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China’s zero-cases policy causes first Covid deaths in six months

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China's zero-cases policy

Since Saturday, three fatalities have been confirmed in Beijing, bringing the total number of fatalities in the nation to 5,229. The killings come as China’s “zero-Covid policy” ignites sporadic demonstrations. Officials have warned that the situation in the capital is at its worst point since outbreak began. Covid deaths have been reported in China for … Read more

Beijing clamps down Guangzhou over COVID

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Beijing

The Chinese city of Guangzhou orders a five-day lockdown for Baiyun. It suspends dining-in services and nightclubs in the major business district. Beijing schools switched to online lessons. As authorities battle COVID-19 outbreaks across China, Guangzhou has locked down its main district and Beijing schools have switched to online lessons. Guangzhou, a southern city of … Read more

Anger over allegations that baby dies because care was delayed

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Anger over allegations that baby dies because care was delayed

A man in Zhengzhou said that paramedics refused to visit his four-month-old baby because she was vomiting and having diarrhoea. China is dealing with a significant wave of the virus, with more than 20,000 cases reported every day. An investigation is being conducted. Online outrage has been quite strong in response to reports that a … Read more

As the park closes, visitors unable to leave without Covid test

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As the park closes, visitors unable to leave without Covid test

Disney has become the most well-known location to close its doors. People have been warned that until they can present a negative test result, they will not be permitted to leave the theme park. It comes after Shanghai on Saturday disclosed 10 domestically transmitted cases. Due to China’s rigorous zero-Covid policy, Shanghai Disney has become … Read more

Jorja Halliday, 15, dies from uncommon cardiac inflammation

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Jorja Halliday, 15, dies from uncommon cardiac inflammation

15-year-old Jorja Halliday died from a rare heart inflammation connected to Covid. Died on the day she was supposed to receive her Covid-19 vaccination. Had been given antibiotics for a sore throat, but her condition continued to deteriorate. An inquest was told that a 15-year-old girl passed away after “astonishingly” swiftly worsening from a rare … Read more

China-based US businesses hit historic low

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us businesses

55% of 307 companies surveyed by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and PwC China are positive about the business prospects for the next five years. The reading is the lowest in the survey’s 23-year history. Only 18% listed China as the top priority for their company’s worldwide investment plans. Optimism among U.S. businesses … Read more

After Elizabeth II’s funeral, Denmark’s queen tests positive for Covid

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Denmark’s Queen Margrethe

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II tested positive for Covid. The 82-year-old triple-vaccinated queen had already received Covid in February. The Queen’s activities this week have thus been cancelled. Copenhagen: The royal palace revealed on Wednesday that Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, who attended Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in London, tested positive for Covid-19. A day after the … Read more

Boxer Amir Khan’s expensive watch and car price will blow your mind 

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Boxer Amir
  • Amir Khan is a Pakistani-born professional boxer and two-time world champion.
  • He was born into poverty but rose to prominence in the boxing world.
  • Amir displayed his pricey watch and car.

Amir Khan is a Pakistani-born professional boxer and two-time world champion. He was born into poverty but rose to prominence in the boxing world. He has always been proud to identify as a Pakistani and has never tried to hide who he really is. He has always been loved by Pakistanis, and he has made an effort to give back as much as he is can to Pakistan, whether it be through boxing, Covid, or other endeavours.

Amir Khan had tremendous professional success, which aided him in his interest of collecting automobiles and timepieces. As a result of his career-long championship success, Amir enjoys adding high-end automobiles and pricey watches to his collection. Amir displayed his pricey watch and car, the costs of which are enough to make one’s head spin, despite his claims that he has grown up and desires a simpler life.

He revealed that the watch he was sporting had a value of $100,000, which is equivalent to 23,992,540 Pakistani rupees.

Amir also revealed that his Rolls Royce, which is currently worth 250,000 pounds (or 67,994,558 Pakistani rupees), is his most costly vehicle.

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ADB lowers growth prediction for Asians as China imposes more lockdowns amid Covid-19

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adb lowers growth prediction

The Asian Development Bank has lowered its 2022 growth prediction for emerging Asia. The Philippine bank cited the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns in China and turmoil in Ukraine. It also warned of “global headwinds” to the recovery as food and fuel costs surged. Wednesday, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) lowered its 2022 growth prediction for … Read more

27 people dead in China after bus crashed on the way to Covid quarantine

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China

Bus leaves Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, for a quarantine hotel in a different part of the province. Accident draws outrage from a public growing weary with the country’s strict “zero-Covid” policies. China continues to take some of the strictest Covid-19 measures in the world. Local authorities said at least 27 people were killed when … Read more

China’s COVID curbs damage youth mental health

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COVID

To completely eradicate every COVID epidemic, China has used some of the world’s hardest methods. Because of COVID restrictions, some young people have found themselves in dangerous circumstances. In the last 20 years, China has begun to place greater emphasis on mental health. Zhang Meng collapsed in December in Hong Kong. Repeated COVID lockdowns at … Read more

Rahul Dravid recovers from Covid-19, joins team in UAE

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Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid takes charge of India’s T20 team. For the Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Rahul Dravid tested negative from COvid-19. Rahul Dravid tried positive in Tuesday before the group’s takeoff to the UAE for the six-group Twenty20 competition. The BCCI had named VVS Laxman, who heads the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru, … Read more

Secret Service recovers $286 million in Covid relief funds

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Secret Service

The Secret Service recovered $286 million in Covid relief funds that were meant for small businesses. Fraudsters used fake identities to apply for Economic Injury Disaster Loans. Estimates of the total amount of fraudulently obtained federal, state and local Covid money start at about $100 billion. The Covid relief funds, which were intended for small … Read more

Travis Barker tests positive for COVID

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Travis Barker
  • Travis Barker announced on Thursday that he had tested positive for coronavirus
  • this happened after just two months after being sent to the hospital for a serious life-threatening pancreatitis crisis.
  • Barker informed his fan with a caption on IG stating “Covid sucks I’d rather be playing drums,”

Travis Barker, a musician, announced on Thursday that he had tested positive for coronavirus just two months after being sent to the hospital for a “serious life-threatening” pancreatitis crisis.

To inform followers of the news, the Blink-182 drummer used his Instagram account.

“Covid sucks I’d rather be playing drums,” Barker, 46, wrote in the caption, alongside a shirtless snapshot of himself playing with drumsticks.

 

 

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The terrible news comes after Barker’s Mainstream Sellout Tour’s last leg, which is scheduled to wrap up in October, was revealed to include a performance on the road with Machine Gun Kelly.

Following his initial health scare, Barker allegedly defied his doctor’s advice and continued to play live, as MGK reported earlier this month.

Late in June, soon after saying “I do” to Kourtney Kardashian, Barker was admitted to the hospital with pancreatitis.

Earlier this month, a source close to the singer informed the media that “Travis’ health is top priority right now” because he and the star of The Kardashians are hoping to start a family.

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SEVENTEEN Dino cancels major US tour after being diagnosed with COVID-19

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Seventeen Dino
  • Dino, a band member, tested positive for COVID-19 in Los Angeles, according to an official statement made by PLEDIS Entertainment and posted by SEVENTEEN on their Twitter profile.
  • Dino will not take part in any upcoming activities or promotional events for the group’s current world tour Face the Sun.
  • Following this, the idol has had a little sore throat and is currently quarantining himself as a precautionary measure.

 

SEVENTEEN idol Dino will not take part in any upcoming activities or promotional events for the group’s current world tour Face the Sun.

Dino, a band member, tested positive for COVID-19 in Los Angeles, according to an official statement made by PLEDIS Entertainment and posted by SEVENTEEN on their Twitter profile.

 

Following this, the idol has had a little sore throat and is currently quarantining himself as a precautionary measure.

The actress will not be able to attend the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ show filmings in Los Angeles and Houston, which are slated for August 17 and 20, respectively.

For those who are unaware, all members of the group were invited to appear on the late-night American show Jimmy Kimmel Live on August 18, 2022.

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Moderna vaccine against the omicron variant receives its initial approval

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Moderna

Moderna’s combination “bivalent” vaccine to be in use as an adult booster shot. Each dose will target both the original Covid-19 virus and the omicron BA.1 variant. Side effects are similar to those seen for Moderna’s original booster shot and are typically “mild and self-resolving”. An revised coronavirus vaccine from Moderna that attempts to defend … Read more

Covid leaves 80,000 tourists stranded in “China’s Hawaii”

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Covid

Some 80,000 tourists are stranded in Sanya, a well-known resort city on China’s tropical Hainan island. Tourists who get stuck have to stay for seven days and pass five Covid-19 exams before they may go. Sanya residents and visitors who have been there since July 23 are not permitted to leave Hainan province after 6 … Read more

Joe Biden The extremely significant Covid isolation

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Joe Biden

A worn-out, runny-nosed President Joe Biden entered Covid solitude with his legislative programme Over two weeks later, with his agenda unexpectedly rekindled, tensions with China sharply raised, and the terrorist dead, Biden is well into his second period of isolation. The two weeks and more that Biden has been alone with his German Shepherd have … Read more

Summary of recent studies on COVID-19

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Karachi experiences rise in COVID-19 infections
  • Children’s noses were less hospitable to the COVID-19 virus earlier in the epidemic than those of adults. Omicron may be more effective than earlier coronavirus variants at infecting kids through the nose.
  • The degree of smell dysfunction following coronavir infection may be a stronger indicator of long-term cognitive damage. Two-thirds of infected people had some degree of memory impairment.
  • Researchers presented their findings on Sunday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2022. States with COVID-19 vaccinations for nursing care employees in US states had the intended impact and did not face staff shortages.

Here is a summary of several recent COVID-19 investigations. They contain research that calls for additional investigation to confirm the results and that hasn’t yet been approved by peer review.

Children’s nostrils do a worse job of defending against Omicron.
According to a tiny study, the Omicron variation of the coronavirus may be more effective than earlier coronavirus variants at infecting kids through the nose.

Children’s noses were less hospitable to the COVID-19 virus earlier in the epidemic than those of adults.

In studies of the original SARS-CoV-2 and several of its derivatives, it was discovered that the virus elicited stronger immune responses in the cells lining young nostrils than in the cells lining the nasal passages of adults and that it was less successful in self-replicating in children’s noses. The antiviral defences in children’s nostrils, however, were “markedly less pronounced in the case of Omicron,” according to recent test-tube trials combining the virus with nasal cells from 23 healthy children and 15 healthy adults.

In comparison to Delta and the original virus, Omicron reproduced itself more effectively in children’s nasal-lining cells, according to their findings.

The researchers concluded in their paper that “these data are consistent with the higher number of paediatric illnesses observed during the Omicron wave” and requested more research.

After COVID-19, smell issues could indicate memory issues.
According to an Argentine study, the degree of smell dysfunction following coronavirus infection may be a stronger indicator of long-term cognitive damage than the overall severity of COVID-19.

Around 90% of the 766 adults over 60 who were included in the study’s random sample were infected with the virus. Three to six months after infection, physical, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric testing revealed that two-thirds of the infected people had some degree of memory impairment.

The researchers presented their findings on Sunday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2022, which was held online and in San Diego. After accounting for the participants’ other risk factors, the degree of anosmia, or loss of smell, “but not clinical status, significantly (predicted) cognitive impairment.”

“The better we can track it and start working on methods to prevent it, the more insight we have into what causes or at least predicts who will experience the significant long-term cognitive impact of COVID-19 infection,” study leader Gabriela Gonzalez-Aleman of Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina in Buenos Aires said in a statement.

Immunization laws are related to better nursing care staffing
According to a study, regulations requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for nursing care employees in US states had the intended impact and did not cause widespread resignations or a staffing shortage.

Nursing homes did, however, face staff shortages during the study period in states without such laws, researchers reported on Friday in JAMA Health Forum. Staff vaccination coverage rates ranged from 78.7 percent to 95.2 percent in the 12 states with COVID-19 vaccine mandates, according to data gathered from mid-June to mid-November 2021 by the National Healthcare Safety Network.

According to the research, states without requirements “had greater rates of reported staff shortages throughout the study period” and “consistently poorer staff immunisation coverage throughout the study window.”

The researchers noted that earlier initiatives to improve COVID-19 vaccine uptake among nursing care employees by education, outreach, and incentives were in contrast to the correlation of requirements with increased vaccination coverage. The data “suggests that the fear of huge personnel gaps related to vaccine mandates may be unwarranted,” they continued.

