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Coronavirus live updates: Assam eases curbs; weekend lockdowns to stay

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Aug 14, 2020, 01:58:07 IST

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Coronavirus live updates: Assam eases curbs; weekend lockdowns to stay

India on Thursday registered the highest single-day spike of 66,999 cases and reported 942 deaths in the last 24 hours. The country's coronavirus tally touched 23,96,638 including 6,53,622 active cases, 16,95,982 discharged and 47,033 deaths. Stay here for all live updates

10:12 (IST) Aug 13

China's Shenzhen says chicken imported from Brazil tests positive for coronavirus

A sample of frozen chicken wings imported into the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen from Brazil has tested positive for coronavirus, the city government said in a notice on Thursday. Local disease control centres tested a surface sample taken from the chicken wings as part of routine screenings carried out on meat and seafood imports since June, when a new outbreak in Beijing was linked to the city's Xinfadi seafood market. Shenzhen's health authorities traced and tested everyone who might have come into contact with potentially contaminated food products, and also tested food products stored near the infected batch. All the results were negative, the notice said. The Brazilian embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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10:10 (IST) Aug 13

Zydus Cadila launches India's cheapest remdesivir version at Rs 2,800 per vial

Zydus Cadila on Thursday launched the cheapest generic version of Gilead Sciences' antiviral drug remdesivir in India to treat Covid-19 following reports of shortages at hospitals in the world's third-worst hit nation. Zydus has priced it at Rs 2,800 ($37.44) per 100mg vial. It will be sold under the brand name Remdac to government and private hospitals treating Covid-19 patients, the company said in a regulatory filing.

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10:06 (IST) Aug 13

The total number of samples tested up to 12th August is 2,68,45,688 including 8,30,391 samples tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research

09:57 (IST) Aug 13

The Covid-19 tally rises to 23,96,638 including 6,53,622 active cases, 16,95,982 discharged & 47,033 deaths: Ministry of Health

09:28 (IST) Aug 13

My father is stable, says Pranab Mukherjee's son

My Father Shri Pranab Mukherjee is still alive & haemodynamically stable ! Speculations & fake news being circulat… https://t.co/KxGz4c2brT
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09:02 (IST) Aug 13

New Zealand races to track origin of new cluster as cases jump

A coronavirus cluster in Auckland has risen to 17 cases, New Zealand health officials said Wednesday, raising the prospect of an extended lockdown in the country's biggest city to battle the resurgent virus. National health chief Ashley Bloomfield said there were 13 new confirmed infections, all linked to four family members found on Tuesday, ending New Zealand's record of 102 days without community transmission of the disease.

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08:43 (IST) Aug 13

However, India's case fatality rate of 2 is much lower than the other countries, particularly the UK. India's deaths per million — 34 — is also lower. For the others, the figure ranges between 400 and 700.

08:37 (IST) Aug 13

India overtook Britain on Wednesday to emerge as the country with the fourth-highest Covid-19 fatalities, 13 days after it went past Italy to the number 5 spot. Britain's casualties, per Worldometer stood at 46,705. US, Brazil and Mexico make up the top 3.

08:29 (IST) Aug 13

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 1,445 to 219,964, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Thursday.

The reported death toll rose by 4 to 9,211, the tally showed: Reuters

08:03 (IST) Aug 13

World Health Organisation wants to review Russian vaccine trials, after Putin says vaccine is ready even though final stage testing involving more than 2,000 people has only just started: AFP

08:03 (IST) Aug 13

Florida sheriff bans masks for deputies with some exceptions

A central Florida sheriff says his deputies won't be allowed to wear face masks except under some conditions, and neither will visitors to the sheriff's office. Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said in an email to staff that he had weighed both sides of the issue amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “Now, I can already hear the whining and just so you know I did not make this decision easily and I have weighed it out for the past 2 weeks,” Woods said in the message earlier this week. He added, “We can debate and argue all day of why and why not. The fact is, the amount of professionals that give the reason why we should, I can find the exact same amount of professionals that say why we shouldn't.”

07:33 (IST) Aug 13

Egypt concludes Senate election amid anti-coronavirus measures

Egypt concluded the two-day election for its first Senate, which has been created in a 2019 constitutional amendment, amid anti-Covid-19 precautionary measures at polling stations nationwide.Vote counting started right after the closure of polling stations, after the voting process took place in over 14,000 balloting stations under the supervision of about 20,000 judges across the country, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.

07:13 (IST) Aug 13

Virus cases slow in China, but up in Hong Kong

New locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus reported in China have fallen into the single digits, but Hong Kong is seeing another rise in hospitalizations and deaths.China's National Health Commission said Thursday that eight new cases were registered in the last 24 hours in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose main city of Urumqi has enacted lockdown measures and travel restrictions to control China's latest outbreak. An additional 11 cases were brought by Chinese returning from overseas.

07:07 (IST) Aug 13

Number of Covid-19 cases reaches 649 in Mizoram, with one more case being reported in Champhai district; active cases stand at 319: State Directorate of Information and Public Relations

07:02 (IST) Aug 13

Australia on course for lowest one-day rise in Covid-19 cases in more than 3 weeks

Australia was poised to post its lowest one-day rise in new Covid-19 cases in more than three weeks on Thursday, stoking hopes that a second wave of new infections gripping Victoria state is finally being brought under control.

06:57 (IST) Aug 13

Argentina and Mexico to produce AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

Argentina and Mexico will produce the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for most of Latin America, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said on Wednesday after a meeting with company executives involved in the project.An agreement signed between British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the biotechnology company mAbxience of the INSUD Group includes transfer of technology to initially produce 150 million doses of the vaccine to supply all of Latin America with the exception of Brazil, the Argentine government said.

06:51 (IST) Aug 13

NZ central bank official says coronavirus resurgence poses risks to outlook

New Zealand's central bank will consider more monetary stimulus if there are periods of resurgence in local coronavirus infections and renewed lockdowns in the country, a top official said on Thursday.Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) Deputy Governor Geoff Bascand told Reuters the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic posed a big risk to its outlook as its baseline scenario has an assumption that the virus is contained in the country.

06:41 (IST) Aug 13

For every Covid-19 positive case, Delhi government to test 20 others

Delhi government has directed each district to daily test 20 times more people than the number of cases there. The focus will be on high-risk groups and areas from where multiple cases have been reported. On Saturday, 24,592 tests — 19,092 antigen tests & 5,500 RT-PCR — were conducted.

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06:33 (IST) Aug 13

Demand for Covid beds increasing again in Delhi

The rise in new Covid-19 cases in Delhi over the past week has led to increase in demand for hospital beds.The occupancy of Covid beds in Delhi’s hospitals, which reduced to less than 3,000 on July 30 and continued to be so till August 5, has again crossed the 3,000 mark.

06:06 (IST) Aug 13

Read: Moscow says medics to get anti-Covid shots in 2 weeks, some Russians wary

Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of the world's first Covid-19 vaccine would be rolled out within two weeks and rejected as "groundless" safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscow's rapid approval of the drug. The vaccine, called "Sputnik V", has yet to complete its final trials.

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