Coronavirus live updates: India's tally goes past 40 lakh, Maharashtra adds over 20,000 cases in a day

He is asymptomatic and under home-isolation, as advised by doctors.

When the Indian Bankers Association offered a two-month moratorium on declaring a non-serviced loan account as NPA, a bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R S Reddy and M R Shah passed this interim order restraining banks from declaring loans as NPAs to protect borrowers, who are facing difficulties in arranging funds for loan repayment.

A tweet put out by the IMF’s chief economist Gita Gopinath confirmed that the Indian economy saw the steepest contraction in the June quarter among G20 countries. “In #GreatLockdown Q2 2020 GDP growth at historical lows. Graph puts G20 growth numbers on a comparable scale, quarter-on-quarter non-annualized. Should expect rebounds in Q3 but 2020 overall will see major contractions. China recovers strongly in Q2 after collapse in Q1,” the tweet read.

The three-day average of fresh cases reported by India on September 3 was 77,387, which was 92.3% of the peak of 83,883 cases, which was itself reported on September 3. In no other country among the top 20 was this even 80%. Of the 210 countries and territories for which the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) compiles daily Covid data, this ratio was the highest for India.

The largest city, Auckland, will remain on alert level 2.5, while the rest of the country will be on alert level 2.0, Ardern told a news conference. The settings would be reviewed on Sept 14, she said.

There has been an exponential rise in daily testing with 11.72 lakh samples to detect Covid-19 tested on Wednesday, which helped the daily positivity to remain low at 7.2% even as 83,065 fresh cases — the highest in a day — were reported.

South Korean doctors have agreed to end a two-week strike which has hindered efforts to curb a new wave of coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said on Friday, after overnight talks over the government's medical reform plans. Some 16,000 intern and resident doctors have been on strike since Aug. 21. Trainee doctors are the backbone of healthcare services in emergency rooms and intensive care units, and volunteer at temporary testing stations.

Unprecedented quantities of vaccines could be produced by 28 manufacturers in 10 countries over the next two years to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said on Thursday, as it announced it would help lead efforts to procure and distribute them.

Mexico's health ministry on Thursday reported 5,937 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections and 513 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 616,894 cases and 66,329 deaths.

While active cases of Covid-19 are rising on a daily basis led by rapidly rising positive cases across the country, the health ministry data show that the trajectory of average daily active cases in the five high burden states have declined during the last week (August 27-September 2), as compared to the week of August 13-19.