Mumbai on Friday reported 155 newCovid-19 cases and one death, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. The caseload in India's financial capital thus rose to 10,61,332 while death toll reached 19,564.
Tamil Nadu recorded 44 newCovid-19 cases, including two returnees from Goa, pushing the tally to 34,54,556, while the death toll remained unchanged with nil fatalities in the last 24 hours, the Health department said on Friday.
Among those tested positive include 25 men and 19 women.
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Happy but cautious at being able to join a mass religious event for the first time since the pandemic began, thousands of Catholic faithful gathered at a sanctuary in Portugal on Friday, as authorities brace for a potential sixth wave ofCovid-19.
Retiree Teresa Maria, 62, was one of about 200,000 people who travelled to the famous Fatima Roman Catholic shrine to mark the first of three reported visions of the Virgin Mary, also known as Our Lady, more than 100 years ago.
Grain traders and brokers in the world's number two corn producer are struggling to make forecasts for this year's closely watched Chinese corn crop, as Covid restrictions prevent travel to major growing areas for assessment.
China's corn crop is one of the world's most closely watched, after bad weather and tight supplies sent prices soaring last year.(Reuters)
Moderna Inc said on Friday Swiss drugs regulator Swissmedic had authorised the use of its Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 6 to 11 years.
The approval is for the vaccine's two-dose series of 50 micro gram per dose, Moderna added.(Reuters)
With 2,841 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 4,31,16,254, while the active cases dipped to 18,604, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Friday.
Mizoram on Friday reported 50 fresh Covid-19 cases, raising the tally to 2,27,899, a health department official said.
The death toll stood at 697 as no new fatality was reported since May 3.
The daily positivity rate stood at 14.24 per cent and the recovery rate at 99.59 per cent, he said.
The northeastern state now has 219 active cases, while 2,26,983 people have so far recovered from the disease.
It has tested more than 19.26 lakh samples for coronavirus till date.(PTI)
At least one person confirmed to have Covid-19 has died in North Korea, state media said on Friday, offering the first statistics a day after the country confirmed its first outbreak since the pandemic began.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) must be reformed to build a more resilient global health security architecture and especially called for streamlining its approval process for vaccines and therapeutics to keep the supply chains stable and predictable.
West Bengal reported 42 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the Health Department said.
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