Coronavirus news highlights: India's Covid-19 tally crosses 62-lakh-mark, death toll breaches 96,000

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. Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa's political Secretary and MLA M P Renukacharya on Tuesday said he has tested positive for Covid-19.

. All the parties were of the opinion that further total shutdown would cause severe inconvenience to the people. However, social distancing norms and restrictions on gatherings would be strictly enforced, and strict restrictions will be imposed at areas were the spread of Covid-19 was severe, said the Chief Minister.

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. The state's death toll reached 680 with 13 more fatalities, while the total number of cases rose to 1,77,221, he said.

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. The 71-year-old Vice President underwent a routine Covid-19 test in the morning and test results showed he had contracted the virus.

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. Women buy imitation jewelry from a roadside stall for the upcoming Durga Puja festival, in Kolkata. Credit: PTI Photo

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. The minister's statement comes as the reports emerged that he was seeking the opinion of other ministers and MLAs about reopening schools, which are not conducting regular classes due to coronavirus scare since the lockdown was clamped in the state. Most of the schools barring the state-run are holding online classes through video conferences. A section of private school teachers have appealed to the government to resume classes as they were rendered jobless after the closure of schools.

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. Female workforce participation increased from 30 per cent in April to 37 per cent at the end of July and hiring has picked up by 25 percentage points by the end of July as compared to June, the report said.

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. Commuters line up to board a special train at Egmore railway station after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 in Chennai. Credit: AFP Photo

. People wearing protective face masks wait in line to get tested for thecoronavirusdiseasein New Delhi,India. Credit: Reuters Photo

. A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) checks the temperature of a woman sitting outside her house in an alley during a door-to-doorsurveyfor the coronavirus disease, in Jakhan village in the western state of Gujarat,India, September 22, 2020. Credit: Reuters Photo

. As much as 73 per cent of the new recovered cases were reported from 10 states and Union Territories -- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Odisha, Kerala, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh.

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. Russia plans to share preliminary results of its Covid-19 vaccine trial based on the first six weeks of monitoring participants, raising the tempo in an already frenzied global race to end the pandemic.

. At least 351 servitors and 53 employees of Shree Jagannath Temple here have tested positive for Covid-19, an official said.

. Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said Tuesday that there was "no way" the country's second nationwidecoronaviruslockdown would be lifted after three weeks as originally planned.

. More accurate than a rapid antigen test and almost as quick, India’s CRISPR ‘Feluda’ Covid-19 test that changes colour on detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus could be a cheaper, faster and simpler alternative to an RT-PCR diagnosis, say scientists.

. "Things are getting back to normal, even though it will never be like it was before," says a relieved Petunia Maseko, relaxing in a bar in South Africa's Soweto township.

. Serum Institute of India (SII) to produce up to an additional 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses for India and low and middle-income countries in 2021. The announcement takes forward the collaboration between SII, Gavi, Vaccine Alliance and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: SII.

. Global deaths from Covid-19 have reached 1 million, but experts are still struggling to figure out a crucial metric in the pandemic: the fatality rate - the percentage of people infected with the pathogen who die.

. Coronavirus tests that deliver results in 15-30 minutes are to be rolled out across the United States and in scores of poorer countries, as health authorities worldwide try to get a handle on a disease that has now killed more than a million people.

. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the loss of 1 million people to the coronavirus is an “agonising milestone" that has been made worse by the “savageness of this disease".

. Carrying bricks and cement by day and jerry cans of water when their shifts get over, the workday continues without end for thousands of pregnant labourers forced to live life on the precipice with little time to spare on thoughts of what the future holds – for themselves or their unborn child.

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. A recent clinical trial provides evidence that 3D-printed alternative nasal swabs work as well, and safely, for Covid-19 diagnostic testing as the commercial synthetic flocked nasal swabs.

. The world officially recorded 1 million deaths from Covid-19 in one of the most sobering milestones of the pandemic, but the real tally might be almost double that.

. Africa's overburdened public health systems, dearth of testing facilities and overcrowded slums had experts predicting a disaster when Covid-19 hit the continent in February.

. The surge in Covid-19 cases continued in Telangana with 2,072 new cases being reported which pushed the total infection count to 1.89 lakh. The toll rose to 1,116 with nine more fatalities.

. The unemployment rate in New York City is 16%, twice as high as the rest of the country. Personal income tax revenue is expected to drop by $2 billion this fiscal year. Only a third of hotel rooms are occupied, and apartment vacancies in Manhattan have hit a peak.

. Sitting in her tiny home, 83-year-old Moon Haeng-ja is struggling to master a new skill as the pandemic plays havoc with South Korea's harvest celebrations: making video calls.

. Daily Covid-19 cases in India dropped below 75,000 and deaths under 1,000 were reported after nearly a month, while total recoveries crossed the 51 lakh-mark, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated on Tuesday.

. The CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) here has launched a study in hospital environment to assess how long and far the coronavirus can stay in air from an infected person, in a bid to strengthen the safety of health workers.

. Air India's insistence on the mandatory security scanning of mortal remains before transporting it back to India has been causing distress, with community leaders ruing that the process at times is insensitive to their religious and cultural values.

. South Korea's daily coronavirus increase was the lowest in about 50 days Tuesday as new infections trend lower.

. US Democrats unveiled a $2.2 trillion relief bill Monday to help millions of Americans gutted by the coronavirus pandemic, trimming more than $1 trillion off their earlier version hoping to reach an agreement with Republicans after months of stagnation.

. Central Railway Mumbai Division will be installing flap-based gates for automatic entry into the station at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai ( non-suburban passenger entry) by using QR code tickets.

These flap based gates have QR code scanner and thermal scanning feature. Passengers will be required to place the QR code on the QR code scanner at the entry gate for validation of the ticket details. Access will be permitted only after validation of both ticket details and temperature screening.

. The isolation caused by the coronavirus, not only in facilities but also among seniors living alone in their homes, has intensified interest in these products and increased sales.

. US President Donald Trump on Monday announced the distribution of 150 million rapid coronavirus tests ordered from Abbott Laboratories that are able to deliver a result in 15 minutes in a similar format to a home pregnancy kit.

. Britain will launch training options for adults to learn new skills in an effort to boost productivity and help the country recover from the coronavirus crisis, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce on Tuesday.

. Mizoram reports 50 new Covid-19cases in the last 24 hours. The total cases in the state rise to 1,958, including 1,459 discharges. Active cases stand at 499.

. Monoclonal antibodies that stop the coronavirus from spreading in the body are among promising strategies for averting severe illness from Covid-19 before vaccines arrive, said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

. Doctors have reported a 30 per centsurge in heart attack cases in Bengaluru in the last two months, possibly related to factors like mental stress, economic difficulties, sedentary lifestyle, bad diet and other challenges imposed by the lockdown.

. Every morning in front of the Devaraj Urs public housing apartment blocks on the outskirts of Tumakuru, a swarm of children pours into the street.

. The total number of cases and deaths registered country-wise:

. Zolelwa Sifumba described the daily injection she got to treat tuberculosis as feeling like hot lava being pumped slowly into her body, leaving the young South African doctor with crippling joint pain and incessant nausea.

. The piece, titled The Journey of Humanity , will measure just under 2,000 square metres when it is completed and benefit UNICEF, UNESCO, Global Gift Foundation, and Dubai Cares in an example of creative fundraising during the Covid-19 pandemic.

. In 35 years of selling the village catch, Jennet Cleetus said business has never been so bad for her and other women who make ends meet by hawking seafood along the palm-fringed coast of Kerala in southern India.

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