Coronavirus LIVE: Delhi records over 4,000 infections for 5th straight day

Coronavirus India update: Worst-hit states are Maharashtra (1,015,681) Andhra Pradesh (547,686), Tamil Nadu (491,571), Karnataka (4,40,411), and UP (299,045). Stay tuned for coronavirus LIVE updates

Coronavirus update: India has recorded its biggest 24-hour spike of 97,654 coronavirus cases. With this, India's tally has surged to 4,751,788. Death toll currently stands at 78,614. In the past seven days, India has recorded 636,889 Covid cases. After record daily spike of 248,86 cases, Maharashtra's Covid tally crosses 1-million mark.

Kerala's total number of coronavirus cases has surpassed 100,000 and Uttar Pradesh's tally is nearing 300,000. Delhi reported 4,266 fresh corona cases, taking tally to over 209,000. Sixty per cent of the daily new Covid-19 recoveries in India are from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, which also account for 57 per cent of the new cases, according to MoHFW.
 

Coronavirus vaccine update: Immunogenicity study conducted on mice for coronavirus vaccine candidate being developed by National Institute of Immunology has shown encouraging results, said NII Director Amulya Panda. Drugs Controller General of India has directed Serum Institute of India to suspend till further orders new recruitment in phase 2 and 3 clinical trials of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine candidate.
 

World coronavirus update: The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 20,803,695. While 20,803,695 have recovered, 924,486  have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 6,635,933 cases. It is followed by India, which has 4,657,379 cases, Brazil (4,283,978) and Russia (1,051,874).

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Uttarakhand reports record 1,637 Covid-19 cases

A record 1,637 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Uttarakhand on Sunday, taking the state's infection tally to 31,973, while 12 more patients died.

Dehradun district reported the highest number of 623 cases, Haridwar 318, Udham Singh Nagar 240, Nainital 211, Pauri 57, Uttarkashi 47, Pithoragarh 34, Champawat 32, Tehri 27, Almora 16, Bageshwar 13, Rudraprayag 12 and Chamoli seven, a state health department bulletin said.

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J&K records over 1,000 Covid-19 cases for 11th day

Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday recorded 1,686 fresh cases of Covid-19, while fourteen patients died in the last 24 hours, officials said.

 

The total number of cases has now reached 54,096 and the death toll mounted to 878, they said. It was for the eleventh time in as many days that the number of fresh cases has crossed 1,000 in 24 hours.

 

"The UT recorded 1,686 fresh cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours-- 875 in Jammu and 811 in the Kashmir Valley," the officials said.

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Maharashtra Covid-19 tally rises to 1,060,308 after 22,543 fresh cases

Maharashtra's Covid-19 tally on Sunday rose to 1,060,308 after 22,543 fresh cases, a health official said.

 

The state death toll rose to 29,531 with 416 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the official said. So far, 740,061 persons have been discharged, while there are 290,344 cases in the state, he said. The number of tests so far is 5,253,676, he added.