India's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating, report agency.
Total deaths rose to 100,842, the health ministry said, while the tally of infections climbed to 6.47 million after a daily increase in cases of 79,476. India now has the highest rate of daily increase in infections in the world.
More than 34.91 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,034,517 have died, according to Worldometers tally. Infections have been reported in more than 213 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
The government of Sao Paulo state in Brazil has asked health regulator Anvisa to register for use the COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd, governor Joao Doria said on Friday, a major step in what could be one of the first vaccination programs in the Americas.
A mass roll-out of a COVID-19 vaccine in Britain could be finished in as little as three months, the Times reported.
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