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

Total active cases are 5,94,386 after a decrease of 9301 in last 24 hrs. Total cured cases are 73,73,375 with 57,386 new discharges in last 24 hrs.

Grocery store employees are likely to be at heightened risk of Covid-19 infection, with those in customer-facing roles 5 times as likely to test positive as their colleagues in other positions, suggests the first study of its kind.

At a time when the world is reeling under the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan in an astounding feat has gone 200 days without a locally transmitted case. According to the US media report, among the 23 million people, the country has had 550 confirmed cases and seven fatalities even as the virus continues to spread across the world.

The very high testing has resulted in the continuously falling positivity rate of 7.54% presently.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime critic of stay-at-home measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic, said on Thursday that it was “crazy” for countries to start locking down again to control second waves of the virus.

Mexico's health ministry reported on Thursday 5,948 additional cases of the novel coronavirus and 464 more deaths in the country, bringing the official number of cases to 912,811 and the death toll to 90,773.

Apple Inc will temporarily close 17 out of 20 stores in France starting Oct. 30, as the country goes into a fresh one-month lockdown amid resurgence of coronavirus cases, the company's website showed.

The United States, which reported its first known coronavirus case in Washington state 282 days ago, surpassed 9 million total infections on Thursday, including more than half a million in the past week, as Covid-19 spiraled out of control in the lead-up to Election Day.

The World Bank on Thursday said remittances to India would fall this year by nine per cent to USD 76 billion due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and global economic recession.

The White House coronavirus task force has warned that much of the country is in the grips of an "unrelenting" rise in Covid-19 cases, urging tough countermeasures, while at least nine states on Thursday reported record daily increases in new infections.

Mainland China reported 25 new Covid-19 cases on Oct. 29, down from 47 a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Friday.