India’s count of Covid-19 has risen to 1,58,333 cases. A total of 4,531 people have lost their lives due to the infection. Among all states, Maharashtra has the highest number of coronavirus cases.
As the government eased restrictions in Lockdown 4.0 and resumed domestic passenger flights in reduced numbers, several passengers on different flights have tested positive for coronavirus.
The Karnataka govt has decided to reopen temples, mosques and churches from June 1 when the lockdown is supposed to end.
Meanwhile, Indian states are staring at a new challenge as swarms of locust raid crop fields in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and other north Indian states, damaging crops in large proportions, which has triggered alarm among the authorities.
As the global coronavirus cases cross 5.58 million with death toll over 3,50,000, pharma and biotechnology companies across the world race to find a vaccine for coronavirus. Meanwhile, UK has started trial of using remdesivir on coronavirus patients.
Twelve more COVID-19 deaths in Tamil Nadu, toll now 145; 827 fresh coronavirus cases takes tally to 19,372: Govt
Kerala has reported 84 fresh coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the past 24 hours, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Thursday. This is the sharpest ever single-day spike in the number of coronavirus cases reported in Kerala.
A 55-year-old man from Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir died of coronavirus, taking the death toll to 27 in the Union territory, officials said on Thursday. The man from Khanpora area in north Kashmir was referred from the Government Medical College Hospital Baramulla with fever and respiratory distress to the SMHS Hospital here on Wednesday, they said. The patient died within hours of admission, the officials said.
The number of active cases in the state rose to 47 and four have recovered from the disease.
The death toll has gone up to 122, and in the last 24 hours, samples of 78 people came out positive for coronavirus, taking the count of cases in the district to 3,260, the official said.
BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra has been admitted to a private hospital in Gurugram after he showed symptoms of COVID-19, sources said. He has been admitted to the Medanta hospital in Gurgaon, hospital sources said on Thursday. READ MORE
Trade or consumption of liquor is not a fundamental right and the state has the authority to regulate its sale, the AAP government has told the Delhi High Court maintaining that its levying 70 per cent 'special corona fees' on MRP of all alcohol brands is a price for grant of such privilege to the public.
Delhi HC allows shifting 955 foreign nationals to alternate places of accommodation related to Markaz incident. Court stated that all foreign national will be shifted from quarantine centres to 9 designated places.
As many as 195 healthcare workers have tested positive for coronavirus infection at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here till date.
Total cases now stand at 276, including 201 active cases, 66 recovered patients and 5 deaths
The department has however noted that US government has regularly reimbursed hospitals and other providers for treating people with no health insurance, the Washington Post reported. When the coronavirus pandemic first struck the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) also identified remdesivir as one of the potential treatments for the disease. The drug also managed to shorten hospital visits by four days and reduced mortality rate from 11.6 per cent to 8 per cent.
45 people were discharged and 1 death reported since yesterday. Total number of positive cases in the state rises to 2841, including 1,958 discharged and 59 deaths.
The development comes after a proposal by a team led by Prof. Pravindra Kumar was given a go-ahead by the Science and Engineering Research Board.
The overall number of cases rose to 3,245, including 293 patients from other states and 111 foreign returnees. The death toll increased to 59 with one more death.
A 48-year-old traffic Head Constable allegedly committed suicide in Agra by jumping infront of a speeding Shramik Special train. The Head Constable, Ashok Kumar, was allegedly under depression. He joined the traffic police in 1997. He is survived by wife and three children. His two sons are also constables in the UP police.
The incident took place in a residential area in Kamla Nagar under New Agra police limits on Wednesday
Miffed with Centre for sending 36 trains from Mumbai to West Bengal without State government's knowledge, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that if Central Government had planned and discussed the movement the trains with West Bengal, it would have been better. "I spoke to the Maharashtra Government, they said they were informed at 2 am on the night before. If the Central Government had planned with us, if the Railway Ministry had consulted us then it would have been better. We are hearing reports of 2-3 people sharing one seat in trains and not following social distancing," Banerjee said.
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross said it has recorded 208 COVID-19-related attacks against health workers and installations in 13 countries since March, a striking contrast to the cheers and clapping in gratitude for their work in many nations. Maurer told reporters the ICRC compiled data from 13 countries in the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, the Americas and Africa where it operates, and it's ``likely the actual numbers are much higher than what we calculated.''
In an order issued on Wednesday, the state health department also said that in case of violation of the norms for the second time, the person would be shifted from home to a quarantine centre. According to the central government's guidelines, people should be home-quarantined in mild and pre-symptomatic COVID-19 cases. An undertaking is also taken in suspected COVID-19 cases that the person would follow the home quarantine norms, it said.
Even after a COVID-19 vaccine is developed and deployed, the coronavirus will likely remain for years to come, and may eventually, become endemic like HIV, measles and chickenpox, The Washington Post reported. Experts say that amid all the uncertainty revolving around the contagion, the persistence of the novel virus is one of the few things we can count on about the future. There are four endemic coronaviruses that are present, causing the common cold. And many experts believe that COVID-19 will become the fifth.
As per the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare guidelines, all travellers would give an undertaking that they would undergo mandatory quarantine for 14 days -- seven days paid institutional quarantine and seven days of isolation at home with self-monitoring of health.
Officials announced 79 new cases Thursday -- taking its total to 11,344 -- with most fresh infections from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area. It was the largest increase since 81 cases were announced on April 5. An outbreak at a warehouse of e-commerce firm Coupang in Bucheon, west of Seoul, has seen 69 cases, said the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Around 95 attendees, including the newlywed couple, were quarantined on Wednesday after a guest at the wedding ceremony in Chindwara district tested COVID-19 positive. "We have commissioned the protocol required for this situation and will be making the area containment zone as a precautionary measure," said Rajesh Shahi, municipal commissioner. "As of now, we have got the information that the COVID-19 positive patient had come from Delhi to attend the wedding," informed officials.
According to the China's National Health Commission (NHC), two imported cases - one in Shanghai and the other in Fujian were reported on Wednesday, while no cases of domestic transmission were reported. However, on Wednesday 23 new asymptomatic cases were reported in the country of which 19 were from Wuhan. In all, 413 asymptomatic cases, including 344 from Wuhan were under medical observation.
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South Africa has reported 1,673 COVID-19 cases, the highest daily increase since the country reported its first case in early March. As of Wednesday, the country's caseload has reached 25,937, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said in his daily update, Xinhua reported. The country also reported 28 new deaths from COVID-19, taking the national total to 552, Mkhize said.