Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
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Oct 22, 2020
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Total 9,86,70,363 samples tested for #COVID19 up to 21st October. Of these, 14,69,984 samples were tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) pic.twitter.com/tv6S2goJmX
The U.S. trials of coronavirus vaccines made by AstraZeneca Plc and Johnson & Johnson may resume as soon as next week, according to the head of the Operation Warp Speed program. A participant who died during Astra’s study in Brazil hadn’t received the company’s shot, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Spain became the first nation in Western Europe with 1 million cases. New infections in Greece, Italy, Luxembourg and Germany reached a record, and the Czech government warned that its health system is at risk of collapse.
Globally, cases surged past 41 million with over 1.1 million dead.
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