Covid LIVE: Kerala sees 21,445 cases in a day; 6,388 in Maharashtra

Coronavirus updates: India recorded 41,195 new Covid-19 cases and 490 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking its tally to 32,077,706 and the death toll to 429,669. Meanwhile, a study on mixing Covishield and Covaxin, the two main vaccines used in India's COVID-19 vaccination programme, has been given a go-ahead by the Drugs Controller General Of India (DCGI).

With over 100,000 coronavirus cases reported in the United States for the third consecutive day, the daily Covid-19 cases have reached a six-month high in the country as multiple states with lower vaccination rates continue to reel under the Delta variant.

World coronavirus update: Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with 205,423,330 confirmed cases and 4,336,599 deaths across nearly 200 countries recorded since China reported its first cases in December 2019. The US remains the worst-hit country with 37,021,914 cases, followed by India, Brazil, Russia and France. 

To read updates from our yesterday's blog, click here