8.15 am: Drugs Controller General of India Dr VG Somani has permitted the Serum Institute of India to resume clinical trials of the AstraZ...
8.15 am: Drugs Controller General of India Dr VG Somani has permitted the Serum Institute of India to resume clinical trials of the AstraZeneca vaccine, commonly known as the Oxford vaccine, PTI reports.
The AstraZeneca vaccine appears to be the first that might be available to people in 2021. Trials of the vaccine were temporarily put on hold after one of the volunteers fell ill last week in the United Kingdom.
8.10 am: Globally, the coronavirus has infected more than 2.94 crore people and killed 9,33,228 people, according to the Johns Hopkins University. The number of worldwide recoveries has crossed 1.99 crore.
8 am: Here are the top updates from Tuesday:
- India’s coronavirus count rose to 49,30,236 on Tuesday with 83,809 new cases. This is the lowest daily rise in new cases in a week. The toll jumped by 1,054 to 80,776. As many as 38.59 lakh people have recovered from the infection, taking the recovery rate to 78.28%. The case fatality rate stood at 1.64%.
- Indian Council of Medical Research Director General Balram Bhargava said coronavirus reinfection was possible even though it was a “very rare” occurrence. He added that India’s Covid-19 peak was not “huge” due to an effective lockdown.
- The Centre on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha that the mass exodus of migrants during the countrywide lockdown enforced to rein in the...
