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Former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Shanta Kumar’s wife, Santosh Shailza, succumbed to COVID-19 in the early hours of Tuesday, Health Minister Rajiv Saizal said.
The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 81.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.77 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Jammu and Kashmir Police distributed COVID kits comprising of mask, pulse oximeter, digital thermometer and sanitiser, among the needy in Uri, yesterday.
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In Gujarat, Covid guidelines flouted
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China reports 27 new COVID cases vs 21 a day earlier
The US Army announced on Monday that it has started vaccinating service members deployed overseas belonging to the European Command against the novel coronavirus.
More COVID-19 vaccines in pipeline as US rams up effort
- A huge US study of another COVID-19 vaccine candidate got underway as states continue to roll out scarce supplies of the first shots to a nation anxiously awaiting relief from the catastrophic outbreak.
- Public health experts say more options in addition to the two vaccines now being dispensed — one made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, the other by Moderna — are critical to amassing enough shots for the country and the world.
- The candidate made by Novavax Inc is the fifth to reach final-stage testing in the US.
- Some 30,000 volunteers are needed to prove if the shot — a different kind than its Pfizer and Moderna competitors — really works and is safe.
Amid global concern over the new United Kingdom (UK) COVID-19 strain, one more UK returnee tested positive, taking the number of returnees testing positive to 21 in Telangana, state’s Director Public Health said on Monday.
Brazil to seek regulatory approval for AstraZeneca vaccine on Jan. 15
France on Monday reported 363 Covid-19 deaths, a sign of no improvement of the epidemic situation, which has raised the perspective of a third lockdown, probably at the regional level, after holiday seasons. The country has registered over 2.56 million cases and 63,109 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to official data. The number of new cases dropped to 2,960 on Monday, but that is due to the closure of many scanning places during the weekend, Xinhua news agency reported.
U.S. CDC says distributed 11,445,175 doses of Covid-19 vaccine as of Dec. 28
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