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1 min read Last Updated : Jul 29 2020 | 2:41 AM IST
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The number of Covid-19 cases in Telangana crossed 57,000 on Tuesday as 1,610 new cases were reported while nine more deaths pushed the toll to 480.
Acting on the direction of the High Court, the Health Department released media bulletin in a new format, providing more details, including bed occupancy in government and private hospitals and containment zones.
The authorities had changed the format two days ago but the High Court on Monday expressed its dissatisfaction and observed that they were not implementing its orders.
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Assam recorded 1,371 more Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the total to 34,947 as two more people succumbed to the disease in the state, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
The state now has 8,238 active case of the infection, he tweeted.
"Alert ~ 1371 new Covid cases detected in Assam out of 22876 tests done in last 24 hrs. Positivity rate continues to be low at 5.9 per cent," Sarma said in a tweet.
Out of the new cases, the highest number of 295 was reported in Kamrup Metropolitan district, which primarily comprises the Guwahati city, followed by 221 in Kamrup district, he said.
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A sero-surveillance study done in Mumbai has revealed that 57 per cent of slum population and 16 per cent of non-slum residents in three civic wards had developed antibodies, indicating many people would already be affected by Covid-19 than the official tally suggests.
The sero-surveillance started on June 3 and 6,936 samples out of an estimated 8,870 were collected from slum and non-slum population of three civic wards - R-North, M-West and F-North - in the first half of July.
It showed high proportion of asymptomatic Covid-19 infection in the city.
The study revealed that 57 per cent of slum population and 16 per cent of non-slum residents in these civic wards had developed antibodies, the BMC said on Tuesday.
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The Telangana government would provide all facilities to treat Covid-19 patients in respective districts, State Health Minister Etala Rajender said on Tuesday.
The health minister and Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao, who held a meeting with officials in Warangal on checking the spread of Covid-19, said the officials should place the indents for the purpose, an official release said here.
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Info Edge (India) Ltd on Tuesday said it has invested about $6.33 million (about Rs 47.3 crore) in Bulbulive Shopping Network Pte Ltd.
Bulbul is a video and livestream-led commerce platform that aims to make online shopping engaging and social while offering consumers the opportunity to discover new products.
"The IE Venture Fund I has acquired/agreed to acquire 416 ordinary shares and 2002 series A1 compulsorily redeemable convertible preferred shares, through a mix of primary and secondary mode of acquisition," Info Edge said in a regulatory filing.
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The president of Belarus says he tested positive for the coronavirus and is asymptomatic.
President Alexander Lukashenko made the announcement Tuesday at a meeting with security officials, the state news agency Belta reported. He had previously dismissed concerns about the coronavirus as psychosis.
Today you are meeting with a person who managed to survive the coronavirus on his feet. Doctors made such a conclusion yesterday: asymptomatic, he said.
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Drugmaker Pfizer Inc is in concurrent talks with the European Union as well as several of its member states to sell them the Covid-19 vaccine candidate it is developing, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said in an interview on Tuesday.
"We are negotiating with the EU because that would be much easier. But also we are having extensive discussions with several member states, just in case we can't find agreement with the EU," Bourla said.
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The number of Covid-19 cases in Gujarat's Ahmedabad district crossed the 26,000 mark and reached 26,032 on Tuesday with addition of 156 patients, state Health department said.
The death toll rose by four to 1,583.
With 167 patients--147 from the city and 20 from rural ares--being discharged in the day, the count of recovered cases in the district went up to 21,001, it said.
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French luxury group Kering said second-quarter comparable sales had plunged by 43.7 per cent due to the coronavirus pandemic, adding it could not provide a forecast for the second half of the year despite an encouraging recovery in Asia.
The sales drop at the conglomerate that owns Gucci was a touch better than analyst expectations, with those at UBS citing a consensus for a 46 per cent fall.
Rival LVMH managed to limit its own sales decline to 38 per cent, though its operating margins were hit hard, limping in at 9 per cent while Kering's shrank to 17.7 per cent.
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Topics :CoronavirusLockdownDharavi SlumWorld Health Organization
First Published: Jul 28 2020 | 7:23 AM IST
