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Highlights: Pentagon to deploy troops for Covid-19 vaccination assistance
India’s Covid-19 caseload is the second-highest in the world, behind that of the United States, and ahead of Brazil’s. The United Kingdom is at fourth, followed by Russia.
India’s count of cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) crossed 10.8 million as the Union health ministry on Friday said that the country logged 12,408 new infections in the preceding 24 hours. While the pandemic situation has come under control in most states and Union territories, it is still a concern in the states of Kerala and Maharashtra, which, the health ministry says, have the highest number of active Covid-19 cases in India. Maharashtra is the only state to have topped the 20 million case mark, while Kerala’s tally is second highest at more than 944,000. Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are the next three states with the highest Covid-19 caseloads, respectively....Read More
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Earlier, on Thursday, the government said that healthcare workers will be administered second dose of Covid-19 vaccine from February 13. India started the world’s largest vaccination drive against Covid-19 on January 16, and 30 million healthcare workers are to be inoculated in the first phase. In the second phase, 270 million people, including senior citizens, will be vaccinated. India is using vaccines developed by Oxford University-AstraZeneca (Covishield) and Bharat Biotech International Limited (Covaxin). Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) is manufacturing Covishield in the country, while Covaxin is its first indigenous vaccine against the disease.
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President Joe Biden's administration on Friday announced that the Pentagon had approved the deployment of 1,100 active-duty troops to assist with Covid-19 vaccination efforts in the United States, reports Reuters.
Italy reports 377 new coronavirus cases
Italy reported 377 coronavirus-related deaths on Friday against 421 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections rose to 14,218 from 13,659 the day before, reports Reuters.
Georgia records 538 new Covid cases
Georgia on Friday reported 538 new Covid-19 cases taking its total count to 261,018, according to the country's National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), reports ANI/Xinhua.
Arunachal Pradesh has highest Covid-19 recovery rate in India: State health minister
Arunachal Pradesh has the highest Covid-19 recovery rate of 99.61 per cent among all other states in India, a minister claimed on Friday, reports PTI.
Philippines reports 8 new cases of UK Covid variant
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Maharashtra home minister tests Covid positive
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh says he has tested positive for Covid-19, reports ANI.
Manipur logs 11 new Covid cases
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Oxford says the AstraZeneca vaccine works against coronavirus variants
Oxford university has declared in an academic paper that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine works on all the known coronavirus variants, reported Reuters. The paper is yet to be peer-reviewed.
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Andhra Pradesh records 97 new cases of Covid-19, 1 fatality
Delhi records 154 new cases of Covid-19, 2 fatalities
India has received requests for vaccine supply from 22 nations: health ministry
The Union health ministry said in the Lok Sabha on Friday that India has received vaccine supply request from 22 nations so far. Out of which 15 nations have already been given grant assistance and contract doses, reported news agency ANI.
AstraZeneca applies for emergency approval in Japan
AstraZeneca announced on Friday that it has applied for an emergency use authorisation in Japan, reported AFP. Becoming the second Pharma company after Pfizer to do so.
Active Covid-19 cases in India falls down to 1.51 lakh
On Friday, India's total active case load of Covid-19 dropped to 1.51 lakh in the span of 24 hours, which is less than total deaths recorded till date, said an official statement by the Ministry of health and family welfare.
Russia records 16,688 new COVID-19 cases, 527 deaths
Russia on Friday recorded 16,688 new cases of Covid-19, taking the countrywide toll to 3,934,606. In the same time period 527 deaths were also reported, pushing the death toll to 75,732, reported Reuters.
Germany has witnessed more than 60,000 fatalities since Covid-19 pandemic started
Germany in the last 24 hours recorded 855 fatalities, pushing its total death toll to 60,597. The number of confirmed cases in Germany rose by 12,908 to 2,264,909 in the same time period, reported news agency ANI.
India records 112 Covid-19 deaths per million, among the lowest in the world
In the last 24 hours India recorded 120 coronavirus related deaths, with Maharashtra witnessing the highest number of casualties at 46. India now has one of the lowest death rates in the world, at 112 deaths per million.
Gap between recovered and active cases continues to increase
Pfizer withdraws emergency use application in India
Pharma giant Pfizer announced that it has withdrawn application for Emergency Use Authorisation of its vaccines in India, reported PTI.
New study finds Covid-19 patients are more susceptible to cardiac arrests
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India's active Covid-19 cases below 152,000
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India records 12,408 new Covid-19 cases as tally tops 10.8 million
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J&J seeks vaccine approval in US
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson asked US regulators on Thursday for emergency authorization of its single-shot Covid vaccine.
