Coronavirus live updates: Telangana Finance Minister T Harish Rao tests Covid positive

ICMR issues advisory allowing 'testing on demand' for Covid-19

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued an advisory on Covid-19 testing strategy, allowing 'testing on demand' for individuals but left it to states to modify the approach as per their discretion.It also advised testing on demand for "all individuals undertaking travel to countries or Indian states mandating a negative Covid-19 test at the point of entry".

718 fresh positive cases reported in Rajasthan today till 10.30am. The total number of positive cases in the state is now 88,515 including 71,990 recoveries, 15,409 active cases and 1,116 deaths: State Health Department

Actor Rhea Chakraborty's brother Showik Chakraborty, Samuel Miranda, Zaid and Kaizen Ibrahim have been brought to Sion Hospital in Mumbai for Covid-19 test: KPS Malhotra, Deputy Director (operations), Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)

Mexico states run out of death certificates

The coronavirus pandemic has hit Mexico so hard that the governments of several states ran out of death certificates. Officials said Friday the federal forms started running out about 15 to 20 days ago in at least three states - Baja California, the State of Mexico and Mexico City.

The Covid-19 case fatality rate due to the novel coronavirus infection has further declined to 1.73 per cent.

It took 110 days for the Covid-19 cases in India to reach one lakh while it had taken 59 days more to go past the 10-lakh post.

India's Covid-19 cases jumped from 10 lakh to 20 lakh in 21 days. It took 16 more days to race past 30 lakh and 13 days more to cross the 40-lakh mark.

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 40,23,179, while the death toll climbed to 69,561 with 1,089 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, data updated at 8 am showed.

India's Covid-19 infection tally sprinted past 40 lakh, just 13 days after it crossed 30 lakh, with a record 86,432 cases being reported in a day, while recoveries have surged to 31,07,223 on Saturday pushing the recovery rate to 77.23 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry.

The total case tally stands at 40,23,179 including 8,46,395 active cases, 31,07,223 cured/discharged/migrated & 69,561 deaths: Ministry of Health

India's Covid-19 tally crosses 40 lakh with single-day spike of 86,432 new cases & 1,089 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.

Delhi: Testing camps at railway stations, markets, ISBTs

While setting up a system to conduct Covid-19 tests on demand is likely to take some time, Delhi government has decided to start testing at weekly markets and outside central government offices. The idea is to expand the testing base and keep a check on the spread of the novel coronavirus in sensitive areas. Weekly markets were recently permitted to function on a trial basis.

US coronavirus cases rise by at least 50,663 on Friday to 6.22 million total Vs 6.17 million previous day - Reuters tally

Maharashtra: Nagpur Municipal Corporation in association with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Lok Kalyan Samiti has launched ‘Mission Vishwas’ in Nagpur, to help counsel Covid-19 patients and their family members, and in contact-tracing

We contact positive patients, trace their contacts&advise them to get tested. Our aim is to get maximum no. of people tested. We've trained volunteers to counsel & give medical advice to positive patients. We also take care of their non-medical needs: Head-'Mission Vishwas',

Wearing marks, social-distancing could lead to 'enormous economic gains': US Fed chief

US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that wearing masks and social-distancing measures could lead to "enormous economic gains" for the US economy."So certainly to get us back to full employment, we're going to need to get the spread of the disease under control. And the best way to do that, short of arriving at a vaccine, is to take these social-distancing measures and employ them," Powell said in an interview with National Public Radio on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported.

Trump's 'malpractice' made it matter of life or death for Americans working during Covid-19: Biden

Being a working American during the Covid-19 pandemic has become a matter of life or death due to the poor economic policies of President Donald Trump, Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden has said. Read more

South Korea posts fewest Covid-19 cases in three weeks after tightening distancing

South Korea recorded 168 new coronavirus cases as of midnight Friday, posting the lowest daily tally in three weeks after imposing stricter social distancing rules to blunt a second wave of infections.

Mexico records 6,196 new coronavirus cases, 522 more deaths