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Coronavirus Outbreak Highlights: India's COVID-19 Cases Surge Past 30 Lakh

Coronavirus Cases India Updates: India's COVID-19 cases rose to 30,05,281, up by 29,580 since the last update 24 hours ago.

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India's COVID-19 tally hurtled past the 30-lakh mark on Saturday night, just 15 days after it crossed 20 lakh, while the total number of recoveries too surged to 22.71 lakh, according to data from states and union territories.

Union health ministry data updated on Saturday 8 am showed a record single-day spike of 69,874 infections, taking the country's COVID-19 caseload to 29,75,701, while the death count due to the disease climbed to 55,794 with 945 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours.

However, by night, India's COVID-19 cases rose to 30,05,281, up by 29,580 since the last update 24 hours ago.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization said Friday it hopes the planet will be rid of the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years -- faster than it took for the Spanish flu. "We hope to finish this pandemic before less than two years," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from the WHO's headquarters in Geneva, insisting that it should be possible to tame the novel coronavirus faster than the deadly 1918 pandemic.

Here are the Highlights on Coronavirus Pandemic:

Aug 23, 2020 05:55 (IST)
Brazil records over 50,000 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours

More than 50,000 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Brazil in the past 24 hours, while the death toll increased by almost 900 in that period, according to the latest data from the Health Ministry.

Brazil now has a total of 3,582,362 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 50,032 new cases having been registered in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Saturday. Over the same period, 892 new deaths were confirmed, bringing the country''s total death toll up to 114,250.
Aug 23, 2020 04:24 (IST)
COVID-19 Containment Zones Rise To 591 In Delhi
The number of COVID-19 containment zones in Delhi has risen from 539 on August 1 to 591 on August 21, with officials attributing the rise to smaller areas being contained now.
Aug 23, 2020 03:40 (IST)
Turkey reports over 1,300 new COVID-19 cases, 22 new deaths

Turkey has confirmed 1,309 new cases of coronavirus, taking the tally to 257,032, Anadolu news agency reported.

"Today, 1,309 new cases of COVID-19 have been identified, taking the tally to 257,032. A total of 22 patients have died, and the overall death count reached 6,102," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca was quoted as saying in his tweet.

The death count reached 6,102 as 22 more people died, according to the report.
Aug 23, 2020 03:07 (IST)
Assam reports 1,560 new coronavirus cases

As many as 1,560 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Assam in the last 24 hours, taking total cases to 89,468, according to State Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

A total of 65,596 patients have recovered while the cumulative death count stands at 234.

The number of active cases in the state stands at 23,635.
Aug 23, 2020 01:54 (IST)
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Aug 23, 2020 01:37 (IST)
China Approves Human Testing For Coronavirus Vaccine Grown In Insect Cells

China has approved human testing for a potential coronavirus vaccine cultivated within insect cells, local government in the southwestern city of Chengdu said on Saturday.

China is in a global race to develop cost-effective vaccines to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.

Using insect cells to grow proteins for the coronavirus vaccine - a first in China - could speed up large-scale production, the city government of Chengdu said in a notice on social media WeChat.
Aug 23, 2020 01:25 (IST)
India To Have Its Dedicated Vaccine Portal Soon: Medical Body ICMR
In a first in India, the country's top medical research body is working to create an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) vaccine portal, as a repository for all information related to vaccine development in India."
Aug 23, 2020 01:02 (IST)
Himachal Pradesh COVID-19 case count rises to 4,896

Himachal Pradesh on Saturday recorded 167 new COVID-19 cases, raising the infection tally to 4,896 while the death count from the disease climbed to 28 with record four deaths in a day.

The total number of active COVID-19 cases in the state now stands at 1,478, Shimla Additional Chief Secretary (Health) RD Dhiman said.

Of the new deaths, three were reported in Solan district and one in Mandi.
Aug 23, 2020 00:43 (IST)
COVID-19 vaccine will be developed by end of 2020: Health Minister

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said that India's first vaccine against the novel coronavirus could be available by end of this year.

