This was the fifth consecutive day that Delhi has recorded over 1,300 cases in a day. The fresh cases were detected out of 18,183 Covid tests conducted the previous day.

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Covid-19 Latest Updates: The death toll in India climbed to 5,24,855 with 15 fresh fatalities, as per the official data updated at 8 am on Sunday.

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On Friday, the national capital had logged 1,797 coronavirus cases, the highest in nearly four months, along with one fatality while the positivity rate had stood at 8.18 per cent.

Maharashtra is now left with 22,828 active cases after 2,802 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the number of recoveries to 77,61,032, the official said. Maharashtra's fatality rate now stands at 1.86 per cent while the recovery rate is 97.85 per cent.

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The state-run ILBS, which has a genome sequencing lab, has the capacity to analyze 350 samples in four to five days, said a doctor at the facility.

Thirty-two districts in India including 11 from Kerala and five from Maharashtra are reporting a weekly Covid positivity rate of more than 10 per cent.

Weekly positivity rate stood at 2.41% while the daily positivity rate was 2.47%.The country conducted 5.2 lakh Covid tests with a test positivity rate of 2.4%.

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The daily positivity rate has gone up to 2.35% while weekly positivity was 2.38%.

This is the second consecutive day that Delhi has recorded over 1,300 cases in a day. And, it logged more than 1,000 daily cases for the third day on the trot.

Amid a spike in daily cases, the positivity rate too has climbed from 1.92 per cent registered on June 7 to 7.01 per cent on June 15.

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There was a minor uptick in number of Covid deaths on Friday. As against 11 coronavirus fatalities, India today registered 14 Covid deaths, the govt data says.

On Tuesday, Delhi had logged 1,118 cases and two deaths while the positivity rate was at 6.50 per cent.

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The protective efficacy of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin following two and three-dose immuniszations against the Delta variant and the efficacy of the Covaxin against Omicron variants were studied in a Syrian hamster model (animal model to study human-associated diseases), it said.

While there were 15 deaths in the country in the last 24 hours, the total number of fatalities since the start of the pandemic has jumped to 5,24,792.

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Tuesday's tally is the highest since May 10 this year when the national capital had recorded 1,118 cases, with a positivity rate of 4.38 per cent

With these additions, the state's COVID-19 tally reached 79,15,418, while the death toll increased to 1,47,875, the department said in a bulletin

The national capital logged 1,118 cases. It was on May 11 that the national capital had last recorded more than one thousand cases with a positivity rate of 3.34 per cent and one death. This is the fifth consecutive day that Delhi has recorded over 600 cases in a day.

The country recorded a daily positivity rate of 2.05 percent, while the weekly positivity rate stood at 2.32 percent

Maharashtra's case recovery rate now stands at 97.91 per cent and the fatality rate is 1.86 per cent, the health department's report said

Till June 6, 118 dengue cases had been recorded in the city, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) said in the report.

"Let us accelerate our efforts to identify all beneficiaries in the 12-17 age group for the first and second doses, so they can attend schools with the protection of the vaccine," Mandaviya said.

An estimated 118.5 million blood donations are collected worldwide, of which around 40 per cent are collected from high-income countries, home to just 16 per cent of the world's population, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia Region, said.

The patients were being administered paracetamol, and not Remdesivir drug, which was used for patients in the first and second COVID-19 waves, they said.

Coronavirus Top Updates June 13: As per the official data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Monday, India recorded 8,084 new coronavirus infections in a day, taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 4,32,30,101.

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With the new cases reported on Sunday, the city's Covid case tally has increased to 19,12,798 while the death toll reached 26,221, the department said in its latest bulletin.

Tamil Nadu, after reporting a decline in new coronavirus infections, has been witnessing a surge in cases over the last week and as on Saturday 217 people have tested positive, pushing the tally to 34,57,133 till date in the state.

Noted virologist T Jacob John said the present increase in cases is not like a surge but a gradual increase that is not steady or uniformly distributed.

Coronavirus Latest Updates: The death toll climbed to 5,24,761 with four fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

On Monday, the Maharashtra government announced the re-opening of schools.

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Delhi had reported 899 new coronavirus cases and four related deaths on May 13, while the positivity rate had stood at 3.34 per cent, according to official figures.

While China's infection rate is low by global standards, it maintains a zero-COVID policy, citing the need to protect the elderly and the medical system, even as other countries try to live with the virus.

According to media reports, Director of Public Health (DPHO) Dr G Srinivasa Rao, has said that a total of 158 dengue cases have been reported in the GHMC limits.

Many neighbourhoods in the capital have been put under lockdown, with residents told to remain at home.

Six states and Union territories -- Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi, Haryana and Tamil Nadu -- have more than 1,000 active Covid cases.

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