Amid surge in COVID cases, Chennai makes masks mandatory from today

health ministry data updated. The death toll climbed to 5,25,343 with 38 new fatalities. The active cases comprise 0.28 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.51 per cent, the health ministry said.

Today we are reporting 9,307 community cases and 570 current hospitalisations.

NEW YORK - The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is recommending all New Yorkers wear masks in certain settings, again, in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19.With the number of cases rising, the Health Dept. posted a tweet Friday encouraging everyone in public settings and in crowded outdoor places to wear a mask."We are currently seeing high levels of COVID-19 in NYC.

Two new linked studies on the effectiveness and safe dosing of theophylline nasal irrigation to treat COVID-19–related altered sense of smell have generated inconclusive results.

FILE - A healthcare worker administers a COVID-19 rapid test at an urgent care center in Denver, Colo. (Daniel Brenner/Bloomberg via Getty Images)LOS ANGELES - The omicron variant of COVID-19 has two subvariants that have now dominated most of the cases in the United States, according to data released by the U.S.

Americans are not happy with the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center.The survey of more than 10,000 US adults, conduc

ALSO READ: Serum Institute's Covovax approved by DCGI for children aged 7 to 12 years The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) granted emergency use authorisation to the Biological E's Corbevax for 5-12 year old and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin for minors belonging to the age group of 6-12 years recently. The Subject Expert Committee (SEC) on COVID-19 on 25 June recommended granting emergency use authorisation to Serum Institute's Covovax for children aged 7 to 11 years.

COVID-19 deaths and a 15-patient rise in hospitalizations today, one day after health officials formally declared the province was into a seventh wave of COVID-19.The Health Department says there are 1,549 people hospitalized with the disease after 186 patients were admitted and 171 were discharged.There are 41 people listed in intensive care, a decline of two patients. COVID-19: Quebec’s health minister says situation ‘under control’ but urges caution Authorities report 1,597 new cases through limited PCR testing, and more than 7,300 health network staff are off the job because of the virus.Quebec has had 15,663 COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, the most of any province.On Thursday, Quebec public health director Dr.

KOLKATA : The West Bengal government does not immediately plan to shut down educational institutions, even as the state is seeing an exponential rise in Coivd-19 cases.  West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Friday said the decision to shut down schools, colleges, universities remain with the state health Department. However, he reiterated that the state government does not immediately plan to close schools and colleges. "We will act as per the advice of the Health Department.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will take executive action Friday to protect access to abortion, the White House said, as he faces mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to the procedure two weeks ago.The White House said Biden will speak Friday morning "on protecting access to reproductive health care services." The actions he was expected to outline are intended to try to mitigate some potential penalties women seeking abortion may face after the ruling but are limited in their ability to safeguard access to abortion nationwide.Biden is expected to formalize instructions to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to push back on efforts to limit the ability of women to access federally approved abortion medication or to travel across state lines to access clinical abortion services.President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a ceremony to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to seventeen recipients in the East Room of the White House on July 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Biden’s executive order will also direct agencies to work to educate medical providers and insurers about how and when they are required to share privileged patient information with authorities — an effort to protect women who seek or utilize abortion services.

Scottish hospital admissions of people testing positive for Covid-19 have risen for a second week. New data also shows that admissions to intensive care units have jumped once again. 

ANI.  Further, 10 parents of pupils from the school also contracted the virus. As per reports, officials from the health department are ramping up efforts to control the spread of the disease.

Conservative organizer says Patrick Brown was personally involved in an arrangement that saw her paid by a third-party company for work she did on his leadership campaign.Debra Jodoin, through her lawyer, released a statement Thursday evening, after the party spent the past two days dealing with the fallout from Brown’s disqualification from the race.The chairman of the party’s leadership election organizing committee said Tuesday its members voted 11 to six to disqualify him from the campaign due to “serious allegations of wrongdoing.” Patrick Brown: Liberal MP seeks probe on whether CPC ‘benefitted’ from alleged wrongdoing Brown has maintained he was not provided with details by the party about the accusation against him. He said what the committee was presented with was an anonymous allegation that someone working on his campaign was being paid by a corporation.While the party hasn’t released details of the allegation, it has said it appeared to contravene financing rules under the Canada Elections Act and came from within Brown’s own campaign.A source had previously told Global News the allegation that sparked Brown’s disqualification from the party’s leadership race involved a company in Brampton paying workers for Brown’s campaign.On Thursday, Jodoin, who describes herself as an experienced organizer who has been involved with the party and its predecessor for more than 20 years, revealed herself to be the whistleblower.Jodoin said in April 2022, the month after Brown announced he would enter the contest to replace former Tory leader Erin O’Toole, she joined the campaign “at his request” to assist as a regional organizer.“Mr.

