Ten COVID-19 vaccines could be available by the middle of next year, a global pharmaceutical firm said on Friday.
New Delhi:
India has reported 41,322 new cases of COVID-19 to date, 4% less than on Friday, bringing its total number to 93.51 lakh of cases and 1.36,200 deaths, data from the Ministry of Health shows. Union. These numbers come even as a vaccine to fight the virus seemed tantalizingly close. The states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala were the hardest hit, with deaths ranging from 23 to 85 in the past 24 hours.
Here are the top 10 developments on this front from the last 24 hours:
-
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit India’s major vaccine centers today to review the COVID-19 vaccine development and manufacturing process. It will start with the Zydus Cadila plant near Ahmedabad at 9:30 am. From there, it moved to the Serum Institute of India in Pune, which has partnered with global pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University for a vaccine. Your next stop will be Bharat BioTech, Hyderabad, which is working on Covaxin, featured as India’s first indigenous vaccine candidate.
-
One of the developers of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V has announced that the Indian-based drug maker Hetero will produce more than 100 million doses of the injection. In addition to India, the RDIF says that Sputnik V will also be produced in Brazil, China and South Korea.
-
Delhi registered 5,482 new cases and 98 deaths on Friday. The city’s total number of cases is now 5.56,744, with 8,909 deaths at a rate of 1.6%. Up to 64,455 tests were conducted citywide in the last 24 hours.
-
Maharashtra’s total on Friday reached 18.08.550 and 6,185 new cases were recorded. The state also reported 85 deaths, bringing the state’s total death toll to 46,898. Mumbai reported 1,074 new cases, bringing its number of cases to 2.80,818 and deaths to 10,757, with 17 deaths recorded on Friday.
-
New restrictions come into effect today to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the Leh district of the Ladakh Union Territory, prohibiting the gathering of more than four people and allowing only 50 percent of staff to attend. government offices, while vehicles will circulate with only half their capacity.
-
Bihar’s COVID-19 count increased to 2,33,839 after 698 new cases were reported as of Friday, while five new deaths brought the death count to 1,248.
-
Brazil reported 514 more deaths from COVID-19 on Friday, bringing its total death toll to 171,974. Its cumulative caseload is now 6,238,350. The country has the second highest COVID-19 death toll in the world after the US and the third highest number of cases after the US and India.
-
Italy and Ireland relaxed COVID restrictions starting this weekend. Italy will ease its anti-COVID crackdown in five regions starting Sunday, including the country’s richest and most populous region, Lombardy, the Health Ministry said. Ireland will allow food-serving shops, restaurants, gyms and pubs to reopen next week, and allow inter-county travel from Dec. 18 to facilitate a “different but special” Christmas, Prime Minister Micheal Martin said on Friday. . Ireland became one of the first European countries to reimpose tough COVID-19 restrictions six weeks ago.
-
The rate of new infections slowed in France on Friday, the day before stores were allowed to resume selling non-essential products. The number of new daily infections dropped to 12,459, compared to 13,563 on Thursday and 22,882 last Friday.
-
Ten COVID-19 vaccines could be available by the middle of next year if they get regulatory approval, but their inventors need patent protection, the head of the global pharmaceutical industry group said on Friday.
.
