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Photos: Delhi records lowest Covid-19 daily cases in 125 days

Updated on Dec 21, 2020 06:01 PM IST

A man walks past a makeshift Covid-19 testing booth in New Delhi on December 19. Delhi added 1,091 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on December 20, the lowest in 125 days. (Jewel Samad / AFP)

ByHT Correspondent

On December 20, Delhi recorded 1,091 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the lowest since August 24. The positivity rate on December 20 was recorded at 1.31% and Delhi’s daily positivity rate has been below 5% for 18 days now. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the positivity rate from a region should be at or below 5% for at least two weeks before it can be considered that the outbreak is under control in the region. Delhi’s current Covid-19 tally stands at 10,148 active cases with 596,580 recoveries and 10,277 deaths.

Photos: London in emergency lockdown as UK fights new coronavirus strain

A pedestrian walks past a British government health information advertisement highlighting new Covid-19 restrictions in London on December 19. British Prime Minster Boris Johnson has imposed a stricter full lockdown on London and southeast England in a desperate attempt to stop a new coronavirus strain spreading rapidly over the United Kingdom. (Toby Melville / REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 21, 2020 12:32 PM IST

Photos: How John le Carré’s novels came alive on screen

A still from “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold” from 1965. Based on John le Carré’s novel of the same name, it featured actor Richard Burton in one of his finest performances. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was a hard-edged thriller that defined director Martin Ritt’s career. (Courtesy Salem Films Ltd.)

Updated on Dec 20, 2020 11:30 AM IST

Photos: India hits 10 million coronavirus cases as outbreak slows

A health care worker prepares to screen people for Covid-19 infection at Govandi in Mumbai on December 17. India on December 18 became the second country in the world to see its total number of Covid-19 infections surpass 10 million, with the development coming at a time when rates of new infection appear to have fallen sharply over recent weeks. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 19, 2020 05:59 PM IST

Photos: Nor’easter storm blankets parts of northeastern United States

A child plays on a mound of snow in New York City on December 17. A Nor’easter storm buried parts of upstate New York and Northeastern United States in snow, breaking records in cities and towns across the region, and left plough drivers struggling to clear the roads as snow piled up at more than 4 inches per hour, AP reported. (Seth Wenig / AP)

Updated on Dec 19, 2020 11:34 AM IST

Photos: India’s Covid-19 tally closes in on 10 million infections

A health worker collects a swab sample for coronavirus testing in Gurugram on December 15. With 22,890 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 338 fatalities in the last 24 hours, India’s infection tally has gone up to 9,979,447, according to the Union health ministry’s data on December 18. (PArveen Kumar / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 19, 2020 11:34 AM IST

Photos: Nightlife returns to Covid-19’s original epicentre

People dance at a nightclub, almost a year after the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on December 12. Nightlife in Wuhan is back in full swing after the city lifted its stringent lockdown and the city’s young partygoers are embracing the catharsis. (Aly Song / REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 18, 2020 11:30 AM IST

Photos: Shaheen Bagh, a year after anti-CAA protests

Demonstrators at the Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA and NRC protest site in New Delhi on Deccmber 30, 2019. What started as a sit-in protest on Road Number 13A in Shaheen Bagh, which connects Noida to Delhi, by a group of around 100 residents a year ago, snowballed into one of the largest and most prominent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the country. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Archive)

Updated on Dec 17, 2020 05:58 PM IST

Photos: Cold wave likely in Delhi and adjoining states

A man rides a tractor while being tucked inside his sweater on a cold winter morning at Old Delhi road in Gurugram on December 16. Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 5.8 degrees Celsius (until 9am) on December 16, around 2 degrees higher than the previous day’s minimum of 4.1 degrees Celsius. (Parveen Kumar / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 17, 2020 11:54 AM IST

Photos: Over 300,000 Covid-19 deaths as US vaccine rollout begins

Medical professionals perform tracheostomy procedure on a patient inside the Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston on December 14. The number of coronavirus deaths in the United States crossed 300,000 on December 14 as the hardest hit Covid-19 nation rolled out its first vaccine inoculations, Reuters reported. (Go Nakamura / Getty Images / AFP )

