Coronavirus LIVE: Karnataka education minister Suresh Kumar tests positive

Coronavirus update: Maharashtra has 1,443,409 coronavirus cases, Andhra Pradesh 719,256, Karnataka 640,661, Tamil Nadu 619,996 and UP 414,466. Stay tuned for coronavirus India LIVE update

Coronavirus update: India on Sunday registered 74,442 new Covid-19 cases, taking the tally past the 6.6-million mark. With 902 fatalities in 24 hours, India's death toll stands at 102,714. Recovery rate has crossed 84 per cent, with over 5.5 million people having beaten the infection.
 

Coronavirus vaccine update: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said that the government is yet to take a final decision on Phase-III trials of the Russian coronavirus vaccine candidate Sputnik V.
 

World coronavirus update: The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 35,387,775. While 26,609,676 have recovered, 1,041,537 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 7,635,804 cases. It is followed by India, which has 6,623,815 cases, Brazil (4,915,289) and Russia (1,215,001).

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9:14 PM

Karnataka reports over 7,000 cases; total tally nears 650,000

Karnataka reported 7,051 new Covid-19 cases, 7,064 discharges and 84 deaths today, taking total cases to 647,712 including 522,846 discharges and 9,370 deaths. Number of active cases stands at 115,477: State Health Department

8:45 PM

Pune-Lonavala local train services to resume from 12th October for essential service providers.

8:31 PM

250 new cases in Manipur; total tally crosses 12,000 mark

250 new Covid-19 cases, 129 recoveries and 1 death reported in Manipur today. Total positive cases now at 12,105, including 2,696 active cases, 9,334 recoveries and 75 deaths till date. Recovery rate is 77.10 %: Govt of Manipur

8:27 PM

Karnataka education minister tests Covid-19 positive

Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar on Monday said he has quarantined himself at home after testing positive for coronavirus. "I will be home quarantined for a few days on the advice of doctors after testing positive for Covid-19.There is no panic as there are no symptoms," the minister tweeted. He was among those ministers who had attended the recent Assembly session. Many others who had attended the session tested positive including Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol, senior Congress leaders H K Patil and Dinesh Gundu Rao.

8:19 PM

Maharashtra records 10,244 new cases; recovery rate at 80%

Maharashtra reports 10,244 new Covid-19 cases, 263 deaths and 12,982 discharges today. Total cases in the state rise to 1,453,653, including 38,347 deaths and 1,162,585 discharges. Active cases stand at 252,277: State Health Department

7:03 PM

30% restaurants, bars in Maha to re-open immediately; rest will open gradually

Even as the industry rejoices reopening of restaurants and bars in Maharashtra on Monday, the difficulty over staff mobility, as the lockdown continues till the end of the month, funds and maintenance issues are expected to make it a gradual process over the month, the industry said.

"The option to re-open restaurants comes as a big relief to restaurateurs. Although, it is a good development, not all restaurants are geared up to re-open immediately. We expect only around 30 per cent of the restaurants to open starting Monday and the rest will re-open gradually through the month," Hotel and

Restaurant Association of Western India (HRAWI) senior vice-president Pradeep Shetty said in a statement.

6:24 PM

10% of world population may have been infected by Covid-19: WHO

The head of emergencies at the World Health Organisation says its best estimates indicate that roughly one in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus. Dr Michael Ryan, speaking Monday to a meeting of the WHO's 34-member executive board focusing on Covid-19, said the figures vary from urban to rural, and between different groups, but that ultimately it means the vast majority of the world remains at risk. The estimate which would amount to more than 760 million people based on current world population of about 7.6 billion far outstrips the number of confirmed cases as tallied by both WHO and Johns Hopkins University, now more than 35 million worldwide. Experts have long said that the number of confirmed cases greatly underestimates the true figure.

6:13 PM

5,042 new cases in Kerala in last 24 hours

Kerala records 5,042 new Covid-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours. There are 84,873 active cases in the state and 1,49,111 people have recovered from the infection till date: State Government

6:10 PM

Delhi records 1,947 cases, tally reaches 292,560

Delhi reports 1,947 new Covid-19 cases, 3,588 recoveries/discharges/migrations and 32 deaths today. Total number of cases rise to 292,560 including 263,938 recoveries/discharges/migrations and 5,542 deaths. Active cases stand at 23,080: Delhi Government

6:08 PM

Mizoram reports 30 recovered cases, no positives today

Mizoram reported 30 new recovered Covid-19 cases today. The total positive cases stand at 2,120, including 1,837 discharges, 283 active cases and no Covid death till date in the state: Department of Information and Public Relations, Govt of Mizoram

5:29 PM

Education ministry releases SOP for reopening of schools from Oct 15

Ministry of Education releases guidelines for reopening of schools from 15th October in a graded manner; States/UTs to prepare their own Standard Operating Procedure for health, hygiene and safety and learning with physical/social distancing.

5:26 PM

Restaurants and bars open with limited capacity after months of lockdown in Pune

4:40 PM

Covid-19: 127 Maharashtra policemen tested positive; tally at 21,179

4:14 PM

50% aspirants skip UPSC exam in Lucknow due to Covid-19 fear

Nearly 50 per cent of the candidates opted out of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) preliminary examination 2020 for selection to Indian Administrative and Allied Services in Lucknow.

 

The exam was conducted on Sunday. According to sources, as many as 43,921 candidates were registered for the examination at various centres in the city. About 21,790 (49.6 per cent) registered candidates appeared in the first shift for "general studies" paper.

4:02 PM

Russia records 10,888 Covid-19 cases in past 24 hours

Russia has registered 10,888 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, up from 10,499 yesterday, taking the cumulative case total to 1,225,889, the country's coronavirus response center said on Monday.

 

"In the past 24 hours, Russia has confirmed 10,888 Covid-19 cases in 84 regions, of which 2,861 (26.3 per cent) were detected actively, with people showing no clinical symptoms," the response center said in a statement, specifying that the total count has reached 1,225,889.