Coronavirus LIVE: Delhi reports 53 Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours

Coronavirus live updates: President Kovid says India must keep its guard up; Russia reports biggest-ever rise in daily deaths.

2:33 PM

Mizoram reports 467 new Covid-19 cases, 3 more fatalities

Mizoram reported 467 new COVID-19 cases and three more fatalities in the last 24 hours, pushing the state's tally to 48,462 and death toll to 180, a health department official said on Sunday.

2:30 PM

Efforts on to inoculate all eligible people in MP against Covid-19 by this year-end: CM

The Madhya Pradesh government was working on vaccinating all eligible people in the state against COVID-19 by December-end, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Sunday during an Independence Day programme here.

2:25 PM

India has done better than any country across world in vaccination: Bharat Biotech CMD

India has done better than any country in the world as regards to affordability and the reach to the people of COVID-19 vaccines, Bharat Biotech Chairman and Managing Director Krishna Ella said on Sunday.

In his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India takes pride in having the world's largest vaccination programme, and over 54 crore people have already taken the COVID-19 vaccines.

12:53 PM

Odisha finds 138 children to have Covid in daily cases report

Odisha detected 1,058 people to have Covid in 24 hours, said a civil servant on Sunday, expressing concern that number included 138 children. The state recorded 64 new deaths due to Covid in 24 hours to take total fatalities to 6,887. Total cases in the stand at 994,565, reported PTI.

12:25 PM

Arunachal logs 161 new cases

Arunachal Pradesh reported 161 new cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours to take its total to 51,300, PTI reported quoting the state’s health department official. Total fatalities due to disease remain at 252.

12:01 PM

India unlikely to become a $5 trn economy by 2024, says economist

India is unlikely to become a $5 trillion economy by 2024-25 due to the slowdown caused by the pandemic, University of Massachusetts professor Vamsi Vakulabharanam has said. India's economy will be smaller for a considerable period of next year compared to its size in 2019, Vakulabharanam told PTI in an interview.

9:48 AM

540 million people vaccinated: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that India takes pride in having the world's largest vaccination programme and over 540 million people have already taken Covid vaccines. "We can say with pride that the world's largest COVID vaccination programme is going on in India," he said on Independence Day.

7:18 AM

Australia gets 1 million additional vaccine doses

Australia has secured about 1 million additional doses of Pfizer Inc's Covid-19 vaccine that will start arriving on Sunday night, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. The doses, provided by the Polish government, will be targeted for Australians ages 20 to 39 years old, Reuters reported.

6:40 AM

China's new cases decline for fifth day

China on Sunday reported 53 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the mainland for August 14, compared with 66 a day earlier. That marks the fifth consecutive day of decline in new local cases, said Reuters.

6:36 AM

Assam reports 755 new cases, 11 deaths

Assam on Saturday reported 11 new deaths due to Covid-19, taking the state's total fatalities to to 5,482. Total cases in the state mounted 5,79,488 as 755 more people tested positive for the infection, PTI reported.