Coronavirus live updates: Vehicles carrying oxygen to be treated as ambulance in Maharashtra

Social events and political rallies have led to a rise in Covid-19 cases in Tripura capital after the lockdown was withdrawn on August 5, a study conducted by the state government said.The survey, carried out by the administration of West Tripura district of which Agartala is a part, showed that the Covid-19 tally started rising from August 17.

There are 9,73,175 active cases of Covid-19 in the country which comprises 20.47 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.

The state’s Covid task force has recommended opening up of all religious places that have been shut since the lockdown was imposed in March. “There is no reason to not open temples as long as social distancing norms are followed,” a task force member said on Saturday. There is a growing clamour for reopening places of worship from political parties as well as religious groups. Since August, courts have allowed Jain and Parsi communities to open religious places for specific festivals.

A 27-year-old attendant at a Covid-19 quarantine centre in Maharashtra's Thane district has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman at the facility, police said on Sunday.The incident took place in June, but came to light on Saturday when the 20-year-old woman lodged a police complaint, inspector Sampat Patil of Navghar police station said.

The resumption of the AFC Asian Champions League has taken a setback with seven positive results returned from COVID-19 tests conducted on all the participating teams in the West Asian 'hub' of Qatar.The Asian Football Confederation confirmed on Saturday that five players and one official from Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal and one player from Qatari side Al Duhail had tested positive for coronavirus.

India's Covid-19 recovered patients have seen a "steep exponential rise" from 50,000 patients in May to over 36 lakh patients in September which is "nearly" 3.8 times the active cases, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday.

Recently, there has been a surge in the number of Covid-19 cases in Delhi and it has been found that the majority of the ICU beds in private hospitals are fully occupied, according to the order of the Delhi government’s health and family welfare department.

The Delhi government on Saturday directed 33 private hospitals to reserve 80% of their total ICU/HDU beds for Covid-19 patients after a surge in the number of cases and the demands for ICU beds in the city. In May, all nursing homes and private hospitals, having 50 beds or more, were told to reserve at least 20% of their total beds for Covid patients.

The Monsoon Session of the Parliament is scheduled to commence tomorrow.

India has recorded more than 1 million Covid-19 infections in the first 12 days of September amid an unprecedented surge of the pandemic in the country. The country has also reported 13,082 deaths during this period, the highest toll from the virus recorded in any country so far this month

Delhi recorded its biggest single-day jump of 4,321 cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, taking the city’s tally to over 2.14 lakh. Death toll in Delhi mounted to 4,715 with 28 fatalities recorded in the last 24 hours. In the last four days when Delhi has recorded more than 4,000 new cases of Covid-19 daily, the number of tests carried out has been above 50,000.