There are 7,52,424 active coronavirus cases in the country currently, which account for 21.72 per cent of the total caseload, the data showed
Brazil came in the second place with 3,804,803 infections and 119,504 deaths
The company is working on two of the more than 150 potential vaccines being developed across the world to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic
According to the ministry, over 870 flight arrivals took place across the country on August 27
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Altogether 80,126 patients had been cured and discharged from hospitals by Friday, the report said
The ministry also reported 129 deaths in the past week, taking the death toll to 29,011
At the same time, 389 more patients have recovered from the virus, taking the tally of recoveries in the UAE to 59,861
The development has forced CSK to extend the quarantine period for the touring party till September 1
The founder of one of Tamil Nadu's oldest and biggest appliances retail chains had been admitted to hospital after developing symptoms
Twenty-one more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagaland, taking the northeastern state's caseload to 3,805 on Friday, Health Minister S Pangnyu Phom said.
A Congress legislator tested positive for coronavirus after attending the monsoon session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha for a brief period here on Friday
Britain is preparing to revise its laws to allow the emergency use of any effective coronavirus vaccine before it is fully licensed but only if the shots meet required safety and quality standards
Nagpur district in Maharashtra recorded its highest single-day spike of 1,329 Covid-19 cases that took the tally to 26,094 in the region, a district official said
The state on Friday tested 73,186 people and 5,752 patients were cured and discharged, according to the state health department
Telangana Health Minister Eatala Rajender sought the cooperation of RWAs to address the stigma towards Covid-19 patients and allow use of their facilities like community halls as isolation centres
Andhra Pradesh went past the grim mark of four lakh Covid-19 cases as over 10,000 were added afresh for the third straight day
J&K recorded 696 new cases of coronavirus taking the total number of infected people to 35,831 even as seven deaths were reported from the union territory during the last 24 hours, officials said
Uttar Pradesh recorded 77 more Covid-19 fatalities on Friday, taking the death toll to 3,294, while 5,447 new cases pushed the infection tally to 2,13,824 in the state, officials said
The coronavirus cases in Nepal on Friday crossed the 36,000-mark after 927 new cases were confirmed