"One of our COVID-19 vaccine candidates is in the third phase of the clinical trial. We are very confident that a vaccine will be developed by end of this year," Dr Harsh Vardhan said while inaugurating an NDRF 10-bedded makeshift hospital in Ghaziabad, UP.

"I am happy to say that in the eighth month of the battle, India has the best recovery rate of 75 per cent. A total of 2.2 million patients have recovered and gone home and another seven lakh are going to be cured very soon," he added.
Aug 23, 2020 00:09 (IST)
UP COVID-19 patients referred to private hospitals to be charged Ayushman Bharat rates
In Uttar Pradesh, treatment of COVID-19 patients referred by the district authorities to private hospitals will be done as per the rates charged under the Ayushman Bharat scheme.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's Office, in a tweet in Hindi, said, "For patients referred by the district administration and Chief Medical Officer in private COVID hospitals, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has provided for their treatment in 50 per cent of beds in these private hospitals, to be done under the rates charged in Ayushman Bharat."

"For this, the Chief Minister has made an approval under the Epidemics Act, 1897 and Uttar Pradesh Epidemics Ordinance, 2020," the chief minister's office said.
Aug 22, 2020 23:52 (IST)
COVID-19: Meghalaya reports 93 new cases, one fresh fatality
Meghalaya's COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,811 with the detection of 93 fresh infections, while one more fatality pushed its coronavirus death count to seven, Health Minister A L Hek said on Saturday.

A 58-year-old man succumbed to the infection at a COVID-19 hospital on Friday night, he said.

The fresh infections have pushed the number of active cases in the northeastern state to 1,035, the minister said.

Twenty more people have been cured of the disease, taking total the number of recoveries to 769, Mr Hek said. Twenty-five security personnel are among the new patients, Health Services Director Aman War said.
Aug 22, 2020 23:29 (IST)
COVID-19: Punjab minister Sukhjinder Randhawa tests positive for coronavirus
Punjab Cabinet Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has tested positive for the coronavirus, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Saturday evening.

"My Cabinet colleague and Cooperation & Jails Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has tested positive for #Covid19. I wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to him joining us at work soon," the chief minister said in his tweet.

Mr Randhawa is the third minister of the Amarinder Singh-led government to have contracted the infection.

Earlier, cabinet ministers Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa and Gurpreet Singh Kangar had tested positive for COVID-19.
Aug 22, 2020 23:17 (IST)
COVID-19: Delhi NGO installing contact-free washbasins, water purification systems in schools
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, an NGO is installing contact-free washbasins and sanitiser dispensers in a school in Madanpur Khadar in Delhi and a water purification system in another educational institution.

Praanaadhar, an NGO co-founded in 2012 by two sisters -- Prakriti Singh, and Suhasini Singh -- is carrying out this initiative.

Its primary objective is the installation of water purification systems in rural areas in and around Delhi to improve the quality of drinking water.

"We are in the process of installing a water purifier in S A H School Mathurapur, which will make clean drinking water accessible to their students. They had a purifier and it wasn''t operational for some time now. They have 300 children and we are installing a purifier," said Suhasini on Saturday.

In the second school in Madanpur Khadar, the NGO is installing contact free wash basins and sanitizer dispensers.
Aug 22, 2020 22:55 (IST)
COVID-19: Haryana sees one-day jump of 1,161 cases, 12 more die
Haryana on Saturday registered another big spike of 1,161 novel coronavirus cases, a day after recording its highest single-day jump in infections so far, while the death count from the disease mounted to 597 with 12 more fatalities.

The state has witnessed a spike in COVID-19 cases in the past few days. The fresh cases pushed the infection count to 53,290 in Haryana, according to the state health department's daily bulletin.

Three of the new fatalities were from Yamunanagar, which also reported 157 cases, two were from Kurukshetra while one death each was reported from Jind, Sirsa, Jhajjar, Panchkula, Panipat, Rohtak and Sonipat, the bulletin said.

