The Delhi government has relaxed the 8 pm deadline for shops, markets and malls, allowing them to stay open longer, in view of the falling COVID-19 cases. The announcement came on a day the city reported 19 new coronavirus cases, its lowest single-day count this year, and no new deaths.
Meanwhile, 34,457 new cases were reported from across the country -- a marginal drop from yesterday. About 375 deaths were recorded during the 24-hour period, according to the Health Ministry.
India's drug regulator on Friday approved Zydus Cadila's three-dose COVID-19 DNA vaccine for emergency use in adults and children aged 12 years and above, bringing in the sixth vaccine authorised for use in the country.
ZyCoV-D is the world's first plasmid DNA vaccine against the coronavirus. It uses a section of genetic material from the virus that gives instructions as either DNA or RNA to make the specific protein that the immune system recognises and responds to.
