9.25 am : India records 26,567 new Covid-19 cases, taking its tally to 97,03,770. The toll rose to 1,40,958 with 385 more deaths. More than...
9.25 am: India records 26,567 new Covid-19 cases, taking its tally to 97,03,770. The toll rose to 1,40,958 with 385 more deaths. More than 91.78 lakh people have recovered from the disease so far.
9.20 am: Canada will get up to 2,49,000 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine before the end of December, after it is approved by the health ministry, the government said on Monday, reports Reuters.
Canadian regulators are due make an approval decision on the vaccine, which Pfizer is producing with German partner BionNTech, as early as this week. “Following successful negotiations, Canada will receive up to 249,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020, contingent on Health Canada authorization of the vaccine,” the government said in a statement.
9.15 am: An 87-year-old Indian-origin man from the north east of England will become one of the first people in the world to get a vaccine against Cvoid-19 when he receives a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shot at a hospital in Newcastle on Tuesday, reports PTI.
9.00 am: Here are the top updates from Monday
- The authorities in Ahmedabad extended night curfew till further notice. The city recorded 306 cases on Sunday, the highest in Gujarat. Its tally went up to 52,030.
- The number of active coronavirus cases in India fell...
