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Coronavirus live updates: India's indigenous vaccine against Covid-19 Covaxin achieves remarkable feat, says ICMR

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Dec 24, 2020, 23:41:50 IST

Coronavirus live updates: India's indigenous vaccine against Covid-19 Covaxin achieves remarkable feat, says ICMR

India's Covid-19 tally reaches 1,01,23,778 with 24,712 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours. While death toll is at 1,46,756 with fresh 312 deaths. Total recoveries are at 96,93,173. Stay with TOI for latest updates-

14:48 (IST) Dec 23

Philippines logs 1,196 new Covid-19 cases, total tops 464,000.

14:47 (IST) Dec 23

We are giving reports within 4-6 hours of sample collection. The reports are being handed over to airport officials who are following govt directions, with reference to contact tracing: Dr Gauri Agarwal, Director of Genestrings, which is conducting Covid-19 tests at Delhi airport

14:11 (IST) Dec 23

Malaysia in talks to secure more vaccines from Russia.

13:59 (IST) Dec 23

Russia registers 27,250 Covid-19 cases in past 24 hours

"Over the past 24 hours, 27,250 coronavirus cases were confirmed in 85 regions, including 4,058 cases (14.9 per cent) without clinical symptoms," the center said, adding that the cumulative case count has now reached 2,933,753, with the rate of increase falling to 0.9 per cent.

13:53 (IST) Dec 23

Recovery rate jumps to 95.69 per cent --

Total recoveries stand at 9,663,382 and the recovery rate has also increased to 95.69 per cent. Moreover, 75.87 per cent of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 states/UTs.

13:36 (IST) Dec 23

Decisions on opening of colleges and schools from January 4 and that of Vidyagama for class 6 to 9 to be reviewed after December 28-29 when government takes stock of the new strain of Covid-19 virus: Bengaluru health Minister K Sudhakar

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13:20 (IST) Dec 23

Read: Pandemic reaches Antarctica, last untouched continent

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13:18 (IST) Dec 23

Karnataka makes it mandatory for all international passengers to get an RT-PCR negative certificate 72 hours prior to their journey to the state.

13:07 (IST) Dec 23

Odisha recorded 364 new Covid cases, 388 recoveries and 3 deaths on December 22, as per State health department

12:48 (IST) Dec 23

Karnataka imposes night curfew between 10 pm to 6 am from tonight till January 2

12:29 (IST) Dec 23

Active caseload of India stands at 2,89,240. The share of active cases in the total positive cases has further shrunk to 2.86%. 26 states/UTs have less than 10,000 active cases: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

12:00 (IST) Dec 23

Poet and activist Sugathakumari dies. She was undergoing treatment at medical college hospital after she was tested positive for Covid-19. She was 86.

11:51 (IST) Dec 23

Delhi HC directs state govt to ensure that adequate testing & follow up checking of people diagnosed with Covid-19 shall be done keeping in view the latest guidelines issued by the Centre regarding passengers coming from UK.

11:26 (IST) Dec 23

Covid-19 positivity rate has fallen below 1 percent in Delhi. Over 80,000 tests are being conducted every day

Delhi health minister Satyender Jain

11:19 (IST) Dec 23

Haryana health minister Anil Vij says he has been shifted from ICU to a room of Medanta hospital in Gurugram. On December 5, Vij announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19.

11:05 (IST) Dec 23

Tracking spread of Covid-19

11:04 (IST) Dec 23

Read: Thailand confirms 46 new coronavirus infections

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10:52 (IST) Dec 23

Maharashtra: 369 new Covid-19 cases in Thane; 8 more deaths

Thane has reported 369 new cases of coronavirus, raising the tally in the Maharashtra district to 2,39,776, an official said on Wednesday. The death toll in the district has reached 5,892 as eight more patients succumbed to the viral infection, he said. Currently, there are 4,266 active cases in the district, while 2,29,618 patients have recovered.

10:21 (IST) Dec 23

US CDC reports 318,569 total deaths from coronavirus .

10:02 (IST) Dec 23

Peru's Covid-19 count tops 1 million

The case tally currently stands at 1,000,153 - a rise by 963 in the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said.