Coronavirus live updates: Jharkhand cancels Class 10, 12 state board exams

As per the DGHS guidelines, mask is not recommended for children aged 5 or below; children aged 6-11 may wear a mask under supervision of parents and doctor.

It was designed as an innovative way to promote Covid-19 vaccinations, but Washington's new 'joints for jabs' programme is off to a rough start.

A preliminary study conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) Delhi claimed that the presence of COVID-19 Delta variant (B1.617.2) is predominantly found even after getting a single dose or both doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

As many as 764 cases of black fungus have been reported so far and 49 people have succumbed to the disease in Indore, informed Apoorva Tiwari, District Data Manager, Health Department, Indore. "Till now 764 cumulative cases of Mucormycosis or black fungus have been reported in Indore. 149 patients have been discharged and 49 people have succumbed to the disease," Tiwari told reporters.

The effort to trace the origins of SARSCoV-2, which causes Covid-19, would not have been as exacting had ‘patient zero’ been found by now. In January, the WHO said we might “never find who patient zero was”. But there was a way to identify the ancestor of the virus, a molecular epidemiologist from India found by “predicting” history with data. The ancestor, or progenitor genome, it turned out, had been around since at least October 2019 and survived till March 2020.

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact people in more ways than they can handle, a Bengaluru-based initiative — Nyaaya (justice) — is helping them understand their legal rights by providing legal information through multiple platforms.

For the third consecutive day, India reported below 1 lakh fresh cases and less than 2,000 deaths. The tally for Wednesday stood at 93,993 fresh cases and 1,780 new deaths reported in the past 24 hours.

Exemplary performance by Kerala and West Bengal which recorded a negative (-6.3% and -5.4%) vaccine wastage, saving 1.1 lakh and 1.6 lakh doses respectively, shows that optimum use and diligent supply management of vaccines is possible, said central government officials.In fact, the two states reported negative wastage of Covid vaccines by making use of the “extra dose” available as a wastage factor in each vial.