India's novel coronavirus tally crossed the 22 lakh-mark with 53,601 fresh COVID-19 cases and 871 deaths. At present, there are 6,39,929 active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the total coronavirus cases now stands at 22,15,074. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have reported the highest number of cases. However, infections are rising rapidly in states like Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. 'Unlock 3.0' is underway. Globally, the confirmed number of coronavirus cases has reached 20 million, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
However, health officials believe the actual number is much higher, given testing limitations and the fact that as many as 40 percent of all those who are infected have no symptoms.
The US, India and Brazil have together accounted for nearly two-thirds of all cases since the world hit 15 million on July 22. The three countries have been reporting a high number of COVID-19 cases as compared with other nations. Catch all the latest updates here:
Coronavirus in Mumbai LIVE Updates | BMC starts rapid antigen testing at urban health centres
TheBhubaneswarMunicipalCorporation (BMC) on Tuesday started rapid antigen testing oflocal residents at nine urban healthcentresas theOdishacapital has reported a surge in COVID-19 cases, an officialsaid.
BMC has appealed to citizens to come to their nearesturban healthcentres(UPHC/UCHC) and get the testing done freeof cost for COVID-19.
While ninecentresstarted operating on Tuesday, sevenmore will start functioning from Wednesday, the official said.
While the testingcentres(UCHC&UPHC) are open from8 am to 2 pm, the tests are being carried out free of cost bythe civic authorities.
Coronavirus in Gujarat LIVE Updates | Gujarat's COVID-19 cases rise by 1,118 to 73,238; 23 die
The number of COVID-19 cases in Gujarat rose by 1,118 to 73,238 on Tuesday while the death of 23 patients, including 10 in Surat, took the cumulative toll to 2,697, the state Health department said.
With 1,140 patients getting discharged in the day, the number of recoveries mounted to 56,416, the department said in a release.
At 41,647, the department conducted the highest number of tests in a day so far, which comes at 640.72 tests per day per million, it said.
Coronavirus in Rajasthan LIVE Updates | State Health Dept:
1,217 new COVID-19cases and 11 deaths reported in Rajasthan today taking the total number of cases in the State to 54,887 including 811 deaths and 13,677 active cases.
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India has expressed an interest in getting the Russian vaccine, a statement by Sputnik V has said in a statement. Russia's sovereign wealth fund sees India along with other countries as a center of mass production of the vaccine, it added in the statement.
Coronavirus in Uttarakhand LIVE Updates | State Health Dept:
411 new COVID-19cases reported in Uttarakhand today taking the total number of cases to 10,432. There are 3,787 active cases.
Coronavirus in Mumbai LIVE Updates |
Mumbai reports 917 fresh COVID-19 cases and 48 deaths. The recovery rate of Mumbai district is now at 79 percent. The doubling rate in the city now stands at 88 days.
Coronavirus in Maharashtra LIVE Updates |
11,088 new COVID-19cases reported in Maharashtra taking the total number of cases in the State to 5,35,601. There are 1,48,553 active cases and the death toll is at 18,306.
Coronavirus in Punjab LIVE Updates |
Punjab records 1,002 new COVID-19 cases and 32 deaths today, taking the total number of cases to 25,889 including 8,483 active cases and 636 deaths.
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Efforts on to prevent second wave of COVID-19: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray
The Maharashtra government is striving to see there is no second wave of COVID-19 in the state, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Tuesday during a meeting held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Thackeray also said hospitals will be set up in all districts of the state to control the epidemic, according to an official statement.
Coronavirus in Karnataka LIVE Updates | State Health Dept:
6,257 COVID-19cases reported on 10th August in Karnataka. 6,473 people discharged today, 86 new deaths also reported. Total number of cases in the state is now at 1,88,611, including 1,05,599 discharged, 79,606 active cases, and 3,398 deaths.
Coronavirus in India LIVE Updates | AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria:
If Russia's vaccine is successful, then we will have to see critically whether it is safe and effective... India has the capacity for mass production of vaccine.
Coronavirus in Kerala LIVE Updates | 1,417 Covid cases in Kerala; 36 health workers also infected
Kerala continued to witness a spike in COVID-19 infections reporting 1,417 cases on Tuesday, including 36 health workers, as the death toll climbed to 120 with five more fatalities.
As many as 1,426 people recovered from the infection today, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told reporters here.
At least 1,242 had been infected through contact and the infection source of 105 people was not known, he said.
Coronavirus in Gurugram LIVE Updates |
Worship in religious places in Gurugram district to be permitted from tomorrow, subject to operators of temples complying with certain terms and conditions. Large gathering/congregation continue to remain prohibited.
