As many as 3,01,609 cases in the country are active, 5,53,471 patients have already recovered.
Coronavirus India News Live Updates: With 28,701 new infections, the number of total coronavirus cases in the country is over 8.7 lakh. After 500 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the toll now stands at 23,174. While 3,01,609 cases in the country are active, 5,53,471 patients have already recovered.
Several states reported their highest single-day spike on Sunday. Among them was Gujarat, where the tally rose by 879 to reach 41,897. West Bengal’s COVID-19 cases crossed the 30,000-mark with record 1,560 new cases reported from different parts of the state, according to a bulletin issued by the state health department. A new daily record of 1,933 cases pushed the coronavirus tally in Andhra Pradesh to 29,168 on Sunday. Several state authorities are now getting ready to reimpose lockdown for varying periods in more cities, including in Bengaluru and Pune, while there appeared to be an improvement in the situation in the national capital.
Globally, the cases are inching towards the 13 million mark. While New York City reported its first day with zero confirmed or probable virus deaths since March, Florida has shattered the national record for the largest single-day increase in positive coronavirus cases in any state since the beginning of the pandemic, adding more than 15,000 cases as its daily average death toll continued to also rise.
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Lawmakers attending Parliamentary Standing Committee meetings will not be required to be quarantined in Delhi after their domestic air travel, the Union Home Ministry said on Monday. While a meeting of the Standing Committee on Science and Technology was held on July 10, another meeting of the parliamentary panel on home affairs is slated on July 15. While a meeting of the Standing Committee on Science and Technology was held on July 10, another meeting on home affairs is scheduled on July 15.
The Odisha government Monday allowed home isolation for Covid patients with mild or no symptoms, and urged corporates, central agencies and PSUs to develop small facilities for treatment. Stating that the existing resources can be properly utilised if the mild cases are treated at home isolation, Chief Secretary A K Tripathy told PTI beds at the hospitals could then be available for serious patients. As part of the state governments changed strategy, home isolation of asymptomatic, mild symptomatic COVID-19 patients in urban areas will be allowed, Tripathy said during a briefing.
To curb the spread of Covid-19 in Karnataka, the state government last week announced complete lockdown in Bengaluru Urban and Rural districts, from July 14 to July 22.
Lockdown restrictions will be in place from 8 pm July 14 (Tuesday) till 5 am on July 22, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa announced. Essential services will be available during the lockdown period. Detailed guidelines on the lockdown were announced by the Chief Secretary Vijay Bhaskar on Monday evening.
Meanwhile, Karnataka has been reporting a high number of deaths in the last three days. As many as 198 of Karnataka’s total 684 deaths, or about 30 per cent, have been reported since Friday (July 10). On Sunday, the state reported 71 deaths.
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Two more policemen succumbed to coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll in the Maharashtra Police to 79.
Constable Jitendra Bhalerao (38), posted at Waliv police station in Vasai, passed away early on Monday morning after battling the virus for three weeks. Bhalerao was admitted to Riddhi Siddhi Hospital in Nallasopara on June 20 after testing positive. Palghar police spokesperson, Sub Inspector Sachin Navadkar said Bhalerao had no known illnesses. “He was quite fit before falling sick last month,” he said.
On Sunday afternoon, a 55-year-old assistant sub-inspector in the Mumbai Traffic Police passed away at a hospital in Kandivali West. The deceased, Suresh Jadhav, was posted at the D N Nagar Traffic division in Andheri West. Senior Inspector Siraj Inamdar said Jadhav had diabetes but was otherwise healthy.
As of Monday, 79 police personnel in the state have succumbed to Covid-19 while 1,204 have active infections.
Nagaland on Monday reported 71 new positive cases its highest single-day spike of COVID-19 cases. With this, the total number of positive cases in the state has now reached 845.
“Out of 816 samples tested in the past 24 hours, 71 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed. 60 in Dimapur, 7 in Mon, 4 in Kohima”, tweeted Nagaland Health Minister, S Pangnyu Phom. He also said that 13 Covid-19 patients recovered on Monday.
The total number of active COVID-19 cases in the state are now at 518.
Nineteen states and union territories have a COVID-19 recovery rate higher than the national average of 63.02 per cent, the Centre said on Monday, asserting that coordinated steps taken by it along with state governments have contributed to a "gradual surge" in the recovery of patients.
It also said that there are 30 states and union territories (UTs) that have a fatality rate lower than the national average of 2.64 per cent.
The norms and standards for home isolation care along with the use of oximeters have also helped to keep a check on asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic patients without burdening the hospital infrastructure, the Union health ministry said in a statement.
