India saw a major drop in one-day covid-19 spike as it recorded 61,267 cases in last 24 hours. 75,787 new recoveries and 884 deaths were also reported, according to latest update from the Health Ministry.
Total case tally stands at 66,85,083 including 9,19,023 active cases, 56,62,491 cured/discharged/migrated cases & 1,03,569 deaths: Union Health Ministry.
10,89,403 samples tested for Covid-19 on 5th October. Total of 8,10,71,797 samples tested in the country up to 5th October: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)/
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal have reported the highest number of cases.
India’s covid-19 recovery rate currently stands at 84.7 per cent, the Union Health Ministry informed that
More Covid-19 Updates:
*Punjab Health Department issues order to close all COVID level-1 facilities due to drop in occupancy.
*8 new Covid-19 cases reported in Mizoram, taking the total tally to 2,128.
*Active cases in Maharashtra have seen a constant decline and have come doiwn to 252,277. The count of active cases has reduced by 49,475 in last 18 days.
*India has steadily maintained the positivity rate of the cases of covid-19 below 10 per cent, said Health Ministry.
*US President Donald Trump, still infected, returned to White House on Monday evening.
*Government issued guidelines to reopen schools on Monday. The schools will have to maintain thorough cleaning and flexible attendance should be allowed for students. The government also asked schools to not conduct any assessment up to three weeks.
*Chinese mainland reported 13 new coronavirus cases while death toll remained unchanged.
*Nepal on Monday recorded 19 deaths due to Covid-19, the country’s highest single-day death toll.
*New Zealand on Monday eased covid-19 restrictions in the largest city of Auckland, after no new cases of covid-19 was reported in the last 12 days.
*15 new Covid-19 cases and one death in Victoria–Australia’s second-most populous state which is its biggest single day spike in five days.
Covid-19 Vaccine Updates:
*WHO’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, said that companies conducting late stage trials of covid-19 vaccine can show defined results by 2021. Even as she also added that vaccine will not be able to cover world’s 70 per cent of the population before the end of 2022.
*The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL) to submit a revised protocol for performing phases 2 and 3 clinical trials of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, in India.
Meanwhile, the global covid-19 cases have topped 35.3 million mark, John Hopkins University reported in its latest update.
As of Tuesday, the total number of cases stood at 35,396,981 and the fatalities rose to 1,042,679, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) said.
