Coronavirus live updates: England to enter new lockdown; UK virus cases pass 1 million

Blanket ban on public worship in temples/mosques/churches lifted for November. Now, district administrations will take a call on places of worship in their areas. Odisha decides to keep schools and colleges, cinema halls, swimming pools (except for training) and entertainment complexes closed for the next month. However schools to reopen for classes 9 to 12 from November 16. The government says the situation will be reviewed for reopening cinema/swimming pools on November 16.

Total cases now 2,38,632 including 2,18,887 recoveries, 1,336 deaths and 18,409 active cases: State Health Department

The British government has scaled back its end-of-year coronavirus testing target to around 1 million a day from almost 2 million, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter and leaked documents. The aim to reach 1.9 million a day has been reduced due to delay in rolling out new technologies, the report added.

With 551 new deaths, toll mounts to 1,21,641. Total active cases are 5,82,649 after a decrease of 11,737 in last 24 hrs. Total cured cases are 74,32,829 with 59,454 new discharges in the last 24 hrs.

The United States passed nine million reported coronavirus cases on Friday and broke its own record for daily new infections for the second day in a row, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The US, which has seen a resurgence of its outbreak since mid-October, has now notched up 9,034,295 cases, according to a real-time count by the Baltimore-based school. On Friday the country set a record for new daily infections of more than 94,000 in 24 hours, breaking the record of 91,000 it had set just one day earlier.

The accumulative cases since the outbreak of the pandemic reached 1,331,984. With 256 more people losing their lives to the disease in the past 24 hours, the death toll caused by COVID-19 hit 36,565, the data released on Friday revealed, Xinhua news agency reported. Some 22,153 people are currently hospitalized for Covid-19 infections, including 3,368 in intensive care. France started a second national confinement from Thursday midnight.

A study involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the virus that causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. According to the paper published in the peer-reviewed journal mBIO, that mutation, called D614G, is located in the spike protein that pries open our cells for viral entry. It's the largest peer-reviewed study of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences in one metropolitan region of the US to date.

Breaking all previous records, Covid-19 cases again reached a single-day highest at 5,891. A total of 47 people died on Friday, taking the total number of fatalities to 6,470. In the last 24 hours, 4,433 people have recovered. The number of Covid-19 cases marginally increased, despite a small dip in the number of tests. Among 59,641 people tested on Friday, 9.8% tested positive, taking the active cases to 32,363.

Mainland China reported 33 new Covid-19 cases on October 30, up from 25 a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Saturday.

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Friday sought support in Midwestern states where the coronavirus has roared back, with Trump falsely accusing doctors of profiting from Covid-19 deaths while Biden said Trump had surrendered to the pandemic.

Nagaland on Friday reported the recovery of 210 more Covid-19 patients, taking the total number of people cured of the disease to 7,229, while 51 fresh cases pushed the tally to 8,945, Health Minister S Pangnyu Phom said.

Mexico's health ministry reported on Friday 6,000 additional cases of the novel coronavirus and 516 more deaths in the country, bringing the official number of cases to 918,811 and the death toll to 91,289.

Canadians need to do more to tackle a second wave of the coronavirus by slashing the number of personal contacts they have with others, health authorities said on Friday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said more targeted measures could help avert another major national shutdown of the kind that hammered the economy earlier in the year.