Covid-19 Cases: India on Wednesday registered 44,376 coronavirus cases in 24 hours (Representational)
India reported 44,376 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours and 481 deaths due to the disease, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday. The total cases in the country now stand at 92,22,217 including 86,42,771 discharges and 4,44,746 active cases.
The government has initiated a robust COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing and delivery ecosystem to meet the demand, Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday. Mr Vardhan, who is also the health and family welfare minister, said that as the world races to develop the vaccine for COVID-19, India is looking to be self-reliant in both its development and mass production, PTI reported.
The United States on Wednesday registered more than 2,400 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally -- the highest daily number of deaths in six months as the Thanksgiving holiday began. At 8:30pm (0030 GMT Thursday), the country had recorded a total of 262,080 Covid deaths, up by 2,439 in 24 hours. It also registered nearly 200,000 new cases.
The coronavirus pandemic is no excuse for not getting enough exercise, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, warning that even before the crisis many were getting too little physical activity. In an update of its physical activity guidelines, the UN health agency stressed that exercise was vital to physical and mental health, while sedentary behaviour can have serious repercussions.
"WHO urges everyone to continue to stay active through the Covid-19 pandemic," the agency's head of health promotion Ruediger Krech told reporters. "If we do not remain active, we run the risk of creating another pandemic of ill-health as a result of sedentary behaviour."
Here are the LIVE updates on Coronavirus Cases:
Coronavirus News: South Korea reports biggest COVID-19 spike since March
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The government reimposed strict social distancing rules on Seoul and surrounding regions this week, only a month after they had been eased following the second wave of infections
Now some experts say the government moved too early to relax those rules, as the daily official case tally exceeds 500 for the first time since March 6
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Jharkhand reports 237 new COVID-19 cases, 3 fresh fatalities
Jharkhand's COVID-19 tally rose to 1,08,158 on Thursday as 237 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said. Three more patients died, pushing the state's coronavirus deaths to 958, he said.
West Singhbhum, Hazaribag and Deoghar districts reported one fresh fatality each, the official said. Ranchi district reported the highest number of new cases at 92, followed by East Singhbhum (38) and Bokaro (18), he said.
The state now has 2,160 active coronavirus cases, while 1,05,040 people have been cured of the disease so far, the official said.
Coronavirus LIVE News: 6,159 new Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra
A total of 6,159 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Maharashtra on Wednesday. According to the state Health Department, 4,844 recoveries and 65 fatalities due to the COVID-19 were also recorded.
The total count of cases in the state now stands at 17,95,959 including 84,464 active cases.
Jammu And Kashmir reports 489 new Covid-19 cases, 12 deaths
As many as 489 new positive cases of Covid-19 were reported in Jammu and Kashmir taking the tally of total cases to 1,07,819, the administration of Union Territory (UT) said on Wednesday.
According to UT government, 264 new cases were reported from Jammu division while Kashmir division recorded 225 fresh cases. The total deaths in the UT rose to 1,663 with twelve people succumbed to coronavirus today.
France registers 16,282 new COVID-19 cases, 381 deaths
France on Wednesday registered 16,282 new COVID-19 cases and 381 deaths in a 24-hour span, while pressure on the country's health services continued to ease, health authorities said.
Since the start of the pandemic, 2,170,097 people have been infected with the virus, and 50,618 of them have died. France now ranks fourth in the number of total COVID-19 cases after the United States, India and Brazil.
As of Wednesday, 29,972 COVID-19 patients had been hospitalized (down 650 from Tuesday), confirming a downward trend reported since mid-November. Of the hospitalized, 4,148 are in intensive care, down 141 in the past 24 hours.
In Brazil, Pfizer begins process to register Covid-19 vaccine
Pfizer gave the office of Brazil's health regulators results of the tests of their Covid-19 vaccine, a necessary step to approve and register the vaccine, the US-based pharmaceutical said Wednesday.
"This is an important step so that the vaccine can be available in Brazil," Pfizer said in a statement in Portuguese.
Brazil, with a population of 212 million, has the highest Covid-19 death rate in the world after the United States. It has recorded more than six million novel coronavirus cases since the pandemic began.
The clinical results of the Phase 3 study of the BNT162b2 vaccine, developed by Pfizer and the German pharmaceutical BioNTech, began in July and involved 43,661 participants in 150 places around the world. In Brazil there were 2,900 volunteers, the companies said.
Coronavirus news: Assam's COVID-19 death count mounts to 978 with two more fatalities
Assam reported two more COVID- 19 deaths on Wednesday, raising the count to 978, even as 182 fresh cases took the tally to to 2,12,021, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
US Records Over 2,400 COVID-19 Deaths In 24 Hours: Report
