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India today reported a total of 3,993 new COVID-19 infections, taking the Covid tally to 4,29,71,308. According to the Union Health Ministry data, the active cases dipped to 49,948.
With 108 fresh fatalities, the death count climbed to 5,15,210 so far.
This is the lowest daily spike in Covid cases in 662 days. The last time India's daily new cases fell below 4,000 was on 15 May 2020, when the country recorded 3,967 fresh cases. The daily COVID-19 cases have remained less than one lakh for 30 consecutive days, and it is the second straight day the new case count has been under 5,000 cases.
The active cases comprise 0.13 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has further improved to 98.68 per cent, the ministry said.
Here are the Highlights on coronavirus cases in India:
Mizoram records 839 fresh COVID-19 cases, one fatality
Mizoram reported 839 fresh COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the state's tally to 2,18,673, a health department official said.
The COVID-19 death count rose to 665 as one more person from Aizawl succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, the official said.
The single-day positivity rate increased to 18.72 per cent from 17.70 per cent the previous day, he said.
The northeastern state had reported 228 new COVID-19 cases and one fatality on Monday.
Mizoram now has 3,535 active COVID-19 cases, while 673 people have recovered in the last 24 hours, taking the total recoveries to 2,14,473.
The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 98 per cent and the death rate is 0.30 per cent.
The state has so far tested 18.54 lakh samples for COVID-19.
According to state immunisation officer Lalmuanawma Jongte, more than 8 lakh people have been inoculated till Tuesday of which over 6.53 lakh have received both doses of the vaccine.
COVID-19: Less than 100 new cases in Telangana
Telangana on Tuesday reported just 91 new COVID-19 cases, even as recovery rate in the state rose to 99.31 per cent.
The tally of COVID-19 cases stood at 7,89,951 with the addition of 91 cases.
A Health department bulletin said 241 people recuperated from the infectious disease, taking the cumulative number of recoveries till date to 7,84,465.
The death toll remained at 4,111 with no fresh fatality occurring due to the infection.
Hyderabad reported the highest number of cases with 40, followed by Ranga Reddy (8) and Karimnagar (6) districts.
The bulletin said 22,966 samples were tested on Tuesday.
The number of active cases stood at 1,375, it said. The case fatality rate in the state was 0.52 per cent.
JustIn | Delhi logs 177 coronavirus cases, two deaths; positivity rate 0.51 per cent, news agency PTI reported quoting authorities
Bengal logs 68 fresh COVID-19 cases, one death
West Bengal on Tuesday reported 68 new COVID-19 cases and only one death, a state Health department bulletin said.
The COVID-19 death count went up to 21,281 while the tally rose to 20,15,980.
At least 105 people recovered from the disease during the day, pushing the total COVID-19 recoveries to 19,93,250, it said.
On Monday the state had reported 50 new COVID-19 cases.
West Bengal currently has 1,549 active COVID-19 cases, the bulletin said.
The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 98.87 per cent.
Since Monday, 21,456 samples have been tested in Bengal taking the total number of such tests to be at 24,387,982, it added.
Madhya Pradesh logs 82 new COVID-19 cases, zero casualties; active tally at 928
Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday recorded 82 new cases of coronavirus that raised the tally of infections to 10,40,254, an official from the state health department said.
As many as 191 people were discharged from hospitals and none died of the infection during the day, raising the count of recoveries to 10,28,593, while the toll stood at 10,733, he said.
With this, the state is now left with 928 active cases, the official said, adding that the positivity rate has dropped to 0.1 per cent.
Bhopal and Indore, the two worst coronavirus-hit cities of Madhya Pradesh, registered 10 and three cases, respectively, in the last 24 hours, he said.
Maharashtra logs 460 new COVID-19 cases, five fatalities
Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 460 fresh COVID-19 cases and five fatalities that raised the tally of infections to 78,69,498 and the toll to 1,43,745, a state health department official said.
The state had reported 225 coronavirus cases, the lowest after April 18, 2020, and zero fatality, on Monday.
Maharashtra is now left with 3,209 active cases, the official said.
1,791 fresh COVID cases, 111 deaths in Kerala
Kerala on Tuesday recorded 1,791 fresh COVID-19 infections which raised the total caseload to 65,15,103 till date.
Also, the southern State reported 111 deaths which raised the total fatalities to 66,374, according to an official press release.
Of the deaths, four were reported in the last 24 hours, seven of which died in the last few days but were not recorded due to late receipt of documents and 100 were designated as COVID-19 deaths after receiving appeals based on the new guidelines of the Centre and the directions of the Supreme Court, the release said.
69 new COVID-19 cases but no deaths in Andhra Pradesh
For the seventh day in a row, Andhra Pradesh did not report any Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday.
According to the latest bulletin, the state added 69 fresh cases and 139 recoveries in 24 hours ending 9 AM on Tuesday.
The active caseload is now 817, it said.
The state Covid-19 chart now showed 23,18,547 total positives, 23,03,001 recoveries and 14,729 deaths.
In 24 hours, Guntur and Anantapuramu districts registered 14 and 13 fresh cases respectively.
Of the remaining 11 districts, two reported nil while nine added less than 10 new cases each.
East Godavari district has the highest of 296 and West Godavari 115 active cases. Two districts have active cases in single digit and nine more in double digits.
