Kathmandu [Nepal], December 16 (ANI): Hundreds of devotees flocked to the Pashupatinath Temple on Wednesday, after it reopened its gates following a hiatus of nine months due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], December 16 (ANI): The Sri Lankan Navy on Wednesday arrested 36 Tamil Nadu fishermen amid Covid-19 restrictions said M K Stalin, President of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 16 (ANI): The Health and Family Welfare Department of Uttar Pradesh has cancelled all leaves of officers and employees of the Directorate General, in view of proposed Covid-19 vaccination in the months of December 2020 and January 2021.
Tbilisi [Georgia], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Georgia reported 3,487 new Covid-19 cases, bringing its national total to 198,387, the government's official coronavirus information service StopCoV.ge reported on Wednesday.
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): The active Covid-19 caseload of the country stands at 3,32,002, which is 3.34 per cent of the total coronavirus cases in India, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Wednesday.
Zagreb [Croatia], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Croatia recorded 2,360 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 179,718, said the Croatian Institute of Public Health on Tuesday.
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday where he discussed the India-UK partnership in the post-Covid and post-Brexit world.
Bishkek [Kyrgyzstan], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kyrgyzstan reached 78,151 on Wednesday as 241 new cases were registered across the country in the past 24 hours, said Kyrgyz's Republican Headquarters for Combating COVID-19.
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Wednesday said the positivity rate of COVID-19 cases is declining and it was below 2 per cent for the first time on Tuesday since the month of May.
Sydney [Australia], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Australian researchers called for people with serious mental illness to be given priority access to Covid-19 vaccines when they become available, according to a statement released Wednesday.
Berlin [Germany], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Germany reported on Wednesday 27,728 more COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 1,379,238, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
Sofia [Bulgaria], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Bulgaria has confirmed 2,743 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the country's total to 184,287, according to data published by the country's Unified Information Portal on Wednesday.