Coronavirus news highlights: India's Covid-19 tally reaches 90 lakh as Delhi reports 7,546 new Covid-19 cases

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. The Supreme Court has modified a Karnataka High Court order that had imposed a 10-year restriction on nine Tablighi Jamaat members, who attended Nizamuddin Markaz here in March at the initial stage of Covid-19 pandemic, on visiting India.

. Although no mode of public transportation is completely safe, there are some concrete ways to reduce risk, whether on an airplane, train or bus—or even in a shared car.

. A Covid-19 vaccine developed by a state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical firm has been administered to about a million people under the government's emergency use scheme, the company's chairman said.

. Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and his family members have tested negative for the novel coronavirus after their staff members were diagnosed with the disease, a source close to the family on Thursday said.

. West Bengal reports 3,620 new Covid-19 cases, 3,990 discharges, and 53 deaths, says State Health Department. -ANI

Total cases: 4,45,505

Active cases: 25,873

Death toll: 7,873

Total discharges: 4,11,759

. Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers D V Sadananda Gowda tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday.

. Karnataka registered 1,849 fresh cases of coronavirus and 26 related fatalities, taking the total infection count to 8.67 lakh and the toll to 11,604, the Health Department said on Thursday.

. Haryana reports 2,212 new Covid-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 2,09,251. A total of 1,87,559 discharged so far after recovering from the infection, death toll 2,113. Active cases stand at 19,579. -ANI

. The actual number of global infections in the Covid-19 pandemic could be up to six times higher than the reported number of cases, according to a modelling study.

. Punjab reports 792 new Covid-19 cases, 510 discharges and 16 deaths today. Total cases in the state rise to 1,44,177, including 1,33,427 recoveries and 4,556 deaths. Active cases stand at 6,194. -ANI

.Haryana CM ML Khattar has approved a proposal to extend the duration of special parole or interim bail granted to as many as 4,585 prisoners including 1,459 under trial prisoners and 3,126 convicts up to December 31, 2020, in view of the ongoing Covid-19 situation. -ANI. A night curfew will be imposed in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat from Friday to control the spread of coronavirus, a top government official said on Thursday.

. 5,860 patients discharged today; 16,35,971 Covid-19 patients discharged after full recovery until today; Recovery rate in the state is 92.79%

5,535 new cases in the state today

154 Covid-19 deaths reported in the state today. Case fatality rate is the state is 2.63%.

Out of 99,65,119 laboratory samples, 17,63,055 have been tested positive (17.69%) for Covid-19 until today.

Currently 5,60,868 people are in home quarantine and 4,284 people are in institutional quarantine.

. The positivity rate pertaining to educational institutions (schools & higher education institutions) stands at just 0.3%. Only 1,491 individuals (students & teachers) were declared to be Covid-19 positive out of the 5,12,890 who were tested across institutions: Andhra Pradesh CMO. -ANI

. Gujarat reports 1,340 new cases of Covid-19, 7 deaths and 1,113 recoveries today. Total number of cases in state is 1,92,982 including 1,76,475 recoveries and 3,830 deaths till now. Total active cases are 12,677. -ANI

. Phase VIII of Vande Bharat Mission has operated 763 international flights from 24 countries, landing in 21 airports across India. 1 lakh 40 thousand persons returned in this phase. A total of 30.9 lakh Indians have been repatriated under the Vande Bharat Mission till today: MEA. -ANI

. NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Eknath Khadse has tested positive for Covid-19, sources close to him said on Thursday.

. Puducherry reports 69 new Covid-19 cases, 102 discharges and one death. Total positive cases in the Union Territory rise to 36,533 till date, including 670 active cases, 35,254 recoveries & 609 deaths: Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Puducherry. -ANI

. Tamil Nadu reports 1,707 new Covid-19 cases, 2,251 discharges, and 19 deaths today. Total positive cases in the state rise to 7,64,989 including 7,39,532 discharges and 11,550 deaths. Active cases stand at 13,907. -ANI

. The AAP government on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the proposal, by two homoeopathic doctors, for the clinicaltrial of a certain combination of homeo medicines for prevention and cure of Covid-19 has been principally approved.

. Andhra Pradesh reports 1,316 new Covid-19 cases and 11 deaths, taking total cases in the state to 8,58,711. There are 16,000 active cases and 8,35,801 recovered cases in the state; the death toll stands at 6,911: State Health Department. -ANI

. The Centre has said that it has receivedover 27.33 lakhapplications from street vendors under a special micro-credit facility scheme (PMSVANidhi), and has sanctioned loan to over 14 lakh applicants so far.

. A mutated version of the new coronavirus detected in Danish minks that raised concerns about the effectiveness of a future vaccine has likely been eradicated, Denmark's health ministry said Thursday.

. India's overall spending on the health sector is "low" and the situation must be "corrected", Niti Aayog Member (Health) V K Paul said on Thursday.

