Panaji (Goa) [India], January 2 (ANI): Goa has one of the highest per capita COVID-19 testing and it is working towards increasing RT-PCR testing capacity to 3.5k per day, said State Health Minister Vishwajit P Rane on Saturday.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 2 (ANI): Maharashtra reported 3,218 new COVID-19 cases, and 51 deaths on Saturday, taking the state's coronavirus count to 19,38,854 cases.
Yangon [Myanmar], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar recorded 574 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 14 more deaths from the coronavirus epidemic in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Health Ministry on Saturday.
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], January 2 (ANI): Hours after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav termed coronavirus vaccines to be rolled out in the country as "vaccine of the BJP", National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Saturday said that he will happily get vaccinated against C
Tehran [Iran], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Iranian health authorities announced 6,045 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday, bringing the overall count to 1,237,474 cases in the country.
Helsinki [Finland], January 2 (ANI/Sputnik): The Finnish Medicines Agency has received the first report of an adverse reaction to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against coronavirus a week after Europe started its mass immunization campaign, the Finnish YLE broadcaster reported on Saturday.
London [UK], January 2 (ANI): English clubs Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham on Saturday condemned four players after a picture showing them celebrating Christmas together during coronavirus restrictions went viral on social media.
London [UK], January 2 (ANI): Premier League on Saturday announced that Burnley's weekend fixture against Fulham has been postponed after the latter reported a number of positive cases for the coronavirus in the latest round of tests.
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], January 2 (ANI): Four passengers in Gujarat have been found positive with a new strain of coronavirus that was detected in the United Kingdom, said Jayanti Ravi, State Principal Secretary (Health).
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 2 (ANI): Amid the dry run of coronavirus vaccine taking place in the country, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said that he will not get vaccinated against coronavirus for now as the "BJP government cannot be trusted".
New Delhi [India], January 2 (ANI): All passengers coming from the UK between January 8 and January 30 would be mandatorily subjected to self-paid RT-PCR tests on arrival at the Indian airports concerned, the health ministry said in a standard operating procedure (SOP) issued on Saturday.