***CORONA VIRUS UPDATES***

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India's fatality rate due to COVID-19 now at 2.13%

There are 5,79,357 active cases at present in #India while the recoveries have increased to 11,86,203. India's recovery rate rises to 65.44% and fatality at 2.13% with 38,135 deaths.

India crosses 2 cr tests, recovery rate at 65.4%

India crosses 2 crore tests. Tests per million population is about 14.6 lakh with 3.81 lakh tests conducted on Sunday. India's recovery rate rises to 65.8%.

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Congress leader tests positive after returning from Bengaluru

Congress leader R Prasanna Kumar tests positive for COVID19 after returning from Bengaluru, reports ANI. He had attended a party program at Bengaluru on 27 July. He says, "I don't have symptoms. Those who came in contact with me should get tested." 

 

Karti Chidambaram tests positive for COVID-19

Congress MP and son of former union minister P Chidambaram, Karti P Chidambaram took to Twitter on Monday to announce that he had tested positive for COVID-19. "I have just tested positive for COVID. My symptoms are mild and as per medical advice I am under home quarantine," he said.

 

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Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship, could spread along coast

A Norwegian cruise ship line halted all trips and apologized on Monday for procedural errors after an outbreak of corona virus on one ship infected at least four passengers and 36 crew members. The 40 people on the MS Roald Amundsen who tested positive have been admitted to the University Hospital of North Norway in Tromsoe, north of the Arctic Circle, where the ship currently is docked.

"A preliminary evaluation shows that there has been a failure in several of our internal procedures," Hurtigruten CEO Daniel Skjeldam said was quoted as saying by AP. He added the company that sails along Norway's picturesque coast between Bergen in the south and Kirkenes in the north is "now in the process of a full review of all procedures, and all aspects of our own handling." 

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Tripura CM self-isolates after two family members test positive

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb goes in self-isolation after two of his family members test positive. Deb says he is waiting for the results of his Covid-19 test.

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Former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah tests COVID-19 positive

Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah on Tuesday has said that he has tested positive for COVID19 and has been admitted to hospital.

 

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Antibody tests indicate 1.5 million Italians had COVID-19

The results of nationwide antibody tests conducted on nearly 65,000 Italians indicate that some 1.5 million individuals or 2.5 percent of the population have had the corona virus, health officials said on Monday.

That figure is six times the number of confirmed cases in Italy's official COVID-19 tally. The results - viewed with the country's overall death toll of close to 35,000 -align with the 2.3 percent estimated mortality rate of the virus.

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Telangana CPM leader dies of COVID-19

According to media reports, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and former MLA Sunnam Rajaiah dies of coronavirus. Rajaiah had tested positive on Monday.

He died while being shifted from Hyderabad to a COVID-19 Hospital in Vijayawada. He is survived by wife and two sons and two daughters, reports The Hindu.

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COVID-19 INDIA as on : 04 August 2020, 08:00 IST (GMT+5:30) [↑↓ Status change since yesterday]

S. No.	Name of State / UT	Active Cases*		Cured/Discharged/Migrated*		Deaths**
		Total	Change since yesterday	Cumulative	Change since yesterday	Cumulative	Change since yesterday
1	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	557	73	263	21	10	2
2	Andhra Pradesh	76377	1973	88672	5786	1537	63
3	Arunachal Pradesh	692	7	1063	67	3
4	Assam	11738	1323	33428	1044	109	4
5	Bihar	20770	464	38228	1839	330	1
6	Chandigarh	434	34	706	8	19
7	Chhattisgarh	2462	20	7256	265	61	3
8	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	412	4	860	94	2
9	Delhi	10207	149	124254	937	4021	17
10	Goa	1884	75	4876	208	56	3
11	Gujarat	14599	27	47478	974	2508	22
12	Haryana	6263	133	30470	780	440	7
13	Himachal Pradesh	1146	16	1658	99	14
14	Jammu and Kashmir	7567	326	14032	905	407	11
15	Jharkhand	8561	838	4792	110	125	7
16	Karnataka	74477	121	62500	4775	2594	98
17	Kerala	11511	145	15278	815	84	2
18	Ladakh	369	18	1109	1	7
19	Madhya Pradesh	9286	187	24099	549	900	14
20	Maharashtra	147324	1519	287030	10221	15842	266
21	Manipur	1147	60	1766	29	7
22	Meghalaya	633	28	264		5
23	Mizoram	235	11	266	8	0
24	Nagaland	1467	185	657	9	5
25	Odisha	13016	255	23074	1119	207	10
26	Puducherry	1515	70	2411	102	56	4
27	Punjab	6203	239	11882	416	442	19
28	Rajasthan	12802	411	31458	748	715	12
29	Sikkim	390	22	297	8	1
30	Tamil Nadu	56698	300	202283	5800	4241	109
31	Telengana	18708	161	49675	2085	563	23
32	Tripura	1802	60	3675	70	28	1
33	Uttarakhand	3172	102	4538	101	90	4
34	Uttar Pradesh	40191	2168	55393	2225	1778	48
35	West Bengal	21683	575	54818	2088	1731	53
Total#		586298	6941	1230509	44306	38938	803
*(Including foreign Nationals)
**( more than 70% cases due to co-morbidities )
#States wise distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation
#Our figures are being reconciled with ICMR

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India's COVID-19 testing rate lower than other nations: WHO chief scientist 

Noting that lock down was a temporary measure to contain the spread of corona virus, a senior official of the World Health Organisation on Tuesday said India has a low testing rate when compared to some of the countries that are successfully trying to curb it.

"India as a whole, the testing rates are much lower compared to some of the countries, who have done well like Germany, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan. Even the United States is testing a huge number of people. So we need to have some benchmark and every public health department needs to have benchmarks on what is the rate of testing per lakh or per million, what is the test positivity rate," said Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist of WHO.

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Global toll rose to 6.9 lakh as US reports 1,302 new deaths 

The global toll rose to 6,99,134 on Wednesday with the United States adding 1,302 more fatalities to the tally, according to the Johns Hopkins University. The global corona virus count crossed 1.84 crore. As many as 1.10 crore people have recovered.

 

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India's COVID-19 cases over 19 lakh 

India registered over 19 lakh COVID-19 infections on Wednesday after 52,509 more individuals tested positive for the novel corona virus. With 857 more deaths in the past 24 hours, the COVID-19 toll climbed to 39,795, according to the health ministry.

 

 

COVID-19 INDIA as on : 05 August 2020, 08:00 IST (GMT+5:30) [↑↓ Status change since yesterday]

S. No.	Name of State / UT	Active Cases*		Cured/Discharged/Migrated*		Deaths**
		Total	Change since yesterday	Cumulative	Change since yesterday	Cumulative	Change since yesterday
1	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	639	82	277	14	12	2
2	Andhra Pradesh	79104	2727	95625	6953	1604	67
3	Arunachal Pradesh	682	10	1105	42	3
4	Assam	13625	1887	34421	993	115	6
5	Bihar	21093	323	40348	2120	347	17
6	Chandigarh	471	37	715	9	20	1
7	Chhattisgarh	2520	58	7613	357	69	8
8	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	404	8	919	59	2
9	Delhi	9897	310	125226	972	4033	12
10	Goa	1901	17	5114	238	60	4
11	Gujarat	14690	91	48376	898	2533	25
12	Haryana	6122	141	31226	756	448	8
13	Himachal Pradesh	1155	9	1710	52	14
14	Jammu and Kashmir	7123	444	14856	824	417	10
15	Jharkhand	8648	87	5164	372	128	3
16	Karnataka	73854	623	69272	6772	2704	110
17	Kerala	11570	59	16299	1021	87	3
18	Ladakh	400	31	1127	18	7
19	Madhya Pradesh	8756	530	25414	1315	912	12
20	Maharashtra	142458	4866	299356	12326	16142	300
21	Manipur	1197	50	1814	48	7
22	Meghalaya	582	51	330	66	5
23	Mizoram	222	13	282	16	0
24	Nagaland	1741	274	659	2	5
25	Odisha	12982	34	24483	1409	216	9
26	Puducherry	1552	37	2537	126	58	2
27	Punjab	6062	141	12491	609	462	20
28	Rajasthan	13115	313	32832	1374	732	17
29	Sikkim	483	93	299	2	1
30	Tamil Nadu	55152	1546	208784	6501	4349	108
31	Telengana	19568	860	50814	1139	576	13
32	Tripura	1873	71	3725	50	30	2
33	Uttarakhand	3066	106	4847	309	95	5
34	Uttar Pradesh	41222	1031	57271	1878	1817	39
35	West Bengal	22315	632	56884	2066	1785	54
Total#		586244	-54	1282215	51706	39795	857
*(Including foreign Nationals)
**( more than 70% cases due to co-morbidities )
#States wise distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation
#Our figures are being reconciled with ICMR