Coronavirus Global Updates, Dec 06: India reports 36,011 new Covid-19 cases; tally 9,644,529

Sun Dec 6 13:52:22 CAT 2020

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Zimbabwe COVID19 Update

COVID-19 update: As at 05 December 2020, Zimbabwe had 10 617 confirmed cases, including 8 844 recoveries and 291 deaths.

India reports 36,011 new Covid-19 cases; tally 9,644,529

Coronavirus updates: At 1,847,509, Maharashtra has the highest number of coronavirus cases, followed by Karnataka 890,360, Andhra Pradesh 870,675, Tamil Nadu 787,554, and Kerala 625,767

Coronavirus  updates: India on Sunday reported 36,011 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the total caseload to 9,644,529. As many as 140,216 people have died of the disease till now. With 1,847,509 cases, Maharashtra has the highest number of coronavirus cases, followed by Karnataka 890,360, Andhra Pradesh 870,675, Tamil Nadu 787,554, and Kerala 625,767. Delhi reported 4,067 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total count of cases in the national capital to 589,544.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said India's vaccination programme against Covid-19 would begin as soon as scientists have their go-ahead, and asserted that healthcare workers involved in treating coronavirus patients, frontline workers and old people suffering from serious conditions would be inoculated on priority.

World coronavirus update: The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 66,832,931. While 46,227,853 have recovered, 1,533,741 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 14,759,965 cases, and 285,473 have died from the disease there. It is followed by India, which has 9,608,211 cases, Brazil (6,577,177), Russia (2,431,731), France (2,281,475).

'Immune system's requirements for protection against Covid-19 decoded'

Scientists have assessed the novel coronavirus infection in monkeys and found that the immune system's T cells may contribute to protection against the virus if antibody responses are suboptimal, an advance which may aid in the development of vaccines and therapeutics for Covid-19.

The study, published in the journal Nature, shed light on the role of antibodies and immune cells in protection against SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes Covid-19.

"In this study, we define the role of antibodies versus T cells in protection against Covid-19 in monkeys. We report that a relatively low antibody titre -- the concentration of antibodies in the blood -- is needed for protection," said study co-author Dan Barouch from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in the US.

UK prepares for historic moment' of vaccination against Covid-19

The first 50 National Health Service (NHS) hospitals are gearing up for what the UK government has described as the biggest immunisation programme in history as the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 arrived at secure locations in the country from neighbouring Belgium this weekend.

Frontline healthcare staff, people over the age of 80 and care home workers will be among the first to get the vaccine as part of Phase 1 of the programme from Tuesday, which was approved for rollout by the UK's independent regulator earlier this week.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) had declared the jab, which claims to offer up to 95 per cent protection against Covid-19, is safe for human use against the novel coronavirus after rigorous checks.

Delhi: 11% of symptomatic negative cases in RAT found Covid-19 positive through RT-PCR

Nearly 11 per cent of those in the national capital who tested negative for COVID-19 in rapid antigen tests (RAT) but had symptoms for the disease were found to have been afflicted by the viral infection in RT-PCR test between September 1 and November 7, according to official data.

Out of the 56,862 symptomatic patients who tested negative in rapid antigen tests, 32,903 were retested through RT-PCR and of them 3,524 were found Covid-19 positive, according to the data shared by health authorities in response to an RTI query filed by a PTI reporter.

In order to effectively curb the spread of coronavirus infection, the Union Health Ministry had in September asked all states and Union Territories to mandatorily retest all symptomatic cases found Covid-19 negative in rapid antigen tests through RT-PCR so that no positive case is missed.

Seoul cancels New Year bell-ringing ceremony amid surge in COVID-19

A traditional New Year bell-ring ceremony will be cancelled in the South Korean capital of Seoul, as the country has faced yet another spike in Covid-19 cases, a municipal government official said on Sunday.

"Considering the rapid spread of Covid-19, we have to cancel the year-end bell-ringing ceremony," the official of Seoul's government said as quoted by the Yonhap news agency reported.

The annual ceremony, which takes place at Bosingak Pavilion, will be cancelled for the first time since it was established in 1953, after the end of the Korean War.

Europe battles surge in coronavirus deaths in nursing homes

As the two mortuary workers pushed a stretcher with a bagged corpse out of the room, the elderly man in the adjacent bed briefly awakened from his dementia. Is he dead? he muttered, extending his arm, trying to touch his roommate for the last time.

Reflecting on a scene repeated too many times, one of the workers, Manel Rivera, despaired at the growing number of elderly people dying as the coronavirus resurges.

The sad thing is, he said of the surviving man in the Barcelona nursing home, in a few days we'll probably come back for him.

France adds 12,923 Covid-19 cases, 216 deaths

France registered 12,923 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, taking its national count to 2,281,475, data from the country's health authorities showed.

The daily figure was higher than Friday's 11,221, data showed.Meanwhile, 216 more deaths were reported across the country, bringing the overall death toll to 54,981. The country also registered 8,589 new hospitalizations, it showed.

France is planning a three-stage vaccination campaign that will initially target 1 million elder people in nursing homes and their staff early next year.

35 fresh Covid-19 cases in Puducherry, no deaths

Puducherry reported 35 fresh Covid-19 cases on Sunday, taking the tally to 37,244, while the toll remained at 614 as there were no fatalities.

The day also saw 62 patients getting discharged from various hospitals after recovery.

Mahe region topped the list of fresh infections (18), followed by Puducherry 13, Karaikal 3 and Yanam 1, the Director of the Health Department S Mohan Kumar said in a release.

Cumulatively 37,244 cases have been confirmed, out of which 36,238 were treated and discharged.

US sets new record of average daily Covid-19 case count

The United States recorded over 214,000 new Covid-19 cases on Friday alone, pushing the seven-day average daily increase to an all-time high of nearly 180,000 cases.

A total of 214,099 cases and 2,439 deaths were reported across the nation on Friday, according to data updated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

It is the second consecutive day that the single-day count in the country surpassed 200,000, also the 27th consecutive day that the daily case increase exceeded 100,000.

Friday's new infections drove the seven-day average Covid-19 daily case count to a record high of 179,410 cases, and average death count to 1,981 cases, the highest since late April.

India's active Covid-19 caseload further contracts to 403,000

With India recording more recoveries than the new Covid-19 cases for the last nine days, the active coronavirus caseload dropped to 4.03 lakh (4,03,248) on Sunday, the lowest in 138 days, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

"This is the lowest in 138 days. The total active cases were 4,02,529, on July 21, 2020," the Ministry said in a release.

The country's present active caseload consists of just 4.18 per cent of the total positive cases.

As many as 36,011 new coronavirus cases were registered while 41,970 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, and with this, the new recoveries have led to a net decline of 6,441 in the total Active cases.

Russia registers new single-day record of 29,039 Covid-19 cases

Russia has registered a new single-day record for Covid-19 cases for the second consecutive day as 29,039 new positive tests were confirmed by the federal response center on Sunday, bringing the country's case total to 2,460,770.

The previous single-day record of 28,782 new cases was reported on December 5.

"Over the past 24 hours, Russia has confirmed 29,039 Covid-19 cases in 85 regions, of which 6,065 (20.9 percent) were detected actively, with people showing no clinical symptoms," the response center said.

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