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COVID-19 HIGHLIGHTS | India's coronavirus death toll crosses one lakh

The total cases include 9,42,217 active cases, 53,52,078 cured/discharged/migrated & 99,773 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare's latest update.
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India's Covid tally has reached 63,94,069 with a spike of 81,484 new cases & 1,095 deaths reported in last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry on Friday.

The total cases include 9,42,217 active cases, 53,52,078 cured/discharged/migrated & 99,773 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare's latest update.

The latest survey on prevalence of antibodies to COVID-19 among people in Delhi has shown a fall compared to the last exercise, with experts saying possible reasons could be immunity lasting for lesser time in people and "change in virulence" of the virus.

Virulence refers to the severity or harmfulness of a disease.

India's COVID-19 death toll crosses one lakh

India's COVID-19 death toll crossed one lakh on Friday night, while the caseload climbed to over 64 lakh and recoveries surged to 54,15,197, according to data from states and union territories. Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday 8 am showed a single-day spike of 81,484 infections, taking the country's COVID-19 tally of cases to 63,94,068, while the death toll climbed to 99,773, with the virus claiming 1,095 lives in a span of 24 hours.

Goa cases rise to 34,455, death toll stands at 442

Goa's COVID-19 caseload went up by 513 and death toll by two on Friday, while 479 people were discharged, an official said. The state now has 34,455 cases, including 442 deaths, and 29,004 people have recovered, he said.

214 cases, 4 deaths in Amravati, 186 discharged

Amravati in Maharashtra reported 214 new COVID-19 cases and four deaths from the infection on Friday, leaving the district with a caseload of 13,771 and toll of 296, an official said. He said 11,211 people had been discharged so far, including 186 during the day.

Assam reports 10 more COVID deaths, 1,416 new cases

The COVID-19 death toll of Assam rose to 721 with 10 patients succumbing to the disease, while 1,416 new cases took the tally to 1,83,812, Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Four deaths were reported from Sivasagar district, followed by two each from Kamrup Metropolitan and Lakhimpur and one each from Goalpara and Dibrugarh.

Odisha reports more recoveries than new COVID-19 cases for fifth consecutive day

Single-day recoveries outnumbered new COVID-19 cases in Odisha for the fifth consecutive day as 4,048 patients were cured of the disease and 3,600 people tested positive for the infection on Friday, a health department official said. The recovery rate in the coastal state currently stands at 85.77 per cent, he said.

Sikkim's COVID-19 tally crosses 3000-mark

Sikkim's COVID-19 tally crossed the 3000-mark as 42 more people tested positive for the virus in the last 24-hours, an official said on Friday.

The Himalayan state now has 3,011 COVID-19 cases of which 642 are active, while 2,328 people have recovered from the disease, state Information Education Communication (IEC) member Sonam Bhutia said.

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Five more COVID-19 deaths, 155 new cases in Chandigarh

Five more deaths due to COVID-19 were recorded in Chandigarh, raising the toll to 169 while 155 new cases pushed the infection tally to 12,212 in the Union Territory on Friday, according to a medical bulletin. There are 1,881 active COVID-19 cases in the city as of now.

Bengal reports 3,310 new COVID-19 cases, 53 more fatalities

At least 3,310 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in West Bengal on Friday, which raised the tally to 2,63,634, while 53 fatalities pushed the death toll in the state to 5,070, the health department said in its bulletin.

Altogether 2,944 people have recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, it said. The discharge rate currently stands at 87.89 per cent.

Delhi records 37 new COVID-19 deaths, taking toll to 5,438; tally 2.85 lakh

The national capital recorded 37 COVID-19 fatalities on Friday as the toll climbed to 5,438, while 2,920 fresh cases took the tally to over 2.85 lakh, authorities said. On September 29, 48 deaths were reported, the highest number of fatalities recorded in a day since July 16, when the city saw 58 fatalities.

