Coronavirus News highlights: India administers over 1 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses in a day, thrice in last 11 days

India logged 38,948 new novel coronavirus infections on Monday, 8.9 per cent lower than yesterday, taking Covid-19 tally to 3,30,27,621, according to Union Health Ministry data. Stay tuned for updates.

India administers over 1 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses in a day, thrice in last 11 days

India administered more than 1 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses today. This feat has been achieved thrice in the last 11 days. With this, India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 69.68 crore (69,68,96,328) today: Union Health Ministry

(ANI)

Kerala reports 19,688 new cases, 135 deaths and 28,561 recoveries today; Test positivity rate at 16.71%

(ANI)

Delhi reports 32 Covid-19 cases, zero deaths; positivity rate 0.06%

(PTI)

Allow second Covishield dose after 4 weeks from first for those who want it early: Kerala HC to Centre

The Kerala High Court has directed the Centre to allow scheduling, on Co-WIN portal, of second Covishield dose after four weeks from the first for those who want to take it earlier than the present suggested gap of 84 days.

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72% say Indian Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective: Poll

A total of 72 per cent respondents of a survey think that Indian Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective However, 60 per cent of the respondents believe that Indian vaccines are at par with foreign Covid-19 vaccines.

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Maharashtra CM Thackeray asks politicians to immediately stop 'programmes that attract crowds'

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday appealed to political parties to immediately stop agitations, meetings and other programmes to avoid crowding in the wake of a slight increase in the number of daily Covid-19 cases in the state.

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‘Living with Covid’ looks different for frontline Australian health workers

With the Delta variant raging across New South Wales and Victoria, health services are stretched and strained. Behind the scenes is a fearful, anxious and overburdened workforce.

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Vietnam's capital ramps up testing after extending Covid-19 curbs

Vietnam's capital on Monday extendedCovid-19 restrictions for a further two weeks, as authorities launched a plan to test up to 1.5 million people for the coronavirus in higher-risk areas of the capital to contain a climb in infections.

The Southeast Asian country dealt successfully with the virus for much of the pandemic, but the virulent Delta variant has proved more challenging in recent months.

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Puducherry adds 32 new Covid-19 cases, overall tally rises to 1,24,184 (PTI)

BCCI says Ravi Shastri Covid positive in RT-PCR as well

Single-day Covid-19 infection rate among children rises to over 20% in Odisha

The daily coronavirus infection rate among children and adolescents reached the all-time high of 20 per cent in Odisha on Monday as 122 of 609 fresh patients are below 18 years of age, a health department official said. The single-day positivity ratio among people below 18 years of age was at 16.27 per cent on Sunday and 17.32 per cent on Saturday, he said.

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China administered total of 2.107 bn doses of Covid-19 vaccines as of Sept 5

China administered about 7.1 million doses ofCovid-19 vaccines on Sep 5, bringing the total number of doses administered to 2.107 billion, data from the National Health Commission showed on Monday.

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Karnataka allows five-day Ganesha festival with strict Covid protocol adherence

The Karnataka government has allowed five-day Ganesha festival celebrations from September 10 in those districts where theCovidtest positivity rate is below two per cent. The government has, however, prohibited any cultural events and processions while bringing the idol to the Pooja 'pandal' or during immersion.

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Single-day recoveries outnumber new Covid-19 cases in Arunachal Pradesh (PTI)

Single-day recoveries outnumbered newCovid-19 cases in Arunachal Pradesh as 107 people were cured of the disease and 36 tested positive for the infection in the last 24 hours, a health department official said on Monday.

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80 per cent Covid-19 immunity lost in 6 months in some after Pfizer shot: US study

Covid-19 antibodies produced by the Pfizer vaccine decreased more than 80 per cent in senior nursing home residents and their caregivers six months after receiving their second dose, a US study has found.

The research led by Case Western Reserve University and Brown University in the US studied blood samples of 120 nursing home residents and 92 health care workers.

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Vietnam's capital ramps up testing after extending Covid-19 curbs

Vietnam's capital on Monday extendedCovid-19 restrictions for a further two weeks, as authorities launched a plan to test up to 1.5 million people for the coronavirus in higher-risk areas of the capital to contain a climb in infections.

The Southeast Asian country dealt successfully with the virus for much of the pandemic, but the virulent Delta variant has proved more challenging in recent months.

(Reuters)

Ladakh reports 5 new Covid-19 cases, 7 recoveries (PTI)

New Zealand eases virus curbs in areas beyond Auckland

New Zealand will easeCovid-19 curbs in all regions outside its biggest city of Auckland from midnight on Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a news conference.

(Reuters)

India logs 38,948 new Covid-19 cases, 219 deaths

India logged 38,948 new novel coronavirus infection on Monday,8.9 per cent lower than yesterday, taking Covid-19 tally to 3,30,27,621, according to Union Health Ministry data.Of these, Kerala alone accounted for 26,701Covid-19 positive cases and 74deaths.

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India's total Covid-19 cases reach 33.03 mn, death toll at 4,40,752, as per the Union Health Ministry

Sydney Covid-19 cases may hit peak next week as Australia steps up vaccine rollout

Authorities in Australia's New South Wales, the epicentre of the country's biggest coronavirus outbreak, said on Monday daily infections were expected to peak next week, as they look to speed up immunisations ahead of easing restrictions.

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In Covid-swamped Texas, patients die stranded in rural clinics

Daniel Wilkinson survived two tours of duty in Afghanistan but died of gallstones, deteriorating slowly as his under-equipped doctors looked on helplessly.

Wilkinson, 46, lived only 90 minutes by car or 30 minutes by helicopter from Houston, renowned for its top-flight hospitals. The problem is the Texas health care system has been utterly overwhelmed by people suffering from the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

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Australia's New South Wales reports 1,281 local Covid-19 cases (Reuters)

Australia takes delivery of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine from Britain

Nearly half a million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTechCovid-19 vaccine arrived in Australia overnight, officials said on Monday, the first batch of a swap deal with Britain that Australia is using to speed up its inoculation programme.

Australia is trying to contain a third wave of infections that has locked down its two major cities, Sydney and Melbourne, and its capital Canberra, putting more than half its 25 million population under strict stay-home restrictions.

(Reuters)

Brazil-Argentina WC qualifier halted over alleged Covid violations

Brazilian medical officials walked onto the field of play at a World Cup qualifying match between Brazil and Argentina on Sunday in Sao Paulo, accusing three Argentinian players of falsifying their Covid-19 information and threatening to deport them.

The head referee suspended the Brazil-Argentina match roughly seven minutes after they began to play. It did not resume.

"The referee and the match official will take a report to the FIFA Disciplinary Committee and they will decide what steps to take," read a statement from CONMEBOL, South America's soccer governing body. (Reuters)

Covid-19 curfew in Goa extended till Sept 13

The Goa government on Sunday extended the coronavirus-induced curfew till September 13. In a notification issued here, the state administration announced the extension of the curfew till 7 am on September 13. "As part of the curfew, the state government has retained the restrictions that are currently in force," a senior official said. (PTI)

Parameters to identify fake Covid-19 vaccine shared with states and UTs

The Centre has shared a set of parameters with all states and UTs to enable service providers and monitoring teams under the national Covid-19 vaccination programme to identify any fake Covid-19 vaccines so that they are not administered in the country.

This comes days in the backdrop of concerns flagged by the World Health Organization (WHO) over counterfeit/falsified Covishield vaccine being identified in the South-East Asia and Africa region of WHO. (PTI)