Confirming this, the Health Ministry said that apart from the six positive cases found on December 29, these cases have been reported from person in Delhi and Bengaluru. The persons have been isolated, said the Ministry.

The Indian government has become alert after the new fast-spreading Covid strain was discovered in the UK.The Ministry is also planning to extend the ban on flights from the UK.

It also stepped up testing in airports. But testing people who have specifically returned from the UK may not be enough as the new Covid strain has also spread in many other countries like United States, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy and Sweden.

The health Ministry in India has now decided to test five percent of all passengers for the new Covid-19 variant.

“This particular virus strain may have its own run- it has travelled to many countries – so we have to be very careful. Initially, it is easy to suppress the spread of the virus because the chain of transmission is smaller,” Dr VK Paul, a member of the Niti Aayog, said.

The new SARS –CoV-2 is believed to be 70 percent more transmissible than the older strain but less lethal, according to scientists. Experts said that people need to take same precautions for the new virus strain and added that the vaccines currently in development will be effective against the new strain as well.

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India also witnessed a dip of 8448 in its active cases in the last 24 hours. As of Wednesday morning, there are 7,40,090 active cases of coronavirus in India.

For the fifth consecutive day, the active cases of coronavirus remained below 8 lakh in India.

India has a recovery rate of 88.8 percent. Six states – Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal- account for 64 percent of the country’s total active cases.

According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 9,72,00,379 samples have been tested up to October 20 with 10,83,608 samples being tested on Tuesday (October 20).

However, a top ICMR official warned that a person may get reinfected with Covid-19 if the antibodies against the infection diminish in the body in five months’ time after recovery.

Officials at the World Health Organisation reiterated the importance of adhering to quarantine rules for those who test positive and those who have come in contact with a positive case, as Europe faces a surge in numbers.

Globally, the infections have topped 40.2 million, with over 1.1 million deaths. Soaring cases in US battleground states pose a challenge for President Donald Trump two weeks before the election.

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The number of new fatalities also saw a drop for the ninth consecutive day. India recorded 816 deaths due to the infection in the last 24 hours.

Nearly 84 per cent of these fatlities are reported from 10 states, with Maharashtra having reported maximum number (308) of these deaths. The fatality count now stands at 1,09,150.
The number of active cases fell further to 8,61,853, while 61,49,535 patients have cured of the disease, according to health ministry.

It took 110 days for the Covid-19 cases in the country to reach one lakh while it had taken 59 days more to go past the 10-lakh mark.

The Covid-19 case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 1.54 per cent, the health ministry had said on October 11.

According to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 8,68,77,242 samples have been tested till October 10 with 10,78,544 samples being tested on October 10.

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There are 1,003,299 active cases of the coronavirus disease and 4,396,399 recoveries after 93,356 patients were cured and discharged across the country in the last 24 hours. This takes India’s recovery rate to 80.11%.

The health ministry has said India, the second worst-hit country, has the highest number of recovered Covid-19 patients globally, constituting 19% of the total recoveries across the world. “India occupies the top position in the world in terms of total recoveries. More than 43 lakh have recovered. India’s recoveries constitute 19% of the total global recoveries,” the ministry said.

The Indian Council of Medical Reasearch is actively exploring saliva-based test for detection of Covid-19 and asserted that no significant or drastic mutation in strains of Sars-CoV-2, has been found in India till now.

ICMR has been conducting large-scale sequencing of nationally representative strains of Sars-CoV-2 virus collected for several months over different time-points. He added that detailed results on mutations and evolution of the virus will be available in early October.

Globally, there are more than and 959,332 people have died, according to the coronavirus tracker of Johns Hopkins University.

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The country has logged the second highest number of cases in the world after the United States, where the tally has surged to nearly 64 lakh cases.

#IndiaFightsCorona

The gap between %Recovered Cases and %Active Cases progressively growing wide.

More than 3/4 of total cases (more than 36L) recovered & discharged.

Active Cases (less than 10.5L) only a small proportion (less than 1/4) of total cases. pic.twitter.com/wWAGHIlPsO

— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) September 12, 2020

In a tweet this morning, the Health Ministry said “the gap between the percentage of recovered cases and the percentage of active cases is progressively growing wide”.
“The gap between %Recovered Cases and %Active Cases progressively growing wide. More than 3/4 of total cases (more than 36L) recovered & discharged. Active Cases (less than 10.5L) only a small proportion (less than 1/4) of total cases. (sic),” the tweet read.

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The country witnessed 1,096 Covid-related deaths during the period taking the total death count to 68,472. 30,37,151 patients have recovered from the infection in the country, pushing the recovery rate to 77 per cent. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh account for 70 per cent of the total COVID-19 deaths, according to the government.

India’s daily COVID-19 testing numbers is one of the highest in the world, Health Ministry has said. From conducting merely 10 tests per day on January 30, the daily average has crossed more than 11 lakh, the ministry said adding this demonstrates an exponential increase in daily COVID-19 testing in the country.

Less than 0.50 per cent or 2,717 patients of the total active cases in the country are on ventilator support, according to the ministry.

After registering a low student turnout on the first day, the JEE (Main), which is underway, witnessed better attendance on Wednesday and Thursday.

According to data released by the National Testing Agency, 81.08 per cent of the registered candidates appeared for the entrance test on Day 2 and 82.14 per cent on Wednesday.

Global coronavirus infections have soared past 2.57 crore as countries tighten restrictions to halt the health crisis that has upended life for most of humanity. Over 8.56 lakh people have died of the infection globally.

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Around 803 COVID-19 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours making the total death toll to 38,938.

According to the Union Health Ministry data, there are now 5,86,298 active cases across the country, while 12,30,509 patients have been discharged.

Almost five months after India recorded first COVID-19 case, the country crossed the one million mark of active cases on July 17.

Maharashtra continues to be the worst-affected state as it has a total of 1,47,324 active cases and 15,842 deaths. A total of 4,50,196 coronavirus cases have been recorded in the state up to August 2, according to Union Ministry of Health.

Tamil Nadu witnessed 5,609 new COVID-19 cases and 109 death on August 3, taking total cases to 2,63,222 including 2,02,283 discharges and 4,241 deaths.

The total cases in Delhi have risen to 1,38,482 including 1,24,254 recovered/discharged/migrated cases and 4,021 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

Along with the number of covid-19 cases, the number of tests too have gone up in the country. On August 3, India recorded its highest single- day testing by conducting over 6.6lakh tests to diagnose Covid-19.

The total number of tests carried out in India has also crossed the two-crore mark, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

The covid-19 recovery rate stands at 65.77 percent in the country, while the fatality rate is at 2.11 percent.

India continues to improve the Case Fatality Rate(CFR) and it is one of the lowest Covid-19 fatalities recorded globally.

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