Thursday, April 25, 2024

COVID19 Updates

Protests over zero Covid policy spread across China

Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China’s severe COVID-19 restrictions continued into the third day and spread to several other cities, Al Jazeera...

30,000 people have died each day WTO dragged its feet on vaccine patents: Oxfam

JULIA CONLEY As public health advocates prepared a global day of action to demand an end to Covid-19 vaccine inequity,...

India’s COVID-19 toll highest in the world, 10 times official figure

A new estimate by World Health Organisation says India accounts for almost a third of Covid deaths globally...

Rich nations, big pharma still blocking ‘early exit’ from pandemic: Experts

In a scathing letter on Wednesday, more than 300 public health experts, academics, labour leaders, and activists accused rich...

Study shows COVID-19 infection linked to brain shrinkage, cognitive decline

A new study published in the journal Nature on Monday shows an association between brain size and structure among those infected...

Despite relaxations, hundreds of Migrants stranded in Noida border

Meer Faisal With new directions to ease lockdown, Raghunandan Goswami walked to the Delhi border only to be stopped by UP police. With nothing to feed on or any...

106,000 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours globally – most in a single day yet

There were 106,000 new cases of new coronavirus infection recorded globally in the last 24 hours - the most in a single day yet, the World Health Organization said.
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India’s COVID-19 recovery rate at 38.7%

The COVID-19 recovery in India was now at 38.7 percent after at least 39,174 patients were discharged as of Tuesday, according to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

From treating bullet wounds to corona patients, Kashmir doctors brave odds in the Valley

The medics have treated victims of bullets, pellet-guns, and tear-gas canister explosion amidst months-long sieges and lockdown. The outbreak of coronavirus, however, has thrown a renewed challenge to doctors in Kashmir despite their experiences.
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Covid-19: India extends lockdown to May 31

India extended its nationwide lockdown due to corona scare to May 31, as cases exceeded 90,000. The fourth phase of lockdown will have considerable relaxation in areas with low...

Spain’s Covid-19 daily death below 100, first time in two months

Spain reported the lowest daily death toll from the coronavirus for the first time in two months. The death toll was contained to 87 on Sunday, the health ministry...
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94-year-old woman recovers from COVID-19 in Maharashtra

A 94-year-old woman in Maharashtra was discharged from hospital after recovering from Covid-19, ANI reported.

Number of COVID-19 cases passes 4 million globally

More than four million people have been infected with COVID-19 across the world, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins university.
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India begins repatriation mission to bring citizens home

India on Thursday began 'Vande Bharat mission', world's largest repatriation mission, to bring back stranded citizens from abroad due to the corona pandemic. 64 flights will fly in a...

India: 195 new COVID-19 deaths reported in last 24 hours

Union health ministry joint secretary Lav Aggarwal said that the coronavirus toll in India rose by 195 in the last 24 hours, adding that the total number of cases of stands at 46,433 nationwide.
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Lockdown: AMU students remain stranded midway home

Students of Aligarh Muslim University who boarded the bus for home from university on Friday remain stranded in Saharanpur without basic facilities.

India designates all metros as red zones for lockdown post-May 3, 130 red zone districts in fresh list

Ahead of the end of the extended lockdown, the health ministry has prepared the final list of containment zones, dividing states and districts into different categories based on the spread of coronavirus pandemic in these regions.
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