Tripura reports 296 fresh COVID-19 cases, three more deaths

At least 296 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Tripura on Friday, pushing the tally in the state to 26,362 a health department official said. The death toll rose to 283 with three more patients succumbing to the infection, he said. West Tripura district, of which state capital Agartala is a part, accounted for 155 of the 283 COVID-19 deaths, the official said.

Maharashtra updates

Telangana doing better in battling COVID-19 now, recovery rate more: Governor

Telangana was now doing better in managing the COVID-19 pandemic compared to some other states and it is evident in the recovery rate and decline in positive cases in some districts, state Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan said on Friday.

IIT Delhi startups launch COVID-19 protection lotion, antiviral T-shirts

Two startups incubated at the IIT Delhi have together launched antiviral T-shirts and a COVID-19 protection lotion at affordable prices, according to officials. The products, which are part of an antiviral kit, were unveiled by institute Director V Ramgopal Rao on Friday.

Nagaland reports 74 new cases

  • Seventy-four more people, including 51 from the armed forces, tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagaland on Friday raising the state's tally to 6,318, a health department official said.

  • Of the 74 new cases, 28 each were reported from Dimapur and Tuensang, 14 from Kohima and four from Mokukchung.

    • Uttarakhand CM flags off mobile testing lab

  • Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat flagged off a mobile COVID-19 testing lab for Haridwar from his official residence on Friday.

  • 'MITR labs', the country's only ICMR-approved mobile lab is capable of conducting 200 tests per day, an official release here said.

  • Built inside a car, it will carry out both rapid antigen and Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests, the release said.

  • State BJP president Basidhar Bhagat, MLA Harbans Kapoor and Secretary (Health) Amit Negi were present at the launch.

    • 231 new cases in Meghalaya

  • At least 231 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Meghalaya on Friday, taking the state's tally to 6,033, while one more fatality pushed the death toll to 52, a senior health department official said.

  • Of the 231 new cases, 183 were reported in East Khasi Hills, East Jaintia Hills (13), 9 cases each in West Garo Hills and South West Garo Hills, Ri Bhoi (7), South Garo Hills (6), West Khasi Hills (3) and East Garo Hills district (1), Health Services Director Aman War said.

  • The number of COVID-19 active cases in the state has risen to 1,755, he said.

    • 34 new cases in Himachal Pradesh

    Rajasthan tally

    76.62% of active cases reported from 10 States and UTs

    As per the health ministry data, Maharashtra alone has contributed to about 2,59,490 new COVID-19 cases, while Andhra Pradesh has reported at least 57,858 cases. Karnataka has contributed to 1,10,431 cases, Uttar Pradesh has witnessed 50,378 cases, Tamil Nadu has reported 46,396 cases, Odisha is contributing to 31,795 cases, Kerala has seen 72,418 cases, while Assam has reported 34,163 cases. Telangana has reported 28,620 cases and Chhattisgarh has reported 30,468 cas

    Andhra Pradesh tally

    Delhi govt asks officials to draw intensive campaign

  • The Delhi government has directed its departments and various agencies to come up with an intensive action plan against COVID-19 in view of the upcoming festive season and winters.

  • The cabinet secretary of the central government had called a video conference meeting on Thursday regarding launching of the intensive and focused COVID-19 campaign by all state governments during the festive and winter season.

  • The cabinet secretary and secretaries of different ministries also highlighted key points which are to be covered in the campaign.

    • Tamil Nadu tally

    Keralatally

    Home isolation cases in Delhi up

  • After showing a gradual decline in the last week of September, the number of COVID-19 patients under home quarantine in Delhi has risen in October, according to official data.

  • The number of COVID-19 patients under home isolation was 19,213 on September 21 and 18,464 the next day.

  • The figure fell further to 17,834 on September 23, when the number of containment zones stood at 1,987.

  • The cases under home isolation, however, showed a rising trend on September 24 (17,995) and September 25 (18,096).

