Coronavirus updates: India reported on Thursday 47,092 new Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours: the biggest single-day rise in two months.

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	<strong>Coronavirus updates:&nbsp;</strong>India reported 49,029 new cases of Covid-19 and 509 deaths from the disease in 24 hours, said the health ministry on Thursday, marking a 12 per cent rise in daily infections since Wednesday.<br />
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	The new cases are the biggest single-day rise in two months.<br />
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	Active cases constitute 1.15 per cent of total cases, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate stands 97.48 per cent, said the ministry.<br />
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	Goods and Services Tax collection <strong><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/gst-collection-declines-to-rs-1-12-trillion-month-on-month-in-august-121090100788_1.html" target="_blank">crossed</a></strong> Rs 1.12 trillion in August, a 29.6 per cent year-on-year jump and the highest ever for the month since its launch five years ago, signalling recovery in business activities after the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic.</div>
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	India&rsquo;s drugs regulator <strong><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/dgci-gives-nod-for-phase-2-3-trials-of-biological-e-s-covid-vaccine-on-those-aged-between-5-18-121090101568_1.html" target="_blank">has permitted</a></strong> Biological E Limited to conduct phase 2/3 clinical trials of its &#39;Made in India&#39; Covid-19 vaccine on children aged 5 and 18.</div>
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	<strong>World coronavirus updates:</strong> Moderna Inc. and its distributor Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. ruled out a link between its Covid-19 vaccine and the deaths of two recently vaccinated men in Japan, saying a formal investigation is still needed to confirm the analysis, Bloomberg reported.</div>
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	The head of the World Health Organisation says he opposes &ldquo;widespread use of boosters&rdquo; for healthy people for now, underscoring the need to get doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to poorer countries. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus He says the U.N. health agency last week witnessed the first decline in new global cases in more than two months.<br />
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	Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said the government won&rsquo;t impose another lockdown as the country prepares for general elections next month.</div>
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Moderna said that it had filed initial data with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for clearance of a third-dose booster shot of its Covid-19 vaccine, Bloomberg reported. The company said the booster shot, using a reduced dose of 50 micrograms that is half the dose used in the existing vaccine, raised antibody levels against the delta variant by more than 40-fold in a clinical trial.&nbsp;

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Coronavirus updates: India reported on Thursday 47,092 new Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours: the biggest single-day rise in two months.

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