Jharkhand reported 395 new COVID-19 cases, 461 recoveries and 3 deaths today. Total number of cases now stands at 100,964 including 94,787 recoveries, 883 deaths and 5,294 active cases.
Coronavirus India News highlights: Today is the 220th day since India implemented a nationwide lockdown, to help curb the novel coronavirus pandemic. So far, India has recorded 80,40,203 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 1,20,527 deaths. A total of 73,15,989 people have recuperated from COVID-19 so far. There are 6,03,687 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country as on date, which comprises 7.5 percent of the total caseload. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have reported
Odisha reports 1,617 new COVID-19 cases
Confirmed COVID-19 cases in India rise to 80,40,203
73,15,989 COVID-19 patients cured, discharged so far
6,03,687 reported active cases in India
COVID-19 death toll in India rises to 1,20,527
Mizoram adds 49 COVID-19 cases
Assam reports 448 new COVID-19 cases
Jharkhand reported 395 new COVID-19 cases, 461 recoveries and 3 deaths today. Total number of cases now stands at 100,964 including 94,787 recoveries, 883 deaths and 5,294 active cases.
The tally of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai increased to 2,55,362 on Thursday with 1,120 new cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The death toll in the city reached 10,186 with 33 fresh fatalities being reported, it said.
Madhya Pradesh on Thursday reported 728 new coronavirus cases, taking the tally to 1,69,999, while 16 more fatalities pushed the death toll to 2,929, a health department official said.
West Bengal on Thursday recorded the highest single-day recovery of 3,945 COVID-19 patients, taking the total number of cured people to 3,21,873, the health department said in a bulletin.
The discharge rate currently is 88.02 percent.The state's coronavirus death toll mounted to 6,725 with 61 more patients succumbing to the disease.
Tamil Nadu reports 2,652 new COVID-19cases, 35 deaths and 4,087 discharges today, as per the State Health Department. The total number of cases in the state is now at 7,19,403 including 6,83,464 discharges and 11,053 deaths. There are 24,886 active cases in the State.
5,739 fresh positive cases, 4,138 recoveries and 27 deaths reported in Delhi today. The total case tally stands at 3,75,753 including 3,38,378 recoveries, 30,952 active cases and 6,423 deaths.
Maharashtra reports 5,902 new COVID-19 cases, countincreases to 16,66,668; death toll up at 43,710 with 156 newfatalities.
Govt of India:With 10,75,760 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the cumulative tests have crossed 10.65 crores (10,65,63,440). Nearly 11 lakh tests have been conducted daily on an average during the past six weeks.The cumulative positivity rate has been falling progressively and has touched 7.54% today. India continues to maintain the declining trend of active cases. Active cases stand at 6,03,687 today. It comprises only 7.51% of the total positive cases of the country.
Punjab reported 468 new COVID-19cases, 427 discharged cases and 10 deaths, taking total positive cases to 1,32,727 till date, including 1,24,293 discharges, 4,266 active cases and4,168 deaths.
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that they say can distinguish asymptomatic COVID-19 patients from healthy individuals through their cough recordings, and show the results on a smartphone app.
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US found that people who are asymptomatic may differ from healthy individuals in the way that they cough.
These differences are not decipherable to the human ear, but can be picked up by artificial intelligence, they said.
