India's COVID tally has crossed the 58-lakh mark with a spike of 86,052 new cases. 1,141 deaths on Friday.
The total case tally stands at 58,18,571 including 9,70,116 active cases, 47,56,165 cured/discharged/migrated & 92,290 deaths, Health Ministry's last update informed.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has hit its peak in the national capital with experts hinting that the cases of infection will decline in the coming days.
He said the government was "keeping its fingers crossed" and hoped that COVID-19 cases will "gradually" come down due to the steps taken by the AAP dispensation.
The COVID-19 death toll in Himachal Pradesh rose to 153 on Friday with seven more fatalities, while 293 fresh cases took the infection tally in the state to 13,680, according to health department data.
Three more people died due to COVID-19 in Bihar, raising the death toll in the state to 881, while 1,632 fresh cases pushed the tally to 1,75,897, a health department bulletin said on Friday.
With the addition of 1,468 fresh infections on Friday, the COVID-19 caseload in Maharashtra's Nashik district has risen to 70,297, an official said. Apart from this, 26 patients died of the infection in the district, taking the toll to 1,275, the official said.
Madhya Pradesh on Friday reported 2,227 new coronavirus cases, pushing its case count to 1,17,588, the health departmentsaid. The death toll in the state due to the pandemic went up to 2,152 with 30 fatalities in the past 24 hours, it said in a statement in the evening.
As many as 971 persons tested for coronavirus, while 41 died of the infection in Maharashtra's Nagpur district on Friday, an official said. The latest cases have taken the tally in the district to 72,899, the official said.
Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded one more COVID-19 fatality on Friday that pushed the district's death toll to 51, official data showed. Another 242 people tested positive for coronavirus that took the district's case tally to 12,253, according to the data released by the UP Health Department for a 24-hour period.
One more person died from coronavirus in Chandigarh on Friday as 244 new cases surfaced, pushing the infection count to 11,212 in the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana. So far, 145 people have succumbed to the disease in the union territory, a medical bulletin said.
With 1,876 people testing positive for COVID-19 on Friday, Mumbai's infection count reached 1,94,177, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. The death toll due to the virus in the country's financial capital rose to 8,703 with 48 new fatalities, it said.
Coronavirus cases in Ahmedabad district rose to 35,853 with 182 new cases being reported on Friday, the Gujarat health department said. The district reported three fatalities, raising the COVID-19 death toll to 1,813, it added.
Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said stringent action will be taken against hospitals overcharging COVID-19 patients. At a review meeting here, Pawar, who is guardian minister of Pune, asked local officials to implement the state government's 'my family, my responsibility' anti-COVID-19 drive efficiently.
Eighty-four more people, including six police personnel and four jail inmates, contracted coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar on Friday, an official said. According to District Magistrate Selva Kumari J, results of 966 sample were received, of which 84 were found positive.
Amid rising cases of the coronavirus in Rajasthan, the state government on Friday asked private hospitals located at six district headquarters to reserve 30 per cent beds for COVID-19 patients. Principal Secretary for Health Akhil Arora issued an order to this effect on Friday.
Punjab reported 68 more deaths due to COVID-19 on Friday, pushing the death toll to 3,134, while 1,930 fresh cases took the infection tally to 1,07,096. Eleven deaths were reported from Amritsar, eight from Hoshiarpur, seven from Ludhiana, six each from Bathinda and Jalandhar and five from Fazilka, as per a medical bulletin.
The families of two doctors and a healthcare worker from Jammu and Kashmir, who died due to COVID-19 contracted while on duty, have been provided assistance under a central government scheme to grant an insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh, officials said on Friday.
Surat reported 300 new coronavirus positive cases on Friday, taking the district's overall tally to 26,715, Gujarat health department said. This is the biggest one-day growth registered on Friday in terms of the number of cases for any district in the state.
Rajasthan reported its highest single-day spike of 2,010 coronavirus cases on Friday while the state's death toll due to the infection rose to 1,412 with 15 more fatalities, according to a health department bulletin. The total number of people infected with COVID-19 rose 1,24,730 in Rajasthan.
At least 38 more persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagaland on Friday, taking the tally in the state to 5,768, Health and Family Welfare Additional Director Dr Denis Hangsing said.
Gujarat recorded its highest single-day spike of 1,442 coronavirus cases on Friday, raising the case tally to 1,30,391, the state health department said. With 12 fatalities, the COVID-19 death toll in the state increased to 3,396, it added.
As many as 928 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Uttarakhand on Friday, taking the state's caseload to 45,332, while 13 more people died of the disease across the state.
Amravati in Maharashtra reported 217 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, but the silver lining was 313 people getting discharged during the day, an official said. The district's tally now is 12,233 while three deaths took the toll to 262, he added.
