Live Coronavirus India Updates: 9,851 Cases, 273 Deaths In India In 24 Hours, Biggest Single-Day Jump

Coronavirus Live Updates: 9,851 Cases, 273 Deaths In India In 24 Hours, Biggest Single-Day Jump

Coronavirus Live Updates: India registered a recorded spike of 0ver 9,000 new cases on Thursday.

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Coronavirus Live Updates: India witnessed its biggest jump in the number of coronavirus cases with 9,851 testing positive, taking the total number of cases to 2,26,770, the Health Ministry said. 273 COVID-19-related deaths were also reported during the period, the biggest so far. The highly contagious virus has killed 6,348 Indians since first case was reported in Kerala in January. The recovery rate among the patients was reported at 48.27 per cent.

India stood seventh among the nations worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, Russia, the UK, Spain and Italy. In terms of fatalities, India is ranked 12th at present, while it is placed at eighth place in terms of recoveries. However, India figures among the top-five countries in terms of active cases.

On Thursday, the Union Health Ministry released standard operating procedures for reopening offices, hotels, shopping malls, restaurants and religious places. Some of them have already re-opened in parts of the country and few others are scheduled to re-start from Monday.

Here are the Live Updates on Coronavirus Outbreak:

Jun 05, 2020 10:27 (IST)

Delhi''s Kalkaji Temple to reopen on June 8

Authorities at Kalkaji Mandir are taking necessary precautionary measures against COVID-19 as religious places prepare to open on June 8 after relaxations in lockdown. The temple authorities also appealed to the authorities to avoid bringing any offerings, news agency ANI reported.

"Temple administration will follow the guidelines which have been issued by the government. We are installing sanitisation tunnels at the entry of the shrine. We appeal to the devotees to wear masks while entering the temple, and not bring any offerings to the temple as the Central government has directed," Surendra Avdhoot, head priest at the temple, told ANI.

Jun 05, 2020 10:02 (IST)

Coronavirus India Lockdown news: Hotels, restaurants, tourism operations to resume in Andhra from June 8

Hotels, restaurants and tourism operations to restart from June 8 in Andhra Pradesh, said Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Youth Advancement was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

"All COVID-19 regulation norms will be taken care of in all hotels and restaurants," said Rao while interacting with hotel industry representatives in Vijayawada, along with Endowments Minister Vellam Palli Srinivasa Rao.

He further added that measures will be taken to open hotels and restaurants in towns with famous temples. As per the Unlock 1 guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), all the religious places and places of worship are allowed to re-open from June 8.

Jun 05, 2020 09:44 (IST)

Coronavirus India Lockdown news: Sanitisation carried out at Punjab's Durgiana Temple
Punjab's Durgiana Temple being sanitised as religious places are set to open on June 8 after over 2 months of lockdown. (ANI)

Jun 05, 2020 09:30 (IST)

Just In: 9,851 coronavirus cases in India in 24 hours, 273 deaths in biggest one-day jump

Jun 05, 2020 08:43 (IST)

IX-1774 took off from HIA for Kannur a short while ago with 177 passengers and 9 infants. This was the 19th flight from Doha under #Vandebharat, bringing the total number of repatriated passengers to 3155, plus 87 infants. @DrSJaishankar @MOS_MEA @MEAIndia pic.twitter.com/qBLOHwtQWN
- India in Qatar (@IndEmbDoha) June 4, 2020

Jun 05, 2020 08:22 (IST)

Coronavirus: Study Flagging Anti-Malarial Drug Hydroxychloroquine Risks In COVID-19 Treatment Withdrawn
Three of the four authors behind a large-scale study in The Lancet that raised safety fears over the use of common anti-malarial drugs to treat COVID-19 retracted their paper on Thursday, blaming a health care company that supplied the dataset."

Jun 05, 2020 08:14 (IST)

Coronavirus news: Delhi government orders upgradation of beds at designated COVID hospitals

The Delhi government has ordered designated COVID Hospitals to upgrade beds at their facilities in the coming weeks.

According to the order issued by the Padmini Singla, Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) the beds in the hospitals have been put into five categories.

While the Level 0 beds are an ordinary hospital or observation beds, the Level 1 beds have to be equipped with normal Oxygen supply upto 5 Liters per minute, while the level 2 beds should have an oxygen supply at 10-15 litres per minute.

Jun 05, 2020 07:36 (IST)

10 railway coaches in Delhi's Shakur Basti railway station are now #COVID19 isolation wards. The 160 beds will be used for COVID patients who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms (news agency ANI). pic.twitter.com/lCAwmvoobE
- NDTV (@ndtv) June 5, 2020

Jun 05, 2020 06:39 (IST)

Corovirus News: Latest Number

- India's tally of coronavirus cases crossed 2.2 lakh on Thursday

- India observed a record spike of over 9,000 new cases and several states reporting their highest one-day surge.

- The health ministry said the number of active COVID-19 cases in the country stood at 1,06,737 till 8 am on Thursday.

- The country has now registered over 8,000 fresh cases for the fifth consecutive day, according to government data.

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Coronavirus Live Updates: 9,851 Cases, 273 Deaths In India In 24 Hours, Biggest Single-Day Jump

COVID-19 India Live Updates: India stood seventh among the nations worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, Russia, the UK, Spain and Italy.

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