Highlights: Moscow aims to vaccinate 7 mn as Russia sees record rise in cases

Delhi on Sunday logged 2,706 new coronavirus cases and 69 deaths, which pushed the overall tally and death toll to 592,250 and 9,643 respectively, according to the health department. The active cases stand at 24,693, while the case fatality rate is at 2.03 per cent, reports ANI.

Tunisia on Sunday extended a night-time curfew until the end of 2020 amid a spike in coronavirus cases, reports AFP.

West Bengal's Covid-19 climbed to nearly 500,000 on Sunday after 3,143 cases and 46 related deaths were reported. As many as 3,167 recovered which pushed the recovery rate to over 93 per cent, a health bulletin said, reports PTI.

Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that Russia's capital city wants to vaccinate up to 7 million people as the country reported yet another record high of new Covid-19 cases, reports Reuters.

Uttar Pradesh reported 1,950 fresh Covid-19 infections and 24 new fatalities on Sunday taking the state's tally to 554,944 and 7,924 deaths. Recovery rate in the state stood at 94.58 per cent with 524,860 total recoveries with 1,993 in the past 24 hours.

Currently, the state has 22,160 active cases, reports PTI.

Germany's Robert Koch Institute has reported 17,767 new Covid-19 infections and 255 new fatalities in the past 24 hours taking the country's tally to 1,171,323 total cases and 18,772 deaths.

The government has extended a partial lockdown to December 20 with increasing infection rates, reports ANI.

Karnataka health department on Sunday reported 1,321 new Covid-19 cases and 10 fatalities, taking the state's total to 893,006 infections and 11,856 fatalities.

With 889 new recoveries, total recoveries stand at 855,750 patients. The state currently has 25,381 active cases.

A common trend of decline in new infections and deaths has been observed across all districts in Karnataka, reports PTI.

Haryana state department's health bulletin reported 1,498 new infections and 24 deaths on Sunday taking the state's total Covid-19 cases to 243,896 cases with 2,588 fatalities.

With a recovery rate of 93.65 per cent, the total active cases in the state stands at 12,897, reports PTI.

As part of phase II human clinical trials, 17 volunteers were given a dosage of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine in Pune's Noble Hospital, its head of clinical research department Dr S K Raut said.

He also said that the volunteers would be kept under observation for a few more days, reports PTI.

Russia hit a new record on Sunday after 29,039 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours. Russia has the fourth largest caseload in the world, and has reported 43,141 coronavirus fatalities so far.

7 coronavirus patients admitted to Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, died on Saturday, after the hospital ran out of oxygen supply. A spokesperson for the hospital told AP that the vendor in-charge of supplying oxygen failed to arrive in time. An investigation into the incident has been ordered by the Provincial Health Minister.

In Delhi out of the 56,862 symptomatic people who tested negative in rapid antigen tests, 3524 were later found to be positive after 32,903 individuals were re-tested using RT-PCR tests. This takes the national capital's total coronavirus tally to over 5.8 lakh.

Belgium have ramped up screening of workers and residents in nursing homes, hoping to prevent spread by asymptomatic carriers. This strategy has helped the country to bring down fatality rates. However, countries like Spain continues to witness a surge in Covid deaths in nursing homes since the last two months.

France registered 12,923 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, taking its national count to 2,281,475, data from the country's health authorities showed.

The daily figure was higher than Friday's 11,221, data showed. Meanwhile, 216 more deaths were reported across the country, bringing the overall death toll to 54,981. The country also registered 8,589 new hospitalizations, it showed.

Thane has added 611 new Covid-19 cases, raising the tally in the Maharashtra district to 2,32,401, an official said on Sunday. Seven more people have also succumbed to coronavirus infection, taking the toll in the district to 5,733, he said. As of now, there are 7,278 active Covid-19 cases in the district, while 2,19,390 patients have recovered, he said.