Coronavirus live updates: India, World Bank sign $400 million project to support Covid affected people

The UK government has set out new powers that could see tech companies facing fines of up to 18 million pounds or 10 per cent of their annual global turnover, whichever is higher, if they fail to act on harmful online.

``I think that most people in the profession didn't see such a wave in front of them, they talked about different clusters,'' Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told the Aftenposten newspaper. Sweden's statistical agency said Monday it had recorded a total of 8,088 deaths from all causes in November _ the highest mortality ever reported in the Scandinavian country since the first year of the Spanish flu that raged across the world from 1918 through 1920.

Researchers found that COVID-19 patients had a 40 to 60 per cent higher risk of ending up back in the hospital or dying in the first 10 days, compared with similar patients treated at the same hospitals during the same months for heart failure or pneumonia. The study, published in the journal JAMA, found that by the end of 60 days, the COVID-19 patients' overall risk of readmission or death was lower than that for the other two serious conditions.

The data of the available beds will have to be uploaded on the platform 'onemapggm.gmda.gov.in' of the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) by the hospitals. The order was issued under the Epidemic Diseases Act,1897 and sub-section-2 of the Disaster Management Act-2005.

Tiger safari, train and boat rides continue to remain shut

Brazil's health regulator Anvisa said on Monday that China's health authorities are not transparent in authorizing emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines, a statement that may further inflame political tension in the South American country. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a consistent critic of China, has repeatedly cast doubt on the CoronaVac vaccine being developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd, saying its "origin" made it untrustworthy.

354 more deaths takes toll to 1,43,709. Total active cases stand at 3,39,820. Total discharged cases are at 94,22,636 with 34,477 new discharges in the last 24 hours.