Coronavirus LIVE: US reports 100,000 fresh cases for 26 days on the trot

Coronavirus update: At 1,808,550, Maharashtra has the highest number of coronavirus cases, followed by Karnataka 881,086, Andhra Pradesh 866,000, Tamil Nadu 777,616 and Kerala 587,578

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Delhi reports 4,906 new COVID-19 cases, 6,325 recoveries, and 68 deaths in last 24 hours

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US surpasses 100,000 new Covid-19 daily cases for 26th consecutive day

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Puducherry reported 33 new coronavirus cases, 72 discharges and zero deaths today

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Boxer Duryodhan Negi tests positive for Covid-19

Former national champion boxer Duryodhan Singh Negi has tested positive for Covid-19 and has been hospitalised as a precautionary measure despite being asymptomatic, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) stated on Sunday.

 

The welterweight (69kg) category boxer had returned to the national training base in Patiala after a Diwali break and tested positive for the virus during the mandatory quarantine.

 

"He is currently asymptomatic and has been shifted to Columbia Asia Hospital as a precautionary measure," the SAI statement read.

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DCGI and institutional ethics committee investigating claim of adverse event in Covid vaccine trial: Officials

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IAF carries out special rescue mission to bring back Covid-19 positive scientists from Central Asia

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Philippines logs 2,076 new Covid-19 cases, total nears 430,000

Philippines on Sunday reported 2,076 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number in the country to 429,864.

 

Sunday's tally of daily coronavirus cases broke 19 straight days of the country reporting less than 2,000 single-day cases, Xinhua news agency quoted the Department of Health (DOH) as saying.

 

The DOH said 10,579 more patients recovered, raising the total number of recoveries to 398,624.

 

The death toll climbed to 8,373 after 40 more patients died from the disease, it added.

 

The Department said it had tested 5.36 million people in the Philippines so far.

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Genetic risk factors make people vulnerable to severe Covid-19: Study

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Russia registers 26,683 coronavirus cases in past 24 hours; total count rises to 2.2 million

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Olympic-bound athletes will be given priority when Covid-19 vaccine is available: Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju

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70.97% of the 496 case fatalities reported in the past 24 hours are contributed by just eight States, UTs — Delhi, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Haryana, Punjab, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan

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Turkey's new virus figures confirm experts' worst fears

When Turkey changed the way it reports daily Covid-19 infections, it confirmed what medical groups and opposition parties have long suspected that the country is faced with an alarming surge of cases that is fast exhausting the Turkish health system.

 

In an about-face, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government this week resumed reporting all positive coronavirus tests not just the number of patients being treated for symptoms pushing the number of daily cases to above 30,000.

 

With the new data, the country jumped from being one of the least-affected countries in Europe to one of the worst-hit.

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Brazil's coronavirus death toll tops 172,000

Brazil registered 587 new coronavirus fatalities in the last 24 hours, which increased the country's overall death toll to 172,561, the Health Ministry said.

 

Besides the new deaths on Saturday, the country also reported 51,922 new cases taking the nationwide tally to 6,290,272, Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry as saying.

 

Brazil currently accounts for the third largest Covid-19 caseload in the world, after the US and India, and the second highest death toll from the disease, after the US.

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Odisha's Covid-19 tally surges to 318,307 after 518 more people test positive for the infection

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Poor air quality can up consequences of Covid-19: Study

A new research adds to the growing body of evidence that elevated levels of air pollution may amplify the waves of SARS-CoV-2 contamination, the virus responsible for Covid-19 diseases. The study, published in the journal Earth Systems and Environment, investigated possible interactions between acutely elevated levels of fine particulate matter and the virulence of the coronavirus disease.

 

The result suggests that high concentrations of particles less than 2.5 micrometres in size may modulate, or even amplify, the waves of SARS-CoV-2 contamination and explain in part the particular profile of the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

"The study provides preventive measures related to air pollution to limit future outbreaks of morbidity and mortality due to the coronavirus," said study author Mario Rohrer from the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

 

Covid-19 studies conducted in Italy and France suggest that SARS-CoV-2 was already present in Europe at the end of 2019, while the sharp increase in morbidity and mortality was only recorded in spring 2020 in Paris and London.