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Sask. wastewater statistics suggest the BA.5 variant expanding strain

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BA.5 variant

University of Saskatchewan researchers found the Omicron subvariant BA.5 is becoming more prominent. The total viral load remains low in Saskatoon, North Battleford and Prince Albert. The researchers used wastewater technique to determine the breadth of COVID-19 in the community. The Omicron subvariant BA.5 is growing more prevalent; but isn’t yet the dominant strain of … Read more

DC schools’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate could hit Black students hardest

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  • Students in Washington, D.C., will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Only 60 percent of Black students in the same age range have received the shot.
  • If the mandate is strictly enforced, it may put additional strain on minority communities. Students in Washington, D.C., will be required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
  • The mandate may force many students back into remote learning situations. New Orleans became one of the few large school districts to implement a policy similar to that of Washington’s in February.

Students over the age of 12 in Washington, D.C., will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in order to attend school, a decision that may be especially difficult for the city’s Black students.

According to the Washington Post, “our goal is that no child misses a single day of school,” Asad Bandealy, the chief of the D.C. Department of Health’s Health Care Access Bureau, said of the mandate. “That means we need to get started right away.”

Approximately 85 percent of the student population in Washington, D.C. between the ages of 12 and 15 is currently immunised against COVID-19, but only 60 percent of Black students in the same age range have received the shot. If the vaccine mandate is strictly enforced, it may put additional strain on minority communities, which have already been disproportionately harmed by COVID-19 policies.

According to one Harvard University study, closed schools resulted in significant loss of achievement for students during the coronavirus pandemic, particularly among minority and low-income students.

“Students in high-poverty schools that were remote for most of 2020-21 lost about 0.45 standard deviations in math,” Thomas Kane, a professor of education at Harvard and one of the study’s authors, said of the study’s findings earlier this year in an interview with the Harvard Gazette.

Kane claimed that achievement gaps widened in districts that used remote learning for more than three weeks, claiming that in-person instruction was a “critical piece of our social infrastructure that we had taken for granted.”

However, the vaccine mandate, which is among the strictest in the country, may force many students in the nation’s capital back into remote learning situations.

Students in New York City are strongly encouraged but not required to get vaccinated unless they plan to participate in certain athletic programmes, whereas students in Los Angeles will not be required to get vaccinated after the Los Angeles Unified School District delayed a mandate that was supposed to go into effect for the upcoming school year.

In February, New Orleans became one of the few large school districts in the country to implement a policy similar to that of Washington, D.C., by adding the coronavirus vaccine to a list of required immunizations for students over the age of five.

The nation’s capital has one of the country’s most unique public school systems, governed by the 13-member D.C. Council rather than a school board. According to Anne Liu, an infectious-diseases doctor and clinical associate professor at Stanford University, officials hope that mandates like the one in D.C. will help raise vaccination rates among children.

“I believe it is to the benefit of the children, teachers, and staff in the schools, as well as the rest of the city,” Liu said, describing higher vaccination rates as a “positive thing to work toward.”

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US President Joe Biden tests positive for Covid after ‘rebound’ infection

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Joe Biden
  • US President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 again.
  • The 79-year-old first contracted the virus on 21 July.
  • His doctor has said there is no need to resume treatment but he will remain under observation. Mr Biden had tested negative for the virus four times before.

US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 for the second time, in what his doctor described as a “rebound” infection.

The 79-year-old first became ill with the virus on July 21, when he was diagnosed with mild symptoms.

 

Mr. Biden stated on Saturday that he was not experiencing symptoms but would isolate “for the safety of everyone around me.”

 

Between Tuesday and Friday last week, the president tested negative for the virus four times.

 

Mr Biden’s physician, Dr Kevin O’Connor, stated in a letter describing the situation that there was no need to resume treatment, but that the president would be kept under “close observation.”

 

Mr. Biden has been taking Paxlovid, an antiviral medication that, according to Dr. O’Connor, has resulted in a “small percentage” of Covid patients having a “rebound” test.

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‘I’m feeling great’: President Biden tests negative for COVID-19, ends isolation

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Biden
  • Biden characterised his prompt return as a “real statement on where we are in the fight against COVID”.
  • Cases are on the rise again, thanks to the spread of the highly transmissible BA.5 variant.
  • However, coronavirus deaths have dropped by 90% since he took office. Vice President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19, a coronavirus that can be transmitted through contact with contaminated human mucus.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was released from isolation on Wednesday after testing negative for COVID-19 twice, praising vaccinations and medical treatment in remarks from the White House Rose Garden.

“My symptoms were mild, my recovery was quick, and I’m feeling great,” Biden told a White House staff audience in his first public appearance since contracting COVID-19.

