Coronavirus live updates: UK's Queen Elizabeth and husband receive Covid vaccines

Priority will be given to the healthcare workers and the frontline workers, estimated to be around 3 crore in number.

Teachers of government schools in the national capital engaged in Covid-19 duty will be placed in the category of frontline workers and will be vaccinated on priority, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said on Saturday.

A new, more infectious strain of the coronavirus has now spread to at least eight US states, official data showed Friday, as the country logged a record new daily virus caseload. The B117 coronavirus strain, which emerged in Britain late last year, has been shown to be between 40 and 70 percent more contagious than variants which have spread previously.

The number of persons infected by the new United Kingdom strain of SARS-Cov-2 in India has risen to 90, the Union health ministry informed on Saturday. Earlier in the day, India reported 18,222 fresh coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, taking the country's tally to 1,04,31,639.

India's cumulative coronavirus positivity rate has further dropped to 5.79 per cent and there are only 2.15 per cent active cases out of the overall infections, according to the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) on Saturday.

Beijing has gone on an alert mode following a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases in the neighbouring Hebei province while China has administered nine million coronavirus vaccines so far in a stepped-up nationwide drive to contain the virus.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that India is ready to save humanity with two 'Made in India' Covid-19 vaccines.

India's Covid-19 tally of cases climbed to 1,04,31,639 with 18,222 new cases in a day, while 1,00,56,651 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 96.41 per cent on Saturday, according to Union health ministry data.

Seven more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, taking the tally in the state to 16,764, a health department official said on Saturday. Of the fresh cases, two each were reported from the Capital Complex Region, Pakke Kessang and Lepa Rada and one from East Siang district.