A complete lockdown will be imposed in Bihar from July 16 to 31 July to restrain the coronavirus outbreak, Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi announced on Tuesday. However, there will be no restrictions on emergency services. The guidelines of the newly imposed lockdown are being prepared.
With 1,916 more people testing positive for COVID-19 in Andhra Pradesh, the total confirmed cases in the state climbed to 33,019 on Tuesday. It is the state’s highest single-day spike of the coronavirus cases.
With 28,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, India has crossed the 9 lakh-mark of the total number of infections. The country’s death toll stands at 23,727. India now has 3,11,565 active coronavirus cases 5,71,460 people have recovered among the total of 9.06 lakh cases. The recovery rate of the patients has increased to 63.02%.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday taking to Twitter said, “This week, the figure of 10,00,000 will be crossed in our country.” Gandhi also tagged a news report quoting the WHO chief who had said that if concrete steps were not taken, the coronavirus situation in the world would turn from bad to worse.
Maharashtra has recorded a spike of 6,497 cases in the past 24 hours, while Delhi has added 1,246 cases to its tally.
Bengaluru will be going under lockdown starting Tuesday night while shops will be allowed to open only from 5 am till noon. As coronavirus cases spike in Bengaluru, the city is being put under complete lockdown for the second time. All public places in Bengaluru, including places of worship, malls, and gyms, and so on will also remain shut in the lockdown period.
The Goa government has made it compulsory for all private hospitals in the state to reserve 20% of their total beds for COVID-19 patients. The decision was taken during a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday to review the coronavirus pandemic situation in the coastal state.
According to Worldometer, over 13,236,252 people have been infected with COVID-19 around the world so far. While more than 7,691,451 have recovered, 575,540 have died. The United States remains the most affected. It has recorded over 65,000 cases in a day and now has 3,479,483 coronavirus cases and 138,247 deaths. A second coronavirus wave in Britain this winter could see 120,000 deaths in hospitals alone in a “reasonable worst-case scenario”, scientists warned on Tuesday.
Brazil has 1,887,959 cases, and 72,921 deaths, while India is the third-worst-hit with 907,645 cases and 23,727 deaths.
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Bihar additional chief secretary Amir Subhani has tested positive for COVID-19. The bureaucrat said that he was presently under isolation at home and was taking all necessary precautions. “Having all necessary arrangements and gadgets. Feeling fine No worries,” the top bureaucrat wrote.
Karnataka government orders cancellation of outpatient services for 48 hours at Apollo Hospital in Jayanagar & Vikram Hospital in Bengaluru for allegedly not admitting the coronavirus patients.
ICMR director general Dr Balram Bhargava on Tuesday said that there are two Indian indigenous candidate vaccines. "They have undergone successful toxicity studies in rats, mice and rabbits. Data was submitted to DCGI following which both these got clearance to start early phase human trials early this month. These candidate have got their sites ready and they are doing their clinical study on approximately a 1,000 human volunteers each at different sites," he further added.
Lockdown will be imposed in the state from July 16-31 to curb the spread of Covid-19, said Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday. The guidelines regarding the same will be issued shortly.
With 1,916 more people testing positive for COVID-19 in Andhra Pradesh, the total confirmed cases in the state climbed to 33,019 on Tuesday. It is the state's highest single-day spike of the coronavirus cases.
Bengaluru: Over 80 labourers working on the Nagavara - Gottigere lane of Namma Metro phase two, have tested positive for COVID-19, reports ANI
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh said Tuesday that people visiting the state for less than 72 hours would be exempt from mandatory home quarantine, and would only need to submit a formal undertaking at the border check post.
Vadodara BJP leader and former chairman of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation, Yogendra Sukhadia passed away earlier this morning at the age of 65. He had tested positive for Covid-19 and was treated and discharged from a private hospital last week, reports The Indian Express.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday taking to Twitter said, "This week, the figure of 10,00,000 will be crossed in our country." Gandhi also tagged a news report quoting the WHO chief who had said that if concrete steps were not taken, the coronavirus situation in the world would turn from bad to worse.
Out of 110 samples collected from the BJP office in Patna, 24 party members have been tested positive for the coronavirus, said Sanjay Jaiswal, Bihar BJP President to ANI.
The Delhi High Court decided to restrict its functioning as well as that of the district courts in the national capital to urgent matters till July 31 in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
There will be no return to the “old normal” for the foreseeable future as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and too many countries were still headed in the wrong direction, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned.
With 1,116 new coronavirus cases, Bihar total number of infection tally reached 17,421 on Monday. 1,1953 patients have been recovered among the total of 17k cases. Patna remains to be the worst-affected district by COVID-19 outbreak.
Tamil Nadu chief minister and his staff in camp office were tested for COVID-19 on Monday. The reports were negative.
1,20,92,503 samples tested for Covid-19 till July 13, of these 286,247 samples were tested yesterday: ICMR
Rajasthan has reported 98 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths today till 10.30 am. Total confirmed cases reached 25,034, including 5,759 active cases and 521 deaths.
China reported five new coronavirus cases in the mainland on July 13, compared with eight cases a day earlier, the health authority said. All of the new infections were imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement.