Coronavirus news highlights: India's Covid-19 tally crosses 70 lakh-mark, death toll at 1,08,299

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. Assam's Covid-19 tally rose to 1,93,387 on Saturday as 971 more people tested positive for the infection, while nine fresh fatalities pushed the state'scoronavirusdeath toll to 811, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

. The recovery rate of Covid patients rose to 93.87 per cent in Bihar on Saturday, while 1140 fresh cases took the tally of positive cases to 1,94,965 in the state, health department bulletin said. Bihar reported 10 fresh COVID casualties in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 944, the bulletin said.

. Air India would resume direct flights on the Mumbai-Mangaluru-Mumbai sector from October 12, the airline said. Months after the suspension of the service due to the pandemic, the airline is to operate flights four days a week on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

. With Durga Puja less than two weeks away, idol makers of Kolkata’s iconic Kumartuli (potters’ neighbourhood) are clueless as to how they will survive the major loss that they have suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

. Popular TV actor Urvashii Dholakia on Saturday revealed that she had contracted coronavirus a few days ago but has now recovered.

. Highest single-day spike of 3,591 Covid-19 cases take tally in West Bengal to 2,91,194; toll mounts to 5,563 with 62 more deaths: Health Department

. Karnataka reports 10,517 new Covid-19 cases, 8,337 discharges and 102 deaths today, taking total cases to 7,00,786 including 5,69,947 discharges and 9,891 deaths. Number of active cases stands at 1,20,929: State Health Department

. Uttarakhand reports 462 new Covid-19 cases today, taking total cases to 54,525 including 7,321 active cases, 46,186 recoveries and 734 deaths: State Health Department

. Manipur records 282 new Covid-19cases and 2 deaths today. The total number of cases in the State rises to 13,092 including 10,306 recoveries, 2,698 active cases and 88 deaths: State Health Department

. 96 new positive cases and 2 deaths reported in Chandigarhtoday. The total number of positive cases now stands at 13,081 including 1,229 active cases, 11,662 recoveries, and 190 deaths: UT Administration

. 890 new Covid-19 cases and 25 deaths reported in Punjab today, taking the total number of cases to 1,23,317 including 9,752 active cases and 3,798 deaths: State Government

. Delhi reports 2,866 new Covid-19 cases and 48 deaths over the last 24 hours. Total positive cases stand at 3,06,559 out of which 22,007 are active patients. 2,78,812 patients discharged so far: Delhi Government

. Kerala reports 11,755 new Covid-19positive cases and 23 deaths in the last 24 hours. Total active cases in the state rise to 95,918 including 7,570 recoveries and 978 deaths: State Government

. 5,653 new Covid-19 cases reported in Andhra Pradesh in the last 24 hours. The total number of cases in the State is now at 7,50,517 including 46,624 active cases, 6,97,699 recoveries and 6,194 deaths so far: State Government

. Tamil Nadu reports 5,242 new Covid-19 cases, 5,222 recoveries & 67 deaths today, taking total positive cases to 6,51,370, including 5,97,033 discharged cases, 10,187 deaths & 44,150 active cases: State Health Department

. Jammu and Kashmir record 635 new Covid-19 cases and 7 deaths in the last 24 hours. Total positive cases in the UT rise to 83,064 including 10,796 active cases, 70,955 recoveries and 1,313 deaths: Government of Jammu and Kashmir

. Puducherry records 337 new Covid-19 cases, 1 death and 411 discharges today. Total cases in the Union Territory rise to 31,233, including 559 deaths and 25,955 recoveries: Government of Puducherry

. The Gujarat government has issued SOPs related to the election campaign for the November 3 bypolls to eight Assembly seats, restricting the number of people who can attend a poll-related event in a closed space to 200 or 50 per cent of the venue's capacity.

. New cases of Covid-19 in the United States hit a two-month high on Friday with over 58,000 infections of the new coronavirus reported and hospitalizations in the Midwest at record levels for a fifth day in a row, according to a Reuters analysis.

. Russia's coronavirus cases rose by 12,846 on Saturday, a new daily record since the start of the outbreak early this year, pushing the overall total number of infections to 1,285,084.

. Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong on Wednesday said that the Meghalaya government has decided that Covid-19 tests will be charged from October 16 as the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has withdrawn subsidy on testing kits.

. At least 171 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Tripura on Saturday, pushing the tally in the state to 28,153 a health department official said.

. Indonesia on Saturday reported 4,294 new coronavirus infections to bring the total tally of 328,952, data from the country's Covid-19 task force showed.

. A 46-year-old Covid-19 patient allegedly jumped to death from the second floor of a government-run hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district, an official said on Saturday.

. The experimental antibody cocktail which US President Donald Trump received when he tested positive for Covid-19 offers benefits against the novel coronavirus infection, according to a new study in animal models which provides more evidence of the clinical potential of the therapeutic.

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. A case was filed against BJD MLA Umakanta Samantray after he attended the funeral of party leader Pradeep Maharathy despite testing positive for COVID- 19, police said on Saturday.

. The Union Territory of Ladakh reported 85 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the virus caseload to 4,987, an official bulletin said on Saturday.

. Mizoram has reported five new Covid-19 cases, pushing the state's coronavirus caseload to 2,162, an official said on Saturday.

. However, as businesses reopened, the country is witnessing an increase in the positivity rate, prompting the government to raise an alarm. Positivity rate is the percentage of positive results out of the total number of tests sampled.

. Though Kerala is witnessing a spike in Covid-19 cases of late, there is a silver lining as the mortality rate was only 0.36 per cent, Health Minister K K Shailaja said as she praised the tireless efforts of Health workers and urged people not to overwhelm the healthcare system by their negligence.

. At least 279 more people, including eight security personnel and two health care workers, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the tally to 11,760, a health department official said here on Saturday.

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. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands reported 24 newCovid-19cases on Saturday, pushing thecoronaviruscaseload in the Union territory to 3,976, an official said.

. Australia recorded nocoronavirusdeaths for a third straight day on Saturday, but its hotspot city of Melbourne faced a prolonged lockdown as new infections stayed stubbornly above the target for re-opening.

. The most common gap in data comes in the form of incomplete addresses. “This happens either due to carelessness or because the swab collectors don’t insist on a full address,” says Nandan (name changed), a swab collector.

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