8.25 am: Sikkim reports 19 new cases, taking the state’s tally to 273, says Director-General-cum-Secretary, Health, Pema T Bhutia. 8.12 a...
8.25 am: Sikkim reports 19 new cases, taking the state’s tally to 273, says Director-General-cum-Secretary, Health, Pema T Bhutia.
8.12 am: Australia’s Victoria state reports 363 new coronavirus cases.
8.11 am: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says coronavirus restrictions kill economy, reports Reuters. “Without salaries and jobs, people die,” he adds. “Lockdown kills.”
8.10 am: Mainland China reports 16 fresh infections, according to Reuters.
8.08 am: The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports nearly 75,000 new cases, according to Reuters.
8.05 am: Union health ministry asks West Bengal to step up testing, reports News18. “To keep the mortality less than 1%, weekly case fatality needs to be monitored and below action points need to be taken,” Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary in the ministry, writes to West Bengal Health Secretary NS Nigam.
7.59 am: The Karnataka government has also ordered private hospitals in Bengaluru to reserve 50% beds for the treatment of coronavirus patients.
7.56 am: The Karnataka government asks hospitals in Bengaluru to admit only patients with moderate or severe symptoms, reports NDTV. “…Encourage asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients to get admitted in Covid care centres or be in home isolation,” reads the order.
7.40 am: Assam’s tally rises to 22,981 with 1,117 new cases while the toll touches 53 after two more people die, says Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
📌Alert ~ 1117 new #COVID19 ve+ patients in Assam today, with 515...
