Graffiti to aware people on coronavirus in New DelhiCoronavirus India News Live Updates: India’s coronavirus tally on Monday crossed the 60-lakh mark after 82,170 new cases were reported across the country. As many as 1039 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours, pushing the toll to 95,542. Of the 60,74,703 cases, India currently has 9,62,640 active cases, while 5,01,6521 people have been discharged. Globally, India has the second-highest number of coronavirus cases, behind the United States where infections crossed 7 million last week. India, however, topped the global chart in terms of virus recoveries.
The official death toll from Covid-19 neared one million, though experts say the real tally may be almost double that. As many as 9.96 lakh have succumbed to the infection, while nearly 33 million have been infected.
South Korea reported the fewest cases in seven weeks as it brings its latest outbreak under control. Australia’s prime minister urged the removal of further curbs after Melbourne eased its curfew. The U.K. is preparing to enforce a social lockdown across much of northern Britain and potentially London amid a second wave, the Times of London reported
A mother helps her child to wear mask in Chandigarh (Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
India’s coronavirus tally on Monday crossed the 60-lakh mark after 82,170 new cases were reported across the country. As many as 1039 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours, pushing the toll to 95,542. Of the 60,74,703 cases, India currently has 9,62,640 active cases, while 5,01,6521 people have been discharged, the data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. India continues to remain the second worst-hit country after the United States but topped the global chart in terms of virus recoveries.
South Korea on Monday reported 50 new coronavirus cases, the lowest since a new wave of outbreaks emerged from a church and a large political rally last month. Of the new cases, 40 were domestic and 10 imported, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). The numbers were the lowest since Aug. 11, just before a new cluster of infections emerged from a church whose members attended an anti-government rally in Seoul on Aug. 15, which had boosted the daily tally to more than 440 late last month.
The outbreaks have prompted the government to take unprecedented social distancing measures including a ban on on-sight nighttime dining. Some of the rules have been eased in recent weeks after the rate of daily infections slowed, but officials were still on high alert ahead of the Korean thanksgiving holidays of Chuseok this week, when tens of millions of people travel across the country.
EVEN AS the daily number of new infections is touching new heights in Rajkot district for the past few days, the number of deaths in Covid-19 hospitals in the district has been steadily declining for the past 10 days and came down, for the first time in about a month, to single digit of nine on Sunday.
Nonetheless, the addition of the nine deaths took the number of total patients who succumbed in Covid-19 hospitals to 600 this month, almost double the previous months' tally and thus making September the deadliest month so far.
According to the official bulletin released by the local office of the state information bureau, total nine patients of Rajkot district died in a span of 24 hours till 8 am on Sunday. This was for the first time in about a month that the daily death toll remained in single digit. It was on August 31 that the number of daily casualty was six.
The development comes even as the daily number of fresh infections has been increasing. For the first time, the number of new cases in Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) remained over 100 per day for almost a week till Sunday. The highest single-day spike of 112 was reported on Sunday. However, cases in Rajkot rural have seen a high degree of variation this week, with Sunday throwing up 59 cases, the second highest so far while Wednesday recording only 33 cases. On eight of the last 10 days, the daily number of cases in the district, including the RMC jurisdiction, has remained more than 140, with Sunday’s tally of 171 representing a new peak so far.
However, the number of deaths have been declining steadily since September 17 when total 33 patients died while undergoing treatment in Covid hospitals in the district. That was also the last day the government shared data of deaths of patients of neighbouring districts undergoing treatment in hospitals in Rajkot district as well as bifurcation of deaths of patients of Rajkot city and Rajkot rural. Gopal B Kateshiya
Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 2,09,374 on Sunday as 3,922 more people tested positive for the infection, while 14 fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 797, a health official said. As many as 2,309 new cases were reported in quarantine centres, while 1,613 people tested positive for the infection during contact tracing, he said. Khurda district, under which Bhubaneswar falls, reported the highest number of new cases at 818, followed by Cuttack (380), Keonjhar (212) and Angul (200), the official said.
Three fatalities each were registered in Khurda and Cuttack, two each in Jajpur and Kendrapara and one each in Bolangir, Dhenkanal, Gajapati and Subarnapur, he said. As many as 3,378 more people were cured of the disease, the official said, adding the recovery rate among the COVID-19 patients in the state now stands at 82.89 per cent. PTI
Three more COVID-19 deaths Sunday have raised Tripura's coronavirus death tally to 270, with a fatality rate of 1.09 per cent. While the state had the highest COVID fatality rate in NE India till last week, the death rate is reducing soon. A report of the state COVID control room today said the current fresh positivity rate was of 6.49 per cent, and 24,705 people had tested positive for the virus till date in Tripura, out of which 5,496 are active cases.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday questioned the government on its strategy for making the COVID-19 vaccine available to people, saying he wished it was the subject of the ‘Mann ki Baat’ programme. “The question is legitimate, but how long will India wait for the government’s answer? Alas, the Covid vaccine access strategy should have been the ‘Mann ki baat’,” he said in a tweet in Hindi. Gandhi’s tweet came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi aired his monthly ‘Mann ki baat’ programme on the All India Radio (AIR). Read more
Former Union minister and senior BJP leader Uma Bharti has said that she has tested positive for COVID-19 and has quarantined herself. She requested all those who came in contact with her to get themselves tested and follow protocols. Taking to Twitter, Bharti on Saturday night said that she had taken a COVID-19 test after she had fever, and the report came positive. She has quarantined herself at a place in between Haridwar and Rishikesh in Uttarakhand.
