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Active COVID-19 cases remain under 10 lakh for 11th day; virus spread slowing in Mumbai slums, says BMC
Fp Staff • 4 years agoKerala reported a single-day spike of over 9,000 new cases on Friday, a day after the state government imposed Section 144 of CrPC, prohibiting the assembly of more than five people
COVID-19 transmitted by 'superspreaders', says study; September accounts for over 41% of India's 63.1 lakh cases
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe past month also saw 33,390 deaths due to COVID-19, which is around 33.84 percent of the total 98,678 deaths due to coronavirus recorded
ICMR's second nationwide serosurvey shows big jump in COVID-19 exposure, better testing rates in August vs May
Tech2 News Staff • 4 years agoThe second survey found dramatically different seroprevalence of COVID-19 in urban slums, non-slums areas and rural areas than the first.
India's COVID-19 tally nears 60 lakh with 88,600 new cases; populace far from achieving herd immunity, says Harsh Vardhan
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe ICMR's second sero-survey shows that Indian population is still far from achieving herd immunity against the coronavirus infection, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday, while underlining the need for following COVID appropriate behaviour
ICMR's second nationwide sero survey completed; researchers say data from hotspots scrubbed from report
Tech2 News Staff • 4 years agoThe scrubbed data included relatively high prevalence rates in districts in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Calcutta.
Coronavirus Updates: Serum Institute says India vaccine trials will resume after DCGI's nod
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCoronavirus LIVE Updates: The Serum Institute of India (SII) on Saturday said, "Once DCGI (Drugs Controller General of India) gives us permission to restart the trials in India, we will resume the trials."
Nearly 20% people in Andhra Pradesh had COVID-19, finds statewide sero survey
• 4 years agoConducted in two phases with a sample size of 5,000 in each of the 13 districts, the survey found that 22.5% of the people in urban areas and 18.2% in rural areas had COVID-19 antibodies
COVID-19 antibodies found in 8% people in 22 Haryana districts, shows sero-survey
• 5 years agoState health minister Anil Vij said that the positivity rate was 9.59 percent in urban areas and 6.9 percent in rural areas
Coronavirus Updates: Karnataka sees record spike in COVID-19 cases as 9,860 patients test positive; caseload crosses 3.6 lakh
Fp Staff • 5 years agoCoronavirus Updates:On Wednesday, state capital Bengaluru saw its biggest single-day spike of 3,420 cases, taking its overall tally in the state to 1,35,512
Latest sero-survey in Delhi begins in all municipal wards; 17,000 samples to be collected in 7 days
• 5 years agoThe previous surveys were done district-wise, however this month, samples are being chosen ward-wise for analysis at the "micro-level", Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain said