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Coronavirus India News highlights | Proactive measures by BMC reduced COVID-19 growth rate in Dharavi, says health ministry

Coronavirus News highlights: Total confirmed cases in India have risen to 4.1 lakh. India’s recovery rate is now around 55 percent

June 21, 2020 / 20:57 IST

Coronavirus India News highlights: Today is the eighty-ninth day of India's nationwide lockdown, meant to curb the novel coronavirus pandemic. India has so far recorded 4,10,461 cases, which includes 13,254 deaths. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Gujarat have reported the highest number of cases. A number of activities have been allowed to resume in a phased manner this month as part of 'Unlock 1.0'.

Globally, there have been over 87.6 lakh confirmed cases of COVID-19. More than 4.6 lakh people have died so far. Catch the LIVE updates here:

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  • June 21, 2020 / 20:42 IST

    Coronavirus in Rajasthan LIVE Updates | State Health Dept: 

    Rajasthan reports 393 new COVID-19cases and 12 deaths till 8.30 pm today. Total number of cases rise to 14930 including 2984 active cases, 349 deaths and 11355 discharges.

  • June 21, 2020 / 20:17 IST

    Coronavirus in Delhi LIVE Updates | AAP: 

    AAP Govt is closely monitoring COVID-19situation in Delhi, CM Arvind Kejriwal andDeputy CM Manish Sisodia discussed key strategies with HM Amit Shah on making contact tracing more robust andfurther strengthening of medical services in severely impacted areas.

  • June 21, 2020 / 19:51 IST

    Coronavirus in J&K LIVE Updates |

    122 fresh cases have been reported in Jammu and Kashmir today; 20 from Jammu division and 102 from Kashmir division. Total number cases stand at 5956 including 2492 active cases, 3382 recovered and 82 deaths.

  • June 21, 2020 / 19:32 IST

    Coronavirus in Gujarat LIVE Updates | State Health Dept: 

    Gujarat reports 580 fresh cases of COVID-19and 25 deaths, in the last 24 hours. State tally rises to 27,317 including 19,357 cured/discharged and 1,664 deaths.

  • June 21, 2020 / 19:25 IST

    Coronavirus in Delhi LIVE Updates | 

    Delhi reports 3000 new cases, taking the total number of cases to 59,746. Death toll rises to 2175 after 63 deaths were reported today. Number of recoveries till date stands at 33,013.

  • June 21, 2020 / 19:17 IST

    Coronavirus in Mumbai LIVE Updates | 

    12 fresh COVID-19cases have been reported in Dharavi area of Mumbai today, taking the total number of cases to 2,170. Death toll stands at 80.

  • June 21, 2020 / 18:50 IST

    Coronavirus in Karnataka LIVE Updates | State Health Dept: 

    Karnataka reports 453 fresh COVID-19cases and5 deaths, taking total number of active cases to 3,391 anddeath toll to 13.

  • June 21, 2020 / 18:25 IST

    Coronavirus in Nepal LIVE Updates | Nepal says 90% of its coronavirus cases are foreign returnees, mostly from India

    Nepal on Sunday claimed that 90 per cent of its coronavirus cases are migrant workers who returned from abroad, mostly from India, as the country's tally inched closer to the 10,000-mark with 421 new cases.

    The virus has now spread to 75 of the total 77 districts in the country, the Health Ministry said.

    The confirmation of 421 new cases pushed Nepal's coronavirus infection tally to 9,026. (PTI)

  • June 21, 2020 / 18:12 IST

    Coronavirus in Tamil Nadu LIVE Updates | State Health Dept: 

    Tamil Nadu reports 2,532 COVID-19cases; 53 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. The total number of cases stands at 59377. There are 25863 active cases now in the state. Death toll rises to 757.

  • June 21, 2020 / 18:02 IST

    Coronavirus in Kerala LIVE Updates | State Health Dept: 

    133 more COVID-19cases reported in Kerala today. Total number of active cases in the state is now at 1490, recovered cases at 1,659.

  • June 21, 2020 / 17:46 IST

    Coronavirus in Chandigarh LIVE Updates | 

    The total number of COVID-19positive cases in Chandigarh is now 404, including 82 active cases, 6 deaths and 316 cured cases.

  • June 21, 2020 / 17:41 IST

    Coronavirus in Mumbai LIVE Updates | Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: 

    Being densely populated (227136 persons/sq km), Dharavi had 491 cases in April with 12 percentgrowth rate and case doubling period of 18 days. Proactive measures adopted by BMC reduced COVID-19growth rate to 4.3 percentin May 2020 andfurther to 1.02 percentin June.The measures also ensured an improved case doubling time to 43 days in May 2020 and 78 days in June 2020

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