1. India reported 59,118 new COVID19 cases, 32,987 recoveries, and 257 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Union Health Ministry Friday morning update.
2. Maharashtra recorded a fresh single-day record with 35,952 cases, which is almost 62 per cent of the cases in India.
3. For the first time in the last four months, India on Thursday morning reported more than 50,000 fresh cases of Covid-19 infection in a 24-hour window.
4. A total of 5,55,04,440 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far.
5. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 23,86,04,638 tests have conducted till March 25, of which 11,00,756 tests were done on Thursday.
6. Colombia has approved the emergency use of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot Covid-19 vaccine, the director of food and drug regulator INVIMA said as part of a government address on Thursday, The Guardian reported.
7. In his first press conference as president, Joe Biden, announced he had doubled his administration’s vaccination goal to 200m shots during his first 100 days as president (up until 29 April).
8. Under the global Covax scheme, Iraq is set to receive 336,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday.
9. The UK’s emergency coronavirus rules will continue for another six months.
10. Mexico’s Covid-19 death toll topped 200,000 on Thursday, making it the third country in the world to reach the devastating milestone.