Coronavirus live updates: Canada health regulator approves Pfizer vaccine

Covid-19 highlighted systemic weaknesses in health systems and vulnerabilities incapacity to prevent and respond to its threats. We need to address weaknesses & gaps to strengthen global coordination to ensure that world is prepared to curb impacts of future health-related crisis: P Mathur

Biden names key players to Covid-19 response, plans more Cabinet nominations this week

India’s daily Covid-19 count fell steeply on Monday, with fresh cases dipping to a 152-day low and the death toll of 389 the lowest in 158 days. There were just 26,208 new cases of the virus detected in the country, a 21% fall from Sunday’s tally of 33,231. This was the lowest number of new cases recorded in a single day since July 8, when the count was 25,641.

CDSCO expert panel to review Covid vaccine applications on Wednesday

The World Health Organization said Monday that persuading people on the merits of a Covid-19 vaccine would be far better than trying to make the jabs mandatory. The WHO said it would be down to individual countries as to how they want to conduct their vaccination campaigns against the coronavirus pandemic. But the UN health agency insisted making it mandatory to get immunised against the disease would be the wrong road to take.

Pfizer and BioNTech will deliver the first doses of their Covid-19 vaccine to Canada this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced

In the second phase of vaccination against Covid-19, the government plans to significantly scale up operations to cover around 80 crore people — 60% of the country’s population — in an exercise aimed at achieving herd immunity.