However, Karanataka's  Health Minister K Sudhakar has ruled out the possibility of another lockdown in the state. Sudhakar has urged people to take necessary precautions while cautioning about the possible second wave of COVID-19

The commissioner said that these cases were detected between February 15 and 22, following which nine mobile teams were deployed and 500 RT-PCR samples were taken

CoviPath COVID-19 RT-PCR Kit has been approved under MDR 2017 rules for in vitro diagnostic use by the Indian Council of Medical Research and Drug Controller General of India in all authorised laboratories

AstraZeneca has said its vaccine appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused by the South African variant

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) mayor Kishori Pednekar said on February 16 that another lockdown will be imposed in the city if people don't abide by COVID-19 norms

This does not mean flights have been banned between both the countries. Under the restricted arrangement, only 30 flights will operate out of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru to the UK in one week

All flights connecting the UK and India were suspended from December 23 to January 7 by the central government as a new variant of coronavirus emerged in that country

Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others.  Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on, says the government

Operations till January 23 will be restricted to 15 flights per week each for carriers of the two countries to and from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru & Hyderabad only, the Civil Aviation Minister said

CSIR-CCMB in Hyderabad, which is among the ten research institutes tracing the new Covid-19 strain in India, says the new strain has not worsened the Covid-19 symptoms so far in India but there's a need to keep a tab on other new variants that might emerge

The new coronavirus strain has so far been detected in the US, Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Lebanon and Singapore

Until now, six individuals have shown traces of the new variant of coronavirus in India. All these individuals have been kept under isolation in designated health care facilities by respective state governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine

Official sources said around 300 people who returned from the UK, where a new strain of coronavirus has emerged recently, were yet to be traced

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Delhi and Kerala had missed about 25 infections for every case. However, other states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar would have missed about 300 infections for every COVID-19 confirmed case, according to a study conducted by DST committee

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With 3,36,880 recoveries and 17,707 active cases as on Tuesday, city's recovery rate stands at a healthy 93.94 per cent and active rate stands at 4.93 per cent

CAIT added that Diwali sales rose by more than 10% year-on-year, indicating 'good business prospect' for small businesses. CAIT members include retailers who sell everything from electrical items to furniture and footwear.=

Several people from the hospitality sector said that hotels and villas are doing brisk business amid the increase in tourists' footfall in Goa