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Live Updates: India Confirms 81,466 New COVID-19 Cases in Record Daily Spike

04:33 GMT 02.04.2021

The global COVID-19 tally now stands at 129.5 million cases, with the number of fatalities recently surpassing 2.8 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, located in Baltimore, Maryland.

The US is the most affected nation, with around 30.5 million cases of coronavirus, and the death toll from the pandemic reaching 553,000. It is followed by Brazil with around 12.8 million cases and over 325,000 deaths.

India currently has the third-highest number of COVID-19 cases (12.2 million infected and almost 163,000 deaths), while Mexico has the third-highest death toll in the world - over 203,000 fatalities, with around 2.2 million coronavirus cases.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on all countries to protect education amid the coronavirus-linked lockdown.

According to the secretary-general, about 1 billion students are currently suffering from school closures and other restrictions linked to COVID-19.

“At this pivotal moment, I call on all countries to protect education and use the recovery to narrow access divides, expand digital connectivity & reimagine learning,” Guterres wrote on his Twitter page on late Friday.

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The intranasal vaccine that is currently under development will not cause side effects such as fever and headache, the head of the institute assured.

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"He had low platelets, but he had clots in his liver, in his spleen and in his gut in general. So, he fits the description of vaccine-induced pro-thrombotic thrombocytopenia. He fits the case description", Dr Norman Swan, the host of the Coronacast podcast, told the broadcaster.

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