    • SC seeks Centre's response on seafarers' plea

  • The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Centre seeking its response on a plea challenging the government's denial to grant Income Tax relaxation to seafarers, who were forced to stay in the country due to the COVID-19 situation.

  • A bench headed by Justice RF Nariman issued notice to the Centre and sought its reply on the petition, filed by 'Merchant Navy Officers and Ladies Association', questioning the Central government's decision to refuse to grant Income Tax relaxation to seafarers.

  • The petition has challenged the validity of May 8, 2020, notification by the Finance Ministry's, Central Board of Direct Taxes that had denied the seafarers (non-resident status holders) concessions in assessing Income Tax for the financial year 2019-20 and 2020-21 on compassionate grounds due to COVID-19.

  • Through its notification, the Centre had declined to provide tax relaxation for the period of 60 days to the seafarers, who stayed for more than 182 days in India. The petition sought a direction for a concession of minimum 60 days.

    • 13 new cases in Andamans

  • The COVID-19 tally of Andaman and Nicobar Islands rose to 3,848 on Friday as 13 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said.

  • Seven new patients have travel history, while six fresh infections were detected during contact tracing, he said.

  • Fifteen more people have been cured of the disease, the official said.

  • The Union territory now has 172 active coronavirus cases, while 3,623 people have been cured of the disease and 53 patients have succumbed to the infection so far, he said.

    • Nagaland tally

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    3,946 fresh cases in UP

  • Uttar Pradesh recorded 3,946 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the infection count to 4,06,995 on Friday, according to official data.

  • A total of 3,51,966 COVID-19 patients in the state have been discharged from hospitals after recovering from the infection, Additional Chief Secretary Health, Amit Mohan Prasad said.

  • With this, the recovery rate in the state has reached 86.47 per cent, he said.

  • The state has 49,112 active COVID-19 cases, Prasad said, noting that the figure has come below the 50,000-mark after a long time.

    • Karnataka to triple testing

  • Karnataka government has decided to establish RT-PCR labs in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.

  • To support this further, tender will be floated soon by the Health and Medical Education departments to set up labs for carrying out RT-PCR tests, Minister K Sudhakar was quoted as saying by his office in a release.

  • The state has achieved a new milestone by conducting 50 lakhs COVID-19 tests so far and the government was aiming to increase the number of daily tests from the present around one lakh to to 1.5 lakhs, he added.

    • Thane records 1,849 new cases

  • With the addition of 1,849 new COVID-19 cases, the tally in Thane district rose to 1,76,861, an official said on Friday.

  • The district official said 36 more patients succumbed to the infection, taking the death toll to 4,458.

  • The COVID-19 recovery rate in the district stood at 87.50% and the mortality rate at 2.54%, he said.

  • After fresh infections, the COVID-19 count in Thane city stood at 37,187, in Kalyan at 42,796 and in Navi Mumbai at 37,056, the official said.

    • Chennai suburban trains to resume from October 5

  • As per the request from the State government, Southern Railway has decided to allow nominated essential service employees in suburban trains from October 5.

  • General public will not be permitted to travel.

  • Presently 15 pairs of trains are operated in Chennai suburban routes.

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    Telangana doing better in handling than other States: Governor

  • Telangana Governor Tamilsai Soundarajan exuded confidence in the State government's response to Covid-19 and said that when compared to other states like Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu, Telangana was doing much better.

  • "In some districts number of cases are declining. There are a large number of patients who are recovering. The recovery rate is more in Telangana and the peak has also slowed down in some of the districts," she said.

    • India's active caseload remains below 10 lakh

  • For the eleventh successive day, India's active COVID-19 cases remained less than 10 lakh, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.

  • With 78,877 people having recuperated from COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, India's total recoveries surged to 53,52,078 pushing the recovery rate to 83.70% according to data updated at 8 am.

  • "The last 10 lakh recoveries were added in just 12 days. With this, India continues to maintain its global position of being the country with maximum number of recovered COVID patients in the world," the ministry said.

  • There are 9,42,217 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 14.74% of the total caseload.

