Coronavirus India Highlights: 10,302 New COVID-19 Cases In India, 7% Lower Than Yesterday

Iraq Gets 1.2 Million Pfizer Covid Vaccine Doses Amid Fears Of 4th Wave
Iraq said Saturday it has received 1.2 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine through the Covax sharing scheme, amid fears of a fourth wave in the country. Read Here

Iran says it has fully vaccinated over half its population

COVID-19: Haryana reports one more death, 11 fresh cases

Austria Reimposes Lockdown From Monday, 1st In West Europe As Cases Soar
Austria will impose a lockdown for all and make vaccinations mandatory, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced on Friday, making the country the first in the EU to take such stringent measures as coronavirus cases spiral. 

COVID-19: 313 new cases, 4 deaths in Karnataka

129 Crore COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Provided To States So Far: Health Ministry
Over 129 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been provided to states and Union Territories so far through free of cost channel and through direct state procurement category, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. Read Here

Assam reports 238 new COVID-19 cases, 5 deaths

Four deaths, 15 fresh virus cases in Punjab
Four more people died from coronavirus in Punjab on Saturday as 15 fresh cases took the state''s infection tally to 6,02,956, according to a medical bulletin. Four fatalities were reported from Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Moga and Mohali.

So far, 16,584 people have died from the infection in the state, as per the bulletin. Among new cases, Jalandhar, Pathankot and Mohali reported three each, followed by two in Hoshiarpur.

The number of active cases was 290.

Thirty-four people recovered from the infection, taking the number of those who have been cured to 5,86,082, as per the bulletin.

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.

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 today.

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.

2nd Covid Death Of Fully Vaccinated Person Within Week In Madhya Pradesh
A 54-year-old woman, who had received both doses of a Covid vaccine, died of coronavirus in Bhopal, taking the number of fully vaccinated persons succumbing to the infection to two in Madhya Pradesh within a week, officials said.

Bhopal's Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO), Dr Prabhakar Tiwari, confirmed to PTI that the woman, who died due to the infection in Bhopal's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), had taken both jabs.

Despite repeated attempts, the AIIMS public relations cell and management did not respond to calls.

When contacted, a family member of the woman who died, who is a renowned doctor in Bhopal, said she was admitted to AIIMS after testing positive for coronavirus on November 15.

164 New Covid-19 Cases, 1 Death In Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh added 164 fresh cases to its COVID-19 tally, which has now gone up to 20,71,070.

The total recoveries increased to 20,54,252 after 196 more persons got cured of the infection in 24 hours ending 9 am on Saturday, a health department bulletin said.

One fresh fatality took the gross toll so far to 14,426, it said.

The active caseload decreased to 2,392.

Krishna district reported 32, Visakhapatnam 24, Guntur 22, Chittoor 19 and West Godavari 18 fresh cases in 24 hours while the remaining eight districts added less than 10 each.

Service Providers Can Now Check People's Vaccination Status At CoWIN
The Union Health Ministry has activated a service on the CoWIN portal that allows anyone to check an individual's vaccination status with the person's registered mobile number and name, followed by an OTP for consent.

The service could be utilised by a service provider -- private entities such as travel agencies, offices, employers, entertainment agencies or government agencies such as IRCTC -- for whom verifying a person's vaccination status is critical for facilitating a service requested by the citizen, an official said.

10,302 New COVID-19 Cases In India, 7% Lower Than Yesterday
India today logged 10,302 fresh Covid cases, which is 7 per cent lower than yesterday's figure. The country also reported 276 deaths in a day. The country's active caseload stands at 1,24,868, its lowest in 531 days. Daily positivity rate is at 0.96, less than 2 per cent for last 47 days.

US Clears Covid Boosters For All Adults
The United States authorized the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccine boosters for all people aged 18 and older on Friday, as the world's hardest-hit country enters a new winter wave of the pandemic. Read Here

Active COVID-19 infections drop below 9,000 in Tamil Nadu