Climate Trends’ air-pollution and health expert Dr. Palak Balyan warns that air pollution is “a pandemic as severe as COVID at its peak,” adding that if cities like Beijing and London could reverse extreme air pollution, Delhi too has hope and can improve its air quality.
Over 7,000 cases of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus have emerged in China’s Guangdong province since July, triggering Covid-style containment measures, a Hong Kong-based English daily said.
Vaccine hesitancy—a reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of the vaccine—continues to be a growing global concern, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and fuelled by misinformation and distrust.
In response to public concerns around sudden, unexplained deaths, particularly among young adults, India’s top medical research bodies have found no evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to such fatalities.
A 52-year-old woman suffering from tuberculosis, bronchitis, and other comorbidities died during treatment at a hospital in Indore after testing positive for COVID-19 as well.
Addressing the UN's World Health Assembly in Geneva on Sunday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world is not over the pandemic, which has claimed six million lives, with almost 15 million excess mortality.
As per the data shared by the ministry, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.75% with 2099 patients having recovered in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally of recovered patients to 4,25,99,102.
The death toll stood static at 9,126 as no new fatality due to the infection was reported for the 20th consecutive day. Besides, 53 other coronavirus patients have died due to comorbidities so far.
As per the data shared by the ministry, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.75% with 2202 patients having recovered in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally of recovered patients to 4,25,97,003.
With this, India’s active caseload now stands at 15,044 with active cases now constituting 0.03% of the country's total positive cases.