  • Maharashtra is leading the tally among states with more than 2.5 lakh cases. Karnataka follows with more than 1 lakh cases, the ministry said.

    • Covid-19 vaccine rollout unlikely before fall 2021: Study

    Experts working in the field of vaccine development tend to believe that an effective vaccine is not likely to be available for the general public before the fall of 2021.

    In a study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the research team conducted a recent survey of 28 experts working in vaccinology. The survey was carried out in late June 2020. (IANS)

    India maintaining global position with maximum COVID-19 recoveries: Health Ministry

    With a high level of recoveries, India is maintaining its global position as the country with the maximum number of recovered COVID-19 patients, said the Ministry of Health on Friday.

    "With high levels of recoveries (more than 52L), India is maintaining its global position as the country with the maximum number of Recovered COVID-19 patients. India has crossed a landmark milestone. Active Cases have been sustained below the 10L mark for 10 days in an unbroken chain," Ministry of Health tweeted.

    A higher number of daily recoveries and persistently dipping mortality rate across the States/Union Territories are resulting in a lower number of Active Cases on a daily basis, the Health Ministry stated.

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    Kerala govt imposes Section 144 to curb coronavirus spread

    The Kerala government has imposed section 144 of CrPC, prohibiting the assembly of more than five people to control the surge in coronavirus cases in the state.

    A late night order issued on Thursday by Chief Secretary Vishwas Mehta said gatherings pose an impending danger of a super spread of the infection and the order shall come into force from 9 am on October 3 and will remain in effect till October 31.

    Kerala govt imposes Section 144 to curb coronavirus spread

    The Kerala government has imposed section 144 of CrPC, prohibiting the assembly of more than five people to control the surge in coronavirus cases in the state.

    A late night order issued on Thursday by Chief Secretary Vishwas Mehta said gatherings pose an impending danger of a super spread of the infection and the order shall come into force from 9 am on October 3 and will remain in effect till October 31.

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    India reports 81,484 new cases, 1095 deaths as tally mounts to 63.94 lakhs

    India reports 81,484 new cases, 1095 deaths as tally mounts to 63.94 lakhs

    'One in three doctors dying of coronavirus'

    By September 10, a total of 382 Covid related deaths and 2,174 infections were reported amongst doctors with a Case Fatality Rate of 16.7% — ten times than of the general population (1.7%). Among the practising doctors, excluding resident doctors and house surgeons, the CFR was 36.4%, which is almost 22 times more than in the general population.(READ FULL REPORT HERE)

    'Unscientific': Experts react as ICMR prescribes 'Antisera' therapy for Covid treatment without trials

    In a series of tweets, the health research body announced that it had, along with Hyderabad-based Biological E Limited, had developed highly-purified 'Antisera', raised in horses, for prophylaxis and treatment of Covid-19.

    It added that such measures have previously been used to control many viral and bacterial infections.

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    Covid positive Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat hospitalised

    Immunity for lesser time, change in 'virulence' of virus: experts on Sept sero-survey results .

    The findings of the survey conducted in the first week of September, with a representative sample of 17,409 people across various categories, was submitted to the Delhi High Court on Wednesday.

    It found that sero-prevalence of antibodies to COVID-19 reduced to 25 per cent in September from nearly 29 per cent found in the August exercise in the national capital.

    Medical Director of Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital, a dedicated COVID-19 facility, said the fall in figures indicate that "immunity to the virus attack is not lasting beyond two months or so".

    TNIE Expressions | ‘We shouldn’t wait for a perfect vaccine for Covid-19’

    Covid-19 is less deadlier than the other coronaviruses and if we find a vaccine that’s 70-80% efficacious, it will decrease the disease in the population by 50% or more, said microbiologist and vaccine scientist Dr Gagandeep Kang. She was in conversation with author and senior journalist Kaveree Bamzai in TNIE Expressions, a series of live webcasts with people who matter.(READ FULL REPORT HERE)

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