Coronavirus live updates: India reports 12,428 new cases and 356 deaths in the last 24 hours

The COVID-19 tally in Maharashtra's Thane district has gone up to 5,64,803 with the addition of 140 new cases of the viral infection, an official said on Tuesday.These new cases were reported on Monday, he said.Two more persons also succumbed to the viral infection, taking the death toll in the district to 11,480, he said, adding that the COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane stood at 2.03 per cent.

In its bid to vaccinate its citizens against COVID-19, one-day special vaccination camps were organised by the department of health, Puducherry on Monday at more than 100 locations across the Union Territory, said the Health Department.Deputy Governor Tamilisai Soundarajan visited the vaccination camp held at Thavalakuppam Primary Health Center.

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 244 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.95 million and vaccinations soared to over 6.83 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload, death toll and the total number number of vaccine doses administered stood at 244,054,440, 4,954,527 and 6,833,629,339, respectively.

The Biden administration on Monday (local time) announced new COVID-19 international air travel rules starting from November 8.Starting on November 8, foreign national air travellers to the United States will be required to be fully vaccinated and to provide proof of vaccination status prior to boarding an airplane to fly to the United States, with only limited exceptions, read US Department of State release.

Tumbling COVID-19 case counts have some schools around the U.S. considering relaxing their mask rules, but deaths nationally have been ticking up over the past few weeks, some rural hospitals are showing signs of strain, and cold weather is setting in.

Facebook and YouTube have removed from their platforms a video by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in which the far-right leader made a false claim that COVID-19 vaccines were linked with developing AIDS.Both Facebook and Alphabet Inc's YouTube said the video, which was recorded on Thursday, violated their policies."Our policies don't allow claims that COVID-19 vaccines kill or seriously harm people," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement on Monday.YouTube confirmed that it had taken the same step later in the day.