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India Coronavirus Dispatch: Yoga helped manage stress better in lockdown India Coronavirus Dispatch: Yoga helped manage stress better in lockdown
IN NUMBERS: Over 14,000 fresh cases reported India reported 14,199 fresh coronavirus infections on Monday, taking the cumulative caseload to 11,005,850, according to a report in the Scroll. The country saw 83 deaths due to the pandemic, taking the death toll to 156,385, according to central health ministry data. The total recoveries have surged to 10,699,410, while the national recovery rate is at 97.22 per cent. The active caseload is at 150,055, which makes up 1.36 per cent of the total caseload. About 11.1 million healthcare and frontline
workers have been inoculated since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Read more here 50% of Indians inherited Neanderthal DNA sequence that reduces risk of severe Covid: Study About half of India’s population has inherited a 75,000-characterlong DNA sequence from Neanderthals, an extinct species of archaic humans, which is believed to lower the risk of contracting severe forms of Covid-19, a report in ThePrint said, citing a new study. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS and was carried out by researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. Its aim was to examine a gene variant that was linked to a 22 per cent reduction in the risk of severe Covid-19 in another study conducted in December. Read more here