Coronavirus LIVE: New session in engineering colleges to begin from Dec 1

Coronavirus update: Durga Puja pandals in West Bengal will not be open to visitors, said the Calcutta High Court on Monday as the number of coronavirus cases rose to 321,036 in the state preparing for its biggest annual festival when millions step out of their homes. The court has also restricted the maximum number of people permitted inside the pandals.0

Currently, total number of coronavirus cases in India stands at 7,550,273, while the death toll has reached 114,642. 

According to a new study, the antibody levels in the blood of Covid-19 patients drop rapidly during the weeks after their bodies have cleared the virus and symptoms have subsided. The research was published in the journal mBio, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
 

Coronavirus vaccine update: Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech were expected to pursue late-stage clinical trials of intranasal Covid-19 vaccines in the coming months once they received regulatory approval, Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday.
 

World coronavirus update: The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 40,264,218. While 30,108,031 have recovered, 1,118,167 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 8,387,798 cases. It is followed by India, which has 7,548,238 cases, Brazil (5,235,344) and Russia (1,399,334).
 

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