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Covid cases: Deaths in Assam touch record highs

Guwahati: Assam reported a record 92 deaths due to COVID-19 on Monday, while the number of COVID-19 cases registered an all-time high of 6,394 persons, pushing the total number of infections to 3,35,023, the National Health Mission (NHM) said. With 26 persons in Kamrup Metropolitan, 11 in Kamrup, seven in Sonitpur, six in Darrang, five each in Cachar, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia, three each in Barpeta, Nagaon, Nalbari and Sivasagar, two […]


14.8 lakh COVID vaccine doses administered on Monday

New Delhi: The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 18.44 crore with 14,79,592 doses given on Monday, the Union Health Ministry said. The ministry said 6,63,329 beneficiaries in the age group of 18-44 years received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Monday and cumulatively 59,32,704 people across 36 states and […]


Religious and political events among factors that accelerated COVID-19 transmission in India:WHO

United Nations: The World Health Organisation has said a recent risk assessment of the situation in India found that “resurgence and acceleration” of COVID-19 transmission in the country had several potential contributing factors, including ”several religious and political mass gathering events which increased social mixing”. The WHO, in its COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, published Wednesday, said […]


COVID: Reliance Foundation contributes Rs 5 cr to Uttarakhand Disaster Mang Authority

Dehradun/New Delhi: Reliance Foundation on Wednesday contributed Rs 5 crore to Uttarakhand Disaster Management Authority as a support for COVID-19 relief measures. Thanking Reliance Foundation and Anant Ambani for the contribution, Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat said it will strengthen the fight against the pandemic.


Looking at solutions for COVID-19 variant first identified in India: UK PM

London: File Photo Image Credit: Flickr Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said the COVID-19 variant first detected in India was of “increasing concern” in the UK and the country’s health authorities are looking at all possible solutions as its case numbers continue to rise in parts of England. During the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) session in the House of […]