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There has been an upsurge in coronavirus cases in Gujarat. On Sunday, 24 students of the NID, Ahmedabad, tested covid positive. Due to this, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has gone into panic mode. Currently, the AMC declared the campus a micro-containment zone. National Institute of Design students of the Paldi campus, Ahmedabad, created a massive […]
South African scientists have discovered that two novel sublineages of the Omicron coronavirus variant can evade antibodies from previous infections well enough to cause a new wave, but are significantly less able to thrive in the blood of patients who have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The experts were looking into Omicron’s BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages, […]
In India, the number of COVID cases has seen a sudden upsurge. At IIT-Madras, 11 more students tested positive, bringing the number of COVID cases to 183. A bulletin released by the central government mentions that the country reported 3,377 new corona cases within 24 hours on Friday. The number of cases in India is […]
The central government on Tuesday released a list of five states/UT amid increasing cases of Covid-19 and has advised them to keep a close check on the spread of infections and take the necessary steps to contain and manage the pandemic. The Ministry of Health and Family Affairs has asked Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh […]
In an ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic, it is now established that “vastly more people died than previously believed.” A total of about 15 million by the end of 2021 is the new figure. This tally is more than double the official total […]
Without pressing the panic button, on Saturday, official sources in the state health ministry confirmed the presence of one XE variant case in Gujarat. One case of XM variant has also been detected in the state, they said, without giving more details on the health condition of the two patients. Earlier this week, a patient […]
Even as four states in India (Delhi, Maharastra, Telangana and West Bengal) have done away with all Covid SOPs, the WHO reported a new Covid variant in the UK, Saturday. The new mutant, called XE, may be more transmissible than any strain of COVID-19, the health body said. XE is a “recombinant” which is a […]
Thailand health authorities approved new guidelines on Friday outlining the parameters for declaring the coronavirus pandemic an endemic disease. In epidemiology, an infection is said to be endemic in a population when that infection is constantly maintained at a baseline level in a geographic area without any external input. For an infection that relies on […]
The Gujarat government through a affidavit filed in Supreme Court informed the bench that it had so far sanctioned the compensation of ₹ 50,000 each to 68,370 claims filed by the family members of patients who died due to coronavirus infection in the state. As per the state health department official updates, the death count due […]
Gujarat recorded 12,753 cases – a rise of 26% from yesterday’s tally of 10,150 – and five deaths in the last 24 hours. With today’s update, the state’s active cases tally went up to 70,374 and the number of fatalities since the start of the pandemic reached 10,164. The five people who succumbed to the […]
Pic credit: Hanif Sindhi The Gujarat Government has stated that there was no Omicron case during the past week but citing the surge in Covid-19 cases from a daily average of 1,000 on January 1 to over 10,000 now experts have claimed that these are largely the new variant’s infections. The state health ministry’s daily […]
There was no respite for the travel industry in 2021 as Covid cases have led to a decrease in international travel. This has resulted in fewer electronic visas granted to foreign travelers by the Indian government. According to the data from Union Home Ministry, India granted as many as 29 lakh E-visas in 2019 which […]
