Coronavirus update: India has registered almost 90,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. With this, the country’s account has surpassed the 4.3 million mark to 4,370,128. The death toll has risen to 73,923. According to the health ministry, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu account for 62% of the total active coronavirus cases in the country. India’s cumulative tests for the virus have exceeded 50 million, while tests per million have risen from 6,396 on July 1 to 36,703.
Delhi recorded 3,609 new corona cases, bringing the count to 197,135. Uttarakhand’s count has increased to 26,094.
Coronavirus Vaccine Update: Clinical trials for the Covid-19 candidate vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, which were expected to begin at PGIMER in Chandigarh, have been delayed for at least a week due to safety approvals. Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate are temporarily on hold while the company investigates whether a recipient’s “potentially unexplained” illness is a side effect of the injection. The AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine is considered a strong competitor among the dozens that are being developed globally.
Global coronavirus update: The global count of coronavirus cases is 27,721,018. While 19,808,577 have recovered, 900,844 have died so far. The United States, the most affected country, has 6,513,264 cases. It is followed by India, which has 4,367,436, Brazil (4,165,124) and Russia (1,035,789).
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