Coronavirus news updates: Haryana extends lockdown till June 28, announces more relaxations

India reported 58,419 new Covid cases, and 1576 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry. Less than 60,000 new infections were recorded after 81 days. Meanwhile, 39,10,19,083 samples tested for Covid up to 19 June, of which 18,11,446 were tested yesterday, the ICMR said.

Chhattisgarh records 352 new Covid-19 cases, 10 deaths

Chhattisgarh on Sunday reported 352 fresh coronavirus positive cases and 10 fatalities, taking the infection count to 9,90,675 and the toll to 13,387, a health official said. The number of recoveries reached 9,68,096 after 115 people were discharged from various hospitals while 566 others completed their home isolation stay during the day. (PTI)

A record 13.26 lakh get the jab on single day in Andhra

Andhra Pradesh achieved on Sunday what the health authorities feel could be a world record as over 13.26 lakh people were vaccinated from 6 AM to 8 PM in more than 2,200 locations in all 13 districts of the State. Covid Task Force chairman of the State K S Jawahar Reddy said it was a remarkable achievement to vaccinate 1.3 million people in a day under the mega vaccination drive. (PTI)

Assam village lights 4,444 earthen lamps for Covid-19 victims

In a unique prayer ceremony for the people who have succumbed to Covid-19, nearly 4,500 earthen lamps were lit by residents of two villages in Assam's Dibrugarh district. The Sonowal Kachari community in Naharkatia area organised the event with villagers of Na-Khotiya Sonowal gaon and Mathawoni gaon lighting the earthen lamps on both sides of the road passing through the two villages. The total 774 families in the two villages lit 4,444 lamps on Saturday night remembering the people, who have lost their lives battling the Covid-19 infection. (PTI)

China says one billion Covid-19 vaccine doses administered

China on Sunday said it has administered over one billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the country.

China has accelerated its pace of free Covid-19 vaccinations for the whole nation since late March and administered a billion doses by Saturday, the National Health Commission (NHC) said.

The NHC, however, did not say how many people had been vaccinated. (PTI)

Covid-19: Haryana to hold mega vaccination drive on International Yoga Day

A mega anti-Covid vaccination drive will be conducted in Haryana on the International Yoga Day on Monday, the state’s Health Minister Anil Vij has said.

A target has been set to vaccinate 2.5 lakh people during this inoculation drive, Vij told reporters in Ambala on Sunday. (PTI)

Mumbai reports 733 new Covid-19cases, 650 recoveries and 19 deaths

Delta variant behind Covid-19 resurge in Lisbon area

Over half the new Covid-19 cases being reported in the Lisbon region are of the more infectious Delta coronavirus variant, preliminary data showed on Sunday as Portuguese authorities scramble to curb a worrying spike in infections.

Ricardo Jorge, the national health institute, said the Delta variant, first identified in India, represented over 60% of cases in the Lisbon area though still less than 15 per centin the northern half of Portugal.

All above 45 years in J-K will be vaccinated by June end: Union Minister Jitendra Singh

Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said all people above 45 years in Jammu and Kashmir will be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of this month.

According to a Personnel Ministry statement, the minister has been informed that with the Centre's 'free vaccine for all' impetus to the countrywide vaccination drive from June 21, over 30 per cent of beneficiaries in the 18 to 45 years age group in Jammu and Kashmir would receive anti-coronavirus vaccines. (PTI)

Andhra Pradesh has reported5,646 new Covid-19 cases, 7,772 recoveries and 50 deaths.

The Haryana government on Sunday extended the Covid-19 lockdown in the state by another week till June 28, but eased restrictions imposed on weddings and funerals, and allowed corporate offices to operate with full attendance.

According to an order issued by Chief Secretary Vijai Vardhan, up to 50 guests can now attend weddings and funerals or cremations, up from 21 earlier, subject to strict observance of Covid-19-appropriate behaviour and social distancing. (PTI)

China says 1 billion vaccine doses administered

China has announced that more than 1 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine had been administered in the country.

The National Health Commission did not say Sunday how many people had been vaccinated. As elsewhere, most of the vaccines in China are given in two doses.

The pace of vaccinations has accelerated in the country of 1.4 billion people after a slow start. (PTI)

Delhi recorded124 Covid-19 cases, lowest since February 16, and 7 deaths in a day. The positivity rate was 0.17 per cent. (PTI)

Vietnam receives 500,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses donation from China

Vietnam has received a shipment of 500,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses donated by China, the health ministry said on Sunday, as the country is ramping up inoculations to battle against a more widespread outbreak.

