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DATA STORY: India's doubling time for total corona cases increases to 40.4 days

With 79292 new daily recoveries, India's recovery rate has improved to 78.28%; the fatality rate remains at 1.64%

Falling oil prices, raging pandemic have exposed weaknesses of the wealthy

Covid-19 is not the Black Death, but its impact may be civilizational, weakening the mighty, raising up the modest, and rearranging axes of power across the globe

Not only Covid, research underway to find vaccine for three other diseases

Deaths from these three diseases could almost double over the next year as a result of disruptions to health care in the face of Covid-19

Indore reports highest single-day spike of 386 cases, tally reaches 17,547

With the highest single-day spike of 386 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, Indore has reported total 17,547 cases, said the office of the CMO said

With 414 new Covid-19 patients, Puducherry reports total 20,226 cases

Puducherry reported 414 new Coivd-19 cases on Monday, taking the total number of cases to 20,226

Odisha to close down coroanvirus care centres, homes due to nil occupancy

Odisha Government has decided to close the Covid Care Centres (CCCs), Temporary Medical Centres (TMCs) and Covid Care Homes (CCHs) across the State due to nil occupancy

Coronaviurs tests in Delhi highest in the world: CM Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the corona tests conducted in the national capital is highest in the world with 3,057 tests conducted here per day per million population

Telangana's daily coronavirus case count drops with weekly dip in tests

The daily count of Covid-19 cases in Telangana dropped to 1,417 with the weekly dip in testing level

Karnataka coronavirus update: Recoveries outnumber new Covid-19 cases

With 8,865 persons getting discharged on Monday, recoveries outnumbered 8,244 new Covid cases across Karnataka, while 119 succumbed to the dreaded virus in the last 24 hours

Assam's coroanvirus death toll mounts to 482 with 13 more fatalities

Assam reported 13 more Covid-19 fatalities, pushing the death count to 482, even as the coronavirus tally surged to 144,166 with 2,403 fresh cases

Andhra Pradesh reports fewer Covid cases at 7,000 as recoveries outnumber

Andhra Pradesh has registered fewer new Covid cases than usual with 7,956 infections, increasing the state's tally to 575,000, even as the 9,764 recoveries outnumbered new cases on Monday

World Lymphoma Awareness Day: Covid-19 can be fatal for lymphoma patients

No study has exactly pinpointed the exact adverse impact of Covid-19 virus on lymphoma/cancer patients but it is widely accepted that they are among high-risk groups

Jharkhand MLAs being tested for coronavirus ahead of monsoon session

Covid-19 tests are being held in Jharkhand assembly ahead of monsoon session which is slated to start from September 18

Pune coronavirus update: District records 2,481 Covid cases; 79 more die

Pune district reported 2,481 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking its count to 227,307, a health official said

Not enough Covid-19 vaccines for everybody till 2024 end: Adar Poonawalla

Poonawalla estimates that the world will need 15 billion doses of the vaccine if it is taken in two steps

Mumbai's dine-out plans need finishing touches as eateries await reopening

Restaurant owners and associations say the government should speed up the process, given that Maharashtra is the only state that has not permitted eateries and bars to reopen

Gyms open after six months but the road to recovery looks painful

For months, gym owners in Delhi had been urging the Centre to allow them to resume business

Deepak Kochhar tests positive for Covid-19, admitted to AIIMS Delhi

Kochhar was arrested last week by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with ICICI Bank-Videocon money laundering case

AstraZeneca-Oxford's coronavirus vaccine trials resume in Brazil

AstraZeneca paused global trials temporarily last week after an unexplained illness in a participant in Britain.

2,540 new corona cases in Kerala, no schools in Sept-Oct: Pinarayi Vijayan

As many as 2,540 new coronavirus cases were reported in Kerala on Monday, even as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan ruled out the reopening of educational institutions either in September or October