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Coronavirus news highlights: Karnataka sees 973 new Covid-19 cases, 7 deaths

India reported 20,550 new Covid-19 cases, 26,572 recoveries, and 286 deaths in last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry on Wednesday. A total of 20 people in India now have the new coronavirus strain, according to ministry data. This includes results of the six who tested positive and were announced to have the new strain on Tuesday. The samples that tested positive for the new strain were 8 from NCDC, Delhi; 7 from NIMHANS, Bengaluru; 2 from CCMB, Hyderabad; 1 from NIBG Kalyani near Kolkata; 1 from NIV, Pune and 1 from IGIB, Delhi. Meanwhile, experts believe that Covid-19 vaccines will work on the new variant. Meanwhile, Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge.
Last Updated : 31 December 2020, 02:10 IST

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23:0730 Dec 2020

Nagpur records 368 Covid-19 cases; 6 UK returnees in hospital

Nagpur district on Wednesday registered 368 new coronavirus cases, taking its tally to 1,23,374, while sixpeople who returned from the UK recently are undergoing treatment here after testing positive, said officials.

A senior Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) medical officer told PTI thatsixUK returnees are under treatment in the city after testing positive for Covid-19 and swab samples of four of them were sent to Pune-based NIV to ascertain if they are infected by the new strain found in Britain.

22:3430 Dec 2020

Noida: 47 new Covid-19 cases, UK-returnee detected with new strain

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded 47 new Covid-19 cases that pushed the district's inflection tally to 24,917 on Wednesday, official data showed.

Also, a person who returned to Gautam Buddh Nagar from the United Kingdom was detected with the new strain of the coronavirus, which is stated to have a high transmissibility, government officials in Lucknow said.

22:0630 Dec 2020

Covid-19: 677 fresh cases in Delhi, positivity rate 0.8%

Delhi recorded 677 fresh Covid-19 cases and 21 fatalities on Wednesday, even as the positivity rate dropped to 0.8 per cent, authorities said.

The infection tally in the city mounted to over 6.24 lakh and the death toll rose to 10,523 on Wednesday, they said, adding that over 84,000 tests were conducted on the previous day.

21:3130 Dec 2020

14 more detected with new coronavirus strain in India; Flights connecting UK suspended til Jan 7

Fourteen more people were found infected with the UK strain of the coronavirus on Wednesday in the country, with West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh reporting such cases for the first time, taking the total tally to 20 in two days.

A cautious government extended the temporary suspension of passenger flights between the UK and India for a week till January 7 and said the services would resume in a "strictly regulated" manner thereafter.

Published 30 December 2020, 02:08 IST

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