COVID-19: India ranks second after the United States in terms of total infections
New Delhi:
At least half of the country’s 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus by next February, which will help curb the spread of the disease, a member of a central government committee tasked with monitoring said on Monday. provide projections.
India has reported 7.55 million coronavirus cases so far and ranks second after the United States in terms of total infections.
But COVID-19 infections are declining after a peak in mid-September, with 61,390 new cases reported on average each day, according to a Reuters tally.
Here are the updates on coronavirus (COVID-19) cases:
Contacts of people confirmed to have coronavirus should be properly quarantined, the World Health Organization said on Monday, as the pandemic escalates in Europe and North America.
WHO emergency director Michael Ryan linked the high transmission rates in the northern hemisphere with the lack of rigorous implementation of the vital step, AFP reported.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Argentina exceeded one million, the country’s Health Ministry said in a statement.
“Today 12,982 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed, taking into account that the total number of registered cases amounts to 1,002,662, of which 803,965 are recovered patients,” says Monday’s statement.
In the last 24 hours, Argentina confirmed 451 new deaths from COVID-19. The country’s total coronavirus death count is 26,716, ANI reported.
Israel has named its COVID-19 vaccine candidate “Brilife” and its human trials will begin in late October, according to an official press release.
The prospective vaccine is being developed by the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), which was established in 1952 as part of the Israel Defense Forces Science Corps and later became a civil organization, PTI reported.
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