a fire damaged the flagship Moskva cruiser last week, while 396 others were evacuated. The ministry did not offer any explanation for its earlier claims that the full crew got off the vessel before it sank.The loss of the Moskva, one of three missile cruisers of its kind in Russia’s fleet, was shrouded in mystery from the moment it was first reported early on April 14.

With 2,527 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's active cases increased to 15,079, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. Also, the total number of Covid touched 4,30,54,952. The daily positivity rate stands at 0.56%. An increase of 838 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

WILDWOOD, N.J. - Summer is just around the corner and local shore towns say they’re doing what they need to do to attract summer help. Among the jobs available? Police officers.Like a lot of places, staffing is running short since the pandemic began.

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA - Parking at Philadelphia International Airport continues to get easier as the airport is reopening parking spots.Closed since the pandemic started in March of 2020, the economy parking lot at the airport is back open for business."When I was working on the equipment, people were saying, ‘When’s economy open? When’s economy open?,’ and it’s a big question," airport employee Bill Hogan remarked.Hogan says travelers have been clamoring for a cheaper parking alternative since the lot closed. And, now that airports are getting busier, short and long-term parking lots are nearing capacity, once again.So, the Philadelphia Parking Authority reopened a portion of the economy lot to an 1800 additional parking spots.

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Philadelphia police investigate a shooting at 11th and Rising Sun that injured a 30-year-old man. PHILADELPHIA - A violent night across Philadelphia to start the weekend as at least five people are shot and one killed, while one 17-year-old girl is stabbed.Philadelphia police are investigating a double shooting in North Philadelphia, after a fight broke out between two men at a youth field.

WASHINGTON - Authorities say the 23-year-old Fairfax, Virginia man suspected of shooting four people –including a 12-year-old girl -- is dead.The Metropolitan Police Department reported Raymond Spencer took his own life in a fifth-floor bathroom in an apartment building located on the 2900 block of Van Ness St.D.C. police said they received a call about the shooting around 3:30 p.m.

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Today we are reporting 7,930 community cases, 494 hospitalisations and 19 deaths.

FILE - Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine performs during Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park at Hyde Park on July 13, 2019 in London, England. (Samir Hussein/Getty Images)Florence + The Machine dedicated its most recent music video to the people of Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion.

TEMPE, Ariz. - It’s a way to take glamping to a whole new level. Clear Sky Resorts, based in Tempe, Arizona, will launch its second season on May 26, which provides a unique vacation experience near the Grand Canyon by bringing the outdoors inside. "At one of America’s most unique and spectacular places to vacation, our guests stay in spacious Luxury Sky Domes with expansive windows and skylights that provide epic stargazing and sunrise watching from the comfort of their luxurious bed," Clear Sky Resorts founder, Hal Feinberg, said in a press release.Clear Sky Resorts near Grand Canyon. (Credit: Clear Sky Resorts/Send2Press @ Newswire) One of Clear Sky Resorts’ most popular 2-person floor plans, Stairway to the Stars, features a spiral staircase leading up to a bed suspended from the ceiling’s skylight.

WASHINGTON - Police have identified a person of interest connected to a shooting that left four people injured near a school in Northwest DC. Officials announced they are searching for 23-year-old Raymond Spencer of Fairfax, Virginia.DC police said they received a call about a shooting at about 3:30 p.m. on Friday along the 2900 block of Van Ness Street, NW near Edmund Burke School.There have been at least four victims located, including two women, one man a 12-year-old girl, according to authorities.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released two examples that it says back up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises based on Common Core or critical race theory, issues that opponents say are not actual problems.The state did not identify which textbooks the examples come from, but one appears to be from an advanced high school algebra or statistics textbook and begins with the phrase, "What? Me? Racist?" It has students work with data reported by an online test that researchers say uncovers hidden attitudes toward different races.The other appears to come from a teacher's guide to a kindergarten or first-grade textbook. The lesson is entitled "Social and Emotional Learning - Building Student Agency"; students work together as they put the numbers 1 to 5 in proper order so they can "build proficiency with social awareness as they practice with empathizing with classmates."FLorida Gov.

WASHINGTON - Police are searching for 23-year-old Raymond Spencer after four people – including a 12-year-old girl – were shot near a school in Northwest. D.C. Police say Spencer, who is from Fairfax, Virginia is currently a person of interest. D.C.

ATLANTA - Two new reports released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2021. The first report provided an overview of U.S. mortality data for 2021, which included a comparison of death rates for all causes of death and for deaths involving COVID-19. The study found that the overall age-adjusted death rate increased by almost 1% in 2021 from 2020.

