Spike in COVID cases
RT-PCR test mandatory for passengers from China, 4 other countries
RT-PCR test would be made mandatory for international passengers arriving from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand
Centre plans COVID-19 mock drill to prepare states
Mansukh Mandaviya holds meeting with state health ministers over rising Covid cases in some countries
Centre's COVID review meeting today amid spurt in cases in US, China
Centre urged all states and union territories to ramp up the whole genome sequencing of positive samples to keep track of newer variants
Over 60% of China's population may get COVID, deaths likely in millions: Expert
Epidemiologist says more than 60 per cent of China and 10 per cent of Earth's population are likely to be infected over the next 90 days
COVID-19: India records over one lakh new cases in single day for first time
The single-day rise in cases surpassed the earlier peak of 97,894 infections reported on Sept 17, last year, making it the highest so far