. The Centre has rushed high-level teams to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipurwhere they will visit districts reporting a high number of Covid-19 cases and support the state's efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing and efficient clinical management of positive cases.

. Noting that it is natural to prioritise the Covid-19 vaccine distribution process, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said healthcare workers and people aged above 65 years will be given coronavirus vaccine on priority.

. Honouring the sacrifice of Covid-19 warriors, the Narendra Modi government on Thursday announced reserving five MBBS seats under the central pool for their children for the academic year 2020-21.

. Amid rising cases of Covid-19 in the national capital, authorities have allowed all coronavirus facilities of the city government here to engage MBBS students in fourth and fifth years, interns and others to assist doctors on duty at a fixed honorarium, as per an order issued by the health department.

. Amid a huge surge in Covid-19 cases in the national capital, the Delhi government on Thursday directed all district magistrates (DMs) to take steps to double the number of testing centres in their respective districts immediately.

. The African continent has surpassed 2 million confirmed cases as health officials warn of infections starting to creep up again into a second surge.

. Tech giant Microsoft on Thursday said it has partnered with startup incubator Social Alpha and launched a programme for healthtech startups to help them scale with advanced technology and joint go-to-market support.

. Russia has resumed the vaccination of new volunteers in its trial for its flagship Covid-19 Sputnik V vaccine after a short pause, staff at six of 29 trial clinics said, as Moscow moves to accelerate plans to inoculate the population.

. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced hiking fines for not using face masks from Rs 500 to Rs 2,000 and increasing the number of beds for Covid-19 patients at hospitals amid a massive Covid-19 surge here.

. Teams to visit the districts reporting high no. of Covid-19 cases & support the state efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing, infection prevention and control measures, and efficient clinical management of the positive cases: Health Ministry. -ANI

. Dr Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS Delhi to lead 3-member team to Haryana & Dr V K Paul, Member (Health), Niti Aayog is heading the Rajasthan team Dr S K Singh, Director (NCDC) to lead Gujarat team. Dr L Swasticharan, Addl DDG, DHGS to head the team to Manipur: Health Ministry - ANI

. High-level Central teams deputed to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur. With the surge in daily new cases & spike in daily fatalities in Delhi, the spillover effect is being observed in NCR regions in Haryana & Rajasthan where Covid-19 cases are rising: Health Ministry

. The Delhi government will increase the number of RT-PCR tests conducted daily from around 18,000 to 27,000 and the chief minister will meet market associations if any decision is taken on shutting down markets in view of a Covid-19 surge, AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj said on Thursday.

. Russia's Covid-19 case tally passed the 2 million mark on Thursday as the number of daily deaths and infections hit new highs.

. From helping in optimising the yield of therapeutics to training staff for setting up large-scale manufacturing sites, cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) can be used to fast track Covid-19 vaccinedevelopment worldwide.

. Health Ministry approves new category for selection and nomination of candidates from ‘Wards of COVID Warriors’ under Central Pool MBBS/BDS seats for the academic year 2020-21.

“This will honour the Solemn Sacrifice of all Covidwarriors who served selflessly for duty and humanity”, saidDrHarsh Vardhan

. Though the graph of Covid-19 cases has shown signs of decline, the Maharashtra government, anticipating a second wave of the infection, has asked authorities not to drop guard and take all necessary steps to deal with any situation.

Authorities were also askedto identify potential 'super-spreaders', like grocery shop owners, people providing door-to-door services, those working in the transport field, labourers, security guards deployed in housing societies, police and home guards.

. More than 2,000 cases were recorded nationwide on Wednesday, with nearly 500 in the capital Tokyo alone. While small compared to figures seen in some other countries, the numbers represent a sharp rise in cases for Japan, where testing is often lesswide-scale than in other parts of the world.

. With 45,576 new Covid-19infections, India's total cases rise to 89,58,484. With 585 new deaths, toll mounts to 1,31,578. Total active cases at 4,43,303 after a decrease of 3,502 in the last 24 hrs. Total discharged cases at 83,83,603 with 48,493 new discharges in last 24 hrs.

. USland borders with Canada and Mexico are expected to remain closed to non-essential travel until Dec. 21 at the earliest amid a rising number of US coronavirus cases

. Karnataka records 1,791 new coronaviruscases, 1,947 recoveries.Tally at 8.66 lakh, active cases 25,146; toll 11,578 with 21 more deaths.

. US and European regulators could approve Pfizer and BioNTech's experimental Covid-19 vaccine as early as mid-December, the German firm's chief executive said on Wednesday, following the release of positive trial results.

. Total cases in Mizoram stand at3,513, including 3,021 discharges and 5 deaths. Active cases stand at 487.

. Canada, which has reserved enough doses to vaccinate residents against Covid-19 several times over, is in talks with other governments about a plan to donate shots to lower-income countries.

. Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday it had offered to provide Brazil with millions of doses of a Covid-19 vaccine in the first half of 2021, amid evidence the coronavirus is spreading more rapidly in South America's largest country.

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