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India logs 7,992 new COVID-19 cases, total tally rises to 34,682,736

India COVID-19 cases

India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 34,682,736 on Saturday, as 7,992 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data. Besides, as many as 393 deaths due to the pandemic since Friday morning took the total death toll to 475,128. There are still 93,277 active COVID-19 … Read more

India reports 8,603 new COVID-19 cases

India COVID-19 cases

India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 34,624,360 on Saturday, even as 8,603 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the health ministry’s latest data. Besides, as many as 415 deaths due to the pandemic were reported since Friday morning, taking the total death toll to 470,530. There are still 99,974 … Read more

New study finds India’s indigenous COVID-19 vaccine only 50pc effective

India’s indigenous COVID-19 vaccine

India’s homegrown COVID-19 vaccine is only 50 percent effective against symptomatic infections during the peak of the country’s deadly second wave, according to new research. The new data analysed over 1,000 COVID-19 cases with a test-negative control case group, matching by age and gender, according to the study here which was published in the Lancet … Read more

Indian and South African variant of Coronavirus confirmed in KP

Indian and South African variant of Coronavirus

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department has confirmed the case of an Indian and South African variant of coronavirus in a patient.

Meanwhile, two of the patients who tested positive for the virus were detected to have the South African variant of coronavirus.

According to Health Department Secretary Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah, a few days ago all three patients came to Pakistan from the United Arab Emirates.

“All three infected patients are residents of Peshawar,” shah said

He further said that the samples of 12 more patients had been sent to Islamabad for testing.

Meanwhile, the other information said that the person who has been infected with the Indian variant of Covid-19 is 41 years old.

While the other two who have been are infected with the South African variant of Covid-19 are 38 and 18 years old.

The health secretary further concluded that peoples have to strictly follow the government’s mandated coronavirus standard operating procedure (SOPs) as the Indian and South African variants of Coronavirus spread rapidly in the country.

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First case of Indian coronavirus variant reported in Sindh

Coronavirus

Provincial Minister for Health, Dr. Azra Pechuho has confirmed on Friday that the first case of an Indian coronavirus variant has been reported in Sindh. Dr. Pechuho further revealed that the South African variant of coronavirus is also rapidly spreading in Karachi. “So far, seven cases of the South African variant and one case of … Read more