India has highest number of serious Covid-19 cases after United States – Report India may be the fifth worst-affected country by the coronavirus disease, it has the highest the number of serious Covid-19 patients after United States. According to data analysis by Hindustan Times’ Hindi language publication Hindustan, the US has 16,923 patients in serious…
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Indian Stock Markets Closed, Asia Trade Higher
Indian stock markets were close today for a festival holiday, while most of Asia was trading with gains. Dow Futures were trading higher by almost 0.20 per cent, while the SGX Nifty was up 33 points in trade.
The Japanese Nikkei was trading with gains of nearly 1 per cent, while the Australian S&P ASX 200 was trading with gains of 1.5 per cent.
Indian markets had closed weak on Friday, following a slide in banking stocks. This was after the RBI announced a moratorium extension for another three months.
Meanwhile, this week the markets would watch corporate numbers, as well as spiralling tensions between the United States and China.
Coronavirus – India among top 10 countries with highest number of cases
With more than 6,000 COVID-19 cases recorded for the second consecutive day, India on Sunday bracketed itself among the world’s top 10 countries with the maximum number of novel coronavirus infections.
The number of total cases in India is in excess of 1,37,000, whereas death toll has crossed the 4,000 mark.
On the number of active cases, India with over 75,700 cases, stands fifth after the USA, Russia, Brazil and France.
Globally, the number of active cases are in excess of 28 lakh, out of which, more than 11 lakhs are in the USA.
The surge happened during the 61-days of lockdown – announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 24 at 8 PM, giving a country of 133 crore people only four hours notice – during which lakhs of migrant labourers moved from one place to another.
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Four coronavirus COVID-19 vaccines may soon enter clinical trial stage in India – Harsh Vardhan
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In a social media interaction with BJP leader G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, the Minister said within five months, four of the vaccine candidates in the country may enter the clinical trial stage.
Rao asked the Health Minister about the status of the development of the vaccines in the country. The Minister said, “The whole world is trying to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. There are over 100 candidate vaccines which are at different levels of development.
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