9.40 am: India records 44,879 new coronavirus cases and 547 deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the country now has 87.28 lakh cases a...
9.40 am: India records 44,879 new coronavirus cases and 547 deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the country now has 87.28 lakh cases and the toll has risen to 1,28,668.
9.28 am: TS Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has said that the coronavirus pandemic cannot be used as an excuse to not fulfil the commitments of the developed countries or to undermine environmental conventions, reports ANI.
9.20 am: China’s customs office says that it will suspend imports from India’s Basu International firm for a week after detecting the coronavirus on three samples taken from the outer packaging of frozen cuttlefish, reports Reuters.
9.10 am: Delhi on Thursday recorded 104 more fatalities, the highest in a day in over five months, pushing the toll to 7,332. With 7,053 new coronavirus cases, the tally rose to over 4.67 lakh.
9 am: Here are the top updates from Thursday:
- India recorded 47,905 new coronavirus cases, pushing the tally in the country to 86,83,916, according to the health ministry’s data. The toll rose by 550 to 1,28,121 in 24 hours. There are now 4,89,294 active cases and 80,66,501 recoveries.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a collateral-free loan scheme for 26 sectors that were earmarked as “stressed” by the Reserve Bank of India-constituted...
