India logged 37,154 fresh Covid cases and 724 deaths, taking the overall case count to 3,08,74,375 total infections registered since the start of the pandemic. More than 3 crore people have recovered so far, official data shows.
India's daily positivity rate - an indicator of the number of people testing positive for every 100 Covid tests - stood at 2.59 per cent this morning. It has been less than 3 per cent for 21 consecutive days.
India presently has 4,50,899 active Covid cases, which is 1.46 per cent of the total cases, the Health Ministry data shows. The country has witnessed a drop in cases after a very tough battle against the second wave.
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Several government-run vaccination centres in Delhi will be closed on Tuesday because the city has exhausted its Covishield COVID-19 vaccine stock, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Monday.
Only 36,310 vaccine doses could be administered in Delhi till 10 pm on Monday as opposed to around 1.5 lakh of daily vaccine doses being administered on an average earlier.
"Vaccines have run out in Delhi again. The central government gives vaccines for a day or two, then we have to keep the vaccine centres closed for several days. Why is our country's vaccine programme faltering even after so many days?" Mr Sisodia wrote on Twitter, while sharing a report on the shortage of vaccines.
The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday updated its warning labels for the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine to include information about an observed "increased risk" of a rare neurological disorder.
Based on analysis of a federal vaccine safety monitoring system, officials have identified 100 preliminary reports of Guillain-Barre Syndrome after approximately 12.5 million doses administered, people familiar with the matter said.
Of these reports, 95 of them were serious and required hospitalization. There was one reported death.
We will strengthen the commercial roll-out of Sputnik V in the coming weeks. Neither the ongoing soft commercial launch nor work towards its ramp-up in India have been put on hold: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories pic.twitter.com/OI9Xo8jn0O
- ANI (@ANI) July 12, 2021

Several government-run vaccination centres in Delhi will be closed on Tuesday because the city has exhausted its Covishield COVID-19 vaccine stock, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Monday.
All documents required for Emergency Use Listing (EUL) of Covaxin have been submitted to WHO as of 9th July. The review process has now commenced with the expectation that we will receive EUL from the WHO at the earliest: Bharat Biotech#COVID19 pic.twitter.com/ZUrt392JUb
- ANI (@ANI) July 12, 2021
Tamil Nadu reports 2652 new #COVID19 cases, 3104 recoveries and 36 deaths in the last 24 hours.
- ANI (@ANI) July 12, 2021
Total cases 25,21,438
Total recoveries 24,56,165
Death toll 33,454
Active cases 31,819 pic.twitter.com/FcbKJl58Fr
Delhi reports 45 new #COVID cases (positivity rate - 0.08%), 92 recoveries, and 03 deaths in the last 24 hours.
- ANI (@ANI) July 12, 2021
Active cases: 693
Total recoveries: 14,09,417
Death toll: 25,018 pic.twitter.com/UId80wt7yy
Maharashtra reports 7,603 new #COVID19 cases, 15,277 recoveries and 53 deaths in the last 24 hours.
- ANI (@ANI) July 12, 2021
Total cases 61,65,402
Total recoveries 59,27,756
Death toll 1,26,024
Active cases 1,08,343 pic.twitter.com/fLpHmUgXmQ
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 4,035,506 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by news agency AFP at 1000 GMT on Monday. At least 186,740,300 cases have been registered. The majority have recovered, though some have continued to experience symptoms weeks or even months later.
The figures are based on daily reports provided by health authorities in each country. They exclude revisions made by other statistical organisations, which show that the number of deaths is much higher. The WHO estimates the pandemic's overall toll could be two to three times higher than official records, due to the excess mortality that is directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19.

