In the past 24 hours, India recorded 48,698 fresh cases and 1,183 deaths in the past 24 hours, as per health ministry data. The total number of cases mounted to 3,01,83,143.
The World Health Organisation said Delta Variant is the “most Transmissible” variant identified so far and warned it is now spreading in at least 85 countries. Rich countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who are not at great risk from COVID-19, while the poorest countries cruelly lack doses, the World Health Organization said.
Mumbai will continue to remain under Level 3 of the Maharashtra government’s phased unlock plan, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said. Cases of the Delta virus are up by nearly 50 per cent in a week in the United Kingdom.
As many as 15,810 new people tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours and 18 deaths were recorded, the UK government figures show. In the last seven days, 90,511 people tested positive – an increase of 47.9% on the previous week. 110 people have died in the last seven days – a 52.8% rise on the previous week.
Meanwhile, the Mumbai civic body has informed that the city has had an average positivity rate of 3.96% and oxygen bed occupancy of 23.04% over the last two weeks. In order to control the spread of the Delta plus virus, the Uddhav Thackeray-led administration brought back stricter restrictions in the state. Last week, despite the city’s positivity rate and oxygen bed occupancy levels trickling down to the requirements of Level 1, the BMC had decided to continue to keep its Level 3 curbs.
The European Medicines Agency has approved a new manufacturing site for Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, in a move that should boost production of the one-dose vaccine across the 27-nation EU. The EU drug regulator on Friday said the new site in Anagni, Italy, will finish manufacturing of the J&J vaccine, which was licensed for use in adults across Europe in March.
