Coronavirus live updates: DCGI orders Serum Institute of India to suspend recruitment for Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trials

A new report shows how kids can bring the coronavirus home from day care and then infect relatives (AP)

US hospitals turn down remdesivir, limit use to sickest Covid-19 patients, reports Reuters

Gujarat: Jewellers in Rajkot say their business is hit due to Covid-19 pandemic, reports ANI

Jeweller Dharmesh Parekh says, "People are not buying jewellery even if we are offering discounts. The situation is so grim that many jewellers have turned to selling vegetables & icecream."

French COVID cases and deaths mount again, reports Reuters

Puducherry reported 504 new Covid-19 cases, 394 discharges and 12 deaths yesterday, taking total cases to 19,026 including 13,783 discharges, 365 deaths and 4,878 active cases, says Puducherry health department (ANI)

DCGI orders Serum Institute of India to suspend recruitment for Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trials

In an order, a copy of which has been accessed by PTI,DCGI Dr VG Somani on Friday also directed Serum Institute of India (SII) to increase the safety monitoring of the subjects already vaccinated as part of the trial, and submit the plan and report. Somani also asked the firm to submit clearance from Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) in the UK as well as in India to obtain clearance from his office (DCGI) prior to resumption of future recruitment in the trial. Read full story

4,750 new Covid-19 cases and 88 deaths reported today in Pune, taking total cases to 2,15,975 including 1,70,800 recoveries and 4,969 deaths: Pune Zilha Parishad (ANI)

Western Railway to run three more pairs of special trains for candidates appearing for NEET exam on 13th September. Trains to run between Vapi-Ahmedabad, Somnath-Ahmedabad and Nimach-Bhopal

Though the ban formally comes into effect on Tuesday, Street advised affected residents ``to avoid household mixing before then as it has been identified as one of the drivers of transmission.''

Amid mounting evidence of increasing transmission rates across the U.K., the mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, said tougher restrictions on household mixing in Birmingham, and the nearby boroughs of Solihull and Sandwell, were necessary in light of a big local increase in virus cases.

Virus spikes in UK, new restrictions in Birmingham, England

Households in England's second city, Birmingham, were being urged to stop socializing with others from Friday as part of a dramatic tightening of coronavirus restrictions in the wake of a sharp spike in new confirmed cases.

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Punjab Government lifts lockdown on 13th September, in view of NEET 2020 examination; Shops selling non-essential items to remain closed

Focus on early identification of Covid-19 cases, ramp up testing: Centre to NE states

The Centre on Friday urged the north eastern states to focus on early identification of Covid-19 cases by ramping up testing along with effective monitoring of patients under home isolation and early hospitalization in case of disease progression to keep the mortality rate to one per cent or less.

After record daily spike of 24886 cases, Maharashtra's Covid-19 tally crosses 10-lakh mark; 393 deaths take toll to 28724: Health official

First European 'travel bubble' ends as coronavirus cases spike in Estonia, reports Reuters

The first European pandemic "travel bubble", created in May by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, was burst on Friday, as Latvia said it is mandating a 14-day quarantine on everyone arriving from Estonia.Estonia has had 21 novel coronavirus infections per 100,000 population over the previous two weeks, according to European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, passing the 16 threshold set by Latvia for mandatory quarantine.

U'khand records 995 fresh Covid-19 cases, tally rises to 29,221

Uttarakhand's COVID-19 tally climbed to 29,221 on Friday with 995 fresh cases, while the death toll mounted to 388 as 11 more patients succumbed to the disease, a state health department bulletin said.

Maha govt releases guidelines for hotels to resume operations

The Maharashtra government on Friday released a standard operating procedure and guidelines for hotels, lodges and resorts, which have been permitted to resume operations at 100 per cent capacity amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

More than 1 billion people to get Russia's COVID-19 vaccine in 2020-2021: RDIF

Russia's sovereign wealth fund said on Friday that more than one billion people would receive its COVID-19 vaccine "Sputnik-V" in 2020-21, the Interfax news agency reported.The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has already signed two deals to export the vaccine abroad and on the Brazilian state of Bahia on Friday agreed to conduct Phase III clinical trials of the vaccine.

UP's Gautam Buddh Nagar records 204 new Covid-19 cases, pushing district's infection tally to 9,808; number of active cases now 1,909: Official data