The Southeast Asian nation approved China's Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use against Covid-19 in early June. (Reuters)

Mizoram reports 193 new Covid-19 cases, 4 fresh fatalities (PTI)

Hotels, bars, restaurants in Uttarakhand to be allowed to operate with 50% seating capacity between 6 am and 10 pm: Subodh Uniyal

Russia reports 17,611 new Covid-19 cases, 450 deaths (Reuters)

Odisha registers 3,577 new Covid-19 cases, 40 fresh fatalities (PTI)

South Korea to loosen social distancing rules on July 1 (Reuters)

Covid curfew imposed in Uttarakhand from June 22 to June 29 with certain relaxations: Subodh Uniyal

Lockdown in Tamil Nadu extended till June 28 with further relaxations (ANI)

Bars, restaurants to open in Delhi from Monday with 50% seating capacity from 12 pm to 10 pm

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Sputnik V roll out delayed in Delhi

The roll out of RussianCovid-19 vaccine Sputnik V at Indraprastha Apollo and Madhukar Rainbow Children's Hospital in Delhi has been delayed for some days, officials said on Sunday.

A spokesperson of Apollo Hospitals said the facility in Delhi will tentatively start administering the two-dose vaccine by June 25.

231 fresh cases push Arunachal's Covid-19 tally to 32,923 (PTI)

China vaccine doses pass one billion mark: Health officials

Public parks, gardens, golf clubs to open in Delhi from Monday, outdoor yoga activities to be allowed: DDMA

US sending Taiwan 2.5 million vaccine doses, tripling pledge (PTI)

Thane logs 204 new Covid-19 cases, 27 more deaths (PTI)

Ladakh records 53 fresh cases of coronavirus (PTI)

Philippines signs deal for 40 million Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses (Reuters)

More than 3.06 crore Covid doses available with states, UTs: Centre

Tokyo organisers unveil Olympic village a month before Games begin

Organisers of theTokyoOlympics opened the athletes' village to the media on Sunday, showing off apartments and a timber-laced shopping plaza where 11,000 athletes would stay and mingle during the sporting extravaganza.

The once-delayed Games are due to start on July 23 amid concern that the influx of thousands of people from around the world would contribute to the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Reuters)

31 new cases push Covid-19 tally of Andamans to 7,394 (PTI)

Bengal plans more Covid beds for women amid third wave threat (PTI)

39,10,19,083 samples tested for Covid up to 19 June, of which 18,11,446 were tested yesterday: ICMR

India reports 58,419 new Covid cases, 87,619 discharges, 1576 deaths in the last 24 hours: Health Ministry

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Covid-19 surge in Oman leads to new lockdown

The sultanate of Oman has lurched back into a strict nightly lockdown as it struggles to curb a major surge in severe coronavirus cases that has overwhelmed hospitals.

Mere weeks after lifting most restrictions amid its vaccination campaign, the country on Saturday announced a wide-ranging movement ban and the shutdown of all public places and nonessential businesses from 8 pm to 4am. (AP)

Rise in violence leaves doctors afraid, vulnerable

The Karnataka Association of Resident Doctors (KARD) said there are more than 12 documented incidents of assault on healthcare workers in the past eight to 10 months, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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China reports 23 new Covid-19 cases versus 30 the day before

China reported 23 new confirmedCovid-19 cases in the mainland for June 19, down from 30 infections a day earlier, the country's health authority said on Sunday.

All new cases were imported infections from overseas, with 12 reported in the southern province Guangdong, the National Health Commission said. (Reuters)

Cuba encouraged by early trials of homegrown Covid-19 vaccine

Cuba's Soberana 2 vaccine candidate has shown 62% efficacy with just two of its three doses, state-run biopharmaceutical corporation BioCubaFarma said on Saturday, citing preliminary data from late phase trials. (Reuters)

Uganda Olympic team member tests positive on arrival in Japan (AFP)

Mizoram reports 193 new Covid-19 cases and 3 deaths in the last 24 hours

Brazil crosses grim milestone of 5 lakh Covid-19 deaths

Brazil on Saturday crossed the grim threshold of 500,000 coronavirus deaths, the country's health minister said, trailing only the United States in lives lost to Covid-19.

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Nearly half of Bengaluru done with first Covid-19 dose

As of Saturday evening, 48.81 per cent of the city’s population had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

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DH Deciphers | Could Delta+ variant cause another Covid surge?

The emergence of a more mutated form of the infectious 'Delta' variant of the novel coronavirus has scientists on edge. Just as the Delta variant superseded all other variants, there is concern that Delta+, too, could take over. But in India, the middling pace of genomic sequencing means that not enough sequences have been processed to suggest the prevalence of this virus in the general population.

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