9.32 am: India records 2,67,334 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, taking the total count of infections to 2,54,96,330 since the pandemic...
9.32 am: India records 2,67,334 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, taking the total count of infections to 2,54,96,330 since the pandemic broke out in January 2020. The country reports record 4,529 deaths, pushing the toll to 2,83,248.
9.29 am: Uttar Pradesh minister Vijay Kashyap dies due to the coronavirus, PTI reports. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other politicians pay tributes to him.
9.24 am: Singapore dismisses Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s claim that the city-state has flagged new strains of the coronavirus that could affect children.
“There is no truth in the assertion that there is a new COVID strain in Singapore,” the the country’s High Commission in India says. “Phylogenetic testing has shown that the B.1.617.2 variant is the prevalent strain in many of the COVID cases, including in children, in recent weeks in Singapore.”
There is no truth in the assertion that there is a new COVID strain in Singapore. Phylogenetic testing has shown that the B.1.617.2 variant is the prevalent strain in many of the COVID cases, including in children, in recent weeks in Singapore.https://t.co/uz0mNPNxlE https://t.co/Vyj7gyyzvJ
— Singapore in India (@SGinIndia) May 18, 2021
9.17 am: Dr Anthony Fauci, the top United States infectious diseases expert, says US coronavirus vaccines would be “at least partially and probably quite...
