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    17 Aug, 2020 | 11:45:42 PM IST
    Coronavirus Live Updates: Biocon chairman Kiran Mazumdar Shaw tests Covid positive
    "I have added to the Covid count by testing positive. Mild symptoms n I hope it stays that way," she tweeted.
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    11:37:17 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Covid positive

    11:11:17 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Himachal Pradesh Covid cases

    11:11:41 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Speaker of Haryana Legislative Assembly ahead of session

    11:08:16 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Goa: 55 newcases reported, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 11,994

    09:35:47 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Migrants return to Delhi as India's COVID-19 deaths top 50,000

    • India's COVID-19 deaths topped 50,000 on Monday, five months after the country reported its first such fatality, as migrant workers poured back into major cities in hopes of regaining work after the easing of anti-virus restrictions.

    • Hundreds of migrant workers from the countryside who had left the capital New Delhi in droves after losing their jobs in a nationwide lockdown in March returned in buses on Monday and were made to wait in lines for rapid COVID-19 tests.

    • Those who tested positive were sent to quarantine centres while the rest were allowed to leave the city's busy inter-state bus terminus with their luggage. Almost all of them wore masks or covered their nose and mouth with scarves or handkerchiefs, though in the countryside such virus-fighting measures have become tough to enforce and the infection rate has surged.
    09:26:30 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Uttarakhand Covid cases

    09:25:21 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Boxer Sarita Devi tests positive for coronavirus

    09:25:05 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    20 UP Assembly staff members test positive for coronavirus ahead of session: Speaker

    08:51:08 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    I express my thanks on behalf of the government and the country for the enormous care that UAE has taken of Indian nationals during the Covid-19 pandemic

    - S Jaishankar

    08:48:49 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Harish Rawat booked for violating COVID guidelines

    A case has been registered against former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat, three Congress legislators and 150 others for allegedly violating coronavirus guidelines and holding a protest in Haridwar district, police said. Rawat led a bullock cart rally from Dhandera to Landhaura near Roorkee on Independence Day to raise the issue of dilapidated condition of roads, especially NH-58 that links Uttarakhand with Delhi. A large number of people had gathered for the rally violating social distancing norms and COVID-19 guidelines, SSP Senthil Avudai Krishna Raj said.
    08:14:08 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    COVID-19 has given chance to structurally re-imagine public health infrastructure

    - Harsh Vardhan

    08:13:53 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Gujarat in 24 hours added 1,033 positive cases, taking the total to 79,816

    08:13:46 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Kerala reports 1,725 fresh; total numbers of active and recovered cases are 15,890 and 30,009 respectively

    08:03:29 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Maharashtra Covid cases today

    08:00:49 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Jammu & Kashmir: 422 new cases reported today; taking the total number of cases in the UT to 28,892

    07:59:31 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Kerala reports 1,725 fresh; total numbers of active and recovered cases are 15,890 and 30,009 respectively

    07:59:17 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    UK urges Indians, ethnic minorities to sign up for Covid-19 vaccine trials

    The UK government on Monday issued an appeal for more people from an ethnic minority background, including those of Indian-origin, to sign up for ongoing clinical trials for a potential vaccine to combat COVID-19. A targeted recruitment programme broadcast in Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali and Urdu is among the measures being deployed to reach out to different communities.
    07:28:39 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Case tally touches 343945 and toll reaches 5,886. Chennai added 1185 cases and 24 deaths

    07:28:32 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Can consider lockdown in some areas as cases surge but economic activity will not be suspended: Punjab CM

    08:05:23 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Covid patients discharged from Sardar Patel Centre today: ITBP

    07:00:19 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Adequate measures should be taken to protect the public representatives from COVID-19

    - Akhilesh Yadav

    06:57:15 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    118 new cases reported in Manipur including 24 personnel from CAPF

    06:56:47 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Tamil Nadu adds 5,890 cases and 120 deaths

    06:55:20 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Some Delhi hospitals seeing COVID re-emergence in recovered patients

    Some hospitals in the national capital have said they are are seeing recovered coronavirus patients returning to them with recurrence of the infection. Earlier this month, the Delhi government-run Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital saw two instances of patients with relapse of coronavirus, almost one-and-a-half months after they were cured of the infection. In both the instances of relapse, the patients had moderate symptoms.
    06:01:12 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Singapore reports 91 COVID-19 cases on Monday

    05:54:05 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    5 persons at Pawar's Mumbai residence test COVID-19 positive

    05:49:42 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    China's Shenzhen adds more virus tests for frozen food imports

    • The city government said it had set up a central warehouse where all imported foods already cleared through customs would need to undergo further tests before being sold or processed in the city.

    • The new warehouse, to begin operations on Aug. 18, will sterilise outer packaging and run coronavirus tests on samples of the frozen meat and seafood, it said.

    • Any business storing, selling or processing imported meat and seafood must have a certificate showing it has cleared the warehouse inspections, added the notice.
    05:00:50 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Covid cases doubled at a faster rate in Mumbai last week

    • Average growth rate of the viral infection also went up, according to the city civic body.
    04:18:58 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court Indrajit Mahanty tested positive for COVID-19

    04:11:04 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Tripura reports 143 new COVID-19 cases, four more deaths

    • Tripura on Monday reported 143 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the state's tally to 7,222, while the death toll reached 59 as four more patients succumbed to the disease, a health department official said.

    • The state now has 1,859 active cases while 5,286 people have recovered from the disease.
    03:34:15 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Japan PM Shinzo Abe's hospital trip sparks health speculation

    03:25:21 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Record 57,584 COVID-19 patients recover in one day: Health Ministry

    • The number of people who have recuperated from COVID-19 in India went past 19 lakh on Monday with a record 57,584 patients recovering within a span of 24 hours, pushing the recovery rate to over 72 per cent, according to the Union Health ministry data.
    • India's COVID-19 recoveries have reached closer to 2 million (19,19,842), while the actual caseload of the country stands at 6,76,900 on date and currently comprises only 25.57 per cent of the total positive cases.
    • This difference between the recovered and the active cases continues to expand and now stands at 12,42,942. The recovery rate is 72.51 per cent at present.
    03:20:51 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal discharged from AIIMS today: AIIMS Delhi authority. The Minister had tested positive for COVID-19 on 8th August.

    03:11:37 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    CDRs of patients helping UP trace COVID-19 contacts

    03:07:52 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Doctors moves SC, seeks postponement of AIAPGET-2020 exams amid COVID-19 pandemic

    • A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court by several doctors seeking postponement of the All India AYUSH Post Graduate Entrance Test (AIAPGET)-2020, scheduled on August 29, amid the spike in number of COVID-19 cases in the country.
    • The petition has been filed by 17 Ayurvedic and Homeopathic doctors holding qualifications of Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) and Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) respectively.
    02:57:56 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Restrictions imposed in Bihar extended till 6th September

    02:54:41 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Post-COVID clinic to help analyse patients reporting fresh symptoms

    • The Delhi-government run Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital will soon start a post-COVID clinic to analyse patients seeing a re-emergence of coronavirus symptoms after recovering from the infection.
    • According to Dr BL Sherwal, medical director of the hospital, they have received calls from patients who had recovered from coronavirus but have reported symptoms again.
    • The senior doctor said that the clinic is likely to start this week.
    02:48:00 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    CB-CID office shut for fumigation as 2 contract COVID-19

    The office of CB-CID, where three accused in the case relating to the death of Sri Lankan don Angoda Lokka were interrogated, was closed on Monday as two police personnel tested COVID-19 positive.
    02:40:38 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    A friend's father died due to COVID19 & he refused to perform the last rites. We felt it was our duty to help in the interest of humanity. We have dealt with 147 such bodies till now

    - Syed Jalaluddin Zafar, President, Youth Welfare Telangana.

    02:32:27 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Virus pandemic reshaping air travel as carriers struggle

    • The four largest U.S. airlines lost a combined USD 10 billion from April through June. Their CEOs say they will survive, but they have lowered their expectations for a rebound.
    • An airline trade group, the International Air Transport Association, predicts carriers will lose USD 84 billion this year, making it the worst year in the industry's history.
    • The group says traffic won't fully recover until 2024.
    02:20:26 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Andaman & Nicobar Islands COVID-19 tally rises to 2,399

    02:18:32 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    COVID-19 case tally rises to over 26.47 lakh in India, death toll crosses 50,000

    01:50:59 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Safety, efficacy main concerns with Russia's COVID-19 vaccine: Nobel laureate Peter Doherty

    01:39:33 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori tests COVID-19 positive, withdraws from Western and Southern Open

    01:37:38 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Testing of CanSino's COVID-19 candidate vaccine begins in Russia

    • A late-stage trial of a COVID-19 candidate vaccine from CanSino Biologics Inc has started in Russia, registration records showed, as the Chinese pharmaceutical firm steps up testing abroad to close in on regulatory approval.
    • The Ad5-nCoV vaccine already has approval for use by China's military after early and mid-stage trials, and further late-stage trials are being lined up for Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
    • CanSino last month said it was in talks for opportunities to launch late-stage - or Phase 3 - trials in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Brazil and Chile.
    • The company has won a patent approval from Beijing for the vaccine, Chinese state media reported on Sunday, citing documents from the country's intellectual property regulator.
    • CanSino and compatriots including Sinovac Biotech Ltd and China National Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd (Sinopharm) are testing candidates overseas as China becomes less conducive for Phase 3 trials due to its small number of new COVID-19 cases.
    • The completion of Phase 3 trials is generally required for regulatory approval to distribute a vaccine for public use.
    01:25:19 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Coronavirus pushes world's leading economies into record slumps

