Here’s a look at the latest developments:
INDIA
- India’s Covid-19 case count surpassed 48 lakh with 92,071 new infections reported in one day, while more than 37.8 lakh people have recovered bringing the national recovery rate to 78% on Monday, data shows of the Ministry of Health of the Union.
- India surpassed Brazil on Monday to record the highest number of Covid-19 recoveries in the world at 37,80,107, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. According to the data, 19,625,959 people worldwide have recovered from coronavirus infection.
- Seventeen MPs, including Meenakshi Lekhi, Anant Kumar Hegde, and Parvesh Sahib Singh, tested positive for Covid-19 on Day 1 at the monsoon session.
- The National Green Court on Monday ordered the Central Pollution Control Board to finalize an appropriate Standard Operating Procedure for restaurants and restaurants along highways within two months.
- The husband of former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar, Deepak Kochhar, who was recently brought to Delhi from Mumbai by a team from the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in a money laundering case, tested positive for Covid-19.
- To a great relief for many Indian expats, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to India has ensured that permission will be given to companies to bring their most essential employees from India via special flights.
- More than 60 percent of active coronavirus cases are concentrated in the five states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, the Health Ministry said on Monday, underscoring that the recovery rate in the country had reached 78 percent. .
- Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan told the Lok Sabha that the national shutdown had helped prevent up to 29 lakh of coronavirus cases and 78,000 deaths in the country.
- Due to nationwide efforts, Covid-19-related deaths have been capped at 55 per million inhabitants, Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan said on Monday.
- The executive director of the Serum Institute says there won’t be enough Covid vaccine for everyone until 2024.
- US President Donald Trump has claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised him for doing a great job testing for coronavirus, while continuing to criticize his Democratic opponent Joe Biden for being a complete disaster in handling the swine flu during the previous administration.
- The government is considering the emergency authorization of the Covid-19 vaccine so that it can be made available as soon as possible to those in high-risk groups, including the elderly and healthcare workers, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said. “This will be done after a consensus is reached,” Vardhan said during a social media interaction called ‘Sunday Samvaad’.
STATES / UT
HIMACHAL PRADESH: As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread in Himachal Pradesh, the state government has made poor arrangements at Covid care centers affecting patients, Congressional Leader Sudhir Sharma said on Monday.
UTTARAKHAND: All incoming people to Uttarakhand who receive exemption from institutional and home quarantine by submitting the Covid-19 test result from the ICMR authorized laboratory, no earlier than 96 hours from the time of travel can choose to take the test at a border checkpoint in payment. , reports ANI, citing the Secretary-Head of State
DELHI: Amid a surge in Covid-19 cases, Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday that the coronavirus death rate in the national capital is perhaps the lowest in the world and that concern should be the number of deaths due to the virus and not the number of cases.
HARYANA: The government imposes a ban on the gathering of devotees during Amavasya on September 17 in pilgrimage sites such as Kurukshetra and Pehowa, due to the Covid-19 pandemic: Department of Information and Public Relations, Haryana
UTTAR PRADESH: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh contracted coronavirus and underwent treatment at Lucknow’s SGPGI hospital, his grandson and state minister Sandeep Singh said on Monday.
RAJASTHAN: The Rajasthan government may introduce an online transfer system for all departments in light of the coronavirus pandemic, said the state’s Education Minister Govind Singh Dotasra. Dotasra, who is also the head of the state Congress, said the system is already in place for the Department of Education.
GUJARAT: All traders in the town of Sabarkantha in Khedbrahma and the main Rajkot grain market in Gujarat have decided to enforce a strict one-week lockdown in the wake of a spike in Covid-19 cases, authorities said.
CHHATTISGARH: All traders in the town of Sabarkantha in Khedbrahma and the main Rajkot grain market in Gujarat have decided to enforce a strict one-week lockdown in the wake of a spike in Covid-19 cases, authorities said Monday.
PUDUCHERRY: Puducherry recorded 414 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, pushing the overall count past the 20,000 mark, while nine people, including four women, succumbed to the virus.
ARUNACHAL PRADESH: The number of Covid-19 cases in Arunachal Pradesh surpassed the 6,000 mark with 146 new cases reported in the northeastern state, a senior health department official said on Monday. With the new cases, the total virus count in the state rose to 6,121, the official said.
MIZORAM: Amid the shortage of health facilities for treating patients with the novel coronavirus in Mizoram, two local churches in the majority Christian state have offered their hallways to the state government for use as COVID-19 Care Centers.
TRIPURA: At least 255 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Tripura on Monday, bringing the count in the state to 19,187. The death toll has risen to 200 with six more dead.
ODISHA: Odisha School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash said on Monday that he and his wife had tested positive for the coronavirus. Dash is the seventh state minister to have tested positive for corona. More than 30 lawmakers, including three MPs, also tested positive in the state.
GO TO: Goa BJP MLAs Antonio aka Tony Fernandes and Dayanand Sopte tested positive for novel coronavirus infection
TELANGANA: A member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly belonging to All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen tested positive for Covid-19. Jaffar Hussain Meraj, who represents the Nampally constituency in Hyderabad, was infected with the virus.
ANDHRA PRADESH: The Andhra Pradesh Congressional Committee will organize a round table with all political parties, popular organizations and representatives of the medical fraternity on Tuesday to discuss measures to curb the spread of Covid-19.
KERALA: As many as 2,540 new coronavirus cases were reported in Kerala on Monday, even as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan ruled out reopening educational institutions in September or October.
WORLD
- In a surprising revelation, a Chinese virologist claimed that the coronavirus was created in a government-controlled laboratory in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the outbreak, and offered scientific evidence to back up his claims. In an exclusive conversation with ‘Loose Women’, a British talk show, Dr Li-Meng Yan, the scientist said she was assigned to investigate a “new pneumonia” in Wuhan. She said that she discovered a cover-up operation regarding the coronavirus during her investigation.
- British scientists are starting a small study comparing how two experimental coronavirus vaccines might work when people inhale them instead of injecting themselves. In a statement Monday, researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Oxford said a trial involving 30 people would test vaccines developed by both institutions when participants inhaled the droplets into their mouths, which would directly target their respiratory systems.
- The World Health Organization reported 307,930 new cases worldwide on Sunday, the highest daily figure since the start of the pandemic in China late last year, as global cases rapidly approach 29 million. “It’s going to get more difficult. In October, November, we are there will be more mortality,” said WHO director for Europe, Hans Kluge. But he stressed that the pandemic “was going to end, at one point or another.”
- Computer-engineered synthetic antiviral proteins have been shown to protect laboratory-grown human cells from SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, scientists say.
- The new so-called “rule of six” took effect in England from Monday, giving police the power to enforce the rules against gatherings of more than six members with a fine of 100 pounds.
- A global development agency said the world’s top 20 industrialized nations have seen their economies contract in unprecedented ways between April and June amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was released from the hospital after a 10-day stay with COVID-19 and pneumonia, saying that he had never feared so much for his life as for this “insidious” disease.
- Pakistan’s prime minister and education officials say all arrangements have been made to ensure that all children can safely go to school.
- New Zealand will keep its virus restrictions in place for at least another week as the country continues to fight a small outbreak that started in Auckland last month.
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