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04.07.2022 / 08:23

India reports 16,135 fresh COVID cases, 24 deaths in last 24 hrs

This marked a marginal rise from Sunday, when 16,103 people had tested positive Marking a marginal rise from Sunday, when 16,103 people tested positive, India reported 16,135 fresh COVID-19 cases, pushing the overall caseload to 43,518,564, the Union health ministry said on Monday. As many as 24 people succumbed to the disease taking the total number of fatalities to 525,223. The cumulative tally of active patients continued to rise with 113,864, up from 111,7111 on Sunday. Meanwhile, with 13,958 people recuperating in the last 24 hours, the total number of recoveries rose to 42,879,477.

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Principal secretary holds high level meeting amid surge in covid cases

NEW DELHI : In view of the rise in the number of covid-19 cases across India, Dr. P.K.

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WHO recommends covid-19 vaccination for pregnant women

covid-19 vaccination of pregnant and lactating women issued last week, the apex global public health agency said that vaccines can be given to pregnant women if they are exposed to the virus or at high risk of developing severe conditions.Even though many countries have begun pregnant women’s covid-19 vaccination, the Indian government has so far been conservative citing lack of clinical trial data.Vinod Paul, Member (Health) in NITI Aayog and Chair of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC) last week said that as of now covid-19 vaccines should not be given to pregnant women in India and the government will clarify the situation in a few days, based on new scientific inputs.He said that vaccines have been

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PM Modi convenes high-level meeting to review covid-19, vaccination drive

NEW DELHI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday convened a high-level meeting to review the covid-19 related issues and ongoing vaccination drive in the country, people with knowledge of the matter in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said.All senior officers including cabinet secretary Rajeev Gauba, principal secretary to the PM Pramod Kumar Mishra, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan and NITI Aayog member-health Dr Vinod Paul are participating in the meeting, people mentioned above said.The concern over the evolving pandemic in India becomes obvious with the country registering 93,249 new daily cases in the last 24 hours.

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New coronavirus strain: No need to change existing treatment protocol, says NTF

Covid-19 convened by ICMR on Saturday concluded that there is no need to change the existing treatment protocol in view of mutations emerging in the coronavirus strain.The meeting was held to discuss evidence-based modifications in testing, treatment and surveillance strategies after new variants of coronavirus was recently discovered in the UK and Nigeria.Convened under co-chairpersonship of professor Vinod Paul, a member Niti Aayog, and professor Balram Bhargava, the secretary at the Department of Health Research & Director General ICMR.

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India pins hopes on locally-tested covid-19 vaccines given Pfizer constraints

NEW DELHI : India hopes five locally-tested vaccines will help it to control COVID-19, as those developed by Pfizer and Moderna may not be available to it in big quantities soon.The five candidates include Russia's Sputnik-V whose "Phase-II going to Phase-III" trials in India will start next week in collaboration with Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Vinod Paul, the head of a committee advising the prime minister, said.The other experimental vaccines are the one being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University which is being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India; Bharat Biotech and the Indian government's COVAXIN; Zydus Cadila's ZyCoV-D and lastly one being developed by Biological E.

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PM Modi reviews India's response to Covid-19 with ministers and senior officials

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took stock of pandemic situation in different states and UTs, including Delhi, in meeting with officials and ministers, Prime Minister's Office said. The meeting reviewed the national level status and preparation in the context of the pandemic.The meeting was attended by the Home Minister, Health Minister, Principal Secretary to PM, Cabinet Secretary, Health Secretary, DG ICMR and other related conveyance of the Empowered Groups.Vinod Paul, Member NITI, Convenor of the Empowered Group of Medical Emergency Management Plan, made a detailed presentation on the current status and likely scenario of Covid-19 cases in the medium term.

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Covid-19: Centre forms high-level task force to develop vaccines, drugs

NEW DELHI: The government on Sunday announced setting up of a new task force to work on the development of vaccines and potential drugs as India continues to see rising number of covid-19 cases. Over 1,334 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0