LIVE News Updates: Puducherry reports 33 COVID cases, 36,935 total cases

Puducherry reported 33 new COVID-19 cases, 72 discharges & zero deaths today. Total positive cases in the Union Territory rise to 36,935 till date, including 480 active cases, 35,846 recoveries & 609 deaths: Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Puducherry

Brazil registered 587 new coronavirus fatalities in the last 24 hours, which increased the country's overall death toll to 172,561, the Health Ministry said.

Besides the new deaths on Saturday, the country also reported 51,922 new cases taking the nationwide tally to 6,290,272, Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry as saying.

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The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the African continent has reached 2,137,871, while the death toll stood at 51,248, according to health authorities.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Saturday that a total of 1,807,531 people infected with the virus have recovered across the continent so far, Xinhua news agency.

Three women, including a mother and her daughter, were found dead under mysterious circumstances on Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district.

Police said the three women were found dead in the Lari village of Uri tehsil in Baramulla district.

Reports said the tragedy could have been caused by a cooking gas cylinder blast, but the police said the cause of the death was yet to be established adding that a police team has been rushed to the village.

In BJP/RSS vision of India, Adivasis and Dalits should not have access to education. Stopping scholarships for SC-ST students is their way of ends justifying their means, tweeted Rahul Gandhi.

Minimum temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh union territories improved marginally on Sunday due to partial cloud cover as the weather is likely to remain dry till Thursday, Met officials said.

"Due to partial cloud cover, minimum temperatures improved marginally in J&K and Ladakh. Weather is expected to generally remain dry till December 4 after which another spell of rain and snow is expected", an official of the Met department said.

With 41,810 new COVID-19 infections, India's total cases rise to 93,92,920 With 496 new deaths, toll mounts to 1,36,696 . Total active cases at 4,53,956 Total discharged cases at 88,02,267 with 42,298 new discharges in last 24 hrs.

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1 soldier killed, 9 injured in Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh, reports NDTV.

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Andhra Pradesh has registered 625 new Covid cases, increasing the states tally to 8.67 lakh, even as 1,186 more patients recovered from the virus to outnumber infections on Saturday.

Krishna district accounted for the highest number of cases, 103, followed by West Godavari (93), Visakhapatnam (88), Guntur (68), Chittoor (61), East Godavari (54) and Vizianagaram (29).

Among other places, Prakasam (27), Nellore (24), Kurnool (22), Anantapur (21), Kadapa (19) and Srikakulam (16).

With the new additions, East Godavari continues to shoulder the highest number of cases at 1.22 lakh.

Meanwhile, five more people succumbed to the virus on Saturday, raising the total number of Covid deaths in the state to 6,981.

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 62 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.45 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Sunday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 62,147,874 and 1,450,326, respectively.

16 new COVID-19 cases reported in Mizoram, taking the state's case tally to 3,822 including 392 active cases, 3,425 discharged cases and 5 deaths: State Government