Coronavirus LIVE Updates: Worst is Yet to Come, Says WHO as it Warns Pandemic Not Even Close to Being Over; India Set for Unlock 2.0

Pramod Sawant also said that lockdown was not a solution anymore, when asked whether the increase in the recent number of cases in Goa merited another phase of lockdown.

AstraZeneca Says Brazil Close to Vaccine Deal | Two days after Brazil's government announced a deal with Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZenecato get up to 100 million doses of a promising coronavirus vaccine, a director of the company says the document is actually a letter of intent and there are still key items to be negotiated. AstraZeneca director Jorge Mazzei says if the vaccine works he believes the hard-hit South American nation will get it at the end of the year. But he has just had the first call with local partners Fiocruz and will start working on a contract on Tuesday. Brazil counts almost 58,000 dead by COVID-19, and more than 1.2 million cases of the disease.

'Save lives strategy' by the BMC in Mumbai hospitals to reduce mortality rate:

1. Total accountability and adoption of every case in moderate severe and critical category 
2. Mandatory twice a day meeting on video or telephone on every case of seniors and juniors 
3. Total team work of doctors nurses and all health care workers 
4. Full supportive care 
5. Protocol and check boxes on every paper for adherence so nothing is missed 
6. Lot of deaths occur as patients remove oxygen to go to toilet strain and collapse especially between 1 am to 5 am so every bed should have a bedpan and 4 beds have a commode (also cardboard bedpans can be used) and servants must cooperate 
7. Ensure supply of medicines like antivirals, steroid and plasma are there and used
8. Zero delay time ticker and video surveillance on every case by head of unit and head of institution 
9. Detailed death audit of every death and every video to be forensically audited

Gilead Prices Remdesivir at $2,340 Per Patient | Gilead Sciences Inc prices its Covid-19 antiviral remdesivir at $2,340 (nearly Rs 1,76,630) per patient for wealthier nations and agrees to send nearly all of its supply of the drug to the United States over the next three months. The price tag is slightly below the range of $2,520 to $2,800 suggested last week by U.S. drug pricing research group the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) after British researchers said they found that the cheap, widely available steroid dexamethasone significantly reduced mortality among severely ill COVID-19 patients.

A senior official said, the COVID facility has been started with 45 beds, and five ICU beds, besides 84 isolation beds.

WHO Warns Pandemic Not Over Yet, Sends Team to China | WHO Warns Pandemic Not Over Yet, Sends Team to China | Six months on from the novel coronavirus outbreak, the WHO says it is sending a team to China to work towards finding the source -- as it warns the pandemic was far from over. And the World Health Organization warns that in an atmosphere of global division and politicisation of the COVID-19 crisis, it fears the worst was yet to come. The UN health agency laments the "very tragic" milestones of 5,00,000 deaths and 10 million confirmed infections being reached, just as it marks on Tuesday six months since it was first informed of the outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

COVAXIN has been developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with ICMR and NIV and has got the nod for human clinical trials from the Drug Controller General of India.

Police checks vehicles in Bengaluru during night curfew, which remains in place from 8 pm till 5 am.

Karnataka: Police checked vehicles in Bengaluru last night.

The timing of night curfew has been revised to 8 pm-5 am with effect from 29th June. pic.twitter.com/x7lljEvphR

— ANI (@ANI) June 29, 2020

PM Modi to Address at 4 PM | Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation at 4 pm and disucss the ongoing Covid-19 situation.