Coronavirus LIVE Updates: As India created a world record yesterday with the highest single-day increase of nearly 79,000 Covid-19 cases, in a breath, the country also recorded the last 5 lakh recoveries in just eight days compared with previous 5 lakh recoveries. that were recorded in 10 and 9 days. India set a record yesterday when it reported 78,761 new infections in 24 hours, the world’s highest increase in a single day, even as it continued to open up the economy. India, home to 1.3 billion people, is already the third most infected nation in the world with more than 3.5 million cases, behind the United States and Brazil. It has also reported more than 63,000 deaths, according to the official number from the Health Ministry. The United States set the previous record on July 17 with 77,638 daily infections, according to an AFP tally. In his regular monthly radio address on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not comment on the milestone, but asked Indians to observe health security measures. “It is important that all citizens are healthy and happy and we defeat the coronavirus completely together,” Prime Minister Modi said. “Corona (virus) can only be defeated when you are safe, when you meet the determination to maintain a safe distance of two meters and wear masks.”
Experts warn that while the increase in testing in recent months was encouraging, more needed to be done to capture the scale of the pandemic in the world’s second most populous nation. The virus has severely affected megacities such as the financial center Mumbai and the capital New Delhi, but is now increasing in smaller cities and rural areas as well. “Tests per million in India at 30,000 are still the second lowest among the 10 countries (infected by viruses). Mexico is the lowest with about 10,000,” virologist Shahid Jameel, who heads Wellcome Trust / DBT, told AFP. India Alliance. “We are still finding one positive in every 11 to 12 tests. This number should be just one in 20 and it means that the tests are still suboptimal and the outbreak is growing.” Dr Hemant Shewade, a Bangalore-based community medicine expert, added that India also needed to focus on reducing deaths, the fourth highest in the world according to a tally by John Hopkins University.
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The death toll from Covid-19 in Gujarat exceeds 3,000, cases exceed 95,000 | Gujarat’s death toll from the coronavirus surpassed the 3,000 mark with 17 more deaths on Sunday to reach 3,008, while the state recorded 1,272 more cases to bring its tally to 95,155. During August so far, the state has seen 33,722 cases, with a daily average of more than 1,100. Meanwhile, 1,095 patients were discharged on Sunday, bringing the total cured to 76,757. Read the full story here.
3,308 Covid-19 Patients Recover in Bengal; Download rate approaches 82% | The discharge rate of COVID-19 patients in West Bengal rose to 81.9 percent after 3,308 patients recovered from the disease on Sunday, the health department said. A total of 1,30,952 people have been cured of COVID-19 so far in the state. West Bengal reported 3,019 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, bringing the count to 1,59,785, while the death toll rose to 3,176 with 50 more deaths, the department said in a bulletin.
More than 1,800 new cases in Telangana | 1,873 new Covid-19 cases, 1,849 recovered cases, and nine deaths reported in Telangana on August 30, bringing the total number of positive cases to 1,24,963, including 31,299 active cases, 92,837 recovered cases, and 827 deaths so far in the state: State Department of Health.
Amit Shah Discharged from AIIMS | Interior Minister Amit Shah was discharged from AIIMS, where he was admitted for post-Covid care after fully recovering from the virus.
India 36L Tally Tops | India’s Covid-19 case count crosses the 36 lakh mark with a peak of 78,512 new cases and 971 deaths in the past 24 hours. The COVID-19 case count in the country is 36,21,246 including 7,81,975 active cases, 27,74,802 cured / discharged / migrated and 64,469 deaths: Ministry of Health.
Lockdown in containment zones in Raj until September 30 | The closure will remain in place in the containment zones in Rajasthan until September 30. Under relaxed rules, open-air theaters will open on September 21. Interstate and intrastate travel of individuals and movement of goods allowed: Government of Rajasthan.
Trial update | The total number of samples tested as of Aug 30 is 4,23,07,914, including 8,46,278 samples tested yesterday: Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR).
Images of Em Bypass, Park Circus crossing and Deshapriya Park in Kolkata
Kolkata: The streets look deserted as today a complete blockade is observed in West Bengal in the middle of # COVID-19 pandemic.
Images of Em Bypass, Park Circus crossing and Deshapriya Park in Kolkata pic.twitter.com/qlcoh4XxPx– ANI (@ANI) August 31, 2020
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Mainland China does not report any new cases of local transmission | No new cases of Covid-19 transmitted locally were reported in mainland China. Seventeen confirmed cases arriving from outside the continent were reported on Sunday. Of the imported cases, six were reported in Shanghai, five in Tianjin, two in Fujian and one in Shanxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Shaanxi, the commission said.
7 deaths, 1,980 new cases in Assam | Seven more Covid-19 patients died in Assam, bringing the total deaths to 296, while 1,980 new positive cases brought the state count to 1.05,774, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The death rate in the state is currently .28 percent, which is among the lowest in the country, the minister said. New cases were detected out of 34,102 tests performed during the last 24 hours, and the positivity rate is 5.84 percent.
No remote learning for a third of schoolchildren: UNICEF | At least a third of the world’s school-age children were unable to access remote learning during Covid-19-related school closure days, says the UNICEF report, which used a globally representative analysis of the availability of technology and tools. home-based skills needed for remote learning among children in primary, primary, lower secondary, and upper secondary.
5L recoveries in 8 days: Government | The latest recoveries of 5 lakh have been recorded in just 8 days compared to previous recoveries of 5 lakh that were recorded in 10 and 9 days, the government says.
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