Odisha logs 108 new COVID-19 cases, lowest single-day spike in three months
Odisha recorded 108 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the lowest single-day spike in three months, which took the state's coronavirus tally to 12,86,117, a health bulletin said.
The infections are the lowest since 105 cases were registered on December 6 last year. Odisha had logged 120 infections on Monday.
Of the new patients, 16 are children, it said.
The state's coronavirus death count stood at 9,101 as no fresh fatality was recorded for the second consecutive day.
Odisha now has 1,196 active cases, while 12,75,767 people have recovered from the disease so far, including 225 in the last 24 hours. Fifty-three other coronavirus patients have died due to comorbidities to date.
The state's daily positivity rate was 0.23 per cent as 46,156 samples were tested for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
No fourth wave of coronavirus will occur in India, says virologist T Jacob John
Noting that the third wave of COVID-19 has ended in India, eminent virologist Dr T Jacob John said he is "fairly confident" that no fourth wave will occur in the country unless an unexpected variant that behaves differently comes up.
India logged 3,993 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 662 days, on Tuesday. The third wave of COVID-19 had plateaued in India and the number of cases started declining after January 21 when 3,47,254 infections were reported.
"I say (entered endemic phase) since my own definition of an endemic state is 'low and steady daily numbers, with only minor fluctuations, if any, for at least four weeks'. My personal expectation, hence opinion, is that we will be in the endemic phase for more than four weeks. All states in India show the same trend, giving me this confidence," John, the former director of the Indian Council for Medical Research's Centre of Advanced Research in Virology, said. The 'endemic stage' is when a population learns to live with a virus. It is different from the 'epidemic stage' when the virus overwhelms a population.
The opposition made fun of PM Jan Dhan Yojana, but during the (Covid-19) crisis, our government gave financial help every month to 20.5 crore women across the country: Union minister Anurag Thakur in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh pic.twitter.com/glFu1s2Y6n
- ANI (@ANI) March 8, 2022
Malaysia reports 26,856 new COVID-19 infections, 77 new deaths
Malaysia reported 26,856 new COVID-19 infections, as of midnight Monday, bringing the national total to 3,649,463, according to the Health Ministry.
There are 211 new imported cases, with 26,645 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry's website showed. A further 77 deaths have been reported, bringing the death count to 33,305.
5 new Covid cases in Arunachal Pradesh, after zero new cases yesterday
Arunachal Pradesh's COVID-19 tally rose to 64,471 on Tuesday as five more people tested positive for the infection, a senior health official said. The northeastern state had not reported any new case on Monday.
The state now has 56 active cases, while the death count remained unchanged at 296 as no fresh fatality was recorded. The recovery rate marginally improved to 99.45 per cent from 99.44 on Monday.
China reports 175 new local COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
China on Monday reported 175 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday.
As many as 150 imported COVID-19 cases were also reported in the past 24 hours, according to the commission.
A total of five new suspected cases, all arriving from outside the mainland, were reported in Shanghai, said the commission.
No deaths from COVID-19 were reported in the past 24 hours, reported the news agency.
India records 3,993 new Covid cases, lowest daily spike in 662 days
India today reported 3,993 new COVID-19 infections, taking the Covid tally to 4,29,71,308. According to the Union Health Ministry data, the active cases dipped to 49,948.
With 108 fresh fatalities, the death count climbed to 5,15,210 so far.
This is the lowest daily spike in Covid cases in 662 days. The last time India's daily new cases fell below 4,000 was on 15 May 2020, when the country recorded 3,967 fresh cases. The daily COVID-19 cases have remained less than one lakh for 30 consecutive days, and it is the second straight day the new case count has been under 5,000 cases.
Global Covid deaths top 6 million as Omicron wave leaves scars
More than 6 million people worldwide have died from Covid-19 two years after the novel pathogen started spreading globally, despite the distribution of vaccines that slashed fatality rates across the globe.
The latest 1 million recorded deaths came more slowly than the previous intervals. It took about 125 days to go from 5 million deaths to 6 million, compared to 117 days to hit the 5-million mark and less than 90 days each to reach the 3- and 4-million ones. The pace has returned to what was seen during the first year of the pandemic, when the virus was still taking hold.
Covid continues to kill thousands of people every day. Billions more remain unvaccinated, either because they lack access to the shots or are unwilling to receive them, leaving them exposed to the infection and the world vulnerable to new variants.
The U.S. alone accounted for 16% of the last million deaths -- the highest share of any country. Brazil was 11% of the total, while India was responsible for 9%.
Covid can shrink brain as much as a decade of aging, study finds
Even a mild case of Covid-19 can damage the brain and addle thinking, scientists found in a study that highlights the illness's alarming impact on mental function.
Researchers identified Covid-associated brain damage months after infection, including in the region linked to smell, and shrinkage in size equivalent to as much as a decade of normal aging. The changes were linked to cognitive decline in the study, which was published Monday in the journal Nature.
The findings represent striking evidence of the virus's impact on the central nervous system. More research will be required to understand whether the evidence from the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford means Covid-19 will exacerbate the global burden of dementia -- which cost an estimated $1.3 trillion in the year the pandemic began -- and other neurodegenerative conditions.
Supreme Court Warns Against Fake Death Certificates For Covid CompensationThe Supreme Court on Monday warned against the misuse of its order to get ex-gratia compensation for COVID-19 death on the basis of fake medical certificate and observed that it would order an independent probe to catch those who have done so.
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