India has more than 6 cases of lakh coronavirus (File)
New Delhi:
Live updates on the coronavirus: The Drug Controller General of India has approved the pharmaceutical company Zydus Cadila to start phase I and phase II clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine. It is the second vaccine after COVAXIN from Bharat Biotech, based in Hyderabad, to obtain approval. Drug manufacturers around the world are fighting to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus; a new virus is a virus that has never been identified before in humans, which makes the task of creating a vaccine even more difficult.
India has crossed the 6 lakh mark with the addition of a large number of new cases of coronavirus from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi.
Maharashtra has reported more than 6,000 cases in the past 24 hours, a record for the first time since the global coronavirus epidemic. The state, which was the hardest hit by the pandemic, today reported 6,330 cases, bringing the total number to over 1.86 lakh.
More than 8,000 COVID-19 patients have died in the state, including 125 deaths in the past 24 hours. 8,018 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals in the past day.
Here are the cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in India Live Updates:
COVID-19 death toll rose to 699 in West Bengal after another 16 died from the disease on Thursday, while 649 new cases pushed the state to 19,819, news reports said. from the Department of Health.
The number of COVID-19 cases active in the state has crossed the 6,000 mark to reach 6,083, he added.
Since Wednesday evening, 509 people have recovered from the disease in the state, the bulletin said.
According to the bulletin, 15 of the deceased coronavirus patients also suffered from other illnesses.
Eight people died in Kolkata; three at North 24 Parganas; two to Howrah and Hooghly; and one at South 24 Parganas, says the bulletin.
Kolkata experienced the highest peak of a day with 218 new cases while 162 infections surfaced in the north of 24 Parganas; 58 at South 24 Parganas; and 56 at Howrah, the bulletin said.
