11.25 am: Mizoram reports 18 new Covid-19 cases , pushing its tally to 2,202, reports ANI. The number of active cases was 156 while 2,046 ...

11.25 am: Mizoram reports 18 new Covid-19 cases, pushing its tally to 2,202, reports ANI. The number of active cases was 156 while 2,046 people have been discharged so far.
11.22 am: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan says India was expecting to have a vaccine by early next year likely from more than one source, reports ANI. “Our expert groups are formulating strategies to plan on how to roll out the distribution of the vaccine in the country,” the health minister says at a Group of Ministers meeting.
10.58 am: The coronavirus tally in Telangana rises to 2,14,792 after the state reports 1,708 new cases, says the health department, according to ANI. The department says 1,89,351 have recovered so far and 1,233 people have died due to the infection.
10.54 am: The Indian Council of Medical Research says it has tested 8,89,45,107 samples till Monday. It says it conducted 10,73,014 tests on October 12.
10.49 am: Arunachal Pradesh reports 220 new coronavirus cases, including two health workers and five security personnel, taking the state’s tally to 12,367, reports PTI, citing a health official.
09.18 am: India’s Covid-19 rises to to 71,75,880 as the country reported 55,342 new infections in 24 hours. The country’s toll rises by 706 to 1,09,856. India’s active cases stood at 8,38,729, while the number of recoveries rose...