Coronavirus live updates: Covid recovery rate rises to 76.62%, fatality rate at 1.78%, says govt

Punjab govt issues revised guidelines for international arrivals. Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said that before planning for travel, all travellers should submit self-declaration form on the online portal at least 72 hours before scheduled travel: State government

Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar discharged from Suguna Hospital in Bengaluru after recovering from Covid-19: Hospital administration

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Doubling rate of Covid-19 cases in Delhi is 85 days, so it's at 'comfort level' as of today: Health Minister Satyendar Jain (PTI)

The novel coronavirus tally in India crossed 36 lakh on Monday with 78,512 new cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 27,74,801, pushing the recovery rate to 76.62 per cent, the Health Ministry said.

The fatality rate has declined to 1.78 per cent

However, schedule flights under the travel bubbles India has started creating with several countries like US, UK, Germany and France will be allowed and people eligible as per government norms can fly to and from India on them.

Read: International passenger flights suspended till September 30

Scheduled international passenger services continue to remain suspended in India since March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Total number of cases in : Himachal Pradesh is now 5,983 including 1,475 active cases, 4,431 recoveries and 33 deaths: Health Department

Another MLA in Odisha tests positive for COVID-19

BJD MLA Byomakesh Ray on Monday tested positive for COVID-19, raising the number of lawmakers infected with coronavirus in Odisha to 13. Taking to Facebook, the Chandbali MLA expressed regret for not being able to serve the flood-hit people of his constituency.

Preparations on for second phase of human clinical trial of 'Covaxin' vaccine

The Phase I of the trial is still continuing as we are planning for the start of the Phase II trial shortly," Dr E Venkata Rao, principal investigator of the trial at Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medical sciences, said.

1,873 new cases in Telangana, tally 1,24,963, active cases 31,299; toll rises to 827 with 9 more deaths: Health bulletin

Read: 78,512 new coronavirus cases in India, 971 deaths

Read: Home minister Amit Shah discharged from AIIMS

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He was discharged this morning, as per sources

One-day spike of 78,512 new coronavirus cases & 971 deaths in the last 24 hours.