A total of 1930, COVID-19 positive cases were reported today in Punjab, taking the state’s total tally to 1,07,096 cases, while 84,025 discharged/recovered and 3134 have died till date#Pb @Newindianxpress, @SundayStandard, @TheMornStandard
— Harpreet Singh Bajwa (@Harpreet_TNIE) September 25, 2020
Delhi recorded 3,827 fresh coronavirus cases on Friday, taking its caseload to over 2.64 lakh, while 24 fatalities pushed the death toll to 5,147, authorities said. The city's infection tally stands at 2,64,450, while there are 30,867 active cases.
8655 new #COVID19 cases & 86 deaths reported in Karnataka till Thursday midnight. 4080 cases from Bengaluru alone. pic.twitter.com/wGrv1jmMtP
— Anusha Ravi Sood (@anusharavi10) September 25, 2020
Goa reported 519 COVID-19 cases and three deaths from the infection on Friday, taking the coastal state's count to 31,071 and toll to 386, while 724 people were discharged from hospitals during the day, an official said. The number of people who have recovered now stands at 25,071, leaving the state with 5,614 active cases, he added.
#Odisha records highest single day recovery with the discharge of 4388 #COVID19 patients
— Hemant Kumar Rout (@TheHemantRout) September 25, 2020
Total cases: 2,01,096
Recovered: 1,65,432
Death: 820
Active: 34,844
Khurda 744
Cuttack 496
Puri 183
Nuapada 179
Bargarh 174
Jharsuguda 167
Jajpur 159@XpressOdisha @NewIndianXpress
Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally rose to 13,00,757 on Friday with the single-day addition of 17,794 cases, the state health department said. Due to the death of 416 patients during the day, the fatality count in the state mounted to 34,761, it said. (READ MORE)
Meghalaya on Friday recorded the highest single-day recovery of 285 COVID-19 patients, taking the total number of people cured of the disease to 3,343, a senior health department official said. Meanwhile, 80 new cases pushed the state's COVID-19 tally to 5,158, Health Services director Aman War said.
Odisha Sports and Youth Services Minister Tusharkanti Behera said on Friday that he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and urged all those who came in contact with him to get tested. Behera said that he has some symptoms and is in home isolation. (READ MORE)
As many as 1,218 fresh COVID-19 cases took Jammu and Kashmir's infection tally to 69,832 on Friday, while 21 more fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,105, officials said. The union territory has reported more than 1,000 fresh cases for 23 consecutive days now.
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Friday said the state government will issue circular within 24 hours to all doctors and COVID-19 hospitals for rational use of remdesivir injections in the treatment of coronavirus infection. (READ MORE)
As part of the 'unlock' phase, the Telangana government on Friday permitted reopening bars, clubs and tourism bars with immediate effect and prescribed conditions to be followed which include provision of thermal screening at entrance of bar and hand sanitizers.
Uttar Pradesh reported 4,519 fresh coronavirus cases on Friday, taking the infection tally to 3,78,533, while 84 more deaths pushed the toll to 5,450, officials said. Lucknow, the state capital, reported the maximum number of fresh cases and deaths.
Plasma therapy has been administered to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia who is suffering from dengue and COVID-19 at Max hospital, Saket. He was shifted from Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Hospital to Max hospital yesterday, said the Office of Deputy CM
5,679 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu on Friday taking the state tally to 5,69,370.
#COVIDUpdates in #AndhraPradesh (#September 25)
— TNIE Andhra Pradesh (@xpressandhra) September 25, 2020
In last 24 hrs till #Friday 9 am:#Tests - 69,429#Positive - 7,073#Discharged - 8,695#Deaths - 48
Overall
Tests - 54,47,796
Positive - 6,61,458
Active - 67,683
Recovered - 5,88,169
Toll - 5,606@NewIndianXpress #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/uOj7CBzLkM
Kerala on Friday recorded 6477 fresh cases and 22 deaths. The state now has 48, 892 active patients.
Tamil Nadu: Mortal remains of singer SP Balasubrahmanyam brought to his residence in Chennai.
— ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2020
SP Balasubrahmanyam passed away at a hospital in the city, earlier today. pic.twitter.com/z7gKvv5k0w
281 police personnel tested positive for COVID-19 and 4 died in the last 24 hours, taking total cases to 22,269 in the force including 18,711 recoveries, 3,319 active cases and 239 deaths: Maharashtra Police
I have tested COVID positive today. Hence I request all my friends and associates who came in contact with me in last 7 days to test & isolate themselves.#StaySafe
— Tusharkanti Behera (@btushar02) September 25, 2020
The Delhi government has asked all districts to retest all symptomatic patients, who have tested negative for COVID-19 on rapid antigen test, using the more reliable RT-PCR method, after it found the process was not followed in over 1,400 cases.