As many as 4,000 vehicles that were on their way to Mussoorie and Nainital were sent back by Uttarakhand Police last weekend, reported news agency ANI. This comes as the government announced strict COVID-19 protocols to prevent tourist destinations from being overcrowded amid the pandemic. Uttarakhand Police has set up additional checkpoints and barricades on the roads that lead to famous tourist spots in the state.
"A clear message has been given to the tourists that if they are coming to Uttarakhand, RT-PCR test, registration, and a prior hotel booking are mandatory for everyone," Uttarakhand Police Headquarters Spokesperson DIG Nilesh Anand Bharane told ANI.
The DIG appealed to the tourists coming to Uttarakhand not to just visit Mussoorie and Nainital, but explore different places in the state to avoid unnecessary crowding at one place.
We're fully alert (for the potential third wave of COVID). Centre is also on alert mode. We're arranging every single thing including oxygen. Hospitals & officials are ready. All are conscious. We're continuously monitoring the situation: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar#COVID19 pic.twitter.com/IxDq0zRI84
- ANI (@ANI) July 12, 2021


Two Chinese vaccine makers, Sinovac and Sinopharm, have agreed to immediately begin making more than 100 million Covid vaccine doses available to the Covax distribution facility, Gavi said Monday, reported news agency AFP. "The agreements, which come at a time when the Delta variant is posing a rising risk to health systems, will begin to make 110 million doses immediately available to participants of the Covax facility, with options for additional doses," said the vaccine alliance Gavi, which is one of the facility's main backers.
Johnson was due to hold an afternoon news conference confirming that the government's tests have been met to allow a full reopening of the economy on July 19, doing away with the final measures of a months-old lockdown.
But with Britain now averaging more than 30,000 daily cases of the fast-spreading Delta coronavirus variant, scientists are fretting that the ending of measures such as mandatory mask-wearing spells trouble, AFP reported.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Monday said all Covid-related protocols will be followed during the Monsoon Session of parliament scheduled to begin from July 19, PTI reported.
According to data available on CoWIN platform, an average of 61.14 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered daily in the week from June 21-27 which dropped to 41.92 lakh doses daily in the subsequent week from June 28-July 4.
The officials also expressed confidence that all eligible people will be vaccinated in the state by this year-end.
Till now, the Gujarat government has received around 2.8 crore doses of anti-COVID-19 vaccines - COVAXIN and Covishield, in accordance with the state's demand and requirement, state immunisation officer Dr Nayan Jani told PTI.
In an order issued by the state government, a maximum of 100 people have been allowed in gatherings for weddings and funerals; a maximum of 200 people in open spaces. Spas will be allowed from 6 am to 8 pm with 50 per cent capacity, said the order.
Talking to PTI, Mr Tope said the state's capacity is to vaccinate 15 lakh people daily, but as of now only two to three lakh people are being inoculated in a day because of the "shortage of vaccine doses".
These new cases were reported on Sunday, PTI reported.
The virus also claimed the lives of seven more people, raising the death toll in the district to 10,843, he said, adding that the COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane stood at 2.01 per cent.
With this, the cumulative count in Odisha stands at 9,41,745 including 9,12,463 recoveries and 4,662 deaths. There are 24,567 active cases in the state.
Of the fresh COVID cases reported, 1,154 people got infected in quarantine, while 839 caught the infection from local contacts, ANI reported.
In view of the prevailing COVID-19 situation, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday informed that more than 38.86 crores of vaccine doses have been provided to States and Union Territories (UTs), ANI reported.
"More than 38.86 crore (38,86,09,790) vaccine doses have been provided to States and UTs so far, through all sources and a further 63,84,230 doses are in the pipeline. Of this, the total consumption including wastages is 37,31,88,834 doses (as per data available at 8 AM today)", read an official release by the ministry.
In a bid to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a Chennai-based studio has come forward to click pictures of those who have taken their jabs.
People can get professional photographs clicked free of cost by showing their COVID-19 vaccination certificate, ANI reported.
#WATCH | Uttarakhand's Nainital witnessed a massive footfall of tourists as #COVID19 restrictions ease pic.twitter.com/zZ7UyyOVXr
- ANI (@ANI) July 12, 2021


