Covid-19 LIVE: Daily testing capacity has crossed 1.17 mn, says Health Min

Coronavirus India highlights: India's total number of coronavirus cases stand at 4,208,645. Maharashtra's tally has crossed the 900,000 mark. Stay tuned for coronavirus LIVE updates

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Tokyo's postponed Olympics will go ahead next year regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC vice president John Coates told AFP

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At Noida hospital, a robot turns counsellor for Covid patients

To soothe patients’ nerves and keep their anxieties at bay, Yatharth hospital in Noida Extension has deployed a robot, aptly named ‘Mitra’. Not only does the robot help in counselling of patients, it also connects them with their families and friends on video calls via a screen on its body.

8:51 AM

Delhi Metro resumes services on Yellow Line (Samaypur Badli to Huda City Centre).

8:43 AM

India studying Russian proposal for Covid-19 vaccine

The Russian ambassador, Nikolay Kudashev, has said Moscow is talking to the Indian government "on different levels" about cooperation that could include "supplies, co-development and co-production" of Sputnik V, the first anti-Covid vaccine in the world. The vaccine, according to a Lancet study, has been found in initial trials as causing no serious side effects. Official sources here confirmed to TOI that Russia had shared formally modalities of cooperation with India on the vaccine and that the Indian government was examining the details.

8:25 AM

Australia turns to idled factories to pull it out of coronavirus slump

In 2017, the last car Australia built rolled out of a General Motors' plant in the city of Adelaide, ending seven decades of local automotive history and the belief that the country's factories could ever compete globally.

 

 

Three years later, policymakers are once again looking to manufacturing to generate some growth as they scramble to drive the economy through the coronavirus and out of its deepest slump on record.

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UNICEF to lead global procurement, supply of coronavirus vaccines

In what could possibly be the world's largest and fastest ever operation of its kind, the UNICEF will be leading the procurement and supply of coronavirus vaccines to ensure that all countries have safe, fast and equitable access to initial doses when they are available, it has said.

 

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is the world's largest single vaccine buyer, procuring more than 2 billion doses of various vaccines annually for routine immunisation and outbreak response on behalf of nearly 100 countries.

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Travel only if necessary, tweets DMRC

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Coronavirus in Maharashtra: Total number of cases rise to 193,013

4,447 fresh positive cases and 80 deaths reported in Pune yesterday. Death toll in Pune rises to 4,575 while total positive cases are 1,93,013: Pune Health Department, Maharashtra

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145 coronavirus cases among Noida police personnel so far, 75% recovered

A total of 145 police personnel deployed in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar have tested positive for COVID-19 and 75 per cent of them have recovered, officials said on Sunday.

 

Also, 34 police personnel are currently undergoing treatment for the novel coronavirus, which has claimed the life of one of their colleagues in the district, the officials said. Read on...

7:17 AM

Coronavirus in Karnataka LIVE Updates

 | 9,319 new COVID-19 cases and 95 deaths reported in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, taking active cases to 99,266. There have been 2,92,873 recoveries and 6,393 deaths.

 

7:10 AM

Coronavirus in Tamil Nadu LIVE Updates

Tamil Nadu reported 5,783 new COVID-19 cases, 5,820 discharges and 88 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking active cases to 51,458, discharges to 4,04,186 and death toll to 7,836.

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Coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh LIVE Updates

1,694 new COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths reported in Madhya Pradesh in the last 24 hours, taking active cases to 16,115, recoveries to 55,887 and death toll to 1,572.

 

7:04 AM

Coronavirus in Delhi LIVE Updates

Delhi's COVID-19 case tally reaches 1,91,449 with 3,256 new cases and 29 deaths reported today. The numbers of active and recovered cases are 20,909 and 1,65,973, respectively. Death toll rises to 4,567.

6:59 AM

Uttar Pradesh update: 2 more deaths, DM among 51 new patients in Raebareli

r Pradesh's Raebareli district recorded two more fatalities linked to COVID-19 on Sunday, pushing the death toll from the disease to 47, official data showed.

 

Also, 51 more people, including the district magistrate, have tested positive for the virus, according to the data released by the UP Health Department for a 24-hour period.

6:52 AM

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar's vital parameters normal, says hospital

Vital parameter of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who was tested COVID-19 positive and admitted to Medanta hospital, are normal, said the hospital in a statement on Sunday.

 

According to an official press release issued by the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) quoting hospital's Medical Superintendent Dr AK Dubey, "The Chief Minister is well-rested and his vitals parameters are normal."

 

 

The release added that Khattar does not have a fever and the team of doctors who are treating him are satisfied with his progress.