Coronavirus News

India recorded a little over 30,00 fresh Covid infections on Sunday, a day after Diwali. This is the lowest daily number since July 13.  

Active COVID-19 cases in Bengal reported a five-week low on Sunday (November 14), slipping below the 30,000 active COVID case mark for the first time since October 10. On Sunday, West Bengal reported 29,314 active cases. Kolkata and North 24 Parganas had reported 6,513 and 6,382 active COVID cases on Sunday.  

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after someone he was in contact with tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesman said Sunday.  

During an urgent meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and other officials, a 12-point strategy was devised to contain the spread of the virus in Delhi, especially in view of the festive season and the decreasing temperatures, accompanied by increasing pollution.

PM Narendra Modi expressed grief on the demise of veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee.  

The first batch of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for Coronavirus is likely to reach next week at Kanpur's Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Medical College where the vaccine's Phase 2 and Phase 3 human clinical trials will be conducted.

Singh has requested people, who have been in close proximity to him in the last few days, to get themselves tested.  

India's Covid-19 tally surged to 87,73,479 with new 44,684 infections reported in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Saturday.

The importers were a unit of Guotai International Group and Shanghai Zhongli Development Trade, the Jinan Municipal Health Commission said in a statement on its website late on Saturday.

Billionaire Elon Musk said in a tweet Saturday that he “most likely” has a moderate case of Covid-19, though he continued to cast doubt on the accuracy of the tests, citing the “wildly different results from different labs.”