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Trump at times has criticized Anthony Fauci’s insistence on aggressive measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now claimed 273,000 US lives.  

Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said the state government has no intention of imposing night curfew again in view of the COVID-19 situation in the state.  

The principal of the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital Kolkata (MCHK), Hashi Dasgupta, died on Thursday (December 3) after she was diagnosed with COVID-19. Two more senior doctors, Jalpaiguri based ENT Surgeon, Mrinal Kanti Acharya, and noted cardiovascular surgeon in Nadia's Kalyani, Ramen Hazra, died of COVID-19 on Thursday in two different private health facilities.

The West Bengal government on Thursday (December 3) slashed the maximum price of RT-PCR test to detect the novel coronavirus by private labs to ₹950, joining a list of other states in capping the COVID-19 test price so as to facilitate more testing amongst the public.

Former US President Barack Obama and his predecessors Bill Clinton and George W Bush have volunteered to take their Coronavirus vaccine shots on camera to allay fears surrounding its safety.

Even as Covid-19 vaccine development progresses in leaps and bounds, questions are being raised about the efficacy of these medicines. Dr Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Emory University Hospital, took to Twitter to clear the air surrounding the vaccines. Read on...

 West Bengal on Wednesday (December 2) reported a drop in its total of active Covid-19 cases for the 37th consecutive day since the end of Durga Puja as the state logged 3,275 recoveries, 3,271 infections, and 51 deaths. The tally went up to 4,90,070 after 3,271 fresh cases of infection were reported from various parts of the state.

India's Covid-19 caseload rises to 95,34,965, with 35,551 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. While the death toll mounted to 1,38,648 with 526 new deaths.

Interpol has issued a global alert to law enforcement across its 194 member countries warning them to prepare for organized crime networks targeting COVID-19 vaccines, both physically and online.

"With news of multiple vaccines on the cusp of approval, and with trillions of dollars flowing into global recovery efforts, the international community has a unique opportunity to do this right,” UN Assembly President Volkan Bozkir said.