Coronavirus LIVE Updates: Cipla received a regulatory approval for the launch of Ciplenza (Favipiravir 200 mg) in India to treat mild to moderate cases of Covid-19.
Passenger flight operations to and from Kolkata Airport have been suspended from July 25 to July 29 after the West Bengal government requested for the suspension of services, airport sources said.
The mayor of Thiruvananthapuram is in self-quarantine after seven of the city's Municipal Coroporation Councillors tested positive for Covid-19.
India's death toll today crossed the 30,000 mark, taking the sixth position on world chart. India's mortality rate is 2.38%, while the world average is 4.07%.
Bodies of at least 50 deceased Covid-19 patients were burnt in mass cremation in Hyderabad due to 'lack of transportation and issues with manpower'. A video of the lit up pyres in Erragadda crematorium has created outrage among residents.
The Telangana Health Department has, however, clarified that the bodies were of Covid-19 patients who died over a period of more than three days and not on single day.
Here are the latest updates on coronavirus:
* For the third day in a row, the number of Covid-19 recoveries in a 24-hour span saw another record high, with 34,602 patients having recuperated pushing the recovery rate to 63.45 per cent, the Union health ministry said. The case fatality rate has further declined to 2.38 per cent, it said.
* The Meghalaya government has decided to impose a lockdown in Shillong agglomeration from midnight of July 26 till midnight of July 29, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said.
* Coronavirus has entered the community in Telangana and the public should take all precautions against the pathogen as the coming weeks will be crucial, a senior health department official has said. The tally of Covid-19 cases in the state crossed 50,000 mark on Thursday with 1,567 new additions.
* Even civilised people don't follow social distancing norms and other rules to avoid the spread of Covid-19, the Bombay High Court remarked, saying it would be wrong to blame beggars only. The petitioner had raised concerns that beggars were not following social distancing norms or rules like wearing masks while approaching people on road.
* Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked officials to work out a plan for enhancing the coronavirus testing capacity in the state to one lakh per day. He also directed them to conduct door-to-door survey in Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Kanpur Nagar, Varanasi, Allahabad, Gorakhpur and Ballia districts, according to an official release.
* The phase-I human clinical trial of India's first indigenously-developed vaccine against novel coronavirus, Covaxin, began at the AIIMS in New Delhi with the first dose of the injection given to a man, who is in his 30s.
* As the coronavirus cases surged following easing of curbs here, civic authorities announced a 'janta curfew' in Nagpur city of Maharashtra on Saturday and Sunday to check the spread of the infection. Nagpur municipal commissioner Tukaram Mundhe aid for the last 8 to 10 days, the civic administration had been trying to push for "Covid-19 compliant behavioural change in citizens".
* Actions undertaken by financial sector regulators and the government to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 eased operational constraints and helped in maintaining market integrity and resilience in the face of severe risk aversion, the RBI says in the 21st issue of its Financial Stability Report.
* Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro refused to let his case of coronavirus keep him down Thursday, going for a spin on a motorcycle and chatting maskless with a team of groundskeepers outside the presidential palace. Bolsonaro, 65, has been in quarantine at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia since testing positive for the new coronavirus on July 7. He had to cancel upcoming travel plans after a new test came back positive again Wednesday.
* More than 15 million cases of coronavirus have now been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), and almost 620,000 deaths. While all countries have been affected, almost 2/3 of all cases globally, are from 10 countries, and almost half are from just three countries.
* Uttar Pradesh health minister Jai Pratap Singh has tested positive for coronavirus after he complained of mild fever. Tests have now been conducted on his family members. Their reports will come tomorrow.
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