COVID-19 Daily Updates

Amid new COVID-19 variant, 5 passengers from UK test positive in Delhi

December 22, 2020, 4:09 PM

Sneha Shah | New Delhi

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Five people, out of 266 passengers and crew members of a flight, that arrived at Delhi airport from London, on Monday night, have tested positive for COVID-19.

The development comes after a new strain of COVID-19 has emerged in Britain, which reportedly spreads more easily than other strains of Coronavirus.

Their samples have been sent to NCDC for research and they have been sent to the care centre,” a Nodal officer for COVID-19 informed ANI.

Meanwhile, India has not yet detected any cases with the new strain of COVID-19. For the first time since July 1, India’s daily count of COVID-19 cases have fallen below 20,000 on Monday. The total number of cases in the country have been recorded to be 1,00,75,116 till date.

Recently, Government has also issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for passengers arriving from UK in the wake of new COVID-19 strain.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

Published

5 months 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

Published

6 months 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

Published

6 months 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.