New Delhi [India], October 22 (ANI): Active cases of COVID-19 in India have fallen below 10 per cent while the positivity rate of the disease was reported below 5 per cent in the last three days, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said here on Thursday.
Nur-Sultan [Kazakhstan], October 22 (ANI): Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree scheduling Majilis elections for January 10, 2021, reported Akorda press service.
Patna (Bihar) [India], October 22 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released its manifesto for three-phased Bihar elections and promised that after the approval of the coronavirus vaccine from ICMR, every person in the State will get vaccinated free of cost.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 22 (ANI): Telangana reported 1,456 new COVID-19 cases, 1,717 discharges, and five deaths on Wednesday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 2,27,580, according to the State Health Department.
New Delhi [India], October 22 (ANI): With a spike of 55,838 new COVID-19 cases and 702 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count crossed 77-lakh mark and reached 77,06,946 on Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).
Washington [US], October 22 (ANI): Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines, and other steps taken to control the COVID-19 can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, and overall deaths, a new study suggested
Berlin [Germany], October 22 (ANI/Xinhua): Germany has confirmed 11,287 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours marking the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak, with the total count reaching 392,049, the Robert Koch Institute said on Thursday.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], October 22 (ANI): The Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Thursday announced that World Junior Championships 2020 slated to be held in Auckland, New Zealand, has been cancelled owing to the coronavirus crisis.
Brasilia [Brazil], October 22 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil on Wednesday said its COVID-19 death toll surpassed 155,000 after 566 more patients died of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, pushing the number of fatalities to 155,403.
Paris [France], October 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of people, who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in France, has surpassed 1 million, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) says.
Brasilia [Brazil], October 22 (ANI): A volunteer in Brazil's clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University has died, the Brazilian health agency Anvisa announced on Wednesday while adding that the trial will continue.