9.35 am: India records 24,712 new coronavirus cases, taking its tally to 1,01,23,778. With 312 deaths, the toll is at 1,46,756. As many as...
9.35 am: India records 24,712 new coronavirus cases, taking its tally to 1,01,23,778. With 312 deaths, the toll is at 1,46,756. As many as 96,93,173 people have recovered from the infection. The country has 2,83,849 active cases, according to the health ministry data.
8.50 am: The University of Oxford and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca have applied to the UK health regulator for permission to roll out their coronavirus vaccine in the country, reports AFP.
8.55 am: More than a million people in the United States have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, reports Reuters, citing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
8.42 am: Britain has also announced restrictions on travel from South Africa, reports AFP. “This new variant is highly concerning, because it is yet more transmissible, and it appears to have mutated further than the new variant that has been discovered in the UK,” the health secretary, while announcing the immediate curbs, said.
8.40 am: British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced that a new, potentially more infectious variant of the coronavirus from South Africa has been detected in the UK, reports Reuters.
“Thanks to the impressive genomic capability of the South Africans, we’ve detected two cases of another new variant of coronavirus here in the UK,” Hancock told a press briefing....
