India on Tuesday added 31,118 new COVID-19 cases to its total tally and 482 deaths in last 24 hours as per the data shared by Union Health Ministry.
With this addition, the coronavirus tally in India has reached 94,62,810 while toll touched 1,37,621.
The total active cases in India stands at 4,35,603 as of Tuesday after 41,985 people were discharged in last 24 hours taking total recoveries to 88,89,585.
Meanwhile, Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) could make the COVID-19 vaccine by AstraZeneca-Oxford University available in India’s market after March-April 2021.
Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on Tuesday said they have commenced adaptive phase 2/3 clinical trials for the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in India. (READ MORE)
Tamil Nadu on Tuesday reported 1,404 new COVID-19 cases, 1,411 discharges, and 10 deaths.
Total cases: 18,28,826
Total recoveries: 16,91,412
Active cases: 89,098
Death toll: 47,246
Recoveries today: 6290
Total cases: 2,70,410
Total recoveries: 2,40,105
Active cases: 27,974
Death toll: 2,331
Recoveries today: 3007
Total cases: 5,74,380
Total recoveries: 5,33,351
Death toll: 9,260
Active cases: 31,769
Recoveries today: 5036
Active cases of COVID-19 in India have remained below the 5-lakh mark, with its share further shrinking to 4.60 per cent of the total coronavirus infections reported so far, according to the Union Health Ministry.
The daily new recoveries exceeding new cases has led to a total net reduction of the active caseload to 4,35,603.
A net decline of 11,349 cases has been recorded in the total active cases in a span of 24 hours, the ministry said on Tuesday.
The Centre informed the apex court that although it has not prescribed this rule, the practice has nothing to do with "stigmatising" COVID-19 patients as it is aimed at protecting other people.
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah said that the ground reality is "something different" and as once such posters are pasted at their homes, they are treated as untouchables. (READ FULL REPORT HERE)
"The turnaround period for results should be 24 hours. However, when the labs are functioning at full capacity... The Central government had promised that they will get the tests done by big labs. But these tests results are not being provided within 24 hours," the Minister told reporters.
He said that number of tests should always remain at least 10 per cent less than the capacity of the lab to ensure timely results. (READ FULL REPORT HERE)
India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 94.62 lakh with November registering over 30 per cent decline in both new deaths and cases as compared to October, while total recoveries surged to 88,89,585, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated on Tuesday.
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Recently, following the Prime Minister’s visit to the facility, SII CEO Adar Poonawala had announced that the firm is set to apply to the apex drug regulator for emergency use authorisation of the vaccine in
two weeks. (READ ARTICLE HERE)