Coronavirus live updates: Serum Institute to resume Covid vaccine trials after DCGI nod

DMRC can carry out thermal scanning of passengers, check their risk status on Aarogya Setu app, sanitise their bags and hands and ensure everyone follows social distancing. But there is one thing they can’t do — scan for Delhi’s infamous ‘chalta hai’ attitude.

Thackeray has said that in view of the WHO's warning that Covid-19 cases will be on the rise in the coming days, the state government has decided to provide 80 per cent oxygen cylinders to hospitals and 20 per cent to industries.He also said that although there were only a handful of testing laboratories in the state when the outbreak began, their number has now grown to 550.Thackeray said this while inaugurating a testing laboratory and six Covid Care centres in Navi Mumbai on Thursday.

The number of people, who have died of Covid-19 in Mexico, has risen by 554 to 69,649 within the past 24 hours, Jose Luis Alomia, the director of epidemiology at the Health Ministry, said.He also said on late Thursday that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases had increased by 4,857 to 652,364 within the same period of time.

With Covid-19 cases rising rapidly in 13 districts in the State, including Dehradun, it is a cause of concern that many hospitals are full and unable to admit more patients, Uttarkhand Congress Vice President Suryakant Dhasmana said.The Congress leader raised these concerns at a meeting with State Health Secretary Amit Negi.

The much-awaited findings of the first national serosurvey conducted by the ICMR, published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, indicated that 0.73 per cent adults in India were exposed to SARS-CoV-2, amounting to a total of 6.4 million infections by early May.The survey was conducted from May 11 to June 4 and covered 28,000 individuals whose blood samples were tested for IgG antibodies using Covid Kavach ELISA kit.

Amid a record single-day surge of over 95,000 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, the Centre has again urged all states and Union territories to mandatorily retest all those found to be symptomatic negative in rapid antigen tests (RAT). The retests are to be done through the more reliable RT-PCR method to ensure a positive case does not go undetected.

The worldwide number of confirmed Covid-19 cases has surpassed 28 million, Johns Hopkins University says.The exact number of the coronavirus cases stood at 28,047,828 as of 01:00 GMT on Friday. More than 907,000 people have died of the disease, the university added. The World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. The biggest number of cases so far has been registered in the United States, India and Brazil.

“We are reviewing the situation and pausing India trials till AstraZeneca restarts them. We are following the Drug Controller General of India’s (DCGI) instructions and will not be able to comment further on the same,” the Pune-based company said.

India’s death toll from the pandemic has risen from 50,000 to 75,000 in just 26 days, averaging around 1,000 fatalities per day during this period. Meanwhile, the daily count of fresh Covid-19 cases has been inching towards the 1-lakh mark over the past few days.