Delhi: Covid positivity rate surged nearly 3 fold between 11-18 April

WASHINGTON - World leaders and a bevy of U.S. political and foreign policy elite are preparing to pay their respects to the late Madeleine Albright, the child refugee from war-torn Europe who rose to become America’s first female secretary of state.Led by President Joe Biden and predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, the man who picked Albright to be his top diplomat and the highest-ranking woman ever in the U.S.

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NEW DELHI: The Centre will organise special drive-ins to schools to vaccinate children against coronavirus, as the government prepares to begin administering shots to 6-12 year olds, said Prime Minster Narendra Modi on Wednesday.

The Kerala government has reinstated the mask mandate in public spaces amid concerns about rising daily Covid-19 infections in the country.

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Covid challenge has yet not been surpassed. "Despite managing the Covid crisis well as compared to the other countries, we can see cases' uptick in states now. we have to stay alert," PM Modi said.

New Delhi: India has detected nearly 3,000 cases in the last 24 hours, a jump of 400 cases from the previous day, taking the tally of active cases to 16,279, the union health ministry said on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: tHE National Health Authority (NHA) has rolled out a module for nurses on Health Professional Registry (HPR) under Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). With the rollout, nurses providing health services across modern and traditional systems of medicine can enroll on HPR, the NHA said in a statement issued on Wednesday.

World Health Organization on Tuesday urged countries to maintain surveillance of coronavirus infections, saying the world was “blind” to how the virus is spreading because of falling testing rates.“As many countries reduce testing, WHO is receiving less and less information about transmission and sequencing,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference at the U.N. agency’s headquarters in Geneva.“This makes us increasingly blind to patterns of transmission and evolution.” Canada lacks robust COVID-19 detection system amid 6th wave.

Covid in a day. Overall, the fatalities count has surged to 5,23,654. The national capital Delhi reported 1,204 new Covid cases and one fatality. The city's positivity rate has surged to 4.64%.

fourth wave is “not likely in 2022" and 4% said it will not strike "for six months at least". 

coronavirus that you already had. Not necessarily against future variants". Citing last year's data, the expert said natural immunity is not always robust compared to vaccines. "Vaccines provide a standard consistent dose. Infections are not always consistent on the dose you got," he added.“Natural immunity is generally only best for the variants of #SARSCoV2 that you already had! Not necessarily against future variants. We epidemiologists have been trying to warn about this for a long time, but always drowned out by “mass infection + natural herd immunity crowd. pic.twitter.com/4ao7jFAvuG2) We have seen lots of data on this that natural immunity is not always that robust compared to vaccines. Vaccines provide a standard consistent dose. Infections are not always consistent on the dose you got. https://t.co/VPTa9szu3S

COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The active caseload is 15,636, while the positivity rate is 0.55 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.

Dr. Ala Stanford The Biden Administration has appointed Dr. Ala Stanford as Regional Director of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Kamala Harris has tested positive for COVID-19.

NEW YORK - Three out of every four U.S. children have been infected with the coronavirus and more than half of all Americans had signs of previous infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers estimated in a report Tuesday.The researchers examined blood samples from more than 200,000 Americans and looked for virus-fighting antibodies made from infections, not vaccines. They found that signs of past infection rose dramatically between December and February, when the more contagious omicron variant surged through the U.S.The most striking increase was in children.

PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced on Tuesday that a 55-year-old Philadelphia man was sentenced to almost 22 years in prison for multiple attacks against US postal workers.  September 2021, authorities say James Chandler pleaded guilty in to charges in connection with two incidents that occurred on January 11 and February 4, 2021.

New COVID-19 seroprevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the Omicron surge infected a huge swath of Americans, with overall seroprevalence rising from 33.5% in December of 2021 to 57.7% in February 2022. 

Israelis aged 60 and older given a fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine amid the Omicron surge had a 64% lower risk of hospitalization and 78% lower risk of death than those who received three doses, suggests an observational study published yesterday in Nature Medicine.Clalit Health Services researchers compared the outcomes of 328,597 pati

The FBI said this image from a police officer's bodycam shows Thomas Webster (circled in green) of Orange County, N.Y., during the riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan.

Two thirds of family members restricted from visiting their loved ones admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) for COVID-19 had significant symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 3 months later, with the greatest severity in those of Hispanic ethnicity, female sex, and previous use of a psychiatric drug, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Coronation Street.Viewers have recently watched him become embroiled in a tricky romance with Eileen Grimshaw.The 54-year-old actor has appeared in a slew of impressive roles before he stepped onto the Cobbles.Fans of the ITV soap may recognise him from his secret Corrie role dating back 30 years while others may know is his voice from a major Harry Potter role.From a little-known appearance in a rival soap to several major appearances in Hollywood blockbusters, Daily Star has taken a look into Tony's life away from the cameras.The star snagged a major role when he appeared in Harry Potter’s fifth blockbuster instalment, The Order of the Phoenix.Tony played Hagrid’s giant half-brother that he brings back from his travels.But the star has since revealed that playing Grawp was one of the toughest roles of his career.While voicing the half-human, half-monster character, Tony said he needed a golf buggy to be transported across the set because his costume was too heavy.Tony recalled to Female First: "I played Grawp in Harry Potter: The Order Of The Phoenix, and it was one of the hardest jobs I've ever done playing half-human, half-monster!"I was weighed down with these huge monster feet that were so heavy, that I could never get into the canteen and back in time.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Watch the full press conference with Tyre Sampson's mom, Nekia Dodd, in the player above.The mother of Tyre Sampson said she wants the Orlando FreeFall drop tower ride at ICON Park to be taken down after her son fell to his death while on the ride in March, and also demanded that there be stricter laws for those types of rides.CONTINUING COVERAGE: Orlando FreeFall Death Investigation"They can take the ride down completely. Get rid of it altogether.

