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India Coronavirus Dispatch: Daily cases under 10,000 for fourth time in Feb
Longer wait for vaccines in private market, how India compares in total vaccinations, using an ATM without contact-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19
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SC to hear PIL for including judges, staff in priority for Covid vaccine
A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian posted the petition filed by an advocate for hearing after two weeks
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Australia approves AstraZeneca vaccine, PM Morrison to be vaccinated
Pfizer's product will be available in Australia next week. It will be given in two doses three weeks apart, while AstraZeneca's will be administered in two doses 12 weeks apart
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WHO authorises AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use
In a statement Monday, the WHO said it was clearing the AstraZeneca vaccines made by the Serum Institute of India and South Korea's AstraZeneca-SKBio
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Maharashtra: Thane sees 285 new coronavirus cases, one death in 24 hrs
The COVID-19 mortality rate in the district now stands at 2.41 per cent, the official said, adding that the number of active cases stood at 3,290
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DATA STORY: Active Covid cases down 9.7% in a day globally, 2% in India
With 435,527 more vaccine shots being administered on Monday, the total number of people inoculated in India has reached 8,720,822 - that is 79.82% of its total caseload, and 0.6281% of population
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Global Covid-19 cases top 109 million, death surge 2.40 mn : Johns Hopkins
The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 27,692,690 and 486,317, respectively, according to the CSSE
No new coronavirus cases raise hopes New Zealand will end lockdown
Health officials have been ramping up testing since the outbreak. On Monday, they administered more than 15,000 tests and processed the results of nearly 6,000
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Russia's Covid-19 cases up 14,207 to 4,086,090, death toll jumps by 394
According to the statement, 3,607,036 people have so far recovered, including 13,935 recoveries over the past day
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Palestinians say Israel blocks shipment of coronavirus vaccines to Gaza
The Palestinian Authority said Monday that Israel was preventing it from sending coronavirus vaccines to the Gaza Strip
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UN approves AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use
WHO has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine, a move that should allow the UN agency's partners to ship millions of doses to countries worldwide
Explained: UN vaccine plan for poor countries, Covax, nears roll-out
It's nearly launch time for COVAX, the United Nations' unprecedented program to deploy COVID-19 vaccines for hundreds of millions in need around the globe
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Chhattisgarh records 274 new coronavirus cases, 5 deaths
Chhattisgarhs COVID-19 tally rose to 3,09,373 on Monday as 274 more people tested positive for the infection, while five fresh fatalities took the toll to 3,777, a health official said.
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Covid-19 vaccines not ready for open-market roll-out yet, says govt
This is because the government is not willing to take chances with technical protocols and the responsibility of a national vaccine roll-out
India may approve Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine within next few weeks
Small human trials of the Russian vaccine have been ongoing in India
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Covid-19: Maharashtra says situation "alarming"; meeting on Tuesday
Maharashtra saw the daily count fall on Monday but it remained above 3,000 for the sixth straight day as the state government termed the situation as "alarming"
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Covid immunisation: 14,965 beneficiaries receive vaccine shots in Delhi
Nearly 15,000 beneficiaries in Delhi received COVID-19 vaccine shots on Monday and of them 2,191 got their second dose, officials said.
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Madhya Pradesh sees 203 new Covid-19 cases; 194 recoveries, 4 deaths
Madhya Pradesh on Monday reported 203 fresh coronavirus positive cases
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Boyle to Khamenei: The superspreaders behind top Covid conspiracy theories
Mr. Boyle says the coronavirus is a genetically engineered bio-weapon that escaped from a high-level lab in Wuhan, China
10 more deaths, 224 new Covid-19 cases recorded in a day in Punjab
Ten more fatalities related to COVID-19 pushed the death toll in Punjab to 5,707, while 224 new instances of the viral infection took the tally to 1,76,520 on Monday
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