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Coronavirus India Updates: Tally Tops 63 Lakh As India Prepares For Unlock 5

Author: BQ Desk
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Oct 01, 2020 09:37 am IST
- Published On Oct 01, 2020 09:37 am IST
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Coronavirus India Updates: Tally Tops 63 Lakh As India Prepares For Unlock 5

A health worker conducts rapid-antigen methodology Covid-19 tests at Sarai Kale Khan Transport Authority in New Delhi, India. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)

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Oct 01, 2020 09:37 (IST)

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Coronavirus super-spreaders were behind the explosion of Covid-19 in India, the country with the most cases after the U.S., researchers said.

A group of patients that included about 8% of India’s confirmed cases later led to almost two-thirds of its total infections, scientists said Wednesday in a study published in the journal Science. The research, based on tracing more than 3 million contacts in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu through Aug. 1, is the first major study of transmission in a developing country.

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Oct 01, 2020 09:08 (IST)

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A total of 7,56,19,781 samples tested up to 30th September, for #COVID19. Of these, 14,23,052 samples were tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) pic.twitter.com/mGH3jJNbkm
— ANI (@ANI) October 1, 2020

Oct 01, 2020 07:00 (IST)

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Global Update

European regulators are set to start an accelerated review of a Covid-19 vaccine front-runner from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc, even as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reported to have widened its investigation into a trial participant who fell ill.

Globally, over 33.8 million people have been infected by the virus with over a million of them dead.

Track the latest updates on the Covid-19 pandemic in India, here.

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