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Britain on Wednesday gave emergency approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, with health officials set to use criteria based on age and vulnerability to decide the order of people to receive it.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 9,608,211, while the country's death toll soared to 139,700.

Delhi airport authorities said that besides the cool chamber, it also has "cool dollies" at the airside that ensure an unbroken cool chain during temperature-sensitive cargo movement between terminal and aircraft.

The 67-year-old minister was given the first shot on November 20.

A total of 921 persons recovered on Friday taking the cumulative Covid-19 recoveries in the State to 2,62,751 with a recovery rate of 96.34 per cent.

The 67-year-old is a senior leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a legislator from Ambala Cantt assembly constituency.

Poonawalla joined the Serum Institute of India in 2001 and became the CEO of Serum Institute with complete control of the day-to-day operations of the company in 2011.

Biden, who is due to take office on January 20, said he will make sure that the vaccine is both free and available.

The death toll climbed to 1,39,700 with the coronavirus virus claiming 512 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 9,571,559, while the country's death toll soared to 139,188.

Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa in response to a question from reporters about the possibility of imposing a night curfew said "..there is no such plans for now."

Experts believe that the wait for COVID-19 vaccine will not be long and it is believed that it may be ready in the next few weeks, Modi said.

This will be the second all-party meeting called by the government to discuss the COVID-19 situation since the outbreak of the coronavirus.

The trials, which will commence in December, will be conducted on 250 patients across 20-25 centres in India.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 90,16,289 pushing the national recovery rate to 94.20 per cent.

Moderna also confirmed that it expects to have 20 million vaccine doses available in the US by the end of 2020.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 9,534,964, while the country's death toll soared to 138,648.

The joint study by HFS Research and Infosys revealed that 51 per cent organisations consider remote work or hybrid workforce model to be the way forward.

In the past 24 hours the virus caused 358 new deaths in the country with a population of more than 80 million, and 13,922 new cases of infection.

"The epidemiological burden remains high," government spokesman Stelios Petsas told reporters as he announced the extension.