1. The total number of coronavirus cases across the world has surpassed 88.04 million on Friday, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.89 million, as per Johns Hopkins University.
2. The United States counted a record number of daily coronavirus deaths on Thursday at nearly 4,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
3. France would keep its border with Britain closed to contain a highly contagious new coronavirus strain after 19 cases of the mutated virus were detected at home, Prime Minister Jean Castex said.
4. Mexico’s health ministry on Thursday reported 13,734 new coronavirus cases and 1,044 more fatalities, bringing the country’s totals to 1,493,569 infections and 131,031 deaths.
5. Japan has declared a one-month state of emergency in the capital, Tokyo, and in three neighbouring prefectures to stem the spread of coronavirus infections, as new daily cases surged to a record of more than 7,000, media reported.
6. India reported 18,139 new COVID-19 cases, 20,539 discharges, and 234 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry Friday morning update.
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7. International travellers will need to show a negative Covid-19 test before being allowed into the UK, the government has announced.
8. Russia reported 23,541 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, which brought the total number of cases to 3,332,142.
9. The number of new Covid-19 cases reported in China’s Hebei province surrounding Beijing fell slightly from a day earlier as the total number of cases in all of mainland China fell to 53 from 63 a day earlier.
10. A third Covid vaccine is likely to be approved for use in Britain next week but it will not be available until April because the UK is no longer part of the EU, The Guardian reported.