Arunachal Pradesh reports 100 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday said that no one will be forced to have the vaccine against Covid-19 once it is developed. His remarks come after the government earmarked millions of dollars for the purchase and future production of vaccinations as the country continues to be the second worst-affected globally due to the outbreak, reports Reuters.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has started conducting the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Main for undergraduate engineering aspirants from Tuesday, despite protests over the safety concerns for students and others owing to the raging coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak.

#WATCH: Candidates queue up outside TCS at Patto Plaza in Panaji, Goa - designated as an exam centre for #JEEMain. They are being made to discard their masks and are being provided fresh masks after their temperature is checked, in the wake of #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/oekpUNmqlk

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Hong Kong began a voluntary mass-testing programme for coronavirus on Tuesday as part of a strategy to break the chain of transmission in the city's third outbreak of the disease, reports AP.

New Jersey and California on Monday took a big step toward letting businesses resume their pre-pandemic lives, by allowing restaurants to begin limited indoor dining, as coronavirus cases abated nationwide even as some new hotspots emerged, reports Reuters.

French pupils go back to school Tuesday as schools across Europe open their doors to greet returning pupils this month, nearly six months after the coronavirus outbreak forced them to close and despite rising infection rates across the continent, reports AFP.

Mainland China reported 10 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, down from 17 reported a day earlier, the country's health authority said on Tuesday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that all new cases were imported infections involving travellers from overseas, marking the 16th consecutive day of no local infections, reports Reuters.

The Andhra Pradesh government has devised a unique solution to put at the ease relatives of novel coronavirus patients admitted in wards for treatment. According to the new plan, a relative of the patient will get real-time updates about the health status of the patient, reports ANI.

Hundreds of thousands of children and young people across England are set to resume their classes at schools and colleges from Tuesday after months of lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus since March, reports PTI.