With 336 new deaths, the toll mounted to 1,43,355 as of Monday, with total active cases at 3,52,586.

The health ministry said that more than 70 percent of the deaths occurred due to comorbodities.

The total discharged cases are at 93,88,159 with 30,695 new discharges in the last 24 hours.

The COVID-19 caseload of the country remained below 4 lakh for the eighth consecutive day on Monday. The national recovery rate is at 94.98 percent, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.45 percent.

India’s Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40 lakh on September 5.
It went past 50 lakh on September 16, 60 lakh on September 28,
70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29 and surpassed 90 lakh on November 2.

A total of 15,45,66,990 samples tested for COVID-19 up to December 13. Of these, 8,55,157 samples were tested yesterday said Indian Council of Medical Research.

On December 13, Delhi recorded 1,984 fresh Covid-19 cases which pushed the infection tally to 6.07 lakh, while the death toll crossed the 10,000 mark with 33 new fatalities.

These fresh cases came after conducting 72,335 tests including 35,611 RT-PCR tests, according to the latest bulletin issued by the Delhi health department.

With over 98.57 lakh total coronavirus cases, India’s active caseload continues to decline and is currently below 3.6 lakh, the union ministry of health said.

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A total of 585 people succumbed to the deadly virus, taking the overall fatalities to 1,31,578. However the country’s new deaths per million due to coronavirus disease in the past seven days has continued to remain the lowest in the world.

The total active cases stand at 4,43,303 after a decrease of 3,502 in the last 24 hours.
The total discharged cases are at 83,83,603 with 48,493 new recoveries in the last 24 hours.

For the 12th day today, India has reported less than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases. According to Health ministry, the recovery rate now stands at 93.58%.

The Indian Council of Medical Research said that a total of 12,85,08,389 samples have been tested for Covid-19 up to 18 November. Of these, 10,28,203 samples were tested yesterday, the ICMR added.

As covid-19 cases and death continues to rise in Delhi , Tata group in collaboration with Apollo group of hospitals launched an indigenous testing kit based on the gene-editing technology CRISPR called Feluda.

The test is likely to be cheaper than the current gold standard RT-PCR and equally accurate, helping in scaling up Covid-19 testing as it would need a machine that is widely available with laboratories and science institutions.

The global infection tally has gone up to 56,187,563 with the United States continuing to report the maximum number of Covid-19 cases at 11,525,540. The virus has claimed 1,348,600 lives across the globe, according to Johns Hopkins University’s tracker.

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Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said that the second wave of COVID-19 infections hit the national capital in September this year. He also said that many people think they can recover from the infection but do not consider that they can act as carriers and infect their family members and loved ones.

The Delhi Government is planning to ban firecrackers this Diwali completely. FIR will be filed against anyone found in violation of the ban on firecrackers this Diwali.

Experts repeatedly said that winter season along with a rise in pollution causes a dual problem for the respiratory tract. Doctors are cautioning everyone to keep in mind the pandemic while celebrating Diwali. There are not only more cases of infection but mortality is also higher among pollution-affected patients.

Pollution itself cause inflammation of lungs. A moderate disease can turn severe because of pollution. In the antibody testing done as part of a sero-survey in Delhi, for every asymptomatic COVID-19 patient, there are 20-25 asymptomatic patients.

Doctors also revealed that they are seeing more patients who are asymptomatic in recent days.

One of India’s most renowned surgeons, Mumbai based Dr Hemant Thacker issued an important warning while speaking to India Today that the last three months can produce a wave of COVID-19 infections that can be deadly.

Don’t let the pollution, the cold, the crackers and covid fatigue you. Diwali is a festival of lights. Let the light enlighten each of our mind to be dutiful.

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The total cases of coronavirus infections mounted to 28,36,925, while the death toll climbed to 53,866 with 977 new fatalities being reported in a day, the data updated at 8 am showed.

Case fatality rate has declined to 1.90 per cent.

There are 6,86,395 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which is 24.20 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 3,26,61,252 samples have been tested up to August 19 with 9,18,470 samples being tested on Wednesday.

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With 1,129 fresh deaths the total death toll reached 29,861. A sigh of relief is that the recovery rate is at 63.18 per cent with as many as 7,82,607 cured, which is almost twice the number of active patients at 4,26,167.

India is the third-worst hit country and is now adding a lakh cases every three days.

The global tally of people infected with the coronavirus neared 15 million on Wednesday with the US being the worst hit pandemic hot-spot. More than 6,17,000 have succumbed to the infection worldwide.

United State President Donald Trump warned the pandemic would “get worse before it gets better.”

Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group Andrew Pollard said that India will have to manufacture a vaccine on an enormous scale to vaccinate a large proportion of the population. He also said that in order to ensure the availability of vaccines in every corner of the country, the government has to strategise a plan to deliver the vaccine on a scale that has never been seen before.

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