Coronavirus News highlights: Today is the 124th day since India implemented a nationwide lockdown, to help curb the novel coronavirus pandemic. So far, India has recorded 13,36,861 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 31,358 deaths, according to news agency PTI. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Karnataka have reported the highest number of cases. However, infections are rising rapidly in states like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Assam. Yet, India’s recovery rate continues to rise and now stands at 63.5 percent.
Globally, there have been over 1.56 crore confirmed cases of COVID-19. More than 6.38 lakh people have died so far. Catch the highlights here:
Meghalaya's COVID-19 tally mounted to 646 on Saturday after 59 more people, including six BSF staffers and four police personnel, tested positive for coronavirus, officials said.
The BSF and police personnel are from East Khasi Hills and East Jaintia Hills districts respectively.
While 94 patients have recovered from the disease in the state, five others died.
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan's latest health bulletin, released by Chirayu Medical College and Hospital, said that his condition is normal and the result of all the other required tests have come out normal. Chouhan had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier in the day.
The tallies for people hospitalised in New York with the coronavirus are continuing to drop to the lowest levels since the pandemic began, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday.
There were at least 646 people hospitalised in the state on Friday, a new low since March 18 and down slightly from the previous day, the Democratic governor said in a statement.
The number of reported deaths in the state rose by one, to 10.New York, once a pandemic hot spot, has so far avoided a surge in new cases like those plaguing other states in the South and West.
Total lockdown to be imposed in the entire state of Tripura for 3 days from 5 am on 27th July to 5 am on 30th July. This will be in continuation of the night curfew to be imposed from 9 pm on 26th July.
Goa records 146 new COVID-19 positive cases today, taking the total number of cases in the State to 4,686 out of which 1,606 cases are active and 3047 have recovered. The death toll stands at 33.
1,120 new COVID-19cases and 11 deaths reported in Rajasthan till 8:30 pm today. The total number of cases in the State stands at 35,298 including 9,379 active cases and 613 deaths.
The total number of COVID-19 cases in central police forces under the command of the Union home ministry crossed the 10,000-mark on Saturday with 421 fresh cases being reported in a day, a latest data said.
The cases pertain to the seven forces of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), National Security Guard (NSG) and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
The maximum cases of 3,341 have been recorded in the CRPF, the country's largest paramilitary force with about 3.25 lakh personnel.
2,404 new COVID-19cases and 42 deaths reported in West Bengal today. The total number of cases now stands at 56,377 in the State including 19,391 active cases, 35,654 discharged cases and 1,332 deaths.
Karnataka reports 5,072 new COVID-19positive cases and 72 deaths. The total number of cases in the state stands at 90,942 including 55,388 active cases and 1,796 deaths.
Maharashtra reports 9,251 new COVID-19cases and 257 deaths today. The total number of cases in the State rises to 3,66,368 including 1,45,481 active cases and 2,07,194 discharged cases. The state's capital, Mumbai, meanwhile, has reported 1,090 cases out of those and 52 virus-related deaths.
Himachal Pradesh reported 81 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, pushing the state's tally to 2,036.
The deadly virus has claimed 12 lives in Himachal Pradesh so far, while 1,167 people have recovered and 15 have migrated out of the state.Twenty-two more patients, 21 in Solan and one in Kullu, recovered from the infection in the past 24 hours, Dhiman said.The number of active cases now stands at 840.
468 new COVID-19positive cases reported in Punjab today. The total number of cases now stands at 12,684 including 4,096 active cases, 8,297 discharged cases and 291 deaths.
