Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a virtual summit with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of UAE Armed Forces, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan.
The drug regulator has granted Serum Institute of India's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin Covid-19 vaccines "conditional market authorisation".
China's northern city of Tianjin ordered a second round of COVID-19 testing of all 14 million residents after discovering 97 cases of omicron variant during initial screenings.