Coronavirus LIVE: Cases close to 8.6 mn in India, death toll at 127,104

Coronavirus update: Maharashtra has 1,719,858 coronavirus cases, Karnataka 844,147, Andhra Pradesh 842,967, Tamil Nadu 739,147 and UP 497,000. Stay tuned for coronavirus India LIVE updates

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Singapore may get first shipment of Covid-19 vaccine early next year

Singapore may get the first shipment of a Covid-19 vaccine, co-developed by Singapore researchers along with US pharmaceutical company Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc, early next year, according to a media report on Tuesday.

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Move HC, says SC to Delhi govt plea for more ICU Covid beds

The Delhi government's plea stressing the urgent need for keeping more ICU beds for Covid patients in view of cases increasing every day failed to move the Supreme Court which on Tuesday declined to lift the Delhi High Court's stay on the order to reserve 80 per cent ICU beds in private hospitals for such patients

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Covid-19 triggers OCD in children and young people, study says

Children and young people with obsessive thoughts and compulsions may experience their OCD, anxiety, and depressive symptoms worsen during a crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new study

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Around 24,000 calls made for ambulance services since fresh surge in Covid-19 cases in Delhi: Data

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Severe Covid-19 infection rare in newborns: Study

A new research adds to the growing body of evidence that severe Covid-19 infection appears rare in newborn babies.

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Covid: SC sends to HC, Delhi govt's plea against stay on reserving ICU beds

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sent to the Delhi High Court for hearing on November 12 a plea filed by the Delhi government challenging the stay on its order for the reservation of 80 per cent ICU beds in private hospitals for Covid-19 patients.

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Two more die of coronavirus infection in Puducherry, toll reaches 604

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Daily new Covid-19 infections remain below 50,000 mark

For the third day in a row, daily new coronavirus infections in the country settled below the 50,000-mark, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday

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California Covid-19 cases at highest levels

California's coronavirus cases were at their highest levels in months, with the "sobering" numbers possibly leading to the delay of reopening the economy in some counties, state Governor Gavin Newsom has warned

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Odisha reports 987 new Covid-19 cases, 13 fresh fatalities

After a gap of around 110 days, the number of new infections reported daily across Odisha dropped below 1,000 on Tuesday as 987 more persons tested positive for Covid-19, taking the states caseload to 303,780, a health department official said.

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As virus spikes, Europe runs low on ICU beds, hospital staff

In Italy lines of ambulances park outside hospitals awaiting beds, and in France the government coronavirus tracking app prominently displays the intensive care capacity taken up by COVID-19 patients: 92.5 per cent and rising. In the ICU in Barcelona, there is no end in sight for the doctors and nurses who endured this once already. Intensive care is the last line of defence for severely ill coronavirus patients and Europe is running out of beds and the doctors and nurses to staff them. In country after country, the intensive care burden of COVID-19 patients is nearing and sometimes surpassing levels seen at last spring's peak.

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China Covid-19 vaccine trial halted in Brazil after serious adverse event

The final-stage trial of a Chinese frontrunner vaccine candidate has been halted in Brazil due to a serious adverse event, the first time that any of the Asian nation’s rapidly developed Covid-19 shots have met with such a setback. Testing of Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s vaccine, called Coronavac, has been halted in Brazil after an event that occurred on Oct. 29, said the Brazil Health Agency on Tuesday, without giving any further detail on what happened. The study is interrupted in accordance with regulations while the agency analyses if the study should continue, it said. Read More

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US Fed warns of financial risks amid raging pandemic

The US Federal Reserve has warned of a potential decline in asset prices and other financial risks as the raging Covid-19 pandemic and recession still persisted in the coountry. "Given the high level of uncertainty associated with the pandemic, assessing valuation pressures is particularly challenging, and asset prices remain vulnerable to significant declines should investor risk sentiment fall or the economic recovery weaken," the Fed said in its latest biannual Financial Stability Report released on Monday. "Business and household earnings have fallen and business borrowing has risen, which leave households and firms more vulnerable to future shocks," Xinhua news agency quoted the report as saying and added that loan defaults might rise, leading to material losses for lenders. The report also noted that the Covid-19 shock highlighted how vulnerabilities related to leverage and funding risk at non-bank financial institutions could amplify shocks in the financial system in times of stress.

 

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Japanese PM orders drawing up of third COVID-19 economic relief package

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga instructed his cabinet to form an economic relief package, the third of its kind, to stave off the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic, media reported Tuesday. The new budget looks to shore up the country's economic foundations through the first quarter of 2021, although a sum has yet to be estimated, NHK news broadcaster reported. The package will look to address recovery in the job market, new measures to curb the spread of virus, natural disaster relief among others, the broadcaster reported.

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UK PM warns against easing efforts to fight Covid-19

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnsonhas warned against relaxing efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic amid looming hopes of a vaccine against the fast-spreading disease. "We cannot rely on the news about a vaccine as a solution" in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, Xinhua news agency quoted Johnson as saying at a virtual press briefing in Downing Street on Monday. "It would be a mistake to slacken our resolve in fighting the virus," the Prime Minister said. Mass testing can be a substitute to the restrictions, he said, adding that it was now more important than ever that people follow the lockdown rules.