9.45 am: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting today with chief ministers of all the states on the vaccine roll out. 9.37 am :...
9.45 am: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting today with chief ministers of all the states on the vaccine roll out.
9.37 am: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Sunday said the government has finalised 89 sites for the vaccination drive against the coronavirus, and the first batch of jabs is expected to arrive in the Capital between January 12 and January 14, reports the Hindustan Times. “Each centre will be managed by 8 to 10 staff,” he added. “Cold storage facilities are ready and security arrangements are in place.”
9.30 am: India registers 16,311 new coronavirus cases, taking the overall count to 1,04,66,595. The toll rises by 161 to 1,51,160. Its active cases stand at 2,22,526, while the number of recoveries reach 1,00,92,909.
9.20 am: Coronavirus infections on Monday surpassed 9 crore cases around the world, as more countries braced for wider spread of more virulent strains of the disease that has now killed 19.3 lakh globally, according to a tally by John Hopkins University. The number of infections worldwide has doubled in just 10 weeks on Sunday, reports AP.
9.15 am: Here are the top updates from Sunday
- Pharmaceutical company Bharat Biotech said that the death of a 45-year-old volunteer in Bhopal during the clinical trials of its coronavirus vaccine was not related to the jab. “The volunteer...
