9.45 am: India reports 13,203 new coronavirus cases, taking the overall count to 1,06,67,736. India’s toll rose by 131 to 1,53,470. The nu...
9.45 am: India reports 13,203 new coronavirus cases, taking the overall count to 1,06,67,736. India’s toll rose by 131 to 1,53,470. The number of active cases stand at 1,84,182, while the recoveries reach 1,03,30,084.
9.20 am: The Indian Council of Medical Research says 19,23,37,117 Covid-19 samples were tested till Sunday. As many as 5,70, 246 tests were conducted on January 24.
9.08 am: A White House official says United States President Joe Biden will reimpose coronavirus travel restrictions on most non-American citizens who have been in Britain, Brazil, Ireland and most of Europe, reports AFP. The official adds that Biden will also extend the ban to travelers who have recently been to South Africa amid warnings that a more transmissible coronavirus variants are already establishing themselves in the US.
9.02 am: Denmark’s State Serum Institute says the coronavirus variant first discovered in Britain is spreading at an alarming rate and is not responding to established ways of slowing down the pandemic, reports The Washington Post.
9.01 am: England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam says that there is no clear evidence yet to show that people vaccinated against the coronavirus cannot transmit the infection on to others, reports PTI. He urges the public to continue to follow the strict lockdown rules because any vaccine-related immunity from Covid-19...
