-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...
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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...
More »Active Covid-19 cases dip to 1,11,472 in India
-PTI/ The Telegraph The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.00 per cent, according to the ministry With 10,273 people testing positive for coronavirus in a day, India's total tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 4,29,16,117, while the active cases dipped to 1,11,472, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,13,724 with 243 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily Covid-19 cases...
More »Calcutta's Test positivity rate touches 55 per cent, highest among 721 districts nationwide -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph One in every two persons tested for Covid-19 has been found positive over the past week One in every two persons tested for Covid-19 in Calcutta has been found positive over the past week with the city’s Test positivity rate touching 55 per cent, the highest among 721 districts nationwide. Eleven other Bengal districts — Howrah, West Burdwan, East Burdwan, North 24-Parganas, South 24-Parganas, Birbhum, Malda, Darjeeling, Hooghly, Bankura and Purulia...
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