The latest Health Ministry data pushed the national COVID-19 recovery rate of 97.20 per cent, while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.43 per cent.
Today a total of 3,31,029 beneficiaries were vaccinated.
In Andaman & Nicobar Islands: 125; Andhra Pradesh: 22,461; Arunachal Pradesh: 774; Assam: 13,939; Bihar: 29,229; Chandigarh: 360; Chhattisgarh: 16,103; Dadra and Nagar Haveli: 130; Daman and Diu: 100; Delhi: 8,038; Goa: 620; Gujarat: 27,862; Haryana: 3,174; Himachal Pradesh: 3,080; J&K: 4,378; Jharkhand: 8,188; Karnataka: 23,291; Mizoram: 516; Nagaland: 70; Odisha: 2,461; Puducherry: 309; Punjab: 4,472; Rajasthan: 20,688; Sikkim: 792; Tamil Nadu: 6,258; Telangana: 4,745; Tripura: 1,727; UP: 53,959; Uttarakhand: 5,096; West Bengal: 17,329.
Total hospitalisations till date are 27, amounting to 0.0005% of the total vaccinations so far. No new event of hospitalisation reported in the past 24 hours.
Total 22 deaths have been reported till death. A 77-year-old male, a resident of Agra in UP, died during the past 24 hours, seven days after vaccination. The death was caused due to shock with pre-existing diabetes. No deaths have bee
Night curfew in 4 Gujarat cities to continue till Feb 15
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However, the duration of the night curfew has been curtailed by an hour, from 10 pm-6 am to 11 pm-6 am, he said.
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Ensuring pandemic protocol in hostels an uphill task for Cusat
For the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat), ensuring pandemic protocol in hostels is turning out to be a challenge.
The varsity has announced a break for the offline sessions that resumed on January 4 after nearly 15 students and 10 teaching and non-teaching staff had tested positive.
The postgraduate batches were asked to attend the classes initially.
“Their offline exams that began on January 6 got over on Wednesday. The lab sessions will resume in the first week of February. A disinfection process of classrooms and labs will be carried out as per the pandemic protocol before resuming the sessions again,” said K.N. Madhusoodanan, Vice Chancellor.
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Total cases now stand at 1.07 crore with cases per million population at 7,754
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Health workers wait in the observation area after receiving a Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the Rajawadi Hospital in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: AFP
Total cases now stand at 1.07 crore with cases per million population at 7,754
All kinds of social, religious and cultural gatherings that were earlier restricted to a maximum of 50% of the hall capacity with a ceiling of 200 persons in closed spaces, will now be allowed subject to the standard operating procedure (SOP) issued by State governments.
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