COVID-19 response.Her appointment follows the recent departure of St. Mary’s General Hospital’s Lee Fairclough, who announced earlier this month that she is running for the Liberal Party in the upcoming Ontario election.

PHILADELPHIA - On Monday, the City of Philadelphia announced the new timeline for the implementation of the workforce vaccine mandate. According to an arbitration panel governing the mandate for employees represented by the Fraternal Order of Police, this is the final update on the matter. On February 1, the panel issued requirements, including a mandate for officers to be vaccinated by February 18. That mandate was delayed on February 28 and unvaccinated or partially vaccinated employees were not punished or placed on leave at that time. According to the panel, as of April 13, 97% of the Philadelphia Police Department have either been fully vaccinated, received at least a single dose or requested a medical or religious exemption. "Only a handful of active-duty officers remain out of compliance with the City's COVID-19 vaccination mandate policy as of Wednesday, April 13," a release from the City said. Under the new timeline, employees who do not provide proof of at least a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine or a request for exemption by May 31 will be placed on Unvaccinated Leave beginning June 6. Employees who are currently on leave must comply with the mandate by May 31.Unvaccinated employees will be required to follow additional protocols including, double-masking, wearing an N95 mask or submitting to routine COVDI-19 testing. ___RELATED HEADLINESEmployees who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by May 31 will have 14 days of the schedule prescribed for the vaccine they received. For employees whose exemption requests were denied, 10 calendar days will be given to file for an appeal.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday urged countries to maintain surveillance of Covid-19 infections, saying we are "blind" to how the virus is spreading because of falling testing rates.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks following a visit with expecting families and caregivers at UCSF Mission Bay on April 21, 2022 in San Francisco, CA. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19, a statement from her press secretary announced Tuesday. Press secretary Kirsten Allen said Harris tested positive on both rapid and PCR tests. "She has exhibited no symptoms, will isolate and continue to work from the Vice President’s residence," Allen stated. Harris has not been in close contact with President Joe Biden or first lady Jill Biden as their travel schedules haven’t aligned recently. Harris, 57, received her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine weeks before taking office and a second dose just days after Inauguration Day in 2021.

US Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for Covid, news agency AFP reported citing White House.

Photo of Paxlovid, a life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment, manufactured by Pfizer (Photo by Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden's administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, as it seeks to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people at high risk of severe illness or death from the virus.Paxlovid, produced by Pfizer, was first approved in December. Supply of the regimen was initially very limited, but as COVID-19 cases across the country have fallen and manufacturing has increased it is now far more abundant.

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Carl Girouard is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Suzanne Clermont, 61, and François Duchesne, 56, in the Old Quebec neighbourhood on Oct. 31, 2020.

Delhi on Tuesday reported 1,204 new coronavirus cases, 863 recoveries and 1 death in the last 24 hours, according to the data updated by the state health department.

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Notably, the daily Covid-19 cases more than doubled in the last two days in Mumbai. On Sunday, the city had registered 45 cases

PTI reported on Tuesday that the government has deployed over 70 enforcement teams in all 11 districts of Delhi to check violations. 

COVID-19 as hospital numbers jumped Tuesday.Pandemic-related hospitalizations stood at 2,409, a rise of 64. This comes following 204 admissions and 140 discharges in the last day.Health authorities say intensive care unit cases linked to the disease totaled 90, an increase of four.The province recorded 1,670 new novel coronavirus cases, though it’s not an accurate portrait of the situation.

COVID-19. There are 219 people in intensive care with or due to the virus.That marks an increase of 275 hospitalizations and no change in the number of people in intensive care compared to Monday’s report.

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A health worker takes a swab sample from a man to be tested for Covid-19 at a testing site in Zhongguancun in Beijing on April 26, 2022. (JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images) BEIJING - Workers put up fencing and police restricted who could leave a locked-down area in Beijing on Tuesday as authorities in the Chinese capital stepped up efforts to prevent a major COVID-19 outbreak like the one that has all but shut down the city of Shanghai.People lined up for throat swabs across much of Beijing as mass testing was expanded to 11 of the city's 16 districts.Another 22 cases were found in the last 24 hours, Beijing health officials said at a late afternoon news conference, bringing the total to 92 since the outbreak was discovered five days ago.

Denmark has said it is suspending its widespread Covid-19 vaccination campaign.

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dose of booster remained infection-free during the third wave in the country. 

Covid cases. But there is no need to panic. Precautionary measures would be taken in border areas to control the pandemic," said the CM.