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- India has reported 47,092 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the biggest single-day rise in two months. The country also saw an increase in deaths with 509 casualties.
- Bharat Biotech’s MD Krishna Ella has said that Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines wouldn’t have received approval, if they had conducted Phase-3 trials during second COVID-19 wave, which was dominated by Delta variant.
- Around 25% of healthcare workers in Delhi were infected with COVID-19 again despite being fully vaccinated, a study conducted by the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, and Max Hospitals in Delhi-NCR has found.
- Delhi has reported 36 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of active cases to 343, the health bulletin said.
- Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has died at his residence in Srinagar. The senior leader had resigned from the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (G) last year in June, alleging that the amalgam was ailing due to its members’ “mismanagement”.
- Former Rajya Sabha MP and senior journalist Chandan Mitra has passed away. His son Kushan Mitra tweeted, “Since it is already out there; Dad passed away late last night.
- Mumbai recorded 416 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest in over a month. With this, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the city reached 7,44,571.
- Air pollution may reduce the life expectancy of 40% of Indians by over nine years, according to a report released by a US research group.
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