India logged 7,579 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, taking the country's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,45,26,480, the lowest in 543 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The figure is the lowest reported since May last year.
The country recorded 236 new deaths in the last 24 hours, taking total fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic to 4,66,147.
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Spain's top research institution reached a licensing deal Tuesday that paves the way for its Covid-19 antibody test to be produced more cheaply in developing countries, reported AFP.
The World Health Organization described the accord as the first transparent, global, non-exclusive licence for a Covid-19 health tool that will help correct "devastating global inequity".
The deal brings together the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the global Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and the WHO's Covid-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) knowledge-sharing platform.
Fifty-three girls, students of a government-aided high school in Odisha's Sundargarh district, and 22 MBBS students of Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR), Burla in Sambalpur tested positive for COVID-19 in the last three days, a health official said.
Odisha's coronavirus tally rose to 10,47,386 today as 212 more people, including 70 children, tested positive for the infection; while two fresh fatalities pushed the number of deaths to 8,396, he said.
Four fully-vaccinated Army officers, two of them participating in a course of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), tested positive for coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district, an official said on Tuesday.
"Four Army officers have tested positive for coronavirus in the last three days in Indore. They had received both doses of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine. They have no symptoms and their condition is fine," said Dr Amit Malakar, nodal officer, COVID-19, Indore.
He said two of the infected officers are residents of the Army Cantonment located in nearby Mhow town and two others are enrolled for the IIM Indore's Certificate Course in Business Management for Defence Officers (CCBMDO).
At least 4 lakh residents of Gujarat''s Ahmedabad city have not taken the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine despite being eligible for the same, a civic official said on Tuesday.
To ensure 100 per cent vaccination, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has launched a door-to-door survey to trace people who have not taken both doses of the vaccine against COVID-19, the AMC''s medical officer of health Dr Bhavin Solanki said.
Puducherry added 38 fresh cases of coronavirus during last 24 hours ending 9 am on Tuesday raising the overall caseload to 1,28,718.
The new cases were identified at the end of examination of 2615 samples, and they were spread over Puducherry 19, Karaikal 7, Yanam two and Mahe 10.
The CBSE board exams for minor papers of classes 10 and 12 was started from November 16, while the major exams will be held from November 30
Ladakh has recorded 16 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the virus tally to 21,349 while the active cases have declined to 218, officials said on Tuesday.
The union territory has registered 212 Covid-related deaths -- 154 in Leh and 58 in Kargil -- since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.
Arunachal Pradesh logged four fresh cases of COVID-19, while eight more patients were discharged from hospitals, improving the recovery count to 54,937, a senior health official said here on Tuesday.
Israel began rolling out Covid-19 vaccines for children aged five to 11 on Monday, becoming one of a handful of countries to inoculate children so young as it seeks to ward off another pandemic wave.
Maharashtra on Monday reported eight deaths and 656 new COVID-19 cases, lowest one-day figures since April 2020, a health department official said.
He said with these additions, the tally of COVID-19 cases in the state rose to 66,30,531.
Maharashtra has recorded the lowest daily cases since April 30, 2020, when the tally was 583, and the least number of deaths since April 17, 2020, when 7 patients had succumbed to the infection.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the State Department on Monday advised against travel to Germany and Denmark because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases in those countries.