The Ministry of AYUSH has approved a proposal for carrying out a clinical study to assess the role of Vasa and Guduchi in therapeutic management of symptoms in COVID-19 positive patients.
A record 14,92,409 tests have been conducted for detection of COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, taking the total tests done so far in the country to nearly 7 crore, while the national cumulative positivity rate stands at 8.44 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. (READ MORE)
Thirty-six more COVID-19 cases were reported in Ladakh on Thursday, taking the total number of active cases to 1,022, according to the Department of Health here. The recovery rate stands at 73 per cent with 2,893 cured patients so far.
COVID-19 patients who're quarantined will be able to cast their vote at the last hour of the day of poll, at their respective polling stations, under the supervision of health authorities. This is beside the option of postal facility already extended to them: CEC. (READ MORE)
Actor Arjun Rampal, who is in home quarantine after his co-actors from "Nail Polish" tested positive for COVID-19, on Friday said that the result of his test has come out negative. (READ MORE)
??#RIPSPB | Nation mourns the loss of legendary playback singer SP Balasubrahmanyam, who was hospitalised for nearly two months at a hospital in Chennai, after testing positive for #COVID19. For more details ????@xpresstn @gsvasu_TNIE @indulgexpress https://t.co/rSavpSYTo2
— The New Indian Express (@NewIndianXpress) September 25, 2020
Singer SP Balasubrahmanyam passed away at 1.04 pm, confirms son Saran. The singer was admitted to a private hospital in Chennai on August 5 after testing positive for coronavirus.
Odisha's COVID-19 tally crosses 2 lakh-mark with 4,208 new cases; 15 fresh fatalities push death toll to 767: Health official
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) September 25, 2020
West Bengal Transport Minister Suvendu Adhikari has tested positive for COVID-19 and is under home isolation, a health official said on Friday.
The minister's mother has also contracted the disease, he said.
The 49-year-old legislator from Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district has isolated himself at a guest house in his constituency, while his mother has been admitted to a Kolkata-based hospital, the official sai
The UK has become the first country in the world to announce that it will host human challenge studies, in which participants are deliberately injected with a pathogen to assess if a certain vaccine works, for Covid-19 vaccines. This is a proposition that India has considered but chosen not to follow, said senior officials in Union Health Ministry and the ICMR. (READ FULL REPORT HERE)
#COVID19 caseload of Andaman and Nicobar Islands climbs to 3,744 with 32 more people testing positive; number of active cases now 189: Health official
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) September 25, 2020
After a health bulletin issued by MGM Healthcare hospital said playback legend #SPBalasubramaniam's health is "extremely critical," media personnel have gathered outside the hospital. #COVID19
— The New Indian Express (@NewIndianXpress) September 25, 2020
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India's #COVID19 case tally crosses 58-lakh mark with a spike of 86,052 new cases & 1,141 deaths in last 24 hours.
— ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2020
The total case tally stands at 58,18,571 including 9,70,116 active cases, 47,56,165 cured/discharged/migrated & 92,290 deaths: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare pic.twitter.com/MQbENGXCxF
India's #COVID19 case tally crosses 58-lakh mark with a spike of 86,052 new cases & 1,141 deaths in last 24 hours.
— ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2020
The total case tally stands at 58,18,571 including 9,70,116 active cases, 47,56,165 cured/discharged/migrated & 92,290 deaths: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare pic.twitter.com/MQbENGXCxF
he Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday announced that phase-3 trial of the coronavirus vaccine 'COVAXIN' will start in Lucknow and Gorakhpur from October.
"The phase-3 trial of COVAXIN being developed by Bharat Biotech will start in Lucknow and Gorakhpur from October," said Uttar Pradesh Principal Health Secretary Amit Mohan Prasad here in a press conference.
India climbs another historic peak of more than 13 lakh tests. More than 13.80 lakh tests done in the last 24 hours: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/yMwU0bPMtN
— ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2020
Mizoram reported 26 new #COVID19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total cases in the state to 1786, including 1105 discharges. Active cases stand at 681: Department of Information and Public Relations, Government of Mizoram pic.twitter.com/t5vByLp9sC
— ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2020
A health bulletin issued by the MGM Healthcare Hospital, where he had been admitted for treatment since August 5, said Balasubrahmanyam remains on ECMO and other life support measures.(READ FULL REPORT HERE)
Andhra Pradesh achieved a landmark as its number of tests conducted per million population crossed the 1 lakh-mark on Thursday. AP is followed by Tamil Nadu with more than 87,000 tests per million population. Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territories) have already achieved the feat.(READ FULL REPORT HERE)
Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) buses in Hyderabad that were off roads for last six months, along with inter-state services to Karnataka and Maharashtra, will resume services from Friday. Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar announced on Thursday that 25 per cent of the total 2,800 buses at 29 depots in Greater Hyderabad limits will resume operations.