Coronavirus in Tamil Nadu LIVE Updates | State Health Dept:
5,834 COVID-19cases, 6,005 discharged and 118 deaths reported in Tamil Nadu today. Total number of cases in the state is now at 3,08,649, including 2,50,680 discharged, 52,810 active cases and 5,159 deaths.
Coronavirus in Delhi LIVE Updates |
Delhi reports 1257 COVID-19cases, 727 recovered/discharged/migrated cases and 8 deaths today. The total positive cases here rise to 1,47,391 including 1,32,384 recovered/discharged/migrated cases and 4139 deaths.
Coronavirus in Bihar LIVE Updates | State Health Dept:
4,071 COVID-19cases reported in Bihar on August 10, yesterday. Total active cases in the state at 32,222.
Coronavirus in J&K LIVE Updates |
564 COVID-19cases, 604 recoveries, and 12 deaths reported in Jammu & Kashmir today. Total number of cases in the Union Territory is now at 25,931 including 17,979 recovered/discharged, 7,462 active cases, and 490 deaths.
Coronavirus LIVE Updates | Coronavirus-related children's diseases linked to blood cell changes, says study
A newly described disease occurring in children and linked to COVID-19 is associated with significant changes in the immune system's white blood cells, according to a study that may allow doctors to better assess their young patients' condition and predict their resistance to current treatments.
Researchers, led by those at the University of Birmingham in the UK, examined blood samples from children admitted with these diseases to Birmingham Children's Hospital during the country's coronavirus lockdown.
The yet-to-be peer-reviewed findings, published in the preprint platform medRxiv, described large changes in the monocytes -- a type of white blood cell -- in patients with PIMS-TS and Kawasaki's Disease.
Coronavirus in India LIVE Updates | Govt of India:
Regular passenger andsuburban train services continue to remain suspended till further notice. 230 special trains, running at present, will continue to operate. Local trains in Mumbai, being run on limited basis only on requisition of state govt, will continue to run.
Coronavirus in India LIVE Updates | Health Ministry:
Govt has constituted National Expert Group on Vaccine Admn which will meet tomorrow. Their terms of reference constitute all matters related to logistics of vaccines, ways to address issues of equity etc.
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Eminent Urdu poet Rahat Indori has died, news reports suggest. He had contacted coronavirus, according to reports.
Coronavirus in India LIVE Updates | Health Ministry on India reporting more cases per day than US and Brazil:
If a country does 7 lakh tests per day, obviously the cases will increase.
Coronavirus in India LIVE Updates | Health Ministry:
PM referred to the fact that there are states - Bihar, Gujarat, UP, West Bengal andTelangana where there's need to increase testing rate as positivity rate at present in these states is on higher side.
Coronavirus in India LIVE Updates | Health Ministry:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his video conference with Chief Ministers said mortality rate needs to go below 1 percent. He citedDelhi and NCR districts as proof of concept of the importance of contact tracing, containment and surveillance in bringing death rates down.
Coronavirus LIVE Updates | WHO says discussing new COVID-19 vaccine with Russia
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Russian health authorities are discussing the process for possible WHO prequalification for its newly approved COVID-19 vaccine, a WHO spokesman said on Tuesday.
"We are in close contact with Russian health authorities and discussions are ongoing with respect to possible WHO prequalification of the vaccine, but again prequalification of any vaccine includes the rigorous review and assessment of all required safety and efficacy data," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told a U.N. briefing in Geneva, referring to clinical trials. (Reuters)
Coronavirus in India LIVE Updates | West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee during video conference with PM today:
At the start, we'd emphasized on death audits but now it's vindicated that comorbidity is an important element in COVID deaths. 89% of COVID deaths in our state were due to comorbidities like diabetes, cancer, hypertension etc.
Coronavirus in Russia LIVE Updates | Just In:
Russia has said that over 20 countries have pre-ordered a billion doses of its new coronavirus vaccine, news agency AFP has reported.
COVID-19 may accelerate shift in global trade relations, supply chains: Moody's
Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday said the coronavirus pandemic is likely to accelerate fundamental shifts in trade relationships and global supply chains. According to Moody's the trend toward a more fragmented and protectionist global economy will likely accelerate as a result of the pandemic, with restrictions on trade, investment and technology transfers.
