Coronavirus live updates: Serum Institute to make 100mn Covid vaccines for India

Madhya Pradesh govt relaxes night curfew by two hours, restriction now from 10 pm to 5 am; weekend lockdown partially lifted in coronavirus-affected districts of state: Official

Tamil Nadu to declare Class X results on August 10. The state government cancelled exams due to a Covid-19 and awarded marks based on quarterly and half-yearly exams.

Read: SII enters into new partnership to accelerate manufacture, delivery of Covid-19 vaccines for India

The price for Oxford-Serum Institute of India manufactured Covid vaccine for LMICs will be $3

3,646 new Covid-19 cases reported in Bihar, total tally reaches 71,794 in the state, reports ANI quoting Bihar health department

Leader of opposition & former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah is clinically stable and responding to Covid-19 treatment. He is comfortable & his appetite has improved. Our team of experts will continue to monitor him closely, reports ANI quoting Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru

India's Covid-19 management marked by rising recovery rate, falling fatality rate: Centre

India's Covid-19 management is marked by "two significant achievements" of continuously rising recovery rate among Covid-19 patients and a case fatality rate that has remained much below the global average, according to the health ministry.

Meghalaya's Covid-19 tally crosses 1,000 mark

244 new Covid-19 cases, 77 recoveries & 5 deaths reported in Puducherry today, taking the total number of cases to 4,862, including 1873 active cases, 2914 recoveries, and 75 deaths, reports ANI quoting Puducherry health department

The funding will support at-risk manufacturing by SII for candidate vaccines from AstraZeneca and Novavax, which will be available for procurement if they are successful in attaining full licensure and WHO prequalification, reports ANI quoting Serum Institute of India

Serum Institute of India (SII) enters into a new landmark partnership with Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to accelerate the manufacture and delivery of up to 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines for India and low & income countries: SII (ANI)

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Himachal Pradesh's Covid-19 case tally is now at 3061 including 1124 active cases, 1897 recovered and 12 deaths, reports ANI quoting state health department

BCG vaccine is safe, does not increase Covid risk: Study

The study, published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, compared groups of volunteers who have received a BCG vaccine in the past five years (before the corona pandemic), showing that the vaccine is safe and possibly influences Covid-19 symptoms. Read full story

Mexico's coronavirus death toll passes 50,000

The report from the health department on Thursday brought the country's accumulated death toll to 50,517. That is the third-highest death toll in the world, behind only the United States and Brazil. Read full story

All liquor shops in Delhi are allowed to open from 10 am to 10 pm instead of 10 am to 9 pm, with immediate effect till further orders: Excise department, Delhi government (ANI)

Tripura's Covid-19 caseload rises to 5,743; death toll mounts to 36

Tripura registered the highest single-day spike in Covid-19 deaths on Friday as six more patients succumbed to the infection, a health bulletin said.

Pakistan's coronavirus tally reaches 282,645

Pakistan's coronavirus tally reached 282,645 with the detection of 782 new cases in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Friday.