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Coronavirus LIVE: Kerala sees 15,058 new Covid cases; 2,740 in Maharashtra

Coronavirus live updates: Kerala logs over 20,000 cases; no fresh death in Delhi. Catch all the live updates here

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Kerala’s test positivity rate is 19.22 per cent as against 17.13 per cent in the last seven days.

Goa has extended its Covid-19 “curfew” by another week to September 20

1:09 PM

Andaman and Nicobar detects two new cases

Andaman and Nicobar Islands recorded two new cases of Covid-19 cases in 24 hours to take its total to 7,582, PTI reported on Monday quoting the health department. One case was detected during contact tracing and another at the airport during passenger arrivals. The Covid-19 death toll remained at 129.
 
12:37 PM

China administers 2.148 bn vaccine shots in total

China administered about 5.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines on September 12, bringing the total number of doses administered to 2.148 billion, data from the National Health Commission showed on Monday. Reuters reported this.
12:34 PM

Vietnam reopens island to tourists

Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island will be the country’s first tourist destination reopened to fully-vaccinated foreign visitors beginning in November, according to the government website, which cited the tourism administration. Foreign travelers will be required to have received their second vaccine shot at least 14 days before traveling to the island, Bloomberg reported.
 
12:05 PM

Mizoram reports 541 new cases, 2 deaths

Mizoram reported on Monday 541 new cases of cases of Covid-19, with 123 children among those infected. The state recorded two deaths due to Covid in 24 hours to take the total to 238, PTI reported. Mizoram has 71,381 Covid cases in total.
 
11:16 AM

Outbreak in southeast China adds 22 cases

A southeastern Chinese province has reported 22 more COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to 43 in a fresh outbreak driven by the highly transmissible delta variant. Reuters reports health authorities said Monday that 15 cases were confirmed in Putian city in the latest 24-hour period. Another six were found in Quanzhou city, and one more in Xiamen, suggesting the virus may be moving south from Putian.
10:40 AM

Covid-19 vaccines for children likely next month: NYT

Covid-19 vaccines for children younger than 12 years could be available by the end of next month in the US, reports the New York Times. The paper quoted two health experts as saying that the vaccines could be available as soon as the end of October, bringing relief to parents.
9:50 AM

Goa extends curfews, seeks quarantine for Kerala travellers

The Goa government has made five-day quarantine compulsory for people, specially this travelling from Kerala, in the wake of a surge in COVID-19 cases in the southern state, PTI reported. Goa also extended the ongoing statewide curfew till September 20.
9:24 AM

Chhattisgarh says no new Covid deaths recorded Sunday

Chhattisgarh recorded on Sunday 20 new Covid-19 cases to take its total to 10,04,864, PTI reported quoting a quoting a civil servant. No death due to Covid was reported in 24 hours, keeping fatalities at 13,558. No new cases were found in 17 of the state’s 28 districts.
8:34 AM

All adults in 6 states and UTs get one shot of vaccine

All adults in Sikkim, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Ladakh and Lakshadweep have got at least one dose of Covid vaccine, said the health ministry on Sunday as it put the nationwide number at 740 million. More than 5.2 million vaccine doses were administered nationwide on Sunday.
7:40 AM

Need deeper cooperation to address global health crisis: UN chief

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for deeper international cooperation to address global health crisis, and reduce poverty and inequality.

"We need deeper international cooperation to address the global health crisis, reduce poverty and inequality, achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and avert climate catastrophe," the top UN official said on Sunday in his video message on the UN Day for South-South Cooperation, which is celebrated globally on September 12 every year.

"The Covid-19 pandemic is the most complex immediate challenge facing our world and it is undermining hard won social, economic and environmental gains," Guterres was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.

7:36 AM

UK records another 29,173 coronavirus cases

Another 29,173 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 7,226,276, according to official figures released Sunday.

The country also recorded another 56 coronavirus-related deaths. The total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Britain now stands at 134,200. These figures only include the deaths of people who died within 28 days of their first positive test.

The latest data came as the British Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that coronavirus infection rates have remained level in England but increased in Wales and Scotland.

7:29 AM

Indonesia prepares for transition to Covid-19 endemic

After breathing a sigh of relief from the second wave of Covid-19 transmission, Indonesia is now preparing for the transition from pandemic to endemic.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo while monitoring Covid-19 vaccination at a school in the Yogyakarta province on Friday had said that Covid-19 would not go away anytime shortly, reported Xinhua news agency.

"We must prepare for that transition and learn to live together with Covid-19," Widodo had said.

In late June to early August, the Southeast Asian country faced a spike in Covid-19 transmissions triggered by the more contagious Delta variant.

The Covid-19 Task Force recorded that the biggest number of daily cases of 56,757 was recorded on July 15 and the highest death toll of 2,068 happened on July 27.

7:26 AM

South Africa to ease lockdown regulations

South Africa would move to Adjusted Alert Level 2 from 3 starting Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced.

He said on Sunday night that while the third wave is not yet over, a sustained decline in infections was seen across the country over the last few weeks.

The average number of daily new infections over the last week was 29 per cent lower than the preceding 7 days, and 48 per cent lower than the 7 days before that, Xinhua news agency reported.

"Cabinet has therefore decided that the country should be moved from Adjusted Alert Level 3 and placed on Adjusted Alert Level 2 with effect from tomorrow," he said.

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First Published: Sep 13 2021 | 7:25 AM IST