Highlights: Canada's health regulator approves Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine

Yet another approval for Pfizer as Health Canada, Canada's health regulator has approved the company's Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday.

The vaccine has already been approved by the United Kingdom with the United States expected to reveal their decision in days, reports news agency Associated Press.

Turkey's health minister Fahrettin Koca on Wednesday said that a record 217 patients have died in the last 24 hours in the country for Covid-19. With this, the death toll in the country rose to 15,531 deaths and more than 1.5 million people infected have been by Covid-19 totally, reports Reuters.

Anna Popova, head of the consumer health watchdog, has advised against the consumption of alcohol during specified periods before and after taking the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine.

Popova had warned that alcohol could inhibit body's ability to generate immunity against Covid-19, which has received backlash from the Russian public, reports Reuters.

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European Union's medicines regulator EMA, responsible for vaccine approvals in the EU, had reported a cyberattack on Wednesday, without releasing further details.

EMA also confirmed that a full investigation has been launched and is in touch with law enforcement agencies, reports AFP.

With 1,272 fresh coronavirus cases and eight fatalities, Madhya Pradesh's Covid-19 tally rose to 218,574 cases and 3,366 deaths.

Health officials said that 1,323 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking total recoveries to 201,987 cases, reports PTI.

Tamil Nadu reported 1,232 fresh infection and 14 deaths on Wednesday, taking the state's tally to 794,020 cases and 11,836 total fatalities.

With 1,315 patients recovered, total recoveries stand at 7,71,693 patients in the state. There are 10,491 total active cases in TN, reports PTI.

A study conducted by the blood bank of the Government Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital (MYH) in Indore has reported that a gradual increase in resistance to Covid-19 among common people in the past three months, reports PTI.

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With the addition of 101 fresh cases of Covid-19, the count of infections in Goa reached 49,036 on Wednesday, an official from the health department said, reports PTI.

Rajasthan reports 1,511 new #COVID19 cases, 2,577 recoveries and 17 deaths today.

Total cases 2,85,627
Total recoveries 2,63,350
Death toll 2,485

Active cases 19,792 pic.twitter.com/PYcJFQiFz2

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Delhi reports 2,463 new #COVID19 cases, 4,177 recoveries and 50 deaths today.

Total cases 5,99,575
Total recoveries 5,69,216
Death toll 9,813

Active cases 20,546 pic.twitter.com/r32RHJUODu

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4,875 new COVID19 cases and 4,647 recoveries reported in Kerala today.

The total numbers of active cases and recovered cases are 59,923 and 5,86,998 pic.twitter.com/JQdKYX5eUC

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US coronavirus cases crossed the 15 million mark on Tuesday as regulators moved a step closer to approving a vaccine, reports Reuters.

UK regulators say people who have a “significant history’’ of allergic reactions shouldn’t receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine while they investigate two adverse reactions that occurred on the first day of the country’s mass vaccination program, reports AP.

Telangana: Foreign envoys take a tour of Biological E limited facility in Hyderabad.#COVID19 pic.twitter.com/0GvXK6RkLC

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There're many vaccines being produced in countries around the world but there's only one country that has the manufacturing capacity to produce sufficient quantities to satisfy the demands of citizens in every country & that's India: Australian Ambassador to India Barry O'Farrell https://t.co/zJwdb7QU9r pic.twitter.com/7GWvRwn6hR

— ANI (@ANI) December 9, 2020