Besides Yamunanagar, among the districts which reported fresh cases include Gurugram (102), Faridabad (97), Karnal (91), Ambala (90), Panipat (78), Panchkula (66), Rewari (62), Kurukshetra (51) and Kaithal (65), it said.

The state's active case count stands at 8,680 while 44,013 people have been discharged from hospitals after recovering from the infection, according to the bulletin.
Aug 22, 2020 22:43 (IST)
Coronavirus: Record 1,226 new cases in Madhya Pradesh, 21 deaths
Madhya Pradesh on Saturday saw its highest single-day spike of 1,226 coronavirus cases, taking the total count in the state to 51,866, health officials said.

The coronavirus death count rose to 1,206 after 21 patients succumbed to the viral infection since Friday evening, they said.

Four patients died in Bhopal, three each in Gwalior and Indore, two in Betul and one each in Alirajpur, Barwani, Damoh, Jabalpur, Khargone, Sagar, Sehore, Shivpuri and Vidisha districts, officials said.

The highest 181 new infections were reported from Indore, followed by 159 in Gwalior, 135 in Bhopal and 111 in Jabalpur.

On the other hand, 872 persons were discharged from hospitals after recovery in the state on Saturday.
Aug 22, 2020 22:22 (IST)
COVID-19: Bengal tally climbs to 1,35,596 with 3,232 new infections

The COVID-19 caseload of West Bengal went up to 1,35,596 after 3,232 new infections were reported on Saturday, the health department said.

The death count also mounted to 2,737 with 48 more people succumbing to the disease, the department said in a bulletin.

It said that 3,088 COVID-19 patients were released from hospitals taking the states discharge rate to 77.41 per cent.

So far, 1,04,959 people have recovered from the disease in West Bengal.

Aug 22, 2020 22:05 (IST)
COVID-19: Punjab's death count crosses 1,000 mark with 45 more fatalities
Forty-five COVID-19 fatalities in Punjab pushed the death count to 1,036 while 1,320 fresh cases took the state's infection tally to 40,643 on Saturday, according to an official bulletin.

The coronavirus fatalities include 15 deaths reported from Ludhiana, eight from Jalandhar, five from Sangrur, three from Mohali, two each from Fatehgarh Sahib, Ferozepur and Amritsar and one each from Bathinda, Rupnagar, Moga, Faridkot, Mansa, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran and SBS Nagar, according to the bulletin.

Meanwhile, five security personnel posted at the residence of former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in Muktsar district tested positive for coronavirus, a senior health official said.
Aug 22, 2020 21:56 (IST)
COVID-19: Gujarat adds record 1,212 cases in day; 14 die
Gujarat on Saturday recorded its highest single-day spike of 1,212 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total infection count to 85,678, state health department said.

With 14 deaths, the cumulative toll rose to 2,883, it said.

As against 1,212 new cases, 980 patients were discharged in the day, taking the number of recoveries to 68,257, the department said, adding that the recovery rate has reached 80 per cent.

At 75,258, the highest number of samples were tested in the last 24 hours, which comes at 1,157.82 tests per day per million population, it said.
Aug 22, 2020 21:42 (IST)
Highest one-day spike of 3,232 new infections takes COVID-19 tally in West Bengal to 1,35,596; death count rises to 2,737 with 48 more fatalities: Health Department.
Aug 22, 2020 21:28 (IST)
COVID-19: Single-day recoveries outnumber new cases in Nagaland for eighth consecutive day
Single-day recoveries outnumbered new COVID-19 cases in Nagaland for the eighth consecutive day as 92 people were cured of the disease and 16 tested positive for the infection on Saturday, a health official said.

One more patient has succumbed to the infection, taking the state's coronavirus death count to nine, he said.

The recovery rate among the COVID-19 patients in the northeastern state has increased to 59.58 per cent from 36 per cent last week, the official said.

The state has been registering more recoveries than new cases since August 15, with the highest single-day recovery of 215 people reported on Thursday.



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