"The pandemic will likely result in some fundamental shifts in trade relationships and supply chains globally, further hardening attitudes against globalization," it said and noted that the supply chain shifts will occur in a multi-year process, particularly as China will retain a number of advantages over other economies. (PTI)
Mizoram orders fuel rationing amid shortage due to COVID-19 restrictions
The Mizoram government on August 11 capped the quantity of fuel that can be purchased per vehicle as the state's stock was running out due to restrictionsimposed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as per an official order. The shortage was caused as oil tankers are either stranded or moving at a snail's pace due to the announcementof containment zone between Hmangkhawthlir and Sethawn areas on Aizawl Bypass Road, officials said. (PTI)
Read: Pranab Mukherjee remains critical, on ventilator support post surgery: Hospital
Former President Pranab Mukherjee continues to remain critical and is on ventilator support, the Army's Research and Referral (R&R) hospital said on Tuesday, a day after he underwent a brain surgery.The 84-year-old was admitted to the military hospital around noon on Monday, and had also tested positive for COVID-19 prior to the surgery.
Coronavirus in China: COVID-19 found on frozen seafood in China
Authorities in China have found the novel coronavirus on the packaging of imported frozen seafood that arrived from the port city of Dalian, which recently battled a surge of cases, a local government said on Tuesday. The virus was found on the outer packaging of frozen seafood bought by three companies in Yantai, a port city in eastern Shandong province.
The Yantai city government said in a statement the seafood was from an imported shipment that landed at Dalian but did not say where it originated. In July, customs officers in Dalian, a major port in the northeastern province of Liaoning, found the coronavirus in the packaging of frozen shrimps imported from Ecuador, and China then suspended imports from three Ecuadorean shrimp producers. (Reuters)
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh seeks liberal fiscal package to tackle COVID-19 crisis
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday sought from Prime Minister Narendra Modi a liberal financial package to fill the revenue collection gap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.The chief minister raised the demand during a video conference meeting of the prime minister with chief ministers to review the coronavirus situation.The chief minister also said the cap of 35 percent in the State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) for COVID-19 related expenditure, as per the Ministry of Home Affairs guidelines, is not sufficient to meet the current requirements and sought flexibility in coronavirus-related terms of expenditure. Click here to read more
Coronavirus world update: New Zealand reports fresh coronavirus case after 102 days
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.Ardern said Auckland, the nation's largest city, will be moved to Level 3 from midday Wednesday, meaning that people will be asked to stay at home and bars and many other businesses will be closed.She said the rest of the country will be raised to Level 2. (AP)
Coronavirus in Australia LIVE Updates | Australia reports 354 new virus cases, 19 deaths
Australia reported 354 new coronavirus cases and 19 deaths on Tuesday, taking the number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 21,714 and the death toll to 331.
Presently, there are 8,669 active cases in the country. All the deaths reported in the last 24 hours were in Victoria state, including a woman in her 50s.
The other fatalities included a man in his 70s, six women and four men in their 80s and four women and three men in their 90s, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrew said in his daily COVID-19 update.
The premier said 34,000 virus tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, out of which 331 samples were detected virus positive.
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As Russia announces registration of world's first COVID-19 vaccine, here's a primer on how it will work:Here's how Russia's COVID-19 vaccine will work.
Coronavirus in Russia LIVE Updates | Just In:
Russia approves world's first COVID-19 vaccine, says country's President Vladimir Putin.
Coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh LIVE Updates |
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has tested negative for COVID-19, he has said in a tweet. Chouhan had tested positive for the virus on July 25.
'Focused testing' strategy paying dividends, says AP CM due meet with PM Modi
A "focused testing" strategyto detect COVID-19 cases early was paying dividends asAndhraPradesh succeeded in keeping the peak positivity rate below 20percent, while "rigorous clinical management" ensured themortality rate remained below one per cent, Chief Minister YSJaganMohanReddy said.
Addressing avideo-conferencePrime MinisterNarendraModiconducted with Chief Ministers of various states on Tuesday,Jagansaid the state's ultimate objective at any point in timewas to save lives by providing correct and high quality careand treatment. "We are not only doing more tests but are doing morefocused testing. We are testing in areas and groups where wefeel there is a chance of higher positive cases beingdetected.Our aim at any point in time continues to be to identifycases early on, decrease stigma, provide correct and highquality care and treatment and save lives," the Chief Ministersaid. (PTI)
Coronavirus India update:
Every state is fighting the battle against the challenging situation arising due to COVID-19 pandemic. Role of each and every state is very significant in overall control of the spread of the disease: PM Narendra Modi
Coronavirus in Himachal Pradesh: One more succumbs to COVID-19 in Himachal, death toll 17
A 78-year-old COVID-19 positive woman succumbed to the disease in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 17, officials said.The woman died at Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri Government Medical College in Nerchowk in Mandi, Senior Medical Superintendent Jeevanand Chauhan said.She was a resident of Mandi's Sandhole area in Sarkhaghat, he said, adding she had recently visited Panchkula and was admitted to the Nerchowk hospital on Monday. (PTI)
During meet with PM Modi, Punjab CM seeks financial assistance
During a video conference meet of PM Modi with CMs of some states to review Covid situation, Capt Amarinder Singh said current cap of 35 percent in State Disaster Relief Fund for COVID-related expenditure, as per MHA guidelines, is not sufficient to meet current requirements. Citing the state’s rising cases of COVID, which have gone up to 24,891 with 604 deaths, the CM urged PM Modi to review the UGC decision on mandatory exams for exit classes to be held by September 30: Punjab Chief Minister's Office said.
