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COVID-19 Compendium(February 2025): Official Information on COVID-19 Released by India and the WHO [HTML and PDF]

Feb 28, 2025 11:30 IST

Updated: Mar 18, 2025 14:32 IST

Healthcare workers arrange medical equipments and beds at the Government Fever Hospital after the Centre issued COVID advisory measures, in Hyderabad, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. File photo: PTI

An up-to-date compilation of more than 1,800 official statements by the Government of India from January 17, 2020. Links to articles published by The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy on COVID-19, daily State-wise Status by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, all-India SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Testing Status by the Indian Council of Medical Research, and the WHO’s ‘Global Situation Reports’ and ‘India Updates’ are also provided on this page.

COVID-19 updates from India and the World
COVID-19 State-wise Status - February 2025 Source: MoHFW, Government of India	WHO Global Situation Reports on COVID-19 [External Link]. Source: World Health Organization
Daily Updates from Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi (ICMR) [External Link] Source: ICMR, New Delhi	Weekly Epidemiological Reports on COVID-19 - February 2025 Source: World Health Organization
PIB Daily Bulletin on COVID19 - October 2022 (Last updated on October 28, 2022; 6.02 p.m.) Source: PIB, Government of India	The WHO’s India Updates on COVID-19, Updates 1-116. (Last updated on July 22, 2022) Source: World Health Organization - India

PIB Press Releases – COVID-19 for the year 2025
JANUARY

COVID-19: Month-wise Press Releases for the Year :- 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023 and 2024

External Links on COVID-19

Press Releases in February

February 7, 2025

1906. Steps taken to control the spread of HMPV - Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

The Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) has been present globally since 2001. The data from Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) does not indicate any unusual rise in Influenza Like Illness (ILI)/Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) cases anywhere in the country which has also been corroborated by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) sentinel surveillance data. Since January 6th, 2025 till 29th January 2025 a total of 59 cases have been reported by 11 States/UTs in India. 1.57 p.m. IST. Read more... [https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=2100594]. Click here for PDF.

Related Articles on COVID-19 published by The Hindu Centre

Priya, R, et al., 2022 . COVID-19: Urban Middle Class Survey Highlights Need for People’s Agency in Policy Making , The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, February 18.

Subramanian, S. 2021 . Pandemic-induced Poverty in India after the First Wave of COVID-19: An Elaboration of Two Earlier Estimates , The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, August 19.

Shankar, G. and Kumari, R. 2020 . The Migrant Economy During the Pandemic: An Exploratory Study in Baisi Block, Bihar , The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, December 10.

Jacob, N. 2020 . Sewage Testing as a Pandemic Monitoring Tool , The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, September 10.

Chaturvedi, S. 2020 . Pandemic Exposes Weaknesses in India’s Disaster Management Responses , The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, September 3.

Mudliar, P. 2020 . A Reality Check on India’s Search for Digital Utopia , The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, August 28.

Ebenezer, R. 2020 . Ensuring Zero Tolerance for all Forms of Forced Labour , The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, July 14.

Ngullie, O. G. and Ansari, A. A. 2020 . India’s Public Distribution System and the Pandemic – Revisiting Delhi’s Beneficiaries , The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, June 26.

Vijay, G. and Gudavarthy, A. 2020 . A Pandemic as a Political Reality Check , The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, April 15.

External Links on COVID-19

Statement on the eighth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

Source : World Health Organization. [https://www.who.int/news/item/15-07-2021-statement-on-the-eighth-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-19)-pandemic].

Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline

Source : World Health Organization. [https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-therapeutics-2021.1].

Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme

Source : World Health Organization. [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA74/A74_16-en.pdf].

Information related to COVID-19

Source : Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.

ICMR Third National Sero-survey for SARS-CoV-2 infection

Source: Indian Council of Medical Research.

Government of India PIB Press Briefing, 4 ^th February 2021

Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Governement of India.

COVID-19 VACCINE COMMUNICATION STRATEGY

Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Governement of India.