Highlights: Delhi records highest-ever spike of 7,745 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours

Delhi: Heavy crowd seen in Janpath area today, ahead of the Diwali festival next week.

Visuals of customers thronging Janpath market for festive shopping pic.twitter.com/Z9QDmNAAbp

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Delhi reports 7745 new #COVID19 cases, 6069 recoveries/discharges/migrations and 77 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Total cases rise to 4,38,529, including 3,89,683 recoveries/discharges/migrations and 6989 deaths.

Active cases stand at 41,857. pic.twitter.com/IMVH0Ivd3P

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Total #COVID19 cases in Punjab rises to 1,37,445, including 1,28,217 discharges and 4,318 deaths.

Active cases stand at 4910. pic.twitter.com/cPvYC21aHC

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Italy has registered 32,616 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Sunday, compared to 39,811 on Saturday, reports Reuters.

Madhya Pradesh reports 891 new #COVID19 cases, 11 deaths and 688 recoveries today.

Total cases in the state rise to 1,77,359, including 1,66,403 recoveries and 3,028 deaths.

Active cases stand at 7,928. pic.twitter.com/SOpNTxER50

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Uttar Pradesh reports 2247 new #COVID19 cases, 1858 discharges and 26 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Active cases in the state stand at 23,249. Total discharges 4,67,108 and death toll 7,206 so far. pic.twitter.com/In8vpNchD6

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Maharashtra reports 5,092 new #COVID19 cases, 8,232 recoveries & 110 deaths today.

Total number of positive cases in state rises to 17,19,858, including 96,372 active cases, 15,77,322 recoveries & 45,240 deaths. Recovery rate is 91.71%: State Health Department, Maharashtra Govt pic.twitter.com/hEsVaXIaen

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Schools in Cambodia's capital and the surrounding area will be shut for two weeks as a precaution after Hungary's foreign minister tested positive for the coronavirus after visiting Cambodia last week, the Education Ministry said Sunday, reports AP.

Kerala recorded 5,440 fresh coronavirus cases and 24 deaths on Sunday as the total number of those affected in the state surged to 4.86 lakh, reports PTI.

A single-day rise of 1,872 Covid-19 cases took Rajasthan's tally of infection on Sunday to 2,11,310 while 10 more fatalities during the same period pushed the death toll to 1,989. Of the cases reported in the state so far, 16,376 were still under treatment. According to an official health bulletin, 1,92,945 people have been discharged after treatment till now, reports news agency PTI.

The total number of deaths in France from Covid-19 has topped 40,000 for the first time while the number of new cases hit a fresh record, health ministry data showed. New deaths from the disease reached 40,169, of which 27,660 have been in hospitals, including 306 in the last 24 hours, the ministry said in its daily report on the outbreak, reports news agency Reuters.

Argentina has struck a deal with drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc to receive around 22 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine being developed with the University of Oxford, with the aim to start deliveries in the first half of next year. The drugmaker, one of a number developing vaccines worldwide to fight the novel coronavirus, said in a statement circulated by the government on Saturday that the delivery time-frame depended on ongoing trials being successful and obtaining necessary approvals by regulatory authorities, reports news agency Reuters.

China's northern port city of Tianjin said on Sunday it plans to carry out tests on some cold storage facilities and their staff after a confirmed coronavirus case involving a worker who had handled frozen pork imported from Germany. The patient, a 38-year-old male employee of a frozen food company in the Binhai New Area district of the city, had handled pork products from Germany on Nov. 4, the local government said, reports news agency Reuters.

Portugal will impose localised night-time curfews from Monday to contain the spread of the coronavirus as the number of cases reached a record high, Prime Minister Antonio Costa announced in the early hours of Sunday. "We cannot have the slightest doubt that everything must be done to contain the pandemic," Costa told a news conference. "If we fail to do so, we must increasingly adopt more restrictive measures and compromise the month of December," reports news agency Reuters.

Amid the second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in Pakistan, the number of new Covid-19 cases crossed the 1,500-mark for the first time since July, on Saturday. Citing National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), Dawn reported that 1,543 people tested positive for the virus on Saturday. The total number of active cases in the country stands at 17,520, reports news agency ANI.