    • The coronavirus pandemic pushed most of the world's major economies into unprecedented contractions in the second quarter, except for China which escaped a recession.
    • Japan recorded a further slump of 7.8 percent in the April-June quarter, its worst on record, as the coronavirus deepens the country's long-running economic woes.
    • The UK suffered the worst recession in Europe in the first two quarters of the year, also recording the continent's highest number of coronavirus deaths. GDP fell 20.4 percent in the second quarter.
    • The eurozone's overall GDP plunged 12.1 percent in the three months to June.
    • The United States, the world's top economy, suffered a 9.5 percent slump in the second quarter following a 1.3 percent drop in the first, according to figures published by the OECD.
    • China, the world's second-largest economy, may have been where the novel coronavirus originated, but it was able to largely halt the spread of the virus and reopen factories, thus avoiding a recession.
    • In the second quarter its economy rebounded by 11.5 percent.
    01:05:16 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    302 new COVID-19 cases, 184 recoveries & 4 deaths reported in Puducherry today

    The total number of cases stands at 8,029 in the state till date, including 4,627 recovered cases, 3,288 active cases & 114 deaths so far: Government of Puducherry
    12:56:54 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Fusion Health Care launches COVID-19 drug Favipiravir and an immunity booster

    • Fusion Health Care Pvt Ltd, a leading innovative pharmaceutical company based at Hyderabad, has announced the launch of its Favipiravir drug under the brand name XARAVIR, for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 cases.
    • The company has recently launched an Immunity Booster product under the brand name D'FEND.
    12:40:39 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Supreme Court today dismissed a petition seeking the postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), scheduled to be held in September 2020.

    12:28:12 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Temples under the Travancore Devaswom Board reopens from today

    12:26:55 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    Czech Republic reported coronavirus cases exceed 20,000

    12:13:44 PM IST, 17 August 2020

    With highest single-day spike of 163 cases, Himachal Pradesh's Covid count reaches 4,156

    11:46:51 AM IST, 17 August 2020

    Telangana reports 894 fresh COVID-19 cases, fresh infections in Hyderabad continue to dip

    • In the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) area, 147 cases were reported, the lowest for a long time.
    • It had recorded 234 new infections on August 15.
    • The death toll rose to 703 with 10 more fatalities
    11:35:55 AM IST, 17 August 2020

    2,244 new COVID-19 cases, 1,550 recoveries reported in Odisha on 16th August

    Total number of cases stands at 62,294 including 19,612 active cases and 42,276 recovered cases: Health & Family Welfare Department, Odisha
    11:30:36 AM IST, 17 August 2020

    43 new COVID-19 cases reported in Arunachal Pradesh

    11:28:56 AM IST, 17 August 2020

    India continues to extend helping hand to Nepal to fight COVID-19 crisis

    • India has been extending its hands to long-time partner Nepal by supplying various medicines and equipment to fight the COVID-19 crisis.
    • Newly appointed Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, handed over 23 tons of essential medicines to Nepal including hydroxychloroquine, paracetamol amongst others, on April 23.
    • The Indian Ambassador handed over COVID-19 test kits to Nepal's Health Minister on May 17.
    • The 30,000 PCR kits manufactured by India's molecular diagnostics company Mylab helped Nepal in accelerating its testing capacity against the virus.
    11:26:52 AM IST, 17 August 2020

    93 new COVID-19 positive cases and one death recorded in Maharashtra Police force, in the last 24 hours. Total positive cases stand at 12,383 including 9,929 recoveries, 2,328 active cases & 126 deaths: Maharashtra Police

    11:05:20 AM IST, 17 August 2020

    TMC MLA Samaresh Das dies after testing positive for COVID-19

    Trinamool Congress MLA Samaresh Das, who had tested positive for COVID-19 recently, died at a hospital in West Bengal's East Midnapore district on Monday
    10:52:04 AM IST, 17 August 2020

    Thousands of South Korea church members quarantined over virus

    • Thousands of Protestant church members in Seoul have been asked to quarantine, South Korean authorities said Monday, as the country battles virus clusters linked to religious groups.
    • The country's "trace, test and treat" approach has been held up as a global model in how to curb the virus.
    • But over the weekend the capital and neighbouring Gyeonggi province -- between them home to nearly half the population -- banned all religious gatherings and urged residents to avoid unnecessary travel after a burst of new cases sparked fears of a major second wave.
    • South Korea reported 197 new cases on Monday, taking its total to 15,515, its fourth consecutive day of triple-digit increases after several weeks with numbers generally in the 30s and 40s.
    10:48:58 AM IST, 17 August 2020

    693 new COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths reported in Rajasthan.

    Total number of cases now at 61,989 including 14,451 active cases, 46,652 recoveries and 886 deaths: State Health Department
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