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

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 61.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.44 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

The ability to predict the survival of the novel coronavirus on different surfaces can help prevent and contain the spread of COVID-19, the researchers said.

“What has been really at the center of our response has been some fundamentals around testing, contact tracing, isolation,” Ardern said.

The study, published in The Lancet medical journal, suggest that those aged over 70 -- who are at higher risk of serious illness and death from Covid-19 -- could build robust immunity to the novel Coronavirus.

More than 2,000 cases were recorded nationwide on Wednesday, with nearly 500 in Tokyo.

Worldwide, more than 1.3 million people have died of Covid-19 and over 55 million have been reported infected with the virus since it first surfaced in China late last year.

As many as 3,10,920 cases of coronavirus have been reported so far, including 3,00,474 recoveries and 8,818 active cases.

The findings, published in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, show that vaping changes the expression of genes and production of proteins in respiratory cells.

Delhi has witnessed a spurt in coronavirus cases since October 28 when the daily rise breached the 5,000-mark for the first time and it crossed the 8,000-mark on Wednesday.

Giovanni Apolone, a co-author of the study, said that four cases from the study dated to the first week in October last year, which means those people had been infected in September.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, also observed a decline in self-reports of smell and taste changes as early as five days after lockdown enforcement, with faster declines reported in countrie

Germany reported 21,866 new infections over the last 24 hours, according to disease control agency RKI data.

SII and ICMR are conducting phase II/III clinical trial of the vaccine at 15 different centres across the country.

Newly confirmed infections in the U.S. are running at all-time highs of well over 100,000 per day, pushing the running total to more than 10 million and eclipsing 1 million since Halloween.

According to the researchers, previous studies had provided conflicting accounts about whether people recovering quickly from the viral infection can sustain potentially-protective antibodies or not.

Austria's cases in recent weeks have surged well past the levels recorded in the spring, forcing the government to impose a curfew between 8 pm and 6 am starting Tuesday until the end of November.

He has previously expressed that he was concerned about the political blowback of removing the popular and respected doctor before Election Day.

To curb the spike in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has ordered a round of shutdowns from Monday until the end of the month.

Midwestern state Wisconsin has also set up a field hospital in recent weeks, and hospital workers in Missouri were sounding warning bells as cases there rise.