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Coronavirus Live Updates: Greta Thunberg voices support to calls for postponement of NEET, JEE exams
Greta Thunberg called for postponing NEET and JEE exams, saying it is “deeply unfair” that students are asked to appear in the tests during the pandemic.
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Active cases are only 22.2% of the total cases. The recovery rate is now more than 75%: Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Union Health Ministry on COVID-19 cases
Active cases are only 22.2% of the total cases. The recovery rate is now more than 75%: Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Union Health Ministry on COVID-19 cases
The COVID-19 mortality rate in India stands at 1.58% which is one of the lowest in the world. In the last 24 hours, the number of active cases has reduced by 6,400.
- Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Union Health Ministry
Greta Thunberg voices support to calls for postponement of NEET, JEE exams
Mysuru Police Commissioner tests positive for coronavirus
Chief Medical Officer has been instructed to look into matter. Appropriate action will be taken after completion of investigation by team constituted to probe it: Suhas LY, District Magistrate, Gautam Buddh Nagar on insect allegedly found in food being provided at COVID hospital
Ever since COVID-19 started in March, we have suffered a lot of losses. There is no earning but only burning and Delhi is not disbursing as much funds as they should, to states: Mamta Banerjee, addressing District Administration officials
COVID-19 tests per million in India touch 26,685
I had fever & have tested positive for COVID-19. I am doing well, but as precaution have been hospitalized & under good care of doctors. With your blessings, I'll soon be back. I appeal to those who came in contact with me to be cautious.
- Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar
Majority of people against resumption of metro and local train services owing to pandemic situation, says survey
AstraZeneca starts trial of COVID-19 antibody treatment
AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had begun testing an antibody-based treatment for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, with the first participants dosed, adding to recent signs of progress on possible medical solutions to the disease.
RBI calls for wide-ranging reforms to offset COVID-19 losses
- RBI has been calling for wide-ranging reforms to regain losses due to COVID-19 crisis and return to the path of sustainable economic growth.
- The corporate tax cut of September 2019 has been utilised in debt servicing, a build-up of cash balances and other current assets rather than restarting the capital expenditure cycle, it said.
- The RBI said that COVID-19 crisis can be converted into an opportunity by using an online provision of education and training to implement reforms in the social infrastructure by skill development and reskilling so as to prepare a labour force equipped to keep pace with a big thrust on infrastructure.
- It said high-frequency indicators point to a retrenchment in the activity that is unprecedented in history.
Etihad Airways asks cabin crew to take up to six months unpaid leave
Total number of COVID-19 cases rises to 5102 in Himachal Pradesh
This includes 1431 active cases, 3590 recovered cases & 27 deaths so far: State Health Department, Himachal Pradesh
Karnataka Congress State President DK Shivakumar says he has tested positive for COVID-19. He has been admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru.
Singapore reports fewest daily COVID-19 cases in five months
- Singapore reported 31 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, its lowest daily count in more than five months.
- The city-state, which saw its COVID-19 cases jump sharply after mass outbreaks in migrant worker dormitories earlier in the year.
- It has recently seen steady declines as those dormitories have been cleared of the coronavirus.
IFC supports MSMEs, farmers with $500 million in COVID-19 response support across A-Pac
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik in a letter to Union Education Minister
It would be unsafe for students to visit test centres physically amid #COVID19 for JEE (Main) & NEET tests. Therefo… https://t.co/QnGTd0eQaY
— ANI (@ANI) 1598341061000695 new COVID-19 positive cases and 6 deaths reported in Rajasthan today
Total number of cases rise to 72650 including 14883 active cases, 973 deaths and 56091 discharges: State Health Department
Greta Thunberg tweets showing her support to postpone NEET-JEE exams
It’s deeply unfair that students of India are asked to sit national exams during the Covid-19 pandemic and while mi… https://t.co/eGJdki1rir
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) 1598338814000Odisha's COVID-19 caseload jumps to 84,231, death toll mounts to 428
2 more IIT Kharagpur students and a hostel staff test positive for COVID-19
Australia reaches 25,000 coronavirus cases, officials urge more testing
49 fresh cases take Arunachal's COVID-19 tally to 3,312
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
