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Economic Times | 07 Jun, 2020 | 12.20PM IST
Coronavirus Live Updates: Delhi hospitals to only treat city residents
With Delhi's hospitals grappling to deal with rising cases and a shortage of beds, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has directed the city's government and private hospitals open only for residents of the city.
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Kejriwal restricts Covid care:
Government, private hospitals in Delhi will only treat patients from national capital: CM Kejriwal
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) 1591512281000Delhi borders to reopen from tomorrow: Kejriwal
Hotels and banquet halls to remain closed in Delhi
- Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister, Delhi
Delhi reopens:
All restaurants, malls and places of worship to open in the national capital from tomorrow: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal https://t.co/gS2yk2MErI
— ANI (@ANI) 1591511565000Pakistan's death toll crosses 2,000
The country is also pushing toward 1,00,000 confirmed infections.
Moradabad priests get masks, sanitisers, PPE kits
Priests from select temples in Moradabad's Kanth area were given masks, sanitisers, PPE kits on Sunday by BJP MLA Rajesh Kumar Singh, in light of religious places reopening from Monday.
Delhi Medical Association slams Kejriwal
- The association doesn't approve of the Chief Minister 'threatening' hospitals and 'warning' doctors.
- DMA also condemned the FIR filed against the authorities of the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital that has been charged with "violating rules for registering coronavirus tests".
New trials begin for HCQ
The American President's miracle drug - hydroxychloroquine - is being studied again, days after a study claiming it was ineffective was rescinded by its authors.
IOC says Unlock 1.0 could revive fuel sales
"The demand for the petroleum products dropped by 46% in April 2020. The sales of petrol, diesel and jet fuel (ATF) in April 2020 were down by 61%, 56.7% and 91.5% respectively as compared to April 2019," Indian Oil said in a regulatory filing.
Daman, Diu remain virus free
Despite bordering Gujarat and being close to Maharashtra, two of the worst affected states, Daman and Diu have remained free of the viral disease so far because public followed the lockdown guidelines, according to the Union Territory's administrator Praful Patel.
1,000 samples to be tested daily in Agra
- The city's SN Medical College will start operating a True-Net machine that gives results within an hour or two
- From Monday, 900 samples to be tested daily, not only from Agra but also Mathura, Firozabad, and Hathras.
- Currently, the National Jalma Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases is testing 400 samples daily.
- JALMA Director Dr S.A. Patil said the testing capacity of his institution could soon go up to 700.
Thailand reports eight new cases
Total infections now stand at 3,112.
Homecoming
#IndiaFightsCorona: #INSJalashwa carrying 700 stranded Indian nationals to arrive in Tuticorin today.… https://t.co/7gWhn9Bqeg
— #IndiaFightsCorona (@COVIDNewsByMIB) 1591503884000India reports 9,971 fresh cases
The subcontinent reported the highest daily increase, the sixth day running, to take cases to 2,46,628; the virus has claimed 6,929 lives, so far.
Global tallies
- Cases: 68,55,858
- Deaths: 3,98,321
Germany: 301 new cases
Total cases now stand at 1,83,979.
S. Korea reports 57 new cases
This spike marks the second day in a row that the country's daily jump is above 50, total cases are now at 11,776.
Repatriated
Telangana: 128 Somalian nationals, who were stranded in Hyderabad amid lockdown, left for their country yesterday o… https://t.co/ECUSVntAaO
— ANI (@ANI) 1591492714000China reports 11 new cases
Of the new cases, six were symptomatic and the rest were asymptomatic.
US records 749 virus deaths in past 24 hours
The latest deaths bring the total in the United States to 1,09,791, and there have been more than 1.9 million cases.
Brazil reports 904 deaths in 24 hours
The Latin American nation has registered 35,930 deaths and 6,72,846 confirmed cases.
Haryana to reopen malls from Monday
However, the government has barred this resumption in Gurugram and Faridabad.
OPEC extends nearly 10M barrel cut by a month
- The 13-member cartel and its allies, notably Russia, decided to extend by a month deep May and June cuts agreed in April to boost prices.
- Prices had plummeted owing to falling demand as countries around the world imposed strict lockdowns.
- Under the terms of the April agreement, OPEC and the so-called OPEC+ pledged to cut output by 9.7 million barrels per day (bpd) from May 1 until the end of June.
- The cuts were then to be gradually eased from July, to 7.7 million bpd until December.
Mexico reports 3,593 new cases
The country also reported 341 additional fatalities, bringing the tally to 1,13,619 cases and 13,511 deaths.
Four metros account for half of all cases
India's top four metropolitian clusters -- Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai -- account for nearly half of the nationwide tally, which saw a a record surge of almost 10,000 on Saturday. These four have a similar share in the death toll, which is fast approaching the 7,000-mark.
Delhi Cabinet meeting today
The meeting will address a report submitted by a five-member doctors' committee constituted by the Delhi Government on the utilisation of the capital's health infrastructure.
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