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

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3,064 new Covid-19 cases reported in UP; tally at 366,321

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Health Minister, UP CM inaugurate dedicated Covid facility in Prayagraj

Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan along with Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath digitally inaugurated  Super Speciality Block (SSB) at Motilal Nehru Medical College, Prayagraj. The 220-bedded facility  has been dedicated as a Covid Hospital (DCH) to nation: Ministry of Health

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Biden tests negative for Covid-19 again

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has tested negative for Covid-19 for the second time since US President Donald Trump's October 2 announcement that he and the First Lady were infected with the virus.

In a statement on Sunday, Biden's election campaign said that he was administered a PCR test, which came back negative, reports The Hill news website.

Just hours after Trump's announcement, Kevin O'Connor, the former Vice President's primary care physician, had said that Biden and his wife Jill had undergone PCR testing "Covid-19 was not detected".

 

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World Coronavirus Dispatch: Paris to shut all bars, raise alert to maximum

Trump's campaign manager tests positive, UK's scheme to help jobless back into work, how Remdesivir moved from back shelf to best hope, and other pandemic-related news across the globe Read more

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Compensation to kin if patient dies due to hospital laxity: HC

The Bombay High Court on Monday said if a Covid-19 patient dies in a state or civic-run hospital due to culpable negligence on part of the medical facility, then his/her family members would be entitled for compensation.

A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice N J Jamadar said the state government has a duty and responsibility towards its citizens.

The bench was hearing a public interest litigation filed by BJP leader Ashish Shelar, raising concerns over the manner in which hospitals run by government and civic bodies across Maharashtra were managing and disposing bodies of Covid-19 patients.

 

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With 1430 new Covid-19 cases Thane tally reaches 181,499

The Covid-19 tally in Thane reached 181,499 with the addition of 1,430 new cases in the Maharashtra district, an official said on Monday. The district also reported 30 deaths due to Covid-19 on Sunday, taking the toll to 4,589, he said.

 

Out of the new cases, 393 were reported from Kalyan town, 373 from Thane city, 285 from Navi Mumbai, and the remaining from other parts of the district, the official said.

 

As of now, there are 17,634 active Covid-19 cases in the district, while 1,59,276 patients have recovered, he said.

 

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Odisha reports 2,617 new Covid-19 cases, 17 fatalities

At least 2,617 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Odisha on Monday, which raised the tally to 2,35,330, while 17 fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 924, a health department official said.

 

Of the new cases, 1,521 were reported from various quarantine centres and the rest were detected during contact tracing, he said.

 

Khurda district, of which state capital Bhubaneswar is a part, reported the maximum number of new cases at 506, followed by Bargarh at 148.

 

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44 new Covid-19 cases detected in Ladakh

Forty-four new cases of coronavirus were detected in Ladakh, taking the infection tally in the Union Territory to 4,521, officials said on Monday.

With 39 more patients cured of the contagion, the number of active cases in the region stands at 1,106 773 in Leh district and 333 in Kargil district, the officials said.

They said 37 persons tested positive for Covid-19 in Leh district and another seven in Kargil district during the past 24 hours.

 

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West Bengal is seeing a consistent rise in new cases

West Bengal has been witnessing a steady rise in new cases additions. The state has added over 3,000 cases each for the last 30 days in a row. Overall cases tally in the state currently stands at 270,331, of which 237,698 cases have already recovered and over 5,000 people have lost their lives. Read on...

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Covid-19 Factoid: India witnessed a drop in new cases for 4 straight days

India added 74,442 cases on 4th October, a massive drop in daily new cases from 86,821 cases added on the first day of the month.

 

The country has been witnessing a drop in daily new cases additions since the last four days. Read on...

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Coronavirus vaccine: Bharat Biotech to use Kansas firm's adjuvant for Covaxin

Hyderabad based Bharat Biotech, whose Covid-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin is one of the leading candidates from India, will use adjuvant from Kansas vased ViroVax for its vaccine to boost immune response and longer lasting immunity.

 

Vaccines typically use adjuvants to improve the immune response. Adjuvants are pharmacological or immunological agents that improve the immune response of a vaccine. It may be added to a vaccine to produce more antibodies and longer lasting immunity thus minimising the dose of antigen needed. An antigen is any substance that causes our immune system to produce antibodies against it. It can be any substance like chemicals, viruses, bacteria that the immune system does not recognise and tries to fight off. Read more here

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Telangana coroanvirus update: Covid-19 tally breaches 200,000 mark

The coronavirus tally in Telangana crossed the two lakh mark with 1,335 new cases being reported, a state government bulletin said on Monday.

 

The fresh infections took the total count to 2,00,611, while the death toll rose to 1,171 with eight more fatalities, it said, providing data as of 8 pm on October 4.

 

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for 262 of the 1,335 cases, followed by Rangareddy (137), Medchal Malkajgiri (91), Karimnagar (83) and other districts. Read on...

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16 new coronavirus cases in Andaman and Nicobar; tally rises to 3,884

The coronavirus tally of Andaman and Nicobar Islands rose to 3,884 on Monday as 16 more people tested positive for the virus, a health official said.

 

Twelve new patients were detected during contact tracing, while four have travel history, he said.

 

Seven more people were cured of the disease, the official said.

 

The Union territory now has 182 active coronavirus cases, while 3,649 people have been cured of the disease and 53 patients have succumbed to the infection so far, he said.

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Constitutional crisis to succession: What lies ahead as Trump gets Covid-19

Since Donald Trump was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for coronavirus treatment on Sept. 2, there have been conflicting messages about the status of the president’s health.

 

While his doctor, Sean Conley, gave an upbeat account around noon on Sunday, the president’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told reporters the day before, “The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.” Read on...

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Trump confronts a new form of risk in coronavirus, more personal and perilous

President Trump’s relationship to risk has often come down to an abiding self-belief: It will all probably work out for him because it generally has.

 

“Whatever happens, happens,” he said in 1991, declaring himself a “great fatalist” as his business fortunes wobbled.

 

“We’ll see what happens,” he said of North Korean nuclear diplomacy two years ago, blithely predicting that all would be fine.

 

“Risk plays a part in everything we do,” he advised in one of his pre-presidential how-to books. “I could get hit by a bus while I am crossing the street. Things happen.” Read on...