As many as 4,328 Covid-19 cases and 66 deaths were reported in Tamil Nadu today. The total number of cases have now reached 1,42,798 in the state.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Monday asked officials to ramp up coronavirus testing capacity to 50,000 tests a day amid a spike in the number of infections in the state.
At a meeting with senior officials, the chief minister said the scope of RT-PCR tests should be increased to 30,000 tests per day while that of rapid antigen to 18,000 to 20,000 a day, news agency PTI reported.
He also asked for increasing the sample collection in Varanasi, Ballia, Ghaziabad and Jhansi districts. The chief minister also directed that a special cleanliness campaign should be carried out on weekends.
Kerala continued to witness a big surge in daily COVID-19 infections with 449 cases being reported on Monday, pushing the count to 8,322, while the death toll has reached 33 with two more fatalities. As many as 77 jawans of the Indo Tibetan Border Force and five health workers are among the infected, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told PTI.
A 74-year-old man from Kollam and a 64-year-old woman from Kannur died of the disease, he said. At least 144 people have been infected through contact while the source of the 18 of those who tested positive is not yet known. At least 162 people have recovered. The fresh cases include 140 people from abroad and 64 from other states.
Scientists have demonstrated that two small, stable antibody variants derived from the South American mammal’s llamas can neutralise the novel coronavirus in lab-cultured cells, an advance which may lead to the development of new therapeutics against COVID-19.
The study, published in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, noted that the ‘nanobodies’ can prevent infection with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by blocking its interaction with the protein ACE2, which it uses as a gateway to enter and infect cells.
According to the scientists, including those from The Rosalind Franklin Institute in the UK, passive immunisation, which involves giving a patient virus-neutralising agent–either from people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 or purified antibodies–can be a useful therapy for COVID-19.
Covid patients watch 'Ramayana' being screened at the CWG Village which has been converted into a Covid care center.
Uttar Pradesh reported a record 1,654 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, pushing the total to over 38,000, a senior official said Monday.
At least 21 more people too died due to COVID-19, news agency PTI reported.
"In the past 24 hours, 1,654 fresh cases of COVID-19 and 21 deaths were reported in the state. The total number of those who died in the state are now 955 and the tally of infected has risen to 38,130," said Additional Chief Secretary, Information, Awanish Kumar Awasthi.
On Sunday, Uttar Pradesh's tally of COVID-19 cases stood at 36,476 and the contagious disease had claimed 934 lives.
Singapore has deported 10 Indian nationals, including students, and barred them from re-entering the country for violating the “circuit breaker” rules enforced to curb the spread of the coronavirus, officials announced on Monday, warning that the government would not hesitate to take “strong action” against those blatantly disregarding the laws.
The “circuit breaker” period in Singapore began on April 7 as part of which all non-essential workplaces were closed and residents were barred from leaving their houses except to buy food and groceries or to exercise alone in the neighbourhood. The period ended on June 2.
The 10 Indians, holding student or work passes, were caught having a social gathering at a rented apartment on May 5, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a joint press release.
Minister for Large and Medium Industries and district-in-charge Jagadish Shettar Monday announced lockdown in Dharwad district from July 15 to 24.
Numerous reports on Sunday claimed that Moscow’s Sechenov University had completed clinical trials of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. However, the reports did not specifically mention that it was just the phase one trials that had been completed.
Phase two trials are supposed to start Monday. There is only one vaccine candidate being developed in Russia that has reached the human clinical trial stage. That candidate, being developed by the Gamalei National Research Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology, in partnership with the Russian Defence Ministry, had begun phase I human trials on June 18 on 18 volunteers from the armed forces.
A report by the TASS news agency of Russia on July 10 said the phase I clinical trials would end on July 15, while the second phase would begin on July 13. For more details, read our explainer.
Australia's worst-hit Victoria state recorded only 177 new coronavirus cases on Monday, but a health official is warning the disease's spread might yet worsen.
The new cases were substantially down from 273 cases on Sunday and a record 288 on Friday, the Associated Press reported.
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said it was too early to say whether the lower count meant the spread was being contained.
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Four members of the Bachchan family have tested positive for coronavirus. Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek announced that they had contracted the coronavirus on Saturday. While Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan have been advised to stay at the Nanavati hospital, Aishwarya and Aaradhya will quarantine at home. Meanwhile, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) visited all the three bungalows owned by the Bachchan family to sanitise them and also for contact tracing.
38-year-oldpoliceman died of COVID-19 in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Monday, a police official said. The deceased, a police naik, was a resident of Murbad taluka in neighbouring Thane district. He was attached to the Valiv police station at Vasai in Palghar. Navadkar said 135 personnel in the district have so far tested positive for coronavirus and two of them have died.