Coronavirus live updates: Highest single-day rise of 3,845 coronavirus cases in Haryana

India reported a record 168,912 Covid-19 infections overnight, data from the health ministry showed on Monday, overtaking Brazil to become the second-most affected country globally by the coronavirus. India's overall tally reached 13.53 million, surpassing Brazil's 13.45 million cases, according to data compiled by Reuters. The United States led the global tally with 31.2 million cases.

10,774 new cases and 48 deaths were reported in the national capital in the last 24 hours; case tally at 7,25,197

Prior to this, many benches led by CJI S A Bobde and Justices N V Ramana, R F Nariman, U U Lalit, A M Khanwilkar, Ashok Bhushan, L N Rao, S A Nazir, Navin Sinha were assembling on bench in the courtrooms.

China's top disease control official has said the country is formally considering mixing Covid-19 vaccines, as a way of further boosting vaccine efficacy. Available data shows Chinese vaccines lag behind others including Pfizer and Moderna in terms of efficacy, but require less stringent temperature controls during storage. The currently available vaccines "don't have very high rates of protection", Gao Fu, the director of the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a conference in the Chinese city of Chengdu on Saturday. "Inoculation using vaccines of different technical lines is being considered," he said.

After Maharashtra Uttar Pradesh, along with Delhi and Karnataka are going through an exponential surge in cases. These four states alone accounted for about 1 lakh new cases reported in the country.