8.19 am: China recorded 33 new coronavirus cases on Monday, according to Reuters. Sixteen of those cases were imported. 8.14 am: Assam ...
8.19 am: China recorded 33 new coronavirus cases on Monday, according to Reuters. Sixteen of those cases were imported.
8.14 am: Assam registered 36 new cases on Monday, taking its tally to 2,16,340, according to PTI. The state’s toll rises by two to 1,054.
8.12 am: Uttar Pradesh will hold a dry run for the coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, ANI reports.
8.06 am: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces the imposition of a complete lockdown in England in an effort to control the faster-spreading mutant coronavirus strain, BBC reports. The lockdown is expected to last till mid-February. Johnson says he believes the country is entering “the last phase of the struggle”. Scotland also announces similar measures.
7.57 am: Here are the top updates from Monday:
- India registered 16,504 new coronavirus cases, taking the tally to 1,03,40,469. The country’s toll rose by 214 to 1,49,649. India’s active cases stood at 2,43,953, below the 3-lakh mark for 14 straight days. As many as 99,46,867 people have recovered from the infection in the country so far.
- The United Kingdom became the first country in the world to roll out the coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by the University of Oxford and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. An 82-year-old man was the first person outside clinical trials to receive...
