Covid LIVE: Kerala sees 8,850 new cases, 149 deaths in last 24 hrs

A medic, in PPE suit, collects nasal swab for Covid-19 test, amid the rise in Covid-19 cases across the country, Kochi (Photo: PTI)

A medic, in PPE match, collects nasal swab for Covid-19 examination, amid the increase in Covid-19 instances throughout the region, Kochi (Photo: PTI)

Coronavirus updates: India recorded a spike of twenty,799 new Covid-19 instances in the past 24 hrs. The region also witnessed a hundred and eighty deaths, getting the dying toll to 448,997. So far, India has recorded 33,834,702 corona instances in total. Active instances have declined to 264,458. Delhi described 47 Covid-19 instances, Kerala recorded 12,297 and Maharashtra 2,692 instances.
 

With talks underway among the central government and Zydus Cadila about the pricing of the Covid-19 vaccine ZyCov-D, the pharma enterprise is learnt to have proposed a rate of Rs 1,900 for its a few-dose jab that can be presented to all those above 12 years of age. Nevertheless, the government is negotiating for a reduction in rate and a final final decision on it is likely to be taken this 7 days

World coronavirus update: Covid-19 is continuing to distribute around the earth, with 235,699,890 confirmed instances and 4,815,521 deaths throughout almost two hundred international locations recorded due to the fact China described its very first instances in December 2019. The US stays the worst-strike region with forty four,518,437 instances, adopted by India, Brazil, British isles and Russia.