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The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 25,123,857 and 419,204, respectively.

UK's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists "do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission"

Between Friday and Saturday, 29,560 Covid tests were conducted in the State while reports of another 590 samples were awaited

Warangal Urban: An Anganwadi worker, who took Covid-19 vaccine shot on January 19, died in the early hours of Sunday at her residence under GWMC limits. Relatives of Gannarapu Vanitha (48) of Jyotirao Phule Colony under Subedari police station limits, alleged that she had died because of adverse effects of the vaccine. Vanitha was working […]

"During a recent tracking process involving a mass outbreak, health authorities found that a pet has tested positive for Covid-19 in the first such case," Yonhap News Agency

The 44-year old ASHA worker complained of severe headache and fever on January 22, three days after she took a shot of the coronavirus vaccine.

Sputnik V is the third vaccine to be approved for the emergency use in the country, the report said.

The UK took 18 days whereas USA took 10 days to reach the one million mark, the Union Health Ministry highlighted.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said on Sunday the case was a 56-year-old woman who recently returned from Europe.

The active COVID-19 caseload of the country remained below two lakh for the fifth consecutive day.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,639,684, while the country's death toll soared to 153,184.

No cause of death was given, but CNN reported on January 2 that King had been hospitalised for more than a week with COVID-19

India this week announced that it will send COVID-19 vaccines under grant assistance to Sri Lanka and seven other countries - Bhutan, the Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Seychelles, Afghanistan and Mauritius.

The WHO had granted emergency use validation for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on December 31, 2020, opening the door for countries to expedite their own regulatory approval processes to import and administer the vaccine.

The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, also shows that the virus spreads further than two meters in seconds in poorly-ventilated spaces.

The schools were asked to organise regular health check-up of students.

"Thank you for assisting us with the vaccines exports from India to Brazil. Dhanyavaad!," he added.

On the fifth day i.e. on Friday, authorities had set a target of administering the Covid vaccine to 28,433 healthcare workers out of which 12,944 were inoculated

Also, 351 persons were cured of Covid on Thursday, taking the cumulative recoveries to 2,87,468 with a recovery rate of 98 per cent, against the country’s 96.6 per cent

It is unknown when Sri Lanka might be able to get supplies.