9.00 am: The health ministry says India’s positivity rate is constantly falling with aggressive testing. India has exponentially scaled ...
9.00 am: The health ministry says India’s positivity rate is constantly falling with aggressive testing.
India has exponentially scaled up its testing capacity from one in January to more than 10.65 cr at present. The very high testing has resulted in the continuously falling positivity rate. It is 7.54% presently: Ministry of Health pic.twitter.com/KpZlyhVxBZ
— ANI (@ANI) October 30, 2020
8.55 am: The International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecasts for Britain on Thursday, AP reports. It said the country’s economy will shrink by 10.4% this year, instead of 9.8% .IMF attributed the downgrade to the surge in coronavirus cases in the counttry.
8.52 am: Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee’s health remained critical on Thursday, according to PTI. His doctors, however, said that he is responding to treatment.
Chatterjee was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata on October 6 after he tested positive for the coronavirus.
8.44 am: The World Health Organization is planning to set up a compensation fund for citizens in poor countries, who might suffer side-effects from coronavirus vaccines, Reuters reported on Thursday. The scheme could cover 92 low-income countries.
8.38 am: Odisha reports 1,617 new cases and 13 fresh fatalities. The state now has 13,711 active coronavirus cases.
8.35 am: Here are the top updates from Thursday
- India’s coronavirus tally rose to 80,40,203 on Thursday...
