Here are the top updates from Monday: The Tripura government announced that schools in the state will be allowed to reopen for Classes 6...

Here are the top updates from Monday:
- The Tripura government announced that schools in the state will be allowed to reopen for Classes 6 to 12 from August 25, ANI reported, citing an official order. Meanwhile, in Telangana, all schools, anganwadi centres, and other educational institutions will reopen from September 1, Mint reported, citing Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.
- India recorded 25,072 new coronavirus cases in a span of 24 hours, pushing the country’s infection tally to 3,24,49,306 since the pandemic broke out in January last year. With 389 deaths, the toll mounted to 4,34,756. Monday’s case tally was the lowest single-day count in 160 days.
- The United States Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, Reuters reported. The shot became the first one to have received the clearance in the US. The Food and Drug Administration had in December given emergency-use authorisation to the vaccine.
- Maharashtra reported 27 new cases of the Delta plus variant of coronavirus, taking the tally of infections of the mutant strain to 103 – the highest among all states. Overall, the state recorded 3,643 new cases and 105 deaths in the last 24 hours.
- A third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India may reach its peak around October, a committee set up by the Union home ministry...