CM also sought from PM Narendra Modi a liberal financial package for states to fill the collection gap caused by the pandemic, and also flexibility on Covid-related terms of expenditure in SDRF. (ANI)
Coronavirus in India: Poet Rahat Indori tests coronavirus positive, hospitalised
Noted poet and lyricist RahatIndori said he has tested positive for coronavirus. He is admitted in the ICU of a hospital in MadhyaPradesh's Indore city, an official said."After initial symptoms of COVID-19, my corona testwas done yesterday which came out positive. Pray that I defeat this disease as soon as possible," Indori, 70, tweeted.He is undergoing treatment in Sri Aurobindo Instituteof Medical Sciences, where the chest department head Dr RaviDosi told PTI that the poet has pneumonia and is being givenoxygen. (PTI)
UK suffers biggest job losses since 2009 as COVID hits
The number of people in work in Britain fell by 2,20,000 in the three months to June, the most since 2009, as the coronavirus crisis hammered the number of self-employed, Office for National Statistics said. The number of self-employed people fell by a record amount, led by older workers, while the number of employees rose.
Job losses are expected to rise as Britain winds down its huge job retention scheme which protects employees. It is due to close at the end of October. British finance minister Rishi Sunak said the figures showed the government's support programmes were working but job losses were inevitable. "I've always been clear that we can't protect every job, but through our Plan for Jobs we have a clear plan to protect, support and create jobs to ensure that nobody is left without hope," he said in a statement. (Reuters)
Coronavirus world update: Bhutan goes into lockdown mode as coronavirus cases hit 113
Bhutan ordered its first nationwide lockdown on August 11 after a returning resident tested positive for coronavirus after being discharged from quarantine and coming into close contact with people in the capital Thimphu. The case took the total in the tiny Himalayan kingdom to 113, still the lowest in South Asia, and it has yet to record a fatality.
Bhutan, which is heavily reliant on high-end tourists, banned tourism in March after an American visitor tested positive for the virus, and ordered a three week mandatory quarantine for everyone returning from abroad. The lockdown was ordered after a 27-year-old Bhutanese woman, who returned came from Kuwait and was discharged from quarantine after testing negative, tested positive at a clinic on Monday. (Reuters)
Coronavirus India latest news: PM Narendra Modi interacts with CMs of around 10 states
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding consultations with chief ministers of around 10 states on the coronavirus situation. Chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Punjab, Bihar, Gujarat, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh have been invited for the virtual meet.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is also present in the meet.
The meet assumes significance as these 10 states have a high populaton density and the idea is to bring down thevirus caseload. This is the seventh video conference of the prime ministers with the states since the outbreak of the pandemic. This is also the first meeting of the prime minister with chief ministers during unlock 3 on the pandemic. (PTI)
Telangana coronavirus update: Telangana clocks 1,896 fresh COVID-19 cases, eight deaths
Telangana recorded an addition of1,896 new COVID-19 cases and eight more fatalities, pushing the total infection tally in the state to 82,647. The declining trend in fresh coronavirus cases continued in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), withonly 338 new cases being reported, a state government bulletinsaid on Tuesday, providing data as of 8 PM on August 10.
According to the bulletin, the case fatality rate in thestate was 0.78 per cent, while it was 2.0 per cent at thenational level. The total number of people who recovered from theinfectious disease so far was 59,374, while 22,628 were under treatment. (PTI)
As infections surge, health experts say India to have most COVID-19 cases in world
Health experts have warned that India is likely to top the list of countries with most COVID-19 cases as infections continue to rise. The US, India and Brazil together account for nearly two-thirds of all cases since the world hit 15-million on July 22.With 53,601 infections reported in the last 24 hours, India has now recorded more than 22,68,675 cases, while the death toll climbed to 45,257 after 871 new fatalities were reported, the health ministry said on August 11.Click here to read more
