India’s Covid-19 case count on Sunday reached 1,00,31,223 after it reported 26,624 new cases in 24 hours, and the country’s toll rose to 1,...
India’s Covid-19 case count on Sunday reached 1,00,31,223 after it reported 26,624 new cases in 24 hours, and the country’s toll rose to 1,45,477 with 341 more deaths in a day. The number of active cases are 3,05,344, and 95,80,402 patients have recovered from the disease.
The recovery rate in India has improved to 95.46% and the fatality rate was 1.45%. The Indian Council of Medical Research said that 16,11,98,195 people were tested till Saturday, including 11,07,681 on the same day.
While the daily infections have dropped steadily since hitting a peak in September, India on Saturday hit a grim milestone by becoming only the second country, after the United States, to report more than 1 crore cases.
Serum Institute of India’s Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla has said that he and other Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers in the country will ask the government to provide them protection against lawsuits, suing them for adverse reactions to their shots at the time of inoculation.
India’s top drug and medical device regulator Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation imposed a week-long ban on the import, sale, and distribution of the rapid antigen kits that were manufactured by South Korean company SD Biosensors for not complying with the basic requirement of sensitivity and specificity, reported Hindustan Times. For any RAT kit...
