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PUNE: A majority of hospitals in the city have recorded a gradual drop in Covid admissions in the last 48 hours, raising hopes of the third wave already past its peak here and beginning to slowly ebb now.

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The Beijing Winter Olympics kick off in a week, putting sports at centre-stage following preparations that have been clouded by diplomatic boycotts and the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced the Games into a tightly sealed bubble.

SURAT: The number of positive Covid-19 cases has dropped to 708 on Thursday, almost five times less in just nine days compared to the highest number of cases recorded at 3,563. The number of persons hospitalised is also stablizing.

AHMEDABAD: For many residents of D Cabin and Dharmanagar localities in Sabarmati, the name Dharmendra Nayak may not ring a bell, but ask for ‘Bakabhai’ and they will immediately point you to the crematorium in the area. The Sabarmati resident has been helping people cremate bodies of Covid patients since…

AHMEDABAD: For Gujarat and Ahmedabad city, Thursday was the second consecutive day of a reduction in new Covid cases and active cases. While the daily tally reduced from 16,608 on Tuesday to 12,911 on Thursday for Gujarat, the figures were 5,303 and 4,405 for Ahmedabad, respectively.

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday allowed reopening of schools, colleges and places of worship from February 1, and revoked night curfew from Friday (January 28). The complete lockdown on Sundays too stands withdrawn.

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ALBANY, N.Y. — New York ethics panel is preparing subpoenas as it probes ex-governor Andrew Cuomo over his administration’s use of “volunteers” to manage the state’s pandemic response.