Municipal authorities conducting fever and testing camps at various coronavirus hotspots in Mumbai.
Coronavirus India LIVE news updates: With India registering 407 deaths and 17,296 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the total number of infections crossed the 4.9 lakh-mark to reach 4,90,401 including 15,301 fatalities, 1,89,463 active cases, and 2,85,636 people who have been treated and discharged so far. On Thursday, the number of recoveries was 96,173 more than the number of active cases.
The Centre announced it will be sending a team of experts to Telangana, Maharashtra and Gujarat — three states with high positivity rates that are considered critical in the efforts against the pandemic. Sources said experts may also be sent to Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, which are also seen as requiring advice and assistance on clinical management. The Centre is already closely monitoring the Covid-19 situation in Delhi, the city with the most number of cases.
Also, with fatalities from the novel coronavirus infection doubling every 14-16 days in India, more than half the country’s districts (407 out of 720) have now seen at least one Covid-19 death. However, around 7 out of 10 Covid deaths in the country have been concentrated in only a handful of districts. So while the number of districts that have been touched by at least one Covid death has risen from 272 a month ago to 348 two weeks ago to the current number, the 10 districts with the most deaths have accounted for about 70 per cent of fatalities throughout this period.
Meanwhile, the government on Thursday decided to keep regular train services suspended till August 12. “All tickets booked for the regular time-tabled trains for journey date from 01.07.20 to 12.08.20 also stand cancelled. Full refund will be generated,” the Railway Board order stated.
Globally, the infections soared to 9,588,717 on Thursday and the death toll rose to 488,842. Also, as many as 4,822,067 people have recovered across the world.
Coronavirus LIVE updates: The Shenai Banquet opposite LNJP hospital in New Delhi has been turned into an isolation facility and will start operations from Thursday. (Express photo/Tashi Tobgyal)
The CEOs of major U.S. airlines are set to hold a meeting Friday to discuss several coronavirus-related travel issues, including a push to convince the federal government to mandate temperature checks for passengers, three people briefed on the matter said. The meeting with Vice President Mike Pence and other senior U.S. officials is expected to include the chief executive officers of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and JetBlue Airways Corp, the sources said. The White House confirmed Pence would meet with airline executives Friday afternoon, but did not identify the companies.
Till the time a vaccine is not developed for COVID19, we all have to maintain 'Do gaj doori' and wear face masks: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during launch of ‘Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rojgar Abhiyan' through video conference.
The government on Thursday decided to keep regular train services suspended till August 12.
The government on Thursday decided to keep regular train services suspended till August 12. Sources said that the decision was taken keeping in mind the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the country. All special trains — 12 pairs running on the Rajdhani routes since May 12 and 100 pairs operating since June 1 — will continue, they said.
The limited special suburban services which began recently in Mumbai to ferry essential services personnel identified by the local authorities will also continue to run, officials said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches 'Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rozgar Abhiyan' via video-confernece in presence of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
US officials estimate that 20 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus since it first arrived in the United States, meaning that the vast majority of the population remains susceptible. Thursday's estimate is roughly 10 times as many infections as the 2.3 million cases that have been confirmed. Officials have long known that millions of people were infected without knowing it and that many cases are being missed because of gaps in testing. The news comes as the Trump administration works to tamp down nationwide concern about the COVID-19 pandemic as about a dozen states are seeing worrisome increases in cases.
The administration also looks to get its scientific experts back before the public more as it tries to allay anxieties about the pandemic while states begin reopening. Since mid-May, when the government began stressing the need to get the economy moving again, the panel's public health experts have been far less visible than in the pandemic's early weeks.
As CBSE has decided not to hold the class 10 and class 12 board exams scheduled to be conducted from July 1, it will still go ahead with the result. As informed by The Indian Express and mentioned by the Human Resource Development Minister in an earlier interview, the CBSE class 10, 12 results will be declared by July 15.
The results will be declared under a special scheme. In case a student is not satisfied with the marks given under a special scheme, they can appear for an exam later. The dates of which are not announced yet. Further, after these exams, no improvement paper will be held. This facility is only available to class 12 students.
Mexico pushed past 25,000 reported coronavirus deaths and 200,000 confirmed cases Thursday, as the treasury secretary said he tested positive and would self-isolate while working from home. Treasury Secretary Arturo Herrera said he had only minor symptoms and planned to self-isolate as he continued to work from home. It was unclear how recently he was in close contact with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who refuses to use a face mask and has resumed public tours across Mexico.
The coronavirus crisis deepened in Arizona on Thursday, and the governor of Texas began to backtrack after making one of the most aggressive pushes in the nation to reopen, as the daily number of confirmed cases across the U.S. closed in on the peak reached during the dark days of late April.
