With 680 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the total precious lives lost due to COVID 19 crosses 1,10,586 to 1,11,226 in India. With more than 67,708 new infections, the total positive cases are 73,07,098 cases, and the active cases are 8.12 lakhs. The recovering rate has increased from 63.01 lakhs to 63.83 lakhs.
Russia had granted supervisory approval to a second Covid-19 vaccine, President Vladimir Putin, declared at a government meeting yesterday. Putin felicitated scientists for approving the new research, which has been developed by Siberia's Vector Institute and completed early-stage human trials last month.
COVID 19 in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu continues its daily tally of around 4,000 with yesterday again reporting 4,462 cases taking the total to 6,70,392 cases. The deaths were low yesterday, with only 52 reported by the health ministry to bring the total deaths to 10,423. But the number of active cases declined to 42,566 with 5,083 discharges yesterday, taking the total COVID 19 defended patients in Tamil Nadu to 6,17,403.