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Delhi: Containment zones go up from less than 1,000 to nearly 24,000 in past fortnight
•There were 800 containment zones in the national capital on 30 December, 2020. According to the latest official figures, the number rose to 23,997 by mid-January.
After Kareena Kapoor and Amrita Arora, Maheep Kapoor and Seema Khan test COVID-19 positive, confirms Sanjay Kapoor
Fp Staff •Bollywood actor Sanjay Kapoor's wife Maheep Kapoor and Sohail Khan's wife Seema Khan have tested positive for coronavirus, as per the latest report.
November sees lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in India since May, 2020
•The daily rise in the number of new coronavirus cases has been below 20,000 for 54 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 156 consecutive days now.
From patient zero in China to over 255 crore cases worldwide: Timeline of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic
Fp Staff •The origins of the pandemic can be traced back to 17 November 2019 when a 55-year-old man contracted the virus from a wet market in Hubei province
Assam eases COVID-19 restrictions as situation improves, check details here
•Issuing a new set of guidelines, Chief Secretary Jishnu Barua said 31 percent of the eligible population of the state have been fully vaccinated, while 95 percent got their first dose.
India registers 13,596 new COVID-19 infections, 166 fresh fatalities; active cases lowest in 221 days
•The daily rise in new infections has been below 30,000 for 24 days and less than 50,000 for 113 consecutive days now
Half of COVID-19 survivors experience lingering symptoms six months after recovery, finds study
•The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, reviewed 57 reports that included data from 250,351 unvaccinated adults and children who were diagnosed with COVID-19 from December 2019 through March 2021
India records 21,257 new COVID-19 cases, 271 deaths; national recovery rate at 97.96%
•A decrease of 3,977 cases has been recorded in the active caseload in a span of 24 hours.
India logs less than 20,000 new daily COVID-19 cases, lowest in 201 days; recovery rate at 97.8%
•This took the country's COVID-19 tally to 3,36,97,581, while the number of active cases declined to 2,92,206, the lowest in 192 days, according to the Union health ministry.
India records 26,115 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours; active infections lowest in 184 days
•The toll climbed to 4,45,385 with 252 fresh fatalities while the active cases declined to 3,09,575