While underlining the need for following COVID appropriate behaviour, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Sunday said the Indian Council of Medical Research’s second sero-survey shows that Indians are still far from achieving herd immunity against Covid-19 infection. He also stressed that masks should be worn even in places of worship.During an interaction with his social media followers, the minister said the ICMR is actively researching on reports of COVID-19 reinfection and although the number of such cases is quite negligible at this moment, the government is aware of the importance of the matter, the health ministry said in a statement.
Kerala's daily COVID-19 graph continues to surge with 7,446 new cases being reported with 54,493 samples tested in the last 24 hours. On September 26, 7,006 cases were reported from a record sample of 58,779. Kerala currently has 56,709 active cases.
The southern state has been witnessing a massive spike in daily cases since the past few days. While 6,477 cases were detected on Friday, it was 6,324 on Thursday and 5,376 on Wednesday.
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Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Sunday the COVID-19 fatality rate in the national capital was less than one per cent in the last 10 days and asserted that a massive increase in testing for detection of coronavirus infection has led to the rise in cases. He said Delhi recorded 3,372 fresh cases on Saturday and 4,476 patients recovered within 24 hours. About 46 deaths reported during the same period, which has been the highest in nearly 70 days, Jain said, "We do not look at the figures for a single day. The average fatality rate of the last 10 days has been 0.94 per cent. (PTI)
Owners of single-screens in Kolkata said on Sunday that they are awaiting official notifications from the Centre and the state government before deciding on reopening the cinema halls which had remained shut for over six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had on Saturday that movie theatres are set to reopen in the state from October 1. Navin Chokhani, owner of Navina Cinema hall on Prince Anwar Shah Road told PTI, "We are happy with the positive indication, but there has to be official notifications by both the state and central governments before we reopen the cinema halls." He added, "The chief minister said in her tweet that there can be a maximum of 50 people during a show. We need a clarification in this regard because a hall can accommodate 500 people. As we had earlier said, we are ready to scale down our theatre's seating capacity by tweaking the arrangement of seats in view of the changed situation."
Outstation patients being brought to Delhi in "very sick" condition for treatment, and delay in transferring the home-quarantined patients, whose health has turned critical, to hospitals, could be among the factors behind the high number of COVID-19 fatalities recorded in the national capital in the last few days, say experts. Doctors at leading government facilities and private hospitals in Delhi on Sunday also observed that the death count now mostly include "patients aged 60 and above with co-morbidities", reported PTI. Delhi reported 46 COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the highest in over 70 days, pushing the toll to 5,193, while 3,372 fresh cases took the tally to 2,67,822.
The COVID-19 tally of Andaman and Nicobar Islands rose to 3,774 on Sunday as 15 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said. Six new patients have travel history, while nine fresh infections were detected during contact tracing, he said. Twenty-three more people have been cured of the disease, the official said. (PTI)
Antibody-based medications, other blood products from recovered patients and antivirals are being investigated as early treatments, Fauci said. The aim is to prevent patients from developing the serious lung damage for which Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir and the anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone are administered.
“We are focusing very heavily now on treatment of early infection and, or prevention of infection,” Fauci told the Journal of the American Medical Association in an interview Friday. “And that’s the bridge to the vaccine.”
A day after questioning the government on its Covid-19 vaccine production and distribution plans in the country, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla on Sunday said it was clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “arrangements for India will take care of all needs for the Indian people”. Poonawalla also lauded PM Modi’s vision on providing vaccines to the global community at the United Nations General Assembly.
An FIR has been registered against Bihar Congress president Madan Mohan Jha and several other senior party leaders for violating COVID-19 norms at Patna airport, officials said on Sunday. They have been accused of violating COVID-19 protocol by amassing a large number of people at the airport on Saturday when some party leaders were arriving in the Bihar capital to strategise for the upcoming assembly elections. The FIR has been registered by special executive magistrate Mohammed Safiullah Khan at the airport police station under section 188 IPC (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of a disease dangerous to life), similar other sections of the penal code, besides provisions of Epidemic Diseases Act and Disaster Management Act.
Russia's daily tally of new coronavirus cases hit its highest level since June 20 on Sunday at 7,867, bringing its total to 1,151,438, the country's coronavirus task force reported. In Moscow alone, there were 2,016 new cases, exceeding the 2,000 mark for the first time since June 2. There were 99 deaths, taking Russia's official coronavirus death toll to 20,324.
Karnataka Congress leader and MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao on Sunday said he has tested positive for COVID-19. "I have tested #Corona positive today. Therefore will be quarantining myself for 10 days. I request all my primary contacts to get themselves checked and take necessary precaution," Rao tweeted. The former state Congress President said he was asymptomatic and will recover soon because of the good wishes from every one. Rao had taken part in the proceedings of the monsoon session of the Karnataka assembly till late last night. He was recently appointed as AICC in-charge of Tamil Nadu, Goa and Puducherry
BJP women’s wing president in West Bengal Agnimitra Paul said on Sunday she has been diagnosed with COVID-19, and requested people who came in touch with her recently to get themselves tested. Paul, who is also a well-known fashion designer, had been touring districts regularly to lead street protests and undertake campaigns against the ruling TMC. She attended party programmes at state BJP headquarters here earlier this week.