Coronavirus update: Showing no signs of a relief, India has recorded 97,894 Covid-19 cases in just 24 hours, taking its tally past the 5.1-million mark. With this, India is rapidly nearing the US tally of 6.8 million. The death toll has risen by 1,139 to 83,230. In the past seven days alone, India has recorded 652,355 coronavirus cases. The worst-hit states are Maharashtra (1,121,221) Andhra Pradesh (592,760), Tamil Nadu (519,860), Karnataka (484,990), and UP (330,265). Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, meanwhile, is reported to have tested positive for coronavirus.
Delhi recorded its highest ever spike of 4,473 Covid cases, pushing the caseload to 230,269. Maharashtra and West Bengal recorded 23,365 and 4,123 news, cases respectively. West Bengal's tally has jumped to 212,383. Uttarakhand recorded 21,401 new cases in the past one month. Significantly, this is 64 per cent of the total cases reported so far in the hill state.
Coronavirus vaccine update: Russia's RDIF on Wednesday said said it would sell 100 million does of Sputnik V to Dr Reddy's Laboratories for distribution in India.
World coronavirus update: The global tally of coronavirus cases now stands at 30,024,106. While 21,776,977 have recovered, 944,643 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 6,826,800 cases. It is followed by India, which has 5,118,253 cases, Brazil (4,421,686) and Russia (1,079,519 ).
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01:13 PM
Potential coronavirus drug azithromycin may up risk of cardiac events
New research adds to the growing body of evidence that potential Covid-19 drug azithromycin -- a commonly-prescribed antibiotic -- may increase the risk for cardiac events in patients.
The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, found that if the azithromycin drug is taken with certain other drugs that affect the electrical functioning of the heart, then cardiac events increased.
"Our findings should give researchers and clinicians looking at azithromycin as a potential treatment for Covid-19 pause," said study author and Indian-origin researcher Haridarshan Patel from the University of Illinois Chicago in the US.
"We found that if taken together with drugs that affect the electrical impulses of the heart, the combination is linked with a 40 per cent increase in cardiac events, including fainting, heart palpitations and even cardiac arrest," Patel added.
01:12 PM
Odisha coronavius update: 4,241 Covid -19 cases, 13 fatalities reported
Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 1,67,161 on Thursday as 4,241 more people tested positive for the infection, while 13 fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 669, a health official said.
The state had reported its highest single-day spike of 4,270 coronavirus cases on Wednesday.
As many as 2,502 new cases were detected in quarantine centres, while 1,739 people tested positive for the infection during contact tracing, he said.
12:57 PM
Twitter suspends account of whistleblower who said Covid virus was made in Wuhan lab
Twitter has suspended the social media account of the Chinese virologist who claimed that coronavirus was developed in a Wuhan laboratory. Li-Meng Yan had recently made headlines when she claimed to have proof to show that the deadly virus was made in a Wuhan lab. She has reportedly fled China after becoming a whistleblower in the case.
12:56 PM
India coronavirus recovery rate at 78.64%
12:42 PM
China claims approximately 90,000 sq. kms. of Indian territory in the Eastern Sector of the India-China boundary in Arunachal Pradesh: Rajnath
China claims approximately 90,000 sq. kms. of Indian territory in the Eastern Sector of the India-China boundary in Arunachal Pradesh: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Rajya Sabha. The deployment of troops along the LAC by China is against the 92-93 agreements, he added.
12:19 PM
Karnataka has reported 9725 cases, to take its tally to 484990.
12:06 PM
Sikkim reports 49 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the state's tally to 2,221: Officials
11:47 AM
Coronavirus India update: Five most affected states by cases
Maharashtra (1121221)
Andhra Pradesh (592760)
Tamil Nadu (519860)
Karnataka (484990)
Uttar Pradesh (330265)
11:46 AM
IMA criticizes Centre for not maintaining statistics of doctors who died due to COVID-19
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday criticized the Union government for not maintaining the statistics of doctors who have sacrificed their lives while treating the patients of COVID-19.
The IMA said this in response against the statement made in Parliament by Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, who acknowledged the contribution of healthcare workers during this pandemic, but the statistics of healthcare workers who died due to COVID-19 were missing from the 19th paragraph of the statement on September 14.
According to the IMA, the government concealed the morbidity and mortality of doctors, nurses and healthcare workers during COVID-19 management.
11:33 AM
Centre has no data on doctors' death due to coronavirus in India, says AAP
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