The sun was shining in Howwood for the annual village fete, returning for the first time since before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Angela Rayner has said she will not appeal if she is found to have broken coronavirus rules by Durham Police over a so-called ‘beergate’ gathering last year. The MP for Ashton-under-Lyne is alleged to have had a beer and a takeaway with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and MP Mary Foy at Durham Miners Hall in April last year when indoor social gatherings were still banned.

COVID-19 protocols and take timely pre-emptive actions. "We have been observing that covid positive patients are getting better in 48 to 72 hours. Nobody has required any remdesivir or immunotherapy.

NEW DELHI : India has recorded 18,815 new cases and 38 deaths due to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, data from the Union health ministry showed. The total number of active cases currently stands at 122,335, with around 525,343 fatalities reported due to the virus in the last two years. The total Covid cases have climbed to 43,585,554 so far.

As compared to yesterday's tally, India today reported 115 less daily COVID cases. The country also recorded a significant increase in recoveries with 1,249 more patients recovering today than yesterday. India recorded 18,815 fresh COVID cases and 38 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Health Ministry data.

A computer glitch that double counted some cases already reported yesterday resulted in today’s case numbers being incorrectly reported as 13,344. The correct figure is 9,318 which is around the same level as case numbers reported for the past three days.

Today we are reporting 13,344 community cases and 587 current hospitalisations.

A community volunteer sits next to a health code for people to scan before entering a local market and a notice requiring a negative PCR test within 72 hours in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, in a hutong neighborhood, on July 6, 2022 in TAIPEI, Taiwan - The Chinese capital has issued a mandate requiring people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before they can enter some public spaces including gyms, museums and libraries, drawing concern from city residents over the sudden policy announcement and its impact on their daily lives.The health app that shows a person's latest PCR test results has been updated to make it easier to also access their vaccination status, according to Li Ang, a spokesperson for Beijing’s municipal health commission.The list of public places requiring vaccination does not include restaurants and offices. The mandate will go into effect on Monday, with exceptions available only to those who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons."In the normalization of COVID-19 pandemic controls, getting vaccinated is still the most effective measure at controlling the spread of COVID-19," Li said in an announcement on Wednesday.More than 23 million people in Beijing have been vaccinated, Li said, which if accurate would cover the city's entire population and more.

Ontario is set to make a decision early next week on whether to expand eligibility of fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccines, amid a seventh wave of the virus, the province’s top doctor said Thursday.Ontario has been under pressure to expand eligibility for fourth doses of a COVID-19 vaccine beyond people aged 60 and older, immunocompromised people and Indigenous populations, as Quebec has done. That province has opened up eligibility to all adults.Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr.

NEW DELHI : Geo-political conflicts and the COVID-19 pandemic has put the 17 sustainable development goals of United Nations in jeopardy, according to a UN report released on Thursday.  Titled ‘The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022’, the report said that the combined crisis led to an additional 75 million to 95 million people living in extreme poverty in 2022, compared with pre-pandemic projections.  In 2021, an estimated 17 million metric tons of plastic entered the world’s ocean and the volume of plastic pollution entering the ocean is expected to double or triple by 2040, the report said.  According to the data presented in the report, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the goals are far from over. Global “excess deaths" attributed to the virus reached 15 million by the end of 2021.  93 million people worldwide were pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 and an estimated 147 million children also missed more than half of their in-person instruction over the past year.

Denzel Washington was noticeably absent from the Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony that took place at the White House on Thursday. According to a White House Official (via reports from ), the actor tested positive for COVID-19 and is set to receive the honor at a later date.  President Biden addressed the actor's absence during the ceremony in the East Room. «There’s a man who couldn’t be here today but wanted to be: Denzel Washington, one of our greatest actors in American history. Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Tony Awards, (and) wide acclaim from audiences and peers around the world,» Biden said.

The experimental cancer drug sabizabulin slashed all-cause deaths by 55.2% over placebo in high-risk hospitalized COVID-19 patients by 60 days and was tied to fewer adverse events, according to interim results of a randomized, controlled phase 3 trial published yesterday in NEJM Evidence.Scientists from sabizabulin manufacturer Veru, Inc. led the mu

A modeling study led by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers estimates that COVID-19 vaccination averted 27 million infections, 1.6 million hospitalizations, and 235,000 deaths among US adults from December 2020 to September 2021.

Legendary actor James Caan, who starred in the Godfather trilogy and other renowned movies like Misery and The Gambler, died on July 6, according to a tweet posted to his official account.

Beijing imposed China's first COVID-19 vaccine mandate for residents to enter public venues in face of a spike in cases from Omicron subvariant. China attempts to contain a highly infectious Omicron subvariant and from July 11, people will need to show proof of vaccination to enter a wide range of public places in the Chinese capital, including cinemas, libraries, museums, gyms, stadiums and training centers, a city health official told a news briefing on Wednesday.

