A health worker tests a visitor for Covid-19 testing at the RML Hospital in Lucknow, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021. (PTI Photo/Nand Kumar)
Coronavirus updates: India recorded 40,120 new Covid-19 cases and 585 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking its tally to 32,117,826 and the death toll to 430,254. Also, 1,970,495 tests were conducted Thursday, taking the cumulative tests carried out so far for the detection of Covid-19 in the country to 489,470,779. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.04 per cent.
The World Health Organisation’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan has said there will be a need to be on guard in the months to come as well.
Kerala reported 21,445 new infections, Maharashtra 6,388, followed by Andhra Pradesh (1,859), Tamil Nadu (1,964), Karnataka (1,857), West Bengal (747) and Delhi (49).
World coronavirus update: Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with 206,156,536 confirmed cases and 4,346,678 deaths across nearly 200 countries recorded since China reported its first cases in December 2019. The US remains the worst-hit country with 37,182,479 cases, followed by India, Brazil, Russia and France.
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