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India reports 13,193 new COVID-19 cases
With the new cases, the coronavirus tally in the country has reached 1,09,63,394 including 1,39,542 active cases and 1,06,67,741 discharges.
The death toll has mounted to 1,56,111 with the loss of 97 more lives due to the virus in the last 24 hours.
As per the Health Ministry, 98,46,523 vaccine doses were given through 2,10,809 sessions till Thursday evening.
As Covid-19 cases surge, lockdown back in two Maharashtra districts
Almost 80 to 90 per cent of new cases were being reported from Yavatmal, Pandharkawda, and Pusad cities, he said. “We have decided to conduct around 500 tests per day in Yavatmal, Pandharkawda and Pusad municipal corporations. Today we are ordering lockdown in Yavatmal district till February 28
In the light of a rise in COVID-19 cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to register offences against people who violate safety guidelines, an official said on Thursday.
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Clinical trials indicate India’s vaccines will be effective against Covid-19 variants: ICMR
India had from the outset resisted the temptation of going for herd immunity unlike many European countries, including the UK and Italy, and its decision had been vindicated from what happened in the western nations that allowed the pandemic to spread, he pointed out.
As a result, India had not only ramped up its medical infrastructure for domestic use but had also reached the level of exporting vaccines and treatment kits on a large scale, he said.
India to test travellers from Brazil, South Africa, UK after detecting new virus strains
“All the travellers arriving from/transiting through flights originating in United Kingdom, Europe or the Middle East shall be mandatorily subjected to self-paid confirmatory molecular tests on arrival,” India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in a statement.
All flyers will also have to carry a recent COVID-negative report before boarding any flight to India, except in extraordinary circumstances like death in a family.
UK approves trial exposing volunteers to Covid, a first
Scientists have used human challenge trials for decades to learn more about diseases such as malaria, flu, typhoid and cholera, and to develop treatments.
Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar launches software for 5 pan-India surveys
These five surveys being undertaken by the Labour Bureau are — All-India Survey on Migrant workers, All-India Survey on Domestic Workers, All-India Survey on Employment Generated by Professionals, All-India Survey on Employment Generated in Transport Sector, and All-India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey.
Third topmost globally, India’s cumulative vaccination coverage crosses 94 lakhs
Moving ahead on the COVID-19 trajectory, India’s cumulative recoveries show a progressive increment on a daily basis. It stands at 1.06 crore (1,06,56,845) today. The recovery rate is 97.32 per cent. Rising recoveries along with contained daily deaths have ensured a sustained fall in the active caseload of the virus.
PM2.5 air pollution claimed 54,000 lives in Delhi last year: study
The study noted that the damage is equally worrying in other Indian cities.
”An estimated 25,000 avoidable deaths in Mumbai in 2020 have been attributed to air pollution. Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Lucknow estimated an approximate 12000, 11000, 11000, and 6700 avoidable deaths respectively due to polluted air,” said Noting that the air pollutant levels in Delhi remained almost six times above the prescribed WHO limits of 10 μg/m3 annual mean, the study said the estimated air pollution-related economic losses were USD 8.1 billion (Rs 58,895 crore), which amounts to 13 percent of Delhi’s annual GDP.
Increase in public grievances from 2 lakh to 21 lakh shows people’s trust in govt: Jitendra Singh
It is further sought to develop and enhance the scale and agility of responsiveness of governance mechanisms by using new and emerging digital technologies, create less paper secretariats and provide a meaningful and transparent government to all people, he said.
On these lines, the Centralised Public Grievances Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) 7.0 version has been launched and implemented in 9 ministries and departments by mapping the last mile grievance officers, and reduction in time and improving quality of disposal, the statement said.
India’s domestic air passenger traffic down 40% to 7.7 million in Jan
The load factor of six major domestic airlines–IndiGo, SpiceJet, Air India, GoAir, Vistara and AirAsia India — stood between 70 per cent and 64.9 per cent in January, as per data.
“Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January 2021 were 7.73 million against 12.7 million during the corresponding period of previous year, thereby registering annual growth of -39.60 per cent,” it said.