COVID-19 variants and other coronaviruses before they even emerge.According to a news release from Caltech, the vaccine works by using spike proteins from SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — and seven other related animal viruses with the potential to cause a pandemic in humans. The spike proteins are attached to a "nanoparticle structure" developed by a team at the University of Oxford to produce a broad range of antibodies."SARS-CoV-2 has proven itself capable of making new variants that could prolong the global COVID-19 pandemic," said Caltech bioengineering professor Pamela Bjorkman, who’s leading the study.

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PAMPLONA, Spain - The first bull run in three years took place Thursday at the San Fermín festival in the Spanish city of Pamplona. No one was gored, but several runners took knocks and hard falls as tens of thousands of people reveled in the return of one of Europe's most famous traditional events.Six bulls guided by six tame oxen charged through Pamplona’s streets for around two minutes and 35 seconds without provoking too much carnage among the thousands of observers and participants cramming the course.Several runners were stomped, trampled or shoved to the cobblestone pavement.

Christian Dubé says he’ll be holding a briefing today to reinforce public health advice.The province’s Health Department reported 13 new deaths linked to COVID-19 and a 56-patient increase in hospitalizations Wednesday.There were 1,497 people hospitalized with the disease, including 40 in intensive care, and more than 7,000 health care workers off the job in connection with COVID-19. 17M Canadians got Omicron in 5 months, new federal report says Dubé, who will be joined by public health director Dr.

Health experts have warned that the peak of this wave of Covid-19 is expected next week.

Broadcaster Eamonn Holmes has admitted he has a 'long way to go' as he continues to suffer from health struggles. The 62 year old GB news presenter has been dealing with chronic back pain over the past year which left him in hospital. In March 2021 he was diagnosed with a dislocated pelvis and three slipped discs and has faced ongoing issues as a result.

Australia has said it would expand the rollout of the fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccines from next week as it battles a steady rise in hospital admissions fuelled by the highly transmissible new Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5.

COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.53 per cent, the ministry said. An increase of 4,245 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. A total of 86.53 crore tests have been conducted so far with 4,38,005 tests conducted in 24 hours.

COVID-19, patients should first consider seeking care from their regular health care provider or locating a Test-to-Treat site in their area. While this action allows state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid with certain limitations as described below, community pharmacies not already participating as a Test-to-Treat site can decide if or how they will offer this service to patients.

long Covid are caused by the protein clumps in the brain. The protein clumps were similar to those that lead to Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The study also shows similarities between the effects of Covid-19 and the early stages of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

WHO said that the  BA.2.75 covid sub-variant reported from India and some other countries ‘seems to have a few mutations on the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein' A new sub-lineage BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which has been detected in India and some other countries, are being closely tracked by the World Health Organisation, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. The WHO said that new covid cases reported across the world has seen a spike over the past two weeks.

The Ministry of Health is today publishing improved information about the impact of COVID-19 on New Zealanders, including hospitalisations  and reinfection.

Today we are reporting 10,710 community cases and 554 current hospitalisations.

What the new survey reveals: According to a survey conducted by the CBRE South Asia Pvt Ltd, 73% of the companies in India are considering hybrid working arrangements post Covid-19 pandemic as this seems to be the emerging trend with more companies primarily opting for flexible working patterns. The survey highlights that the flexible working approach is a mix of four arrangements.

COVID-19 Immunity Task Force reveal how quickly the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and its subvariants spread across the country at the end of 2021 and the first few months of this year.The task force illustrates that 17 million Canadians were infected in only five months, between December 2021 and May 2022, its data suggests.That represents an average of more than 100,000 infections a day.Task Force officials are calling this an “Omicron Tsunami.”“This variant was extremely transmissible. It caused people to have asymptomatic infections, infections with no symptoms so they went about doing their daily thing.

COVID-19 deaths have been confirmed in Alberta, according to a tweet by the provincial government on Wednesday.The province released its latest pandemic figures on Wednesday, summing up the week of June 28 to July 4.With the latest fatalities, the total number of Albertans whose deaths have been linked to the coronavirus is now at 4,636 since the pandemic began.Despite the deaths, the number of people in Alberta hospitals with COVID-19 continues to fall, down to 568 from 589 a week earlier. However, the number of COVID-19 patients being treated in intensive-care units increased this week, up to 21 from 13 a week ago.Out of 7,771 COVID-19 tests completed between June 28 and July 4, Alberta Health said 1,124 resulted in positive tests.

NEW YORK - The coronavirus pandemic could last for nearly two more years before becoming an endemic, according to new Yale research.The endemic stage will be when the virus becomes more of a seasonal nuisance, like the cold or flu, that is not seriously harmful to much of the population.A new study, published in the journal PNAS Nexus, looked at rats to model a potential future with the virus. Rats can also get coronaviruses.Researchers looked at a coronavirus that is similar to one that causes the common cold in humans and how it was transmitted among rats.

COVID-19 deaths in 2020 led to the biggest life expectancy drop in the United States since World War II, according to a new reports from a federal research group.