Coronavirus India highlights: Maharashtra reports nearly 14,500 fresh COVID-19 cases, 326 deaths

Karnataka government on Thursday said it will conduct a survey to estimate the prevalence of COVID-19 across the state and the proportion of people who have developed immunity.

The survey, which will involve adults over the age of 18, will cover 38 units, including all districts of Karnataka and eight zones of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the state health department said in a release here.

The state's COVID-19 tally stood at 2,56,975 while the death toll is 4,429 as of Thursday.

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1,330 COVID-19cases and 11 deaths reported in Rajasthan today; 1227 recovered and 1127 discharged. The total positive cases in the state rise to 66,619 including 921 deaths, 51,190 recovered and 50,560 discharged.

1,275 new COVID-19cases, 976 recoveries and46 deaths reported in Mumbai today. Total number of positive cases increase to 1,32,817 in Mumbai, including 18,170 active cases, 1,0,7033 recovered cases and7,311 deaths till date.

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3,197 new COVID-19cases, 3,126 recovered cases and53 deaths reported in West Bengal today. Total number of COVID cases stands at 1,29,119 in the state, including 27,696 active cases, 98,789 discharged cases and2,634 deaths so far.

14,492 new COVID-19cases, 12,243 recoveries and 326 deaths reported in Maharashtra today. Total number of COVID cases rises to 6,43,289 in the state, which includes 4,59,124 recovered cases, 1,62,491 active cases and21,359 deaths till date.

350 new COVID-19positive cases and 161 recovered cases reported in Goa today, taking the total number of cases in the state to 13,099, including 3,910 active cases, 9,063 recovered cases and126 total death cases till date.

7,385 new COVID-19cases, 6,231 recovered cases and102 deaths reported in Karnataka in the last 24 hours. Total number of positive cases stands at 2,56,975 including 82,149 active cases, 1,70,381 recovered cases and4,429 total deaths till date.

683 new COVID-19cases reported from Jammu and Kashmir today; 114 from Jammu division and 569 from Kashmir division, taking the total number of cases in the Union Territory to 30,717. The death toll is at 578.

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Belying the expectations of the health authorities, the COVID-19 graph of Andhra Pradesh continued its explosive spree as 9,393 more cases were added to push the overall tally further up to 3.25 lakh on Thursday.

After Maharashtra, AP is the only state reporting a large number of Covid-19 cases daily, sometimes close to 10,000, over the past few days.

The state health officials were initially hopeful that the infection positivity rate would be brought down below five percent by the end of July but later reset it to mid-August.

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Qantas Airways saidAugust 20 the pandemic cost it 4 billion Australian dollars ($2.9 billion) in revenue in the last fiscal year and warned that international travel won't resume before mid-2021.

The Australian airline reported an underlying profit before tax of AU$124 million ($89 million) for the fiscal year that ended on June, a 90.6% decline from the AU$1.33 billion profit posted a year before.

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