COVID-19 Daily Updates

Oxfords COVID-19 vaccine COVISHIELD, India’s COVAXIN may be available in India by year-end

August 21, 2020, 8:08 PM

Radhika Dhawad | Mumbai

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Oxford Universitys Jenner Institutes invention of COVISHIELD? vaccine against COVID-19, backed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca along with Pune-based Serum Institute of India, might be ready by December 2020 for Indians.

AstraZeneca and Serum Institute of India have decided to produce a billion doses (100 crore) for low-income countries including India.

A nod for conducting Phase II/III trial of COVISHIELD in India has already been given. These trials are being conducted on 1600 volunteers in 17 cities across India.

Meanwhile, Union Health Minister Dr Harshvardhan Goel said that Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN could also be available by year-end.

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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.