New Delhi: With 54,366 new COVID cases reported in the last 24 hours, India’s total cases surge to 77,61,312. The country also witnesses 690 new deaths thus taking the fatality count to 1,17,306.
India remained second in the global ranking of total cases, though, with over 7.7 lakh cases, behind the US’s 8.4 lakh. Over 1.1 lakh people have died of the disease across the country since the first case was reported in Kerala in January.
The government of India on Thursday said it had earmarked Rs 50,000 crore to inoculate the entire population once a vaccine is ready.
On Tuesday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) issued an advisory on the CRISPR SARS CoV-2 test that has been approved by the Drugs Controller General of India for COVID detection. CRISPR (clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic) SARS CoV-2 test is a new diagnostic method based on CRISPR-Cas9 technology to identify and target the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2 virus.
More than 41.5 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,133,635 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
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