-The Telegraph Struggle to reduce cases in 6 districts The Bengal health department is finding it tough to pull down the dengue Positivity rate to under 10 per cent in at least six districts, including Calcutta, because of the paucity of civic and rural workers with the skill to track and destroy mosquito breeding pockets. Among Bengal districts, the dengue Positivity rate this week is the highest in Calcutta, followed by Jalpaiguri, Hooghly,...
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Active COVID-19 cases cross one lakh mark
-PTI/ The New Indian Express The active cases increased to 1,04,555 comprising 0.24 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.55 per cent, the ministry said. NEW DELHI: India logged 18,000 new coronavirus infections in a single day after a gap of 130 days, taking the COVID-19 tally to 4,34,52,164, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The active cases crossed the...
More »Delhi logs over 1,500 fresh Covid cases; Positivity rate at 8.4% -Amit Bhardwaj
-IndiaToday.in Delhi has reported more than 1,500 new coronavirus cases along with three deaths due to the infection. With 1,530 new Covid cases on Sunday, Delhi has recorded more than 1,000 cases for the fifth day in a row. The national capital also saw three deaths due to the infection. The Positivity rate jumped from 7.7% on Saturday to 8.41%, while the number of active cases stands at 5,542. As many as 18,183 swab...
More »Covid deaths: ‘Misleading’ tag on reply to World Health Organisation -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Jon Wakefield picks holes in Narendra Modi government’s twin claims Jon Wakefield was disappointed. India’s health ministry had issued a statement decrying the methodology adopted by the World Health Organisation to estimate excess deaths worldwide during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The exercise indicated 4.7 million excess deaths in India, 9.8 times the country’s official Covid-19 death toll. The ministry statement itself didn’t surprise Wakefield. Five times since July 2021,...
More »Delhi records 1485 Covid cases in 24 hours, Positivity rate stands at 4.89% -Amit Bhardwaj
-IndiaToday.in (with PTI inputs) Delhi reported 1,485 fresh COVID-19 cases and zero fatality due to the viral disease on Sunday, while the Positivity rate was recorded at 4.89 per cent. Delhi recorded 1485 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, while the Positivity rate stands at 4.89 per cent. Zero death were reported while 154 people were hospitalised after testing positive for Covid-19 in Delhi. On Friday, it saw 1,607 Covid-19 cases and...
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