Over 257,000 fresh cases reported India reported 257,299 fresh coronavirus infections on Saturday, taking the cumulative caseload to 26.2, according to central health ministry data. The country saw 4,194 deaths due to the pandemic, taking the death toll to 295,525. The active caseload is at 2.9 million, while the total recoveries have surged to 23 million. As many as 193 million shots have been administered since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Of these, 1.4 million were given on Friday. Read more Another novel coronavirus detected in humans, likely came from dogs A study has revealed that a new coronavirus has been detected in Malaysia and is likely to have come from dogs, a report in ThePrint said. However, scientists are yet to determine if the virus is a threat to humans or not. The virus, called CCoV-HuPn-2018, is the newest coronavirus to jump to humans after the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the one that caused the Covid-19 pandemic. It is a novel canine-feline recombinant alphacoronavirus and was isolated from human pneumonia patients in Malaysia in 2017 and 2018, the report said. Read more