WEST PHILADELPHIA - A 21-year-old man is recovering after he was shot in the neck and back in West Philadelphia.Officials say Philadelphia police were called to the 200 block of North Felton Street Friday night, just after 7:30, on a reported shooting.Officers found the man with gunshot wounds to his neck and back.They rushed him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was listed as critical, but stable.Police are investigating the shooting. They say no weapon has been found and no arrests have been made.___Tips can be submitted by calling 215-686-TIPS (8477) or texting PPD TIP (773847).

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug Indomethacin has shown excellent efficacy in the treatment of mild and moderate COVID-19 patients during the trial. It was designed by (IIT) Madras. The study further revealed that Indomethacin works with all variants. “We had done two trials, one in the first wave and the other in the second wave," authors claime

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Police investigate a shooting on Pickwick Street in Kensington that killed a 38-year-old man.

State Farm arena is nearly empty minutes before Game 3 between the Hawks and the Heat due to a report of a suspicious package on April 22, 2022. (FOX 5)ATLANTA - Game three between the Atlanta Hawks and the Miami Heat was delayed for more than a half hour after authorities investigated a suspicious package near State Farm Arena.The Hawks said a suspicious package was found outside Gate 2 of the Downtown Atlanta arena near the stairwell coming up from the MARTA station.Fans wait outside State Farm Arena in Downtown Atlanta due to a report of a suspicious package that delayed Game 3 between the Hawks and the Heat on April 22, 2022.

A shooting at a youth field on 11th and Cecil B Moore injures two men. NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting that injured two men at a youth field in North Philadelphia.Police were called to the field at North 11th and Cecil B Moore Friday, about 6 p.m., on the report of gunshots, according to officials.Responding officers found a 35-year-old man on the bleachers suffering from a gunshot wound to the hip.

NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Temple University police are investigating a shooting near Temple University's campus.Officials notified the public through Twitter to use caution near the intersection of North 11th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue as they investigate the reports of a shooting in that area.

CENTER CITY - The debate about the seriousness of COVID-19 still exists. But, a Philadelphia woman wants the public to know COVID-19 and the complications she suffered cost her her arms and a leg.Candice is overjoyed to be released from Good Shepherd Hospital in Philadelphia, after spending nine months fighting for her life in a battle with COVID-19 and the havoc it caused her body.On August 14, Davis says she tested positive for COVID and three days later, she was rushed to the hospital because, she says, her heart was pounding out of her chest.MORE HEADLINES:"I thought, ‘Okay, I’m 30. I’m going to get through this.

Metropolitan Police provide cover for residents as they are evacuated away from a shooting scene on Van Ness Street Northwest on April 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Police are swarming the scene after three people were shot near a school in Northwest DC, according to officials.DC police said they received a call about a shooting at about 3:30 p.m.

The number of new Covid infections across Greater Manchester is continuing to fall at a rapid rate. All 10 boroughs have seen a fall in infection rates with fewer people requiring hospital treatment as well.

Photo showing the aftermath of a crash on Interstate 70 in Callaway County, Missouri on April 20. (Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop F Twitter)Troopers responding to a crash on Interstate 70 in Callaway County, Missouri, on April 20, were initially met with the typical car accident scene: Debris and — to their surprise — dozens of packages of marijuana scattered across several lanes of highway. "You don’t see this everyday, but it is 4/20…," the Missouri State Highway Patrol tweeted. April 20, also known as 420, is the unofficial holiday dedicated to celebrating and smoking marijuana. According to the accident report, a semitrailer was attempting to avoid another accident on the same highway when a pickup truck rear-ended the semi.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022 in Commerce, Georgia.

COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States last year, and deaths from COVID-19 increased by 1% in 2021 over 2020, according to new data from the National Vital Statistics System released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Ontario hospitals are about to enter a “difficult” week according to the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health with the sixth wave of COVID-19 projected to send more people to hospital and intensive care.In an interview with Global News, Dr. Kieran Moore said the B.A.2 variant of the virus “continues to circulate at a high level” and could take several weeks to subside.“We drew the epidemic curve, the complete wave and anticipate June 11th to be the very end of the tail of that wave,”  Moore told Global News on Friday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) today strongly recommended Pfizer's Paxlovid drug for mild to moderately sick COVID-19 patients who are part of high-risk groups, but also called for efforts to boost access to the treatment for low- to middle-income countries.

Two studies published yesterday in The Lancet Public Health detail how COVID-19 restrictions moderately affected adults' mental health in 15 nations, with one finding that the type of lockdowns were linked to the level of distress and opinion of the government, and the other suggesting that mental health declined slightly but significantly under lockdown—especially among women.

EX-EastEnders loudmouth Patsy Palmer is charging fans for tips on how to live their best lives. They will have to stump up £17 a month to follow the soap star’s wellness journey.

WASHINGTON - Metropolitan Police officers are on the scene after shots were fired near a school in Northwest D.C., according to police.Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherMPD officials say they got a call about the shooting around 3:28 p.m. Friday.

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