Updated on Dec 16, 2020 06:02 PM IST

Photos: Looking back, a year after CAA protests turned violent at Jamia

Violence over the amended citizenship act rocked the national capital on December 15, with public buses being set on fire in a busy south Delhi colony and police using tear gas on protesters gathered near Jamia Millia Islamia, a university that has remained tense following clashes on December 13 over the new law that had also roiled the North-east over the past week. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 16, 2020 05:23 PM IST

Photos: The United States begins Covid-19 vaccinations

Sandra Lindsay (L), a nurse, is inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, on December 14, in New York. The rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first to be approved by the Unites States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ushered in the biggest vaccination effort in US history on December 14. (Mark Lennihan / Pool / AFP)

Updated on Dec 15, 2020 06:05 PM IST

Photos: Cold winds push temperatures down over Northwest India

A view of snow-covered rooftops in Srinagar on December 12. A cold wave gripped Delhi on December 15 as icy winds blowing from the snow-covered western Himalayas brought the minimum temperature down to 4.1 degrees Celsius, the season’s lowest so far, PTI reported. The reading at Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative data for the city, was five notches below normal. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 15, 2020 11:31 AM IST

Photos: Farmers observe one-day hunger strike as protests enter Day 19

Farmers congregate during a demonstration against new farm laws in Ghazipur (Delhi-UP border) on December 13. The farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s agricultural reforms entered its 19th day on December 14. The farmers are observing a one-day hunger strike which will go on till 5pm along with sit-in protests across the country. (Sakib Ali / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 14, 2020 05:59 PM IST

Photos: Covid-19 cases hit 16 million as US begins vaccine roll-out

People seen wearing face masks at Times Square in New York on December 10. The United States hit a record 16 million cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on December 12th afternoon, even as millions of doses of a new vaccine were expected to start rolling out across the nation on December 13, Reuters reported. (Kena Betancur / AFP)

Updated on Dec 14, 2020 11:38 AM IST

Photos: India’s Covid-19 cases at 9.85 million; daily deaths below 500 for a week

A health worker hands out face masks to voters during District Development Council (DDC) elections, in Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir on December 10. India recorded 30,254 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) between December 12 and 13 morning, which pushed the nationwide tally up to 98,57,029, according to Union health ministry’s update. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 13, 2020 06:04 PM IST

Photos of the week: UK’s vaccine rollout; Messi faces Ronaldo

Margaret Keenan, 90, is the first patient in Britain to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at University Hospital, administered by nurse May Parsons, at the start of the largest ever immunisation programme in the British history, in Coventry, England on December 8. (Jacob King / Pool via REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 12, 2020 06:04 PM IST

Photos: SpaceX’s Starship prototype explodes during test flight

SpaceX's first super heavy-lift Starship SN8 rocket explodes during a return-landing attempt after it launched from their facility on a test flight in Boca Chica, Texas on December 9. The Starship rocket destroyed in the accident was a 16-storey-tall prototype for a heavy-lift launch vehicle being developed by Elon Musk’s private space company to carry humans and 100 tons of cargo on future missions to the moon and Mars. (Gene Blevins / REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 11, 2020 11:30 AM IST

Photos: India’s active Covid-19 cases at a record low

A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) health worker seen at work at a health care centre in Chembur, Mumbai on December 8. Continuing the trend of a steady decline in the number of active coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, India on December 10 reported 3,72,293 active cases— a record low. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 10, 2020 06:22 PM IST

Photos: Fog and slow winds aid Delhi’s deteriorating air quality

Trees shrouded in a thick layer of fog near the banks of Yamuna river in New Delhi on December 9. As Delhi’s air quality remains in the very poor category, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted that Delhi is likely to receive rain on December 11 and 12, which might bring a slight improvement in the air quality that touched 317 air quality index (AQI) at 7 am on December 10. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 10, 2020 11:35 AM IST

