Coronavirus Live Updates: Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India Today 30 December 2020

Coronavirus in Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister K.Sudhakar on Wednesday confirmed that seven cases of the new coronavirus strain have been reported in the state. Read Full Story

Coronavirus Vaccine: A Chinese inactivated vaccine shows 79.34 per cent efficacy against COVID-19, according to the interim results of the phase-3 clinical trials unveiled by its developer on Wednesday. Read Full Story

Maharashtra Lockdown: In light of the new strain of the COVID-19 found in the UK, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday extended the lockdown till January 31. Read Full Story

Coronavirus in Andhra Pradesh: The coronavirus new strain from the UK is creating a stir in the East Godavari district. A woman from Rajahmundry from the UK was diagnosed with corona positive. It was later confirmed to be a new strain after further tests. However. Her son, who is her primary contact, got negative. The woman was rushed to hospital with her son in isolation. AP medical department said the woman did not infect others. Read Full Story

Coronavirus in Hyderabad: A woman from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is said to have been tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus that was first detected in Britain. Officials said that that the new strain of the virus was detected during genome sequencing at CCMB. Read Full Story

Coronavirus vaccine: As the country awaits the UK's approval to the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine before giving nod for Emergency Use Authorisation to its Indian counterpart developed by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), a top European drug official has claimed that the vaccine is not even ready for a conditional approval at the moment. Read Full Story

Schools, Colleges in Mumbai Not to Reopen Till January 15:  Citing the fear of the second wave of coronavirus, the Mumbai civic body on Tuesday said schools and colleges in the city will not reopen till January 15, 2021. Earlier, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation had decided to keep schools and colleges closed till December 31. In a fresh circular issued on Tuesday, the BMC said it decided to keep all –government and private — schools and colleges closed till January 15 due to the second wave of COVID-19 in other countries and the situation in some states in the country. The pandemic is under control in the Mumbai municipal limits though, it noted.

Bengal Reports First Case of New Covid Strain: West Bengal has reported its first case of a mutant coronavirus strain that surfaced in the United Kingdom, a senior health official said on Wednesday. The patient, the son of a senior official of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, tested positive for the mutant strain VUI-202012/01 after returning from London, the official said. "The youth is undergoing treatment at the state-run hospital's super-speciality section. He is under observation. We have advised all those who have come in contact with him to isolate themselves," the official said, adding that the new strain is believed to be significantly more transmissible.

Decision has been taken to extend the temporary suspension of flights to & from the UK till 7 January 2021.

Thereafter strictly regulated resumption will take place for which details will be announced shortly. - Civil aviation minister

Coronavirus in Telangana: Telangana registered 474 fresh coronavirus positive cases and three new deaths until 8 pm on Tuesday pushing the total tally to 2,85,939 and the death toll to 1,518. Meanwhile, the recovery cases went up to 2,78,523 with 592 persons recovering from the virus in the last 24 hours. Read Full Story