From Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting to discuss the vaccine rollout, to a new virus variant reported among travellers from Brazil - here are the top news updates on the Covid-19 pandemic. PM Modi will meet all chief ministers on January 11 to discuss the start of the immunisation program from January 16. Meanwhile, Japan said that it had detected a new variant of the virus among travellers from Brazil. Earlier, new strains were detected in the United Kingdom and South Africa. On the vaccination front, Germany is struggling to ramp up immunisation. Watch the full video for the other updates on the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus.