Coronavirus updates | December 23, 2020
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India recorded a single day rise of 23,950 new COVID-19 cases and 333 fatalities.
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India recorded a single day rise of 23,950 new COVID-19 cases and 333 fatalities.
At least 20 passengers coming to India from the U.K. tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday as the government issued a stringent new SOPs mandating RT-PCR tests at all airports for each traveller from the country and isolation in a separate institutional facility for positive cases in view of the new coronavirus strain.
NITI Aayog member V.K. Paul said the new strain of COVID-19 reported in the U.K. seems to increase transmissibility and infection rates but the mutation has so far not affected the severity, and case fatality of the disease.