7.28 am: Mizoram’s tally rises to 1,713 with 22 new cases, reports ANI. 22 new #COVID19 cases reported in Mizoram, taking the total tal...

7.28 am: Mizoram’s tally rises to 1,713 with 22 new cases, reports ANI.
22 new #COVID19 cases reported in Mizoram, taking the total tally to 1,713. The number of active cases is 690 while 1,023 people have been discharged. No death reported in the State till date: Government of Mizoram pic.twitter.com/hbPTX093GH
— ANI (@ANI) September 23, 2020
7.25 am: Health ministry says India’s daily testing capacity has now surged 12 lakh.
As India rides the wave of very High testing, several States/UTs have demonstrated better #COVID19 response with higher Tests Per Million (TPM) and commensurate lower positivity rate than the national average: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare https://t.co/ItOdBUcheq
— ANI (@ANI) September 23, 2020
7.14 am: World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says there is no guarantee if any of the vaccine that are being developed will work against Covid-19, reports Reuters. “We have no guarantee that any vaccine in development will work,” he says at a virtual briefing. “The more candidates we test, the higher the chance we will have for a safe and efficacious vaccine. Almost 200 vaccine for Covid-19 are currently in clinical and preclinical testing. The history of vaccine development tells us some will fail and some will succeed.”
7.10 am: Here are the top updates from Tuesday
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