India recorded its highest 38,902 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. The number of deaths went up to 543, according to health ministry data.
Maharashtra continues to report the highest number of cases, followed by Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana. For 17 of the last 20 days, including 11 in a row now, the number of people recovering from COVI-19 in Delhi has remained higher than newly detected infections. No other state has come close to such a trend.
Amid a rise in COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru, hospitals have been directed to admit only patients with moderate or severe symptoms. Mild and asymptomatic cases are to be referred to COVID-19 care centres or encouraged to stay in home isolation, the government said Saturday.
Meanwhile, ICMR will conduct a multi-centric study to assess whether the BCG vaccine, used against tuberculosis, can prevent the occurrence of coronavirus infection and reduce the severity of the disease and mortality among elderly individuals residing in hotspot areas. The study will be carried out in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi in approximately 1,500 healthy volunteers above 60-years of age, an ICMR scientist said.
The global pandemic has claimed more than 600,000 lives worldwide. A total of 600,523 deaths were reported globally out of 14,233,355 cases, a count based on official data showed, including 205,065 deaths in Europe, the worst-affected continent. COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in Latin America, the region with the second-most recorded deaths where 160,726 people have died. The United States is the country with the most deaths with 140,103, followed by Brazil (78,772), Britain (45,273), Mexico (38,888), and Italy (35,042). The number of deaths linked to COVID-19 has doubled in over two months, and more than 100,000 new deaths have been registered in the three weeks since June 28.
In the US, a health official on the Texas Gulf Coast confirmed that 85 infants have tested positive for the coronavirus.
It has come to our knowledge that some tourists have come to our state with fake COVID-free certificates. All officers are directed to ensure proper checking of the certificates of all tourists while also seeing that no tourist faces problems: Uttarakhand CM TS Rawat
After 2 more patients succumbed to COVID-19, the death toll in Meghalaya reached 4. One out of two was a BSF jawan.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday allowed for a human clinical trial of the indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin following which the premier hospital is likely to begin the exercise by enrolling healthy volunteers from Monday.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took to Twitter and accused BJP of "institutionalising lies" by "restricting testing and misreporting deaths."
Odisha Health Department confirmed 736 fresh cases of coronavirus in the state, taking the total number of infections tally to 17,437.
South Africa now ranks fifth in the world for confirmed coronavirus cases, after reporting 13,285 new confirmed cases, for a total of 350,879.