Health

New Delhi, Nov 25 (PTI) India logged 9,119 new coronavirus infections taking the country's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,45,44,882, while the active cases declined to 1,09,940, the lowest in 539 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.

The death toll climbed to 4,66,980 with 396 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.

The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 48 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 151 consecutive days now.

24 Nov 2021; MEMO: Egypt will receive a new loan of $360 million from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Egyptian international cooperation minister announced yesterday.

Rania Al-Mashat said in a statement that the funding was aimed at "supporting the state's efforts as it recovers from the coronavirus repercussions, as well as strengthening the government's economic and structural reform programme."

New Delhi, Nov 22 (PTI) Dengue cases in Delhi this season have jumped to over 7,100, with nearly 5,600 of those being recorded in November alone, according to a civic report released on Monday.

On November 15, the city had recorded a cumulative total of 5,277 dengue cases, making it the highest number of cases of the vector-borne disease recorded in the national capital in a year since 2015.

Nearly 1,850 fresh cased have been logged in the last one week. However, no fresh fatality due due to dengue has been reported.

21 Nov 2021; MEMO: Iran claimed 44 million people have been vaccinated against COVID-19, The New Arab reported.

The country of 85 million people has been hit particularly hard by the global pandemic, which has recorded 128,000 Covid deaths, and has the highest numbers in the Middle East.

The health ministry said it recorded 118 new deaths, and 3,500 new cases in the past 24 hours.

Moscow, Nov 18 (AP) Coronavirus deaths in Russia hit record highs for the second straight day Thursday, while new daily cases appeared to be taking a downward trend but still remained higher than during previous waves of the pandemic.

Russia's state coronavirus task force reported that 1,251 people died of COVID-19 since the day before, the most since Russia had its first virus outbreak in March 2020. The previous record of 1,247 deaths was recorded Wednesday.

Kanpur: The Zika virus infection has been confirmed among 133 people in the most affected Kanpur.

The number of patients has now increased to five after two more new infected were found in Lucknow on Wednesday.

Apart from this, one patient each has also been found in Kannauj and Unnao. After which the number of Zika infected patients in UP has increased to 140.

On Wednesday, Zika virus infection was confirmed in one patient each in Alambagh and LDA Colony of Lucknow.

Kanpur: Zika has reached Unnao with only one case on Tuesday. He has been sent to the dengue ward in district hospital in Unnao.

Thus it becomes the fourth district after Kanpur, Lucknow and Kannauj.

The Health department officials said that the 35-year-old patient is from Mishra Colony in Shuklaganj.

He travels daily to Kanpur where he works at a thread factory in Lal Bangla in Jajmau area.

A total of 130 Zika virus cases have been reported in Kanpur so far.

Kanpur: Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad has said that the city has reported a total of 123 cases of Zika virus so far.

He added that out of these cases, 96 cases are currently active in Kanpur.

One case of Zika virus was recently reported in Kannauj while three cases were reported in Lucknow respectively.

He further pointed out that a total of 123 cases of Zika virus have been reported in Kanpur district so far, out of which 96 cases are active.

One case of Zika virus was reported in Kannauj and three in Lucknow.

Kanpur: Six medical colleges in the state have been provided with super-speciality blocks of 200 beds under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana.

Reportedly, each of these blocks has been built at a cost of around ₹300 crores.

Notably, these super-speciality blocks were launched in certain cities including Jhansi and Prayagraj earlier as well.

Even though the functioning of these blocks was affected by the lack of specialist doctors, these units are all set to run again.

Kanpur: Setting a new record, the state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday crossed the 14-crore Covid vaccination mark.

UP continues to be at the top among all states in terms of most Corona virus vaccinations.

Meanwhile, health officials on Saturday stated that 50 districts in UP had become free from Covid-19 infection with active cases touching the zero mark.

They said despite the decline in the number of cases, there was a need to adhere to prevention protocol as the risk of infection and complications due to it including that of death was still existent.