9.21 am: India’s coronavirus tally rises to 63,12,584 as the health ministry reports 86,821 new cases in the last 24 hours. The country’s ...
9.21 am: India’s coronavirus tally rises to 63,12,584 as the health ministry reports 86,821 new cases in the last 24 hours. The country’s toll goes up by 1,181 to 98,678.
8.48 am: A tenth of all patients infected with the coronavirus become “superspreaders” and account for 60% of new infections, while 70% of infected patients do not pass the disease to anyone else, the Hindustan Times reports, quoting a study on transmission patterns of Sars-CoV-2 published in the journal Science. The study also established that children are “active transmitters” of Covid-19.
The contact tracing study looked at disease transmission patterns in at least 5,75,000 people who were exposed to nearly 85,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in two Indian states: Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
8.44 am: Ahead of this year’s Durga Puja, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked officials not to lower guard despite a decline in Covid-19 cases in Darjeeling hills and continue testing and tracing protocols in the region, PTI reports.
“We cannot lower guards, more because the festive season is coming,” she said at an administrative review meeting in Darjeeling district. “Durga Puja committees should set up pandals with open spaces to prevent the spread of the virus.”
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