India reported a huge spike of 24,248 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours along with 425 fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said this morning. The number of recoveries stands at 4,24,433, with 19,693 people have succumbed to the disease till now.
There have been almost 20,000 deaths in India since the first case was detected there in January. India now trails only the United States and Brazil in the number of COVID-19 cases and it has recorded eight times as many cases as China, where the virus was first identified in late 2019.
But its death rate per 10,000 people is still a low 0.15, compared with 3.97 in the United States and 6.65 in the United Kingdom, according to a Reuters tally
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The subject enrolment for Phase-I clinical trial of India's first indigenous vaccine for Covid-19 began at Nizam's Institute of Medical Science (NIMS) in Hyderabad today.
"There is no community spread so far, I am making it very clear. We are still in between the second and the third stage, we haven't reached the third stage yet," Karnataka Health Minister, B Sriramulu said.
The WHO Situation Report 168 dated July 6 shows that India has one of the lowest Covid-19 cases per million population. India’s cases per million population is 505.37 while the global average is at 1453.25. The WHO Situation Report also shows that India has one of the lowest deaths per million population. India’s cases of death per million population is 14.27 while the global average is more than its four times, at 68.29: Govt.
Maharashtra Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat goes for home quarantine after a staff at his official residence tests positive. Swabs of the minister and others have been sent for testing. Reports awaited.
With 571 new positive cases, total cases in Odisha cross the 10,000-mark. The state tally now stands at 10,097. Four more Covid-19 deaths take toll to 42 in the state.
"We have no intention of allowing street vendors. They are most dangerous in terms of spread of the virus," the advocate general submitted.
Supreme Court, referring to media reports that more than 50 children in a shelter home in Kanpur are found Covid-19 infected, directed Uttar Pradesh government to file a status report in the issue. Hearing the suo moto case relating to the protection of children from Covid-19 in shelter homes, the apex court appoints advocate Gaurav Aggarwal as the amicus curiae and lists the matter for hearing on July 13. SC also takes into note that states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Tripura are yet to file a reply in the case and grants them time till July 10 to file the report regarding Covid-19 cases among children in shelter homes in these states.
Keisha Lance Bottoms, the mayor of Atlanta, the capital city of US state of Georgia, said she has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
"Covid-19 has literally hit home," Bottoms tweeted on Monday, Xinhua reported.
A 60 year old man died by suicide at a quarantine centre of Pune municipal corporation in Kondhwa on Monday. He and his son had tested positive for Covid-19. Cause yet to be ascertained, reports ANI quoting Pune police
A plasma bank for treating COVID-19 patients has been set up at Kolkata Medical College and Hospital (KMCH), the first of its kind in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday, reports PTI.