Photos: Mumbai records second hottest December day in a decade

A man sits in a partially deserted area of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) yard in Navi Mumbai on December 8. The city witnessed its hottest December day in six years and second hottest day for the month over the past decade on December 8. (Indranil Mukjerjee / AFP)

Updated on Dec 09, 2020 05:59 PM IST

Photos: UK administers its first Covid-19 vaccine doses

Margaret Keenan (C), 90, is applauded by staff as she returns to her ward after becoming the first person to receive the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at University Hospital in Coventry, England, on December 8. Keenan, who turns 91 next week, got the on what public health officials have dubbed “V-Day.” (Jacob King / Pool /AFP)

Updated on Dec 09, 2020 11:28 AM IST

Photos: Farmers’ protest against new laws continues amid “Bharat Bandh”

A vendor rests in the deserted Dadar wholesale flower market during a nationwide strike called by agitating farmers to press for repeal of the Centre's new farm laws, in Mumbai on Dec. 8. A four-hour “Bharat Bandh” or nationwide strike called by farmers’ union began on December 8 at 11am. Commuters and businesses in several states were affected to varying degrees as farmers planned to block roads, highways and borders. (Kubal Patil / PTI)

Updated on Dec 08, 2020 06:03 PM IST

Photos: US logs overs 200,000 Covid-19 cases for fourth straight day

People queue to give their swab samples outside a mobile pop-up test site in Los Angeles, California on December 3. According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States on December 5 recorded 213,877 new Covid-19 infections, the country’s fourth consecutive day of more than 200,000 daily infections. (Frederic J Brown / AFP)

Updated on Dec 08, 2020 11:29 AM IST

Photos: Delhi’s Covid-19 positivity rate at 3.15%, lowest in six months

People wearing face masks stroll at India Gate on a hazy afternoon in New Delhi on December 4. Delhi continued to maintain the positivity rate – the proportion of samples that return positive among total samples tested – less than 5% for the fifth straight day on December 7, HT reported. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 07, 2020 08:14 PM IST

Photos: Russia rolls out Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine

A health worker draws the Gam-COVID-Vac, also known as Sputnik V, Covid-19 vaccine from a vial, at the City Clinic #68 in Moscow, Russia on December 5. Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V shot via 70 clinics on December 5 to the most exposed groups, marking Russia’s first large-scale vaccination against the disease, Reuters reported citing Moscow’s coronavirus task force. (Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg)

Updated on Dec 07, 2020 11:27 AM IST

Photos: India’s daily Covid-19 cases remain below 40,000 for a week

Police personnel patrol Chaitya Bhumi, at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on December 6. The number of Covid-19 cases in India rose to 96,44,222 with 36,011 new infections being reported in the last 24 hours and the death toll crossed to 140,000 after 482 new fatalities in the same period, data from the Union health ministry showed on December 6. (Kunal Patil / PTI)

Updated on Dec 06, 2020 06:04 PM IST

Photos of the week: Mount Semeru erupts; Hong Kong protesters jailed

Volcanic ash spews from the crater of Mount Semeru in Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia on December 1. Indonesian authorities are closely monitoring several volcanoes after sensors picked up increased activity in recent weeks, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people. (AP)

Updated on Dec 06, 2020 11:24 AM IST

Photos: US sets new record with over 225,000 Covid-19 cases in one day

Jacky Guerrero (R), holds her two-year-old cousin Panchito Vicente as they visit a Santa Claus, behind plexiglass in a mall, in Commerce, California on December 3. For the second day in a row, the United States on December 4 notched a record number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, reaching 225,201 new infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. (Lucy Nicholson / REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 05, 2020 06:03 PM IST

Photos: Cyclone Burevi weakens to a deep depression over India’s south

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel brief residents living near coastal areas ahead of Cyclone Burevi’s landfall, in Kerala’s Alappuzha district on December 3. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in a late night bulletin on December 3 withdrew a red alert issued for the cyclone and rains in the southernmost districts of the state. Downgraded to a deep depression, Burevi is likely to weaken further into a depression. (PTI)

Updated on Dec 04, 2020 06:02 PM IST

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