With 20,550 new coronavirus infections, India’s overall tally stood at 1,02,44,853 on Wednesday. While the death toll touched 1,48,439 with 286 deaths in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.
Till now, 9,83,4141 people have recovered from the virus. Currently, there are 2,62,272 active cases. The recovery rate stands at 95.99 per cent while the fatality rate is 1.45 as per cent.
A total of 17,09,22,030 samples have been tested for Covid-19 till now. Of these, 11,20,281 samples were tested on Tuesday: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
Covid-19 has hit men harder than women in India, where 70 per cent of the approximately 1.47 lakh people who died since the national outbreak in January were male, the ministry said on Wednesday.
Here’re more updates:
*India has reported 14 new confirmed cases of UK coronavirus mutant strain, taking the total such cases to 21, said the
*A two-year-old in Meerut, who just returned with her parents from the UK. The child is in an isolation ward with her parents at Meerut’s Subharti Medical College. The parents have tested positive for Covid, but not the new strain.
*Then there is one each who has been logged at National Institute of Biomedical Genomics near Kolkata, National Institute of Virology in Pune and CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in Delhi.
*The government on Wednesday extended a temporary ban on UK-India flights till January 7. The Civil Aviation Ministry had last week suspended all flights between UK and India from December 23 to December 31 over the detection of a mutated variant of coronavirus.
* More than two million children in the US have been infected with the novel coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic in the world’s hardest-hit country. according to authorities.
* US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine against the novel coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 81.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.78 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
