Over five lakh COVID-19 positive cases, and more than 15,600 deaths — India's coronavirus numbers continue to climb nearly five months after the first case was detected in the country.
Here is a list of State Helpline numbers. You can track coronavirus cases, deaths and testing rates at the national and State levels here.
Here are the latest updates:
Nearly 2.45 lakh people screened so far in New Delhi
The number of COVID-19 containment zones in Delhi has risen to 417 after re-mapping of such areas, while around 2.45 lakh people have been screened in a mammoth exercise to check the spread of COVID-19 in the national capital, officials said on Sunday.
Two more COVID-19 deaths in Dakshina Kannada
Dakshina Kannada reported two more COVID-19 deaths on Sunday taking the total death toll to 10. Of them a patient died in a private hospital and another one died in the Government Wenlock Hospital.
The district had reported two non-COVID deaths earlier.
According to the District Health and Family Welfare Officer Ramachandra Bairy, a 58-year-old patient from Bantwal with severe acute respiratory illness had been admitted to a private hospital in Deralakatte on Friday where he had been tested positive for COVID-19. He was also suffering from diabetes and had high blood pressure. The patient died on Sunday.
A 31-year-old woman from Surathkal with hypothyroidism who had been admitted to the Government Wenlock Hospital on Saturday had also tested positive for COVID-19. She too died, Dr. Bairy said.
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Door-to-door survey under ‘Kill Corona’ drive from July 1
Health workers collect swab sample for COVID-19 test in a park in Bhopal. File photo. | Photo Credit: A.M. Faruqui
The Madhya Pradesh government will launch a ‘Kill Corona’ campaign from July 1 to control the spread of coronavirus in the State. Under the campaign, door-to-door survey will be conducted and tests would also be done on citizens for other diseases, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said during a virtual review meeting on the COVID-19 pandemic on Saturday.
Science: Novel coronavirus infection might trigger type-1 diabetes
Diabetes poses one of the key risk factors for developing severe COVID-19, and chances of dying are elevated in people with diabetes. Now, there is growing evidence that novel coronavirus might actually be triggering diabetes in some people who have so far remained free of it. These patients typically develop type-1 diabetes. The virus seems to be causing diabetes spontaneously in people.
IRDAI frames COVID-19 health cover norms
A standard, indemnity-based health insurance cover for COVID-19 or a policy reimbursing the cost of the treatment, up to the sum insured, including on homecare and AYUSH treatment, will be offered by all health insurers on or before July 10.
This follows insurance regulator IRDAI firming up guidelines for such a standard COVID-19 specific product and making it mandatory for all general and health insurers to launch the same within the deadline. The product, to be called Corona Kavach Policy, followed by the name of the insurance company, will be an individual health policy, with an option to cover the family members.
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Over 600 fined for not wearing mask in the last 48 hours
Despite strict instructions, a number of people have not been wearing face masks in the city, which has been made mandatory by the police. After Police Commissioner R.K. Meena passed orders to collect ₹100 as fine on people moving without masks, the city police teams slapped fine on over 600 persons in the last 48 hours.
Positivity rate highest in Chennai
Tamil Nadu’s positivity rate, or the number of samples that test positive among the total figure, is between below 1% and 20%, with the higher percentile in high-incidence centres such as Chennai, at 23.2%. Data analysed by scientists at the National Institute of Epidemiology (a unit of the Indian Council of Medical Research), shared on Twitter on Saturday, showed that the highest positivity rate went just over 20% in the State.
Police on duty during the complete lock down at Adyar on June 28, 2020 | Photo Credit: M. Karunakaran
There will be a complete lockdown on Sunday with all grocery shops and vegetable outlets closed in Chennai. Milk supply and medical services will not be interrupted.
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Cellphone data helps in contact tracing
Cellphone location data is aiding Health officials and the police fill the blanks while tracing contacts of COVID-19 patients in Ernakulam. The source of infection of the dubbing artist at Nayarambalam who tested positive on June 21 was traced after the police verified his call data records and tower locations.
Central team stresses on reducing mortality rate
Volunteers prepare meals for the homeless and daily wagers at a shelter in Thane on Thursday amid the nationwide lockdown.
A Central team on Saturday visited Thane district to review the COVID-19 situation and told local authorities to concentrate on reducing the mortality rate. As on Friday night, the district had a total 27,479 cases, with Thane city, Kalyan-Dombivali and Bhiwandi numbers being particularly worrisome, while 911 people have succumbed to the infection.
Rural Gurugram stays ahead of the curve in virus crisis
Two days before the nationwide ‘janata curfew’ on March 22 — a precursor to a series of lockdowns to prevent the spread of COVID-19 — the Wazirpur panchayat, on the outskirts of Gurugram, held a camp near the district’s AYUSH department and distributed ayurvedic medicine to villagers to boost their immunity.