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128 new positive cases and 54 recoveries reported in Nagaland today: Nagaland Health Minister, S Pangnyu Phom on COVID19

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Delhi overtook Maharashtra and Kerala by reporting 7,178 Covid-19 cases in a span of 24 hours, becoming the largest contributor to the new 50,356 single day infections, according to Union Health Ministry on Saturday, reports PTI.

Haj pilgrims will have to submit Covid-19 negative report 72 hours prior to their journey to Saudi Arabia in 2021, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Saturday. reports PTI.

Puducherry recorded a dip in the daily count of coronavirus cases with 73 fresh infections on Saturday, taking the overall tally to 35,744, reports PTI.

Britain said on Saturday it was immediately banning entry to visitors from Denmark in response to concern over outbreaks of coronavirus on Danish mink farms, reports Reuters

The number of Covid-19 cases in Israel reached 318,402 on Friday with 539 new cases, the Ministry of Health said. The death toll rose to 2,644, with five new fatalities, reports ANI.

Afghanistan on Saturday reported 58 newly confirmed Covid-19 cases,bringing the number of total cases to 42,033, the country's Ministry of Public Health confirmed.

The Goa government has withdrawn the permission granted to the organisers of Sunburn electronic dance music (EDM) festival to hold the event in the state in December this year.

The move comes in the wake of criticism being faced by the BJP government in the state after it gave its nod to organise the festival amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

West Bengal Tourism Minister Gautam Deb tested positive for Covid-19, following which he was hospitalised, Health Department officials said on Saturday.

According to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, over 80 per cent of 200 Covid-19 patients in a hospital in Spain have vitamin D deficiency.

As Covid-19 cases rise rapidly in the national capital, availability of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds is declining, with major Covid hospitals showing "zero availability" of ICU beds both with and without ventilators.

Odisha's Covid-19 tally jumped to 3,00,140 after registering over 1,370 new cases. While 17 fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,410, said an Official.

New Zealand reported two new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, said the Ministry of Health in a statement.Of the new cases, one was a worker working at the Auckland quarantine facility, while the other one was a historical case returning recently from London via Singapore, said the ministry.

Ukraine registered a record 10,746 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the health minister said on Saturday.

Maksym Stepanov said the new cases had taken the total number of confirmed infections to 450,934, with 8,312 deaths. He said 187 new deaths had been registered in the past 24 hours.