Uttar Pradesh reported 2,247 new Covid-19 cases and 26 deaths, according to state's government data
France registered 38,619 Covid-19 cases and 270 related deaths over the past 24 hours, data from the health authorities showed
Global cases Covid-19 surpassed 50 million, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
Russia registered 20,498 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 1,774,334
Chhattisgarh reported 1,375 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the total count of infections to 200,937, a health official said
Delhi recorded its biggest single-day jump of 7,745 coronavirus cases, with the positivity rate increasing to 15.26% amid the festive season and rising pollution, the health department said
Karnataka has reported 2,740 new cases of Covid-19 and 22 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 8,46,887 and the death toll to 11,391, the Health Department said
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India has more than 8.5 million coronavirus cases, of which 512,655 cases are active.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 78,68,968 pushing the national recovery rate to 92.49 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry
Indian-American physician Dr Vivek Murthy is expected to co-chair the coronavirus task force which President-elect Joe Biden is going to announce on Monday. Murthy, 43, who originally hails from Karnataka, was appointed America's 19th Surgeon General by then president Barack Obama in 2014. Born in the UK, he was the youngest ever to hold the office at the age of 37. He was later asked to step down by the Trump administration. Biden, in his victory speech in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday night, said: On Monday, I will name a group of leading scientists and experts as Transition Advisors to help take the Biden-Harris COVID plan and convert it into an action blueprint that starts on January 20th, 2021. The President-elect, however, did not announce who would lead that task force. The Washington Post said that the task force would be co-chaired by Dr Murthy, the former Surgeon General, and David Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner. The task force could begi
The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 49.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1,249,010, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
The US is the currently the world''s worst-hit nation from the pandemic after it emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan last year
Russia's cumulative number of coronavirus cases has grown to 1,753,836, including 30,251 deaths and 1,312,927 recoveries, the center said in a statement
With the addition of 169 fresh cases of coronavirus, the tally in Goa went up to 44,916, an official from the health department said
The number of Covid-19 cases in Madhya Pradesh rose to 176,468 with 865 more detections while 13 fatalities took the toll to 3,017, a health official said
The number of coronavirus cases in Gujarat rose to 179,679 with 1,046 new cases being reported, the state health department said
Haryana reported 2,011 fresh novel coronavirus cases, taking the caseload to 180,424, and with 17 more fatalities the death toll rose to 1,897, according to the state health department