8.53 am: Haryana recorded 797 new Covid-19 cases and three deaths on Wednesday, taking the state’s case count to 44,024, reports The Indi...

8.53 am: Haryana recorded 797 new Covid-19 cases and three deaths on Wednesday, taking the state’s case count to 44,024, reports The Indian Express. The toll rises to 503.
8.50 am: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research says it is working on “mega labs” that will sequence 1,500 to 3,000 viral genomes at one go to detect the coronavirus, reports The Hindu.
8.47 am: Jharkhand’s Covid-19 tally crossed 20,000 to reach 20,257 on Wednesday, according to PTI. The number of active cases in the state stood at 7,858 and the toll rose to 202.
8.45 am: Odisha’s coronavirus case count crossed the 50,000-mark on Wednesday, with the highest one-day spike of 1,876 new cases, reports PTI. The state’s toll rose to 305 with nine more deaths.
8.41 am: The number of coronavirus cases goes up to 649 in Mizoram. There are 319 active cases in the state, reports ANI, citing the state directorate of information and public relations.
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 pic.twitter.com/ZmR65Pmpeg
— ANI (@ANI) August 13, 2020
8.19 am: Britain on Wednesday changed the way it collates data pn coronavirus deaths, a move that reduced the country’s official death toll by more than 5,000, AP reports. The Department of...