While greatly expanded testing probably accounts for some of the increase, experts say other measures indicate the virus is making a comeback. Daily deaths, hospitalizations and the percentage of tests that are coming back positive also have been rising over the past few weeks in parts of the country, mostly in the South and West.
China reported a further decline in newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Friday, with 13 cases. Eleven were in Beijing, where mass testing has been carried out following an outbreak that appears to have been largely brought under control. The other two cases were brought by Chinese travelers from overseas, according to the National Health Council.
No new deaths were reported and 389 people remained in treatment for COVID-19, with another 107 in isolation. Case numbers both nationally and in Beijing were down from Thursday. China has reported 4,634 COVID-19 deaths from 83,462 total cases.
In the weeks since Panama loosened restrictions in an attempt to gradually reactivate its economy, new coronavirus infections have surged, especially in the densely populated poorer neighborhoods of its capital. Since late March, Panama had managed to maintain its daily new infections below 200 with a strict lockdown. But this month those numbers have nearly tripled and reported deaths are coming twice as fast.
Amid the worsening situation, President Laurentino Cortizo replaced his health minister Wednesday without explaining why. “We all knew this was going to happen,” said Dr. Xavier Saenz-Llorens, one of the advisers of the Health Ministry’s pandemic team. He was referring to the increase in infections once measures were eased.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that his government and the United Arab Emirates will soon announce a partnership in the fight against the coronavirus. The deal, if confirmed, would come despite recent warnings from UAE officials that Israel’s planned annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank would harm its efforts to improve relations with Arab states.
In a speech to graduating Israeli fighter pilots, Netanyahu said an announcement was expected in a few moments and came after months of intense contacts. “This collaboration will be in the fields of research and development, technology, in areas that will improve the confidence in health throughout the region,” he said.
The number of infections of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease crossed 9.5 million globally on Friday, with the United States reporting the highest number (2,418,570), followed by Brazil (1,228,114), Russia (613,148), and India (473,105) on the fourth position.
Globally, the death toll touched 488,740, with the recovery at 488,740. The US reported the highest number of deaths in the world, while Brazil reported the highest number of recoveries. India stood at the fourth position when it came to the total number of recovered people, with the number at 271,697.
With a steady rise in the number of novel coronavirus cases in Lucknow in the past fortnight, concerns are being raised over the spread of the virus in the state capital as more and more new areas are being included in the containment zone list that has now ballooned to nearly 100. What has added to the growing concern among health and administrative officials is security personnel constitute a bulk of new infections.
On Thursday, at least eight policemen on escort duty of Lucknow’s Joint Commissioner of Police (Law & Order) Naveen Arora tested positive. A day ago, 25 personnel of PAC ( Provincial Armed Constabulary) had tested positive, taking the total number of Covid positive PAC members to 88 in Lucknow alone.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch ‘Atma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rojgar Abhiyan' today through video-conference in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that the total number of samples tested till June 25 is 77,76,228 and the number of samples tested on June 25 is 2,15,446.
Citing thousands of public representations seeking extension of the mandatory 60-day notice period to the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020 notification published during the Covid-19 lockdown, officials in the Environment Ministry proposed that the deadline for receiving objections and suggestions to the draft be extended by another two months to August 10.
On May 5, however, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar set June 30 as the new deadline — an order to this effect was issued on May 7.
With India registering 407 deaths and 17,296 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the total number of infections crossed the 4.9 lakh-mark to reach 4,90,401 including 15,301 fatalities, 1,89,463 active cases, and 2,85,637 people who have been treated and discharged so far.
With fatalities from the novel coronavirus infection doubling every 14-16 days in India, more than half the country’s districts (407 out of 720) have now seen at least one Covid-19 death. However, around 7 out of 10 Covid deaths in the country have been concentrated in only a handful of districts.
So while the number of districts that have been touched by at least one Covid death has risen from 272 a month ago to 348 two weeks ago to the current number, the 10 districts with the most deaths have accounted for about 70 per cent of fatalities throughout this period.
WITH more than 16,000 fresh coronavirus cases reported on Thursday in a new single-day high, the Centre announced it will be sending a team of experts to Telangana, Maharashtra and Gujarat — three states with high positivity rates that are considered critical in the efforts against the pandemic. Sources said experts may also be sent to Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, which are also seen as requiring advice and assistance on clinical management. The Centre is already closely monitoring the Covid-19 situation in Delhi, the city with the most number of cases.
Maharashtra witnessed a massive spike in Covid-19 cases, with 4,841 new cases being reported on Thursday. This is the highest number of cases that have been registered in a single day in the state. The previous highest of 3,890 was reported on June 24. With this, the total number of cases in Maharashtra now stands at 1,47,741. Read more here