Coronavirus LIVE: Next two-and-a-half months crucial, says Health Minister

Coronavirus update: India on Thursday registered a spike of 63,371 cases, taking the total count to 7,370,468, and the death toll reached 112,144. In the wake of increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the country, Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Thursday said there was a need to scale up testing for coronavirus in order to contain the pandemic.

Coronavirus vaccine update: Apollo Hospitals is set to administer a million Covid-19 vaccines daily and 300 million every year, which will make it the largest private player to have such a distribution coverage in India, Shobana Kamineni, the group's executive vice-chairperson, said.
 

World coronavirus update: The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 39,151,144. While 29,368,363 have recovered, 1,102,418 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 8,215,199 cases. It is followed by India, which has 7,370,468 cases, Brazil (5,170,996) and Russia (1,354,163).