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Bollywood’s original badshah, Amitabh Bachchan, 77, is recovering after he tested positive for coronavirus along with son Abhishek, daughter-in-law Aishwarya and granddaughter Aaradhya. While Bachchan senior and junior are admitted to Nanavati hospital in Mumbai, Aishwarya and her daughter are in home quarantine. Millions of fans are praying for their recovery.

2% Less than two per cent coronavirus patients in the country are in ICUs, while the number of recovered cases exceeds active ones, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said on July 16. “We are moving gradually in the direction to win the battle against the pandemic,” he said.

Zydus Cadila has started human clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate ZyCoV-D—the country’s second pharmaceutical firm to get the Drug Controller General of India’s nod for human tests after the first indigenous contender, COVAXIN, developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with ICMR and National Institute of Virology was approved. As the world races to find a vaccine, Britain, the US and Canada accused Russia of trying to steal information from their vaccine researchers.