COVID-19 Daily Updates

5 new cases of UKs COVID-19 strain detected in India, tally rises to 25

December 31, 2020, 2:28 PM

Sneha Shah | New Delhi

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With five new cases of UKs mutant COVID-19 strain detected in India on Thursday, the total count of cases have reached to 25, Ministry of Health informed.

Out of the five cases, four have been detected by the National Institute of Virology in Pune and the remaining one was detected in CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) in Delhi.
All 25 patients have been kept in isolation at designated health facilities.
A total of 25 cases of mutant United Kingdom virus detected in India after genome sequencing. Four new cases found by NIV, Pune and one new case sequenced in IGIB, Delhi. All 23 persons are in physical isolation at health facilities, a health ministry official informed ANI.

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India had detected 14 cases of the new variant on December 30, out of which, eight were detected at the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, four at the National Institute of Mental Heath and Neuro-Sciences Hospital (NIMHANS), Bangalore and one each at the IGIB in Delhi and National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBG) in West Bengals Kalyani.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.