Covid-19 update: With 46,000 fresh cases, India's tally tops 85.5 lakh

India logged in 45,903 fresh cases of covid-19 in last 24-hour which have paused country's total tally to 85.5 lakh mark. With 490 deaths reported in last 24-hour related to the virus, The total death toll has soared high to 1,26,611.

In the last 24-hour, more than 48,00 people recuperate from the disease to take the recovery rate to 92.6 per cent. As of now, there are around 5 lakh active cases of covid-19 while more than 79 lakh people have recovered from the virus. India's positivity rate currently stands at 5.5 per cent.

In a grim milestone, Delhi reported record 46,000 cases last as the third wave of covid-19 grapples the city.

Here're more updates related to the covid-19 pandemic:

*The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday authorized emergency use of Eli Lilly and Co's experimental Covid-19 antibody treatment

*The Brazilian federal government is in talks with Pfizer Inc in Brazil to buy its experimental COVID-19 vaccine for inclusion in its national vaccination program, a spokesman for the company said on Monday.

*India's COVID-19 active cases have fallen below 6 per cent of the total cases, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday.

*Brazil on Monday registered 10,917 new cases of coronavirus, totaling 5,590,025, the Health Ministry said. Deaths rose by 231 to 161,106.

*Plan to distribute the experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech is in progress after the companies announced its promising results, but it will not be coming to local pharmacies for the general public any time soon.

*Two more people close to US President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, media reports said Monday.

*Mumbai reported 599 new COVID-19 cases, 507 recovered cases and 20 deaths on Monday. 

*Only 3,593 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Kerala on Monday, when 32,489 samples were tested

* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tested positive for COVID-19, the president's office confirmed.

*Russia added 21,798 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, a new record of daily increase, the country's COVID-19 response center said.

*Experts have said that the worst of covid-19 pandemic is yet to come for United States as it is ill-prepared for the incoming cold season and holidays.

Meanwhile, the overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 50.8 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,262,370, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

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