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It's not over yet: Analysing the rise in India's COVID-19 cases
Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are seeing a rise in coronavirus infections. Experts believe the lifting of restrictions, coupled with emergence of new variants could be driving the caseload up. However, calling it a fourth wave is a 'stretch'

COVID-19: India logs 796 new cases, 19 deaths in last 24 hrs; active infections fall to 10,889
The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the health ministry said

India’s COVID-19 caseload sees a rise of 2,85,914 infections; daily positivity rate stands at 16.16%
The health ministry in its daily bulletin stated that the active coronavirus cases have decreased to 22,23,018, while the national recovery rate has decreased to 93.23 per cent

Is there a relationship between COVID-19 vaccine and heart attacks? Dr Shriram Nene break it down
In an exclusive interview, Dr Shriram Nene talks about the pandemic, how the new COVID-19 variant is impacting heart, his plans to reach out to far more patients through social media, and more.

Delhi: Containment zones go up from less than 1,000 to nearly 24,000 in past fortnight
There were 800 containment zones in the national capital on 30 December, 2020. According to the latest official figures, the number rose to 23,997 by mid-January.

After Kareena Kapoor and Amrita Arora, Maheep Kapoor and Seema Khan test COVID-19 positive, confirms Sanjay Kapoor
Bollywood actor Sanjay Kapoor's wife Maheep Kapoor and Sohail Khan's wife Seema Khan have tested positive for coronavirus, as per the latest report.

November sees lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in India since May, 2020
The daily rise in the number of new coronavirus cases has been below 20,000 for 54 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 156 consecutive days now.

From patient zero in China to over 255 crore cases worldwide: Timeline of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic
The origins of the pandemic can be traced back to 17 November 2019 when a 55-year-old man contracted the virus from a wet market in Hubei province

Assam eases COVID-19 restrictions as situation improves, check details here
Issuing a new set of guidelines, Chief Secretary Jishnu Barua said 31 percent of the eligible population of the state have been fully vaccinated, while 95 percent got their first dose.

India registers 13,596 new COVID-19 infections, 166 fresh fatalities; active cases lowest in 221 days
The daily rise in new infections has been below 30,000 for 24 days and less than 50,000 for 113 consecutive days now

Half of COVID-19 survivors experience lingering symptoms six months after recovery, finds study
The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, reviewed 57 reports that included data from 250,351 unvaccinated adults and children who were diagnosed with COVID-19 from December 2019 through March 2021

India records 21,257 new COVID-19 cases, 271 deaths; national recovery rate at 97.96%
A decrease of 3,977 cases has been recorded in the active caseload in a span of 24 hours.

India logs less than 20,000 new daily COVID-19 cases, lowest in 201 days; recovery rate at 97.8%
This took the country's COVID-19 tally to 3,36,97,581, while the number of active cases declined to 2,92,206, the lowest in 192 days, according to the Union health ministry.

India records 26,115 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours; active infections lowest in 184 days
The toll climbed to 4,45,385 with 252 fresh fatalities while the active cases declined to 3,09,575

India logs in 35,662 new COVID-19 cases, 33,798 recoveries in last 24 hrs; recovery rate at 97.6%
The daily positivity rate has been recorded at 2.46 percent. It has been less than three percent for the last 19 days

India records 30,570 COVID-19 cases, 431 deaths in last 24 hrs; active infection at 3.4 lakhs
A reduction of 8,164 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours as per the health ministry's data

At 47,092 new COVID cases India registers largest single-day rise in two months
The new cases are 12.2 percent higher than Wednesday’s count of 41,965 cases

US averaging over one lakh new COVID-19 infections a day; hospitalisations up by 500%
The influx of patients is straining hospitals and pushing health care workers to the brink as deaths have risen to an average of more than 1,000 a day for the first time since March

Life after COVID: Study shows symptoms persist in half of hospitalised patients even after a year
The Lancet study shows that fatigue or muscle weakness was the most commonly reported symptom with around half of patients experiencing it at six months and one in five at one year

India records 36,571 new COVID-19 cases, 540 deaths in last 24 hours; national recovery at 97.5%
The country’s toll rose to 4,33,589 with 540 more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, while the number of active cases declined by 524 to 3,63,605