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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-character-long DNA sequence from Neanderthals, an extinct species of archaic humans, which is believed to lower t...