Coronavirus live updates: Rapid tests to be given to poorer countries, WHO says
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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Sep 29, 2020, 02:03:56 IST
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Coronavirus live updates: Rapid tests to be given to poorer countries, WHO says

India's coronavirus tally galloped past 60 lakh on Monday with 82,170 new cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 50.17 lakh after 74,893 more people recuperated. Stay here for all live updates
11:16 (IST) Sep 27

The Corona crisis period has served in fostering bonding among family members, bringing them even closer.

PM Modi

11:15 (IST) Sep 27
Tracing the spread of Covid-19
Tracing the spread of Covid-19
10:38 (IST) Sep 27
The Mumbai leg of Oxford University’s global Covid-19 vaccine trial began with three men in the 25-45 age group getting vaccinated on Saturday afternoon at the BMC-run KEM Hospital, Parel. The men were kept under observation for a few hours before they left the hospital. The trial for the Covishield vaccine, developed by Oxford University along with pharmaceutical major AstraZeneca, will involve 200 volunteers in Mumbai.
10:14 (IST) Sep 27
Can statins – cholesterol-lowering drugs — help reduce severity of the disease in Covid-19 patients? At least two recent studies, published in American Journal of Cardiology (AJC) and The EMBO Journal, support this theory. Statins are widely available and cheap, costing around Rs 5 to Rs 50 per tablet, depending on the dosage.
10:08 (IST) Sep 27
World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assurance that India will use its vaccine production capacity in helping nations fight COVID-19, saying the pandemic can be defeated only by mobilising resources for common good.
10:04 (IST) Sep 27
300 doctors offering free telemedicine service to J&K residents, reports PTI.
Under the 'Dial a Doctor' programme, more than 300 doctors across the globe and from different specialties and sub-specialties provide voluntary health services to the patients.
09:42 (IST) Sep 27
New York records over 1,000 positive cases in single since June, reports AP.
09:39 (IST) Sep 27

Covid case tally stands at 59,92,533, including 9,56,402 active cases, 49,41,628 cured/discharged/migrated & 94,503 deaths.

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

09:38 (IST) Sep 27

Single-day spike of 88,600 new Covid cases & 1,124 deaths reported in India, in the last 24 hours.

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

09:38 (IST) Sep 27
7,12,57,836 samples tested up to 26th September for Covid. Of these, 9,87,861 samples were tested yesterday: ICMR
09:37 (IST) Sep 27
Italy's coronavirus Patient no 1 takes part in long-distance relay race, reports AP.
Italy's coronavirus Patient No. 1, whose case confirmed one of the world's deadliest outbreaks was underway, is taking part in a 180-kilometer (112-mile) relay race in memory of Covid victims and as a sign of hope after he himself recovered from weeks in intensive care. Mattia Maestri was suited up Saturday for the start of the two-day race between Italy's first two virus hotspots.
09:36 (IST) Sep 27
Mainland China reported 14 new Covid cases on Sept 26, compared with 15 cases announced a day earlier, reports Reuters.
09:17 (IST) Sep 27
Subsequently, the testing cost of swab samples sent from the government to private labs has been reduced from Rs 1,500 to Rs 1,200. “As rates of RT-PCR testing have come down, the Task Force Committee has reconsidered the rates to be charged by private labs,” said Jawaid Akhtar, additional chief secretary, health and family welfare department.
08:37 (IST) Sep 27
Mizoram reports 30 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total cases in the state to 1,865: Government of Mizoram (ANI)
08:05 (IST) Sep 27
Odisha logs record 4,356 Covid cases, highest one-day recovery of 4,761 patients, reports PTI.
08:03 (IST) Sep 27
The seven-day average of daily Covid-19 cases in India has been steadily falling for nine consecutive days from September 17 to September 26, the first time such a phase of continuous decline has been witnessed since the beginning of the outbreak. Even more hearteningly, this is despite the seven-day average of tests having increased from 10.7 lakh on September 17 to 11.2 lakh on September 25, the last date for which data is available.
07:27 (IST) Sep 27
Ernakulam changes testing strategy as cases shoot up
The district administration has decided to change the testing strategy as Covid-19 cases shoot up. It has been decided to test all symptomatic and vulnerable people who are contacts of positive cases.To create awareness and encourage symptomatic people to come forward for testing, services of rapid response teams (RRT) have been constituted at ward levels in each local body. Asymptomatic primary contacts of the positive cases will not be tested. But they will have to undergo mandatory 14 days quarantine.
07:21 (IST) Sep 27
Kerala: 7k new cases, 21 casualties; 1k test +ve in Thiruvananthapuram alone
The daily Covid-19 positive tally in the state hit 7,006 on Saturday as per the official figures announced by the office of health minister K K Shailaja. The Covid-19 causalities on the day was 21, taking the official death figures to 657. Among those tested positive on Saturday, 68 had come from foreign countries and 177 from other states. As many as 6,004 persons contracted the disease through local contacts and the sources were unknown in the case of 664 patients. The number of health workers tested positive was 93.
07:18 (IST) Sep 27
Jaipur city to get 2,000 beds for Covid treatment within a week
With the number of active cases continuously increasing in Jaipur, the state government in coordination with private hospitals, is now aiming at developing 2,000 beds within a week for Covid-19 treatment. Health minister Raghu Sharma has already stated that there is a need to increase infrastructure facilities in Jaipur, as the active cases are rising. On Friday, Sharma had directed the in-service private hospitals at Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur, Ajmer and Bikaner district headquarters to keep 30 per cent beds reserved out of their total bed capacity, for corona-infected patients.
07:11 (IST) Sep 27
Maharashtra’s fatalities cross 35K, recoveries go past 10 lakh
After a two-day breather, Maharashtra was back to reporting over 20,000 cases. On Saturday it added 20,419 cases and 430 fatalities, the fourth day in a row that it saw over 400 deaths. With this, the total cases in the state came to 13,21,176, and the total fatalities stand at 35,191, having crossed the 35,000 mark.Covid cases in Mumbai shot up by over 20% in a 24-hour period as 2,282 patients reported positive on Saturday as compared to 1,876 the previous day. The city’s total tally since March climbed to 1.96 lakh.