Biden, who tested positive for COVID-19 last Thursday, characterised his prompt return as a “real statement on where we are in the fight against COVID.” Cases are on the rise again, thanks to the spread of the highly transmissible BA.5 variant, which infected Biden. However, he claims that coronavirus deaths have dropped by 90% since he took office.

“I got through it without fear,” Biden said, citing vaccines, booster shots, and Paxlovid, an at-home antiviral therapy for those at higher risk of severe COVID-19 illness. Because of his age, Biden, 79, was in jeopardy.

Biden spoke without the hoarse voice he had displayed in recent virtual appearances.

‘My symptoms were mild, my recovery was quick, and I’m feeling great,’ President Joe Biden told a group of White House aides Wednesday in his first public appearance since contracting COVID.
Biden’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, wrote in a letter released earlier Wednesday that the president’s symptoms are “steadily improving” and “almost completely resolved.” He stated that Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday night and again on Wednesday morning, and that he could lift his strict isolation measures.

The president contrasted his own COVID-19 experience with that of former President Donald Trump, who contracted the virus in October 2020 before vaccinations were available.

“The bottom line is that when my predecessor was diagnosed with COVID, he had to be helicoptered to Walter Reed Medical Center. He was in critical condition. He thankfully recovered. I worked from upstairs at the White House for five days after receiving COVID. The difference, of course, is vaccinations.”

As Biden remained isolated, the White House attempted to portray him as a working president, releasing photos of him on the phone and at his desk, featuring Biden in pre-recorded videos, and scheduling virtual events.

People who have tested positive for COVID-19 can go out in public after five days if they wear a well-fitting mask, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

The White House went the extra mile by waiting until Biden received a negative antigen test result.

During his confinement, the White House provided daily updates on Biden’s condition, but did not make O’Connor, the White House physician, available to answer media questions.

Long after many top aides, Cabinet members, the vice president, and even his chief medical adviser had been infected by the coronavirus, Biden tested positive.

Officials said they expected Biden to test positive and had a plan in place to deal with it.

Some Paxlovid recipients have experienced rebound infections, which can occur as soon as a few days after testing negative.

According to COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha, the small percentage of Paxlovid patients whose infections recur do not become ill enough to require hospitalisation.

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India’s Tata Motors extends losses on rising costs, chip woes

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Tata Motors extends losses
  • Tata Motors announces the sixth straight quarter of losses as inflation, Covid lockdowns hurt sales volumes.
  • Net losses widened to 50.07 billion rupees ($626.6 million) in the June quarter.
  • Sales at British subsidiary JLR fell 11.3 percent to £4.41 billion ($5.32 billion).

India’s Tata Motors announced its sixth straight quarter of losses Wednesday as inflation, Covid lockdowns in China and chip shortages hurt sales volumes at British subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

Net losses for the Mumbai-headquartered automaker widened to 50.07 billion rupees ($626.6 million) in the June quarter, compared to a loss of 44.51 billion rupees in the same period last year.

Revenue from operations rose 8.3 percent year-on-year to 719.35 billion rupees with a post-pandemic demand bounce, even as sales at JLR fell 11.3 percent to £4.41 billion ($5.32 billion).

Continued shortages of semiconductor chips — a key component in car manufacturing — in addition to Covid-19 lockdowns in China and rising raw material costs hurt JLR sales, the company said.

JLR chief Thierry Bollore said the firm had reinforced its organisational setup to respond to those headwinds.

“This is now starting to recover production growth to achieve greater volumes and will allow us to take advantage of our record order book,” Bollore said in a statement.

Orders at JLR, Britain’s biggest carmaker, rose to 200,000 in the quarter.

Revenue from Tata Motors’ commercial vehicle business jumped 107.2 percent year-on-year to 162.70 billion rupees, as India bounced back from a 2021 pandemic sales dent.

But commercial vehicle exports fell 22.6 percent in the quarter, the company said, due to weak demand in some overseas markets.

Demand for passenger vehicles remained strong, with revenues up 122.5 percent on-year to 115.56 billion rupees.

The company said it sold 9,300 electric vehicles in the quarter, four times as many as in the same quarter last year.

“We expect demand to remain strong despite worries on inflation and geo-political risks while the supply situation is expected to improve further,” the automaker said in a statement filed to stock exchanges.

Shares in Tata Motors closed 0.66 percent higher in Mumbai ahead of the earnings announcement.

 

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