Coronavirus India News highlights: Delhi reports 4,086 fresh COVID-19 cases, 26 deaths

Masks could cut COVID-19 deaths in the US by 130,000: Study

Even if state-level governments in the United States reimpose limited social distancing measures to halt the spread of COVID-19, the death toll could more than double by the end of February 2021 to 511,000, according to projections released Friday.

Near-universal mask wearing over the coming months could reduce that grim tally by nearly 130,000, researchers from the COVID-19 forecasting team at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) found.

Even if mask compliance was only 85 percent, the number of lives saved compared to that baseline would still top 95,000, they reported in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Medicine.

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Maharashtra government allows carrying of passengers with full capacity in BEST buses from today in Mumbai. Wearing a mask and carry sanitiser while commuting made mandatory for passengers in all buses, other COVID rules to be followed.

Mumbai's COVID-19 tally rises to 2,48,804 withaddition of 1,470 new cases; 48 deaths take toll to 9,966.

Gujarat registered 1,112 fresh cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking its tally to 1,65,233 on Friday, while 1,264 patients recovered from the infection, the state Health Department said.

The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 3,676 after six more persons succumbed to the infection during the same period, said a release by the Health Department.

The state government claimed the COVID-19 situation is gradually improving with 1,264 more patients getting discharged from hospitals during the day,taking the total recoveries to 1,47,572.

The number of new COVID-19 cases reported in the United States on Thursday was the second highest on record, coming in just short of a midsummer peak as the spread of the novel coronavirus accelerates in nearly every region of the country.

Cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all accelerating as cooler weather descends on much of the country. With 76,195 new cases on Thursday, the United States was approaching its one-day record high of 77,299 new cases on July 16, according to a Reuters analysis.

Only India has reported more cases in a single day: 97,894 on Sept. 17.

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Maharashtra reports 7,347 new COVID-19cases, 184 deaths and 13,247 discharges in the last 24 hours, as per the state's Public Health Department. Total cases in the state rise to 16,32,544, with 43,015 deaths and 14,45,103 recovered patients. Active cases stand at 1,43,922.

Delhi reports 4,086 new COVID-19cases, 3,296 recoveries/discharges/migrations and 26 deaths in last 24 hours. The COVID tally here rises to 3,48,404, including 3,16,214 recoveries/discharges/migrations and 6,189 deaths. Active cases stand at 26,001.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said the next three months are going to be decisive in determining the coronavirus situation in the country as he urged people to follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviour in the coming festival season and winter months.

He also highlighted that the number of active COVID-19 cases in the country are less than 7 lakh and the doubling rate has increased to 97.2 days.

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3,057 new infections and 33 deaths reported in Tamil Nadu Total cases in the state are now 7,03,250 out of which 32,960 are active cases. 6,59,432 patients have discharged while the death toll stands at 10,858.

Nepal's coronavirus tally surpassed 150,000-mark after the country reported 4,499 new cases on Friday.The number of active cases stands at 46,691 as 105,488 people have made successful recovery2,668 of them in the past 24 hours.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, Kathmandu Valley recorded 2,720 new cases in the past 24 hours.

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Punjab reported 481 new COVID-19cases, 580 discharged cases and23 deaths. Total number of cases stand at 1,30,157 till date, including 1,21,735 discharges, 4,327 active cases and4,095 deaths.

Manipur reports 156 new COVID-19cases, taking total confirmed cases to 16,777 out of which 4,083 are active patients. Five new deaths reported taking toll to 132.