India is the third worst-hit nation in terms of COVID-19 cases after the U.S. and Brazil. India's coronavirus tally, on August 22 crossed the 3 million mark. According to Johns Hopkins University, the global tally stands at 2,29,84,824.
India also crossed a significant milestone of testing more than 10 lakh samples for COVID-19 in 24 hours on August 21, taking cumulative tests to 3,44,91,073, the Health Ministry said on August 22.
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Here are the latest updates:
Real estate, construction, industrial product sectors to see more revenue impact: survey
The real estate, construction & industrial product segments are expected to see more revenue impact and business disruption on account of coronavirus spread, indicates the findings of a recent survey.
Protiviti India’s Business Resilience Barometer survey said that 57% of respondents from real estate and construction sector, and 42% of respondents from industrial product sector envisage a negative revenue impact exceeding 25%.
Delhi records highest new cases in over a month
Delhi witnessed the highest number of daily new COVID-19 cases in more than a month on Saturday with 1,412 new cases being reported in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 1,60,016, according to a health bulletin released by the Delhi government on Saturday.
The last time the number of new cases was above this was on July 18, when 1,475 new cases were reported.
Kerala reports 2,172 new cases
Kerala reported 2,172 new cases of COVID 19 and 1,292 recoveries on Saturday. The cumulative case burden of the State ever since the outbreak began has now reached 56,354 cases. With 36,539 persons having recovered from their disease, the number of active cases or patients currently undergoing treatment in hospitals across the State is 19,538.
The Hindu Explains | How will a centralised EMR tool help in monitoring COVID-19 trends?
Last week, researchers, as part of an international consortium, reportedly created an agile analytic tool for rapid disease insights, working with medical records of patients with COVID-19 in five countries. They put together a centralised electronic medical records (EMR) tool that would help them gather, monitor, analyse clinical trends in COVID-19 across multiple countries.
While EMRs were supposed to make things easier in terms of access across platforms, they did not turn out to be such a big boon after all, because the data was locked in on local platforms.
Cases in West Bengal touch 1.35 lakh
West Bengal on Saturday recorded 3,232 new cases of infection in the past 24 hours taking the number of infections to 1,35,596 . The deaths in the past 24 hours were 48 which took the number to 2,737. The discharge rate in the State reached 77.41% . The active cases in the State touched 27,900.
Home Ministry issues SOP for international passengers
The Ministry of Home Affairs on August 22 issued Standard Operating Protocol (SOP) for international travel on non-scheduled commercial flights under Vande Bharat scheme and air transport bubble arrangement.
Accordingly, persons desirous to travel to India on Vande Bharat flights, will register themselves with the Indian missions in the country where they are stranded or residing, along with necessary details as prescribed by Ministry of External Affairs. However, such a registration may not be required on flights operating under air transport bubbles arrangements, the SOP said.