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India today logged 10,488 new Covid cases, which is 186 more than yesterday's number (10,302). The country also reported 313 Covid deaths, which is slightly higher than yesterday's 276 deaths.
The active caseload stands at 1,22,714, lowest in 532 days. Active cases account for less than 1 per cent of total cases, currently at 0.36 per cent, lowest since March 2020.
116.50 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive.
Here are the Highlights on Coronavirus cases in India:
Nov 22, 2021 04:32 (IST)
Covid-19: Assam reports 91 new cases, one more death
Assam on Sunday registered 91 fresh Covid-19 cases, 147 less than Saturday's figure, as the tally went up to 6,15,382, the National Health Mission (NHM) said.
One more person died due to coronavirus during the day as against five on Saturday. the total number of fatalities rose to 6,072.
The lone death was reported from Kamrup Metropolitan district.
The NHM said 1,347 more Covid-19 patients have died till now, but the government's Death Audit Board has not included them in the tally of deaths caused by the disease as they had other ailments too.
With the detection of 91 patients against the testing of 14,759 samples on Sunday, Assam has reported a positivity rate of 0.62 per cent.
The state had reported 238 coronavirus positive cases on Saturday against the testing of 37,223 samples.
Currently, the state has 1,626 active cases.
Nov 22, 2021 01:45 (IST)
Mizoram reports 437 new Covid cases, 2 more fatalities
At least 437 people, including 41 students, teachers and other staff of a private school in Aizawl, tested positive for coronavirus in Mizoram, pushing the tally to 1,31,685, a health department official said on Sunday.
The COVID-19 deaths rose to 477, with two more persons, one from Lawngtlai and another from Champhai, died due to the infection, he said.
The single-day positivity rate was 13.95 per cent as the new cases were detected from 3,133 samples.
Of the new cases, Aizawl district registered the highest at 225, followed by Lunglei (106) and Kolasib (36), the official said.
The number of active cases in the state now stands at 4,900, which is 3.72 per cent of the total cases. Altogether 145 Covid-19 have recovered on Sunday, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,26,308. The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients is 95.91 per cent, and the death rate is 0.36 per cent. The North-eastern state has conducted more than 13.98 lakh sample tests for COVID-19 so far.
Nov 22, 2021 01:31 (IST)
Sikkim reports 8 new COVID cases
Sikkim recorded eight new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, a Health Department bulletin said. The state has so far recorded 32,169 COVID-19 cases, it said. The deaths remained at 403 with no reports of any new death, it added.
Of the new cases, East Sikkim registered six, while South Sikkim reported two.
Sikkim now has 123 active cases, while 31,309 people recovered from the disease. Altogether, 334 patients have migrated to other states.
Nov 22, 2021 00:45 (IST)
Israeli PM sets goal to vaccinate children aged 5-11
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that the country's goal is to vaccinate 50 per cent of children aged 5-11 by the end of December.
The remark was made in a meeting between Bennett and general managers of the country's four health maintenance organizations, a spokesperson for Bennett said in a statement.
The managers informed Bennett of the preparation for vaccination rollout for the children.
The move came after the Israeli health ministry decided to approve Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for younger children earlier this month.
Nov 21, 2021 06:03 (IST)
Coronavirus Significantly Raises Risk Of Stillbirth, Says US Study
The risk of stillbirth is about twice as high for women with Covid compared to those without, and grew to about quadruple during the period when the Delta variant became dominant, a large US government study said Friday.
The analysis, carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was based on more than 1.2 million deliveries between March 2020 and September 2021 from a large US hospital database.
Overall, stillbirths were highly rare, accounting for 0.65 percent or 8,154 deliveries.
But, after using statistical methods to account for the effect of other variables that might bias the result, stillbirths were 1.47 times more common among Covid-positive mothers pre-Delta, 4.04 times higher after, and 1.90 times higher overall.
Nov 21, 2021 05:51 (IST)
Gujarat Covid Patient Discharged After 202 Days Of Hospitalisation
A 45-year-old woman, who had tested positive for coronavirus on May 1 this year, was discharged from a medical facility in Gujarat's Dahod city, after 202 days of hospitalisation, her family members said on Saturday.
Geeta Dharmik, whose husband is a railway employee at Dahod, had tested positive for the infection during the second wave of the pandemic on her return from Bhopal, they said.
She had to be hospitalised for a total of 202 days before the doctors at Dahod railway hospital decided to discharge her after her recovery, they said.
"The family members were overjoyed to receive her home on her discharge from Dahod railway hospital on Friday. She remained hospitalised at Dahod and Vadodara for a total of 202 days, during which she was kept on ventilator and oxygen support," her husband Trilok Dharmik, an engineer with the Railways, said.
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Nov 21, 2021 05:37 (IST)
