9.27 am: Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 toll may be nine times higher than the official count, shows a study by Arappor Iyakkam, a Chennai-based n...
9.27 am: Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 toll may be nine times higher than the official count, shows a study by Arappor Iyakkam, a Chennai-based non-governmental organisation, according to The News Minute.
9.24 am: United States’ Covid-19 toll crosses 6 lakh, according to Johns Hopkins University.
9.15 am: The Centre acknowledges the AY.1 or B.1.617.2.1 variant of Covid-19, which is closely related to the Delta variant, but says it is not yet a “Variant of Concern”, Business Today reports.
“We don’t know much about this yet and are studying it including the prevalence in India,” NITI Aayog Member (Health) Dr VK Paul says.
9.08 am: India records 62,224 new coronavirus cases, taking its overall tally to 2,96,33,105 since the pandemic broke out in January 2020. The toll rises by 2,542 to to 3,79,573.
The number of active cases falls below 9 lakh. India now has 8,65,432 active cases.
9 am: Globally, the coronavirus disease has infected over 17.65 crore people and killed more than 38.19 lakh since the pandemic broke out in December 2019, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Here are the updates from Tuesday:
- The Union health ministry said that the risk of dying due to vaccination was negligible as compared to that of dying because of the infection, reported PTI. This came after the National AEFI Committee studying Covid-19 vaccines confirmed that a 68-year-old man died...
