Coronavirus LIVE Updates: With a record single-day increase of 66,999 cases, India’s COVID-19 tally reached to 23,96,637, while the number of patients who have recovered from the disease are 16,95,982, pushing the recovery rate to 70.77 per cent in the country. According to the Union health ministry, the death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 47,033 with 942 people succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours, health ministry data updated at 8 am showed.
While the case fatality rate in the country has declined to 1.96 per cent. Presently there are 6,53,622 active COVID-19 cases in the country, which accounts for 27.27 per cent of its total caseload. India crossed the 20-lakh mark in terms of COVID-19 cases on August 7.
Globally, around 20 million people have been infected with the novel coronavirus, including 747,845 fatalites. The United States continues to remain the worst affected after Brazil and India.
While race for an effective vaccine worldwide, Russia has approved a coronavirus vaccine for public use without the final phase of human trials.
Madhya Pradesh: Gyms will about re-opened in Bhopal amid several protocals. A gym owner told news agency ANI, “We are checking our customer’s body temperature, asking them to download Aarogya Setu app, to wear mask or shield and only allowing few people at a time to maintain social distance.”
Puducherry: Villupuram MP Ravikumar writes a letter to Union Health Minister Harshwardhan asking him to upgrade the #COVID19 ward at the Pondicherry JIPMER Hospital. The letter reads, “Request you to take immediate steps to increase the capacity of COVID-19 ward to 1000 beds.”