Cases

In Siliguri, the dengue cases are rising rapidly, increasing concern to the concerned authority and people. So far, till August 31, there are 110 cases of Dengue were reported in the region. In order to control the spread of the disease, the authority even engaged Vector Control Teams (VCT) to ensure that the situation is under control in the town. The major reason behind dengue rise is the weather change.

As monkeypox cases are rising in India, the Serum Institute of India (SII) which manufactured the Covid-19 vaccine, spoke about the possibility of a monkeypox vaccine in India. SII CEO Adar Poonawalla said, "We are talking to Novovax. We really need to see whether there will be a lot of demand or whether in three to four months it fizzles out." Moreover, he ruled out manufacturing from scratch amid time issues.

India reported 2,338 new cases, taking the active cases tally to 17,883. On May 31, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) confirmed 19 fatalities, taking the deceased tally to 5,24,630.  In addition, with a 98.74% recovery rate, 4,26,15,574 people recovered till date. Furthermore, approximately 85.04 crore Covid-19 tests were conducted, and close to 194 crore vaccine doses were given to people under the nationwide… read-more

The daily Covid cases in India took another dip on 2nd May as the country recorded only 2,223 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. The Covid recovery rate currently stands at 98.74%. As many as 2,723 Covid patients have recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, pushing the total number of recoveries since the onset of the pandemic up to 4,25,38,976.

At least 16 cases for illegal wheat transport to Sargodha City in Pakistan's Punjab province, were filed. According to the local media, a meeting was conducted by Commissioner Sargodha Nabil Javed on March 5 about the registration of the FIR. Notably, around 14,435 bags of 50 kgs wheat, each was sold at government rate. Furthermore, state magistrate also registered cases for over pricing of food grains.