Latest News Live Updates: 13,203 Fresh COVID-19 Cases In India, 1.06 Crore Total Cases

Latest News Live Updates: Kerala has been reporting highest daily COVID-19 cases in the country for days. The positivity rate or the percentage of how fast an infection spreads is 12.48 per cent in Kerala, while the national average is 1.9 per cent, according to government data.

Latest News Live Updates: 13,203 Fresh COVID-19 Cases In India, 1.06 Crore Total Cases
New Delhi:

India added 13,203 coronavirus infections in 24 hours, taking its tally to 1.84 crore, the Health Ministry data this morning showed. The number of fresh infections is 11 per cent lower than Sunday, when the country registered 14,849 cases.

In the 24-hour period, India, reported 131 deaths linked to the virus, taking the total number of fatalities to 1,53,470. 

Kerala has been reporting highest daily COVID-19 cases in the country for days. The positivity rate or the percentage of how fast an infection spreads is 12.48 per cent in Kerala, while the national average is 1.9 per cent, according to government data.

The state government says COVID-19 cases in Kerala are at a plateau and the current numbers are not unexpected.

Here are the Latest News Live Updates:

Jan 25, 2021 11:36 (IST)
Kerala Covid Rise Due To Low Testing, Contact Tracing: Sources

Of the 13,203 coronavirus cases reported in India in the last 24 hours, 6,036 cases or nearly 45 per cent of the infections were reported from Kerala.

At least 11 districts in the southern state, including state capital Thiruvananthapuram, are among the top 20 district that continue to report high number of daily infections in the country, sources in the Health Ministry told NDTV.

"Apart from Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Alleppey, Kottayam and Pathanamthitta have been reporting high number of infections," they said, citing lack of contact tracing and low number of testing as the main reason for the increase in Covid cases in the state. (Read full story here)
Jan 25, 2021 11:04 (IST)

Of the 13,203 coronavirus cases reported in India in the last 24 hours, 6,036 cases or nearly 45 per cent of the infections have been reported from Kerala.

At least 11 districts in the southern state, including state capital Thiruvananthapuram, are among the top 20 district that continue to report high number of daily infections in the country, sources in the Health Ministry told NDTV.

"Apart from Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Alleppey, Kottayam and Pathanamthitta have been reporting high number of infections," they said, citing lack of contact tracing and low number of testing as the main reason for the increase in Covid cases in the state.

Jan 25, 2021 10:18 (IST)
Jan 25, 2021 09:48 (IST)
JUST IN: 13,203 fresh COVID-19 cases in India, 11% lower than yesterday; 1.06 crore total cases, 1,53,470 deaths

Jan 25, 2021 08:54 (IST)
Coronavirus news: Mexican president Lopez Obrador says he has COVID-19

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Sunday that he was infected with the coronavirus, but said his symptoms are mild and he feels optimistic.

"I regret to inform you that I am infected with Covid-19. The symptoms are mild but I am already undergoing medical treatment," the 67-year-old said in a message on social media.

"As always, I am optimistic," added the leftwing populist, who is rarely seen wearing a mask in public and has kept up most of his activities during the pandemic.

Lopez Obrador said that he would continue to work from the presidential palace and delegated the interior ministry to represent him this week at his daily news conference.
Jan 25, 2021 08:46 (IST)
COVID-19: India recorded 14,849 fresh cases, 155 more fatalities on Sunday
India's COVID-19 caseload went up to 1,06,54,533 on Sunday with 14,849 people testing positive for the coronavirus infection in a day, while the number of recoveries has surged to 1,03,16,786, according to the health ministry.

The number of dead due to the viral disease has climbed to 1,53,339 with 155 more fatalities, the ministry''s data updated at 8 am showed.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has surged to 1,03,16,786, pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate to 96.83 per cent, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.44 per cent.

The active COVID-19 caseload of the country remained below two lakh for the fifth consecutive day.

Jan 25, 2021 08:30 (IST)
Jan 25, 2021 08:28 (IST)
Kerala Reports Highest Daily Covid Cases, Fatality Rate Among Lowest

Kerala continues to report the highest COVID-19 cases in India with the Test Positivity Rate at an high of 12 per cent as against the national average which stands at 1.9 per cent. The state government says COVID-19 cases in Kerala are at a plateau and the current numbers are not unexpected.

"The testing in Kerala is a concern and the Indian Medical Association (IMA) had earlier recommended that daily testing needs to be increased to around 1 lakh. But the per day testing still continues to be between 40,000 to 60,000," Dr Sulphi Noohu, member of IMA's central committee, said. (Read full story here)
Jan 25, 2021 08:06 (IST)
Jan 25, 2021 08:05 (IST)
Nepal PM Expelled From Ruling Party Amid Political Chaos: Report

The rival faction of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) on Sunday removed Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli from the party, amid increasing political unrest following his decision to dissolve the lower house of the Parliament.
According to the rival faction's spokesperson Narayankaji Shrestha, Nepal PM Oli no longer remains a member of the party.

"Today's Central Committee Meeting which conveyed at Paris Danda decided to remove KP Sharma Oli from the party. He no longer holds even a simple membership of the Nepal Communist Party," Mr Shrestha told ANI. (Read full story here)
Jan 25, 2021 08:02 (IST)
Thank You Bengal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tweets 6-Minute Video Of His Kolkata Visit On Netaji's Birth Anniversary. Watch
After his visit to Kolkata in West Bengal to pay tribute to freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose on his birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shared a video on Twitter from the trip, thanking the state "for the overwhelming affection.""
Jan 25, 2021 07:59 (IST)
Will Quit If Centre Brings Law Against Dynastic Politics: Trinamool's Abhishek Banerjee
Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday hit back at the BJP over accusations of nepotism in his party, daring the Centre to bring a legislation allowing only one member of a family in politics."
Jan 25, 2021 07:53 (IST)
As Covid Ravaged The World, Billionaires Got Richer By $3.9 Billion: Oxfam

The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced frightening income inequalities - and their consequent impact on access to education, healthcare and all hope of a better life - between the world's super-rich and the hundreds of millions of people who live and die in abject poverty, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the Davos summit in Switzerland.

The report - titled The Inequality Virus - is sharply critical of "flawed and exploitative economic systems... entrenched inequality and oppression, namely patriarchy and structural racism, ingrained in white supremacy" and identifies these as "the root causes of injustice and poverty". (Read full story here)
Jan 25, 2021 07:20 (IST)
Jan 25, 2021 06:37 (IST)
Kerala Reports Highest Daily Covid Cases, Fatality Rate Among Lowest
Kerala has been reporting highest daily COVID-19 cases in the country for days. The positivity rate or the percentage of how fast an infection spreads is 12.48 per cent in Kerala, while the national average is 1.9 per cent, according to government data.