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The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 25,739,405 and 432,864, respectively, according to the CSSE.

All these persons have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by respective state governments.

For the past 21 days, the country has been recording less than 20,000 daily new infections.

A total of 306 persons recovered on Wednesday taking the cumulative Covid-19 recoveries in the State to 2,89,631 with a recovery rate of 98.5 per cent.

Anyone who does not have a valid reason for travel will be directed to return home and may face a fine, according to the statement.

There are 1,73,740 active coronavirus infections in the country which comprises 1.62 per cent of the total caseload.

Bahrain had earlier approved Covishield to support its efforts towards vaccinating members at risk of developing complications from COVID-19.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,689,527, while the country's death toll soared to 153,724.

Between Monday and Tuesday, 16,486 Covid tests were conducted in the State while reports of another 228 samples were awaited

Covaxin is India's totally indigenous COVID-19 vaccine developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and National Institute of Virology.

Public health experts feel that the rollout of the vaccination drive by prioritising the frontline workers in the first round is a positive step.

Frontline health workers and volunteers are given priority to be inoculated from Wednesday, followed by parliamentarians from Friday.

There are 1,76,498 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprise 1.65 per cent of the total caseload.

Reiterating his ambitious goal of 100 million shots in 100 days, he said the end goal is to beat COVID-19.

Despite the closure of borders, New Zealand will keep special "tourist bubbles" with Australia and the countries of the Pacific region.

Taiwan is on higher alert after the latest domestic cluster, which has now seen 15 cases from the hospital in Taoyuan.

According to the health ministry, 1,03,45,985 people have recuperated from the disease so far pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate to 96.90 per cent.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,667,736, while the country's death toll soared to 153,470.

Bangladesh will start the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine distribution from early February.

A year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the US is still fighting a brutal battle against the virus as its total number of infections has topped 25 million.