Coronavirus India News Highlights | India's COVID-19 death toll crosses 10,000; total cases at 3,43,091

With over 5.5 lakh people returning to Odisha so far, the state government on Tuesday launched a 45-day intensive surveillance to detect coronavirus symptoms among the population. ASHA and anganwadi workers have started visiting villages across the state and slums in urban pockets to find out and take note of people having COVID-19 symptoms.

They will cover 53,845 villages and all slums in 103 urban pockets in the state between June 16 and July 31, National Health Mission's Odisha director Shalini Pandit said.

The death from COVID-19 in the city mounted to 1,837 on Tuesday while 1,859 fresh coronavirus cases took the tally in the national capital to over 44,000-mark, according to the health bulletin released by the Delhi government.The death toll from COVID-19 in Delhi stood at 1,400 on Monday.

Ninety-three fatalities have been recorded in the last 24 hours, the Delhi Health Department bulletin said. However, the bulletin also said the cumulative figure included all pending deaths reported to and audited by the Death Audit Committee. From June 12-14, over 2,000 cases were reported per day in the city. The highest spike of 2,224 fresh cases was recorded on June 14. The bulletin said the death toll from coronavirus infection has climbed to 1,837, and the total number of cases mounted to 44,688. (PTI)

Maharashtra's Pune district reported 442 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the count to 12,685 on Tuesday, while 16 more patients died due to the infection, a health official said. The death toll rose to 527 with 16 more patients succumbing to the infection during the same period, he said. (PTI)

Beijing on Tuesday became a "no-go-zone" as many provincial cities raised alerts on travel to the Chinese capital which scaled up its emergency response and mass testing following a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases that reached 106. Beijing has upgraded its emergency response COVID-19 from level III to II starting Tuesday, a local official announced.

Classes are moved online for students, and class resumption of college students will be suspended, Chen Bei, deputy secretary-general of the Beijing municipal government, said at a press conference. (PTI)

COVID-19 cases rise to 11,069 in Madhya Pradesh with 134 new cases. The deathtoll stands at 476 with 11 more deaths.

Boundaries of Puducherry with Cuddalore and Villupuram (both in Tamil Nadu) to be sealed from tomorrow. People to be allowed only for medical services. E-passes from Chennai will not be allowed here: Puducherry CM V Narayanasamysaid.

"If you come with a certificate stating that you are not infected with the disease when you come from abroad, then you are allowed in Puducherry," Narayanasamy added.

941 fresh COVID-19 positive cases and 55 deaths have been reported in Mumbai today. Total positive cases stand at 60,142 and death toll is at 3165: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who is admitted in hospital, will be tested again for COVID-19 on Wednesday: Official (PTI)

Maharashtra chief secretary Ajoy Mehta on Tuesday said as many as 1,328 deaths, that took place due to COVID-19, were not reported as fatalities caused by the viral infection in the state. As many as 862 of these deaths occurred in the areas falling under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits, he said here, citing a fresh review of COVID-19 fatalities in the state carried out by authorities.This has now been corrected and fatality figures have been updated accordingly, he said. (PTI)

The head of the World Health Organization says more than 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported worldwide each day over the past two weeks - mostly in the Americas and South Asia - and countries that have curbed transmissions must stay alert to the possibility of resurgence.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted a new cluster of cases in Beijing, which went more than 50 days without a new case of COVID-19, and said the origin of that new series of cases is under investigation. (AP)

Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Tuesday said medical experts had assessed that the fast spread of COVID-19 in the union territory in the past
few weeks was largely because of arrival of more people from neighbouring Chennai and also those returning from abroad.

"All the inter-State borders would be strictly monitored and none from neighbouring Tamil Nadu and Chennai would be permitted into Puducherry unless it is for medical care here," he told reporters here. (PTI)

As many as 94 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Ladakh on Tuesday, taking the total number of virus cases in the union territory to 649, health department officials said. While 50 new coronavirus cases were reported from Kargil district, 44 samples returned positive for COVID-19 in Leh district, the officials said. (PTI)

Canada and the US have agreed to extend their agreement to keep their border closed to non-essential travel to July 21 during the coronavirus pandemic.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday's agreement extends the closure by another 30 days. The restrictions were announced on March 18 and were extended in April and May. (AP)