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Economic Times | 25 Aug, 2020 | 12.20PM IST
Coronavirus Live Updates: India's Covid-19 recovery rate rises to 75.92%
The Covid-19 case tally in the country rises to 31,67,324 including 7,04,348 active cases, 24,04,585 cured/discharged/migrated & 58,390 deaths: Ministry of Health
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Supply chain shifts, reshoring will have mixed impact on ASEAN region: Moody's
- Some ASEAN members will stand to benefit from supply chain shifts as countries reconfigure trade relationships following the COVID-19 crisis, Moody's Investors Service said.
- However, localisation of production that moves productive capacity out of the region will have negative effects for Asian producers, resulting in mixed credit implications for ASEAN sovereign and other debt issuers.
- Moody's said risk mitigation efforts will lead to reduced dependence on China in global value chains.
- COVID-19 is reinforcing trends arising from structural shifts in export competitiveness, the China-US trade conflict and heightened national concerns over economic security.
- Ensuring supply security will become the key focus for many governments and companies.
- Over time, trade diversification will likely favour ASEAN economies.
COVID-19 negative report mandatory for passengers flying to UAE: AI Express
Telangana's Covid tally:
Telangana reported 2,579 new #COVID19 cases & 9 deaths, taking the total number of positive cases to 1,08,670 in th… https://t.co/rR6Nb15KR9
— ANI (@ANI) 1598336214000Treating COVID-19 could lead to increased antimicrobial resistance
- The use of antibiotics in people with COVID-19 could result in increased resistance to the drugs' benefits among the wider population, a new study suggests.
- However, research by the University of Plymouth and Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust suggests their increased use during the pandemic could be placing an additional burden on waste water treatment works.
- Scientists say this could lead to raised levels of antibiotics within the UK's rivers or coastal waters, which may in turn result in an increase in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), where bacteria become resistant to the action of antibiotics.
- This would be particularly acute in receiving waters from waste water treatment works serving large hospitals, or emergency 'Nightingale' hospitals, where there is a concentration of COVID-19 patients.
Many schools close again amid South Korea spike
South Korea is closing schools and switching back to remote learning in the greater capital area as the country counted its 12th straight day of triple-digit daily increases in coronavirus cases.
2751 new COVID-19 positive cases, 2519 recoveries and 9 deaths reported in Odisha as on August 24.
Total number of cases now at 84231 including 56924 recoveries, 26826 active cases and 428 deaths: Information & Public Relations Department, Odisha Govt
For passengers travelling to UAE (12 yrs & above), a valid negative COVID-19 PCR test report in printed form, from a govt-approved lab in India (ICMR/verified designated lab), is required. Passengers are required to take PCR test not more than 96 hrs before departure: AI Express
India reports more than 60,000 coronavirus cases for a 7th straight day
Andaman & Nicobar Islands COVID-19 tally rises to 2,904
Centre issues SOPs for Vande Bharat Mission flights
- As per the Civil Aviation Ministry's guidelines, the cost of travel will have to be borne by the travellers.
- At the time of boarding all travellers to undergo thermal screening. Only asymptomatic travellers to be allowed to board.
- Category of persons eligible to travel will be permitted by the Home Ministry from time to time. Civil Aviation Ministry will display on its website the category of persons eligible to travel out of India.
- The eligible persons would have to apply to the civil aviation agency or their designated agency along with their necessary details.
- The SOP further stated that the External Affairs Ministry "to prepare a database of all Vande Bharat travellers" and share it with respective States and Union Territories in advance.
- All travellers to give an undertaking that they are making the journey at their own risk.
Mental health issues on rise, over 1,300 seek Maha govt's help
Amid the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, more than 1,300 people battling mental stress and depression have approached the Maharashtra government with requests for medical help, a state health official said.
India's Covid-19 case tally crosses 31 lakh mark with 60,975 fresh cases and 848 deaths in the last 24 hours.
COVID-19 pandemic will not affect deliveries of S-400 to India: Indian Ambassador to Russia Venkatesh Varma
Number of devotees from outside J-K visiting Vaishno Devi shrine to be reviewed this week
New U.S. COVID-19 cases drop for fifth week in a row, deaths decline
Haryana CM, Assembly Speaker test positive for COVID-19
Delta Air Lines to furlough 1,941 pilots in October
JMM chief Shibu Soren, diagnosed with COVID-19, shifted to hospital
Apple to reopen some U.S. stores that were shuttered twice by COVID
First COVID-19 reinfection case reported; low oxygen levels linked to widening blood vessels in lungs
- University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19.
- Genetic tests revealed that a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he'd previously been infected with in March, said Dr Kelvin Kai-Wang To, the microbiologist who led the work.
- The man had mild symptoms the first time and none the second time; his more recent infection was detected through screening and testing at the Hong Kong airport.
- Whether people who have had COVID-19 are immune to new infections and for how long are key questions that have implications for vaccine development and decisions about returning to work, school and social activities.
- Even if someone can be infected a second time, it's not known.
Gaza reports first COVID-19 cases in general population, declares lockdown
Usain Bolt quarantines after virus test
The coronavirus may have caught up with the world's fastest man, sprint king Usain Bolt, who announced Monday that he is self-quarantining after being tested for COVID-19.
Vaishno Devi yatra's online registration, helicopter booking available from August 26
AIIMS Delhi doctors examine Shripad Naik at Manipal Hospital in Goa
A team of doctors from AIIMS Delhi on Monday night examined Union Minister for AYUSH Shripad Naik who is receiving treatment in Manipal Hospital here after testing positive for COVID-19
