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56 mn Indians may have turned poor in 2020 due to pandemic: World Bank

"The global goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is likely to be missed: by then, about 600 million people will remain in abject poverty. A major course correction is needed," Indermit Gill said.

Delhi records 57 new Covid-19 cases, positivity rate at 2.19%, shows data

Delhi on Thursday reported 57 new Covid cases with a positivity rate of 2.19 per cent, according to the data issued by the city health department here. No Covid-related fatality was reported, the department said in its latest bulletin. With the new cases, Delhi's COVID-19 tally has climbed to 20,03,803 while the death toll remains unchanged at 26,503, it said. The new cases were detected from 2,606 tests conducted the previous day, it said. Delhi on Wednesday saw 96 Covid cases with a positivity rate of 1.42 per cent. The capital logged 74 Covid cases with a positivity rate of 1.07 per cent on Tuesday. On Monday, it reported one Covid-related fatality and 39 new cases with a positivity rate of 1.56 per cent. The city on Sunday logged 76 cases with a positivity rate of 1.12 per cent. On Saturday, it saw 92 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.20 per cent, while it recorded 87 infections with a positivity rate of 1.19 per cent, and one fatality due to it on Friday. The numbe

Maharashtra logs 198 new Covid cases, 1 death; active tally down to 2,523

Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 198 new coronavirus cases, while one more patient succumbed to the infection in the state, the health department said. With these additions, the state's overall COVID-19 tally rose to 81,23,453, while the death toll increased to 1,48,350, said the department in a bulletin. On Wednesday, the state had recorded 416 cases and zero fatality. Mumbai registered 80 cases and accounted for the lone coronavirus-related death in the state in the last 24 hours, said the bulletin. The case fatality rate in the state stood at 1.82 per cent, while the coronavirus recovery rate was 98.14 per cent. The department said 328 patients recovered from the coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 79,72,580 and leaving the state with 2,523 active case. It said 10,534 new coronavirus tests were conducted in the state, pushing up their total count to 8,48,96,526. Nashik district in north Maharashtra added 12 new patients, taking the ..

Mumbai sees 80 new Covid-19 cases, 1 death, 99 recoveries in a day

Mumbai on Thursday reported 80 COVID-19 cases and one death, which took the tally here to 11,50,908 and the toll to 19,734, a civic official said. The addition to the tally was below the 100-mark after two days, with Wednesday seeing 127 cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official pointed out. Of the new cases, only three are symptomatic, the official added. The recovery count rose by 99 and touched 11,30,399, leaving the metropolis with an active caseload of 775, he said. As per BMC data, the recovery count stood at 98.2 per cent and the overall growth rate of cases between September 29 and October 5 was 0.009 per cent. So far, 1,83,40,080 coronavirus tests have been conducted in Mumbai, including 3,370 in the last 24 hours, lower than the 6,713 samples examined in the preceding 24-hour period. The caseload doubling time is 8,468 days, as per official data.

Covid may hamper Cambodia's bid to be upper-middle income state by 2030: PM

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said that the Covid-19 pandemic may hinder Cambodia's ambitious journey toward an upper-middle income country by 2030 and a high-income country by 2050

Airlines face difficulty in operating at full capacity amid low demand

The travel sentiment was impacted by several waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, people postponed travel plans to protect their savings. In this, high travel fares impacted the demand negatively

Data story: India logs 2,529 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,745

India has added 21,103 cases in the past 7 days

Data story: India records 2,468 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,733

India has added 22,846 cases in the past 7 days

Latest news LIVE: India logs 2,529 Covid-19 cases, 4 deaths in 24 hours

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Maharashtra records 416 new Covid cases, zero death; active tally at 2,654

Maharashtra on Wednesday reported 416 new COVID-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 81,23,255, while no fresh death linked to the infection was registered in the state, the health department said. The death toll remained unchanged at 1,48,349. The state has witnessed a slight rise in new cases as compared to Tuesday, when it had reported 407 COVID-19 infections and two fatalities. Of the new cases, the highest 209 were registered in the Mumbai administrative circle followed by Pune (110), Nagpur (36), Akola (17), Nashik (13), Kolhapur (12), Latur (10) and Aurangabad (9) circles, a health department bulletin said. An administrative circle consists of multiple districts. The cumulative number of recuperated cases rose to 79,72,252 after 477 patients recovered from the infection in the past 24 hours, said the bulletin. Maharashtra has 2,654 active COVID-19 cases and of these, the highest - 795 - are in Mumbai, followed by 733 and 307 in Pune and Thane districts, respectively, it

Mumbai logs 127 Covid-19 cases, no fresh death; active tally at 795

Mumbai on Wednesday reported 127 new coronavirus cases, taking the overall tally to 11,50,828, while no fresh death due to the infection was recorded in the metropolis, the city civic body said. The death toll remained unchanged at 19,733. The city has reported more than 100 COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day. On Tuesday, the financial capital had logged 155 COVID-19 cases, but zero fatalities. The new COVID-19 cases were detected after 6,713 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 1,83,36,710, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin said. A day ago, 4,387 coronavirus tests were conducted in the city. The tally of recuperated cases rose to 11,30,300 after 116 more patients recovered from the respiratory illness in the last 24 hours, said the bulletin. The city has a coronavirus recovery rate of 98.2 per cent and now is left with 795 active cases. Of the 127 new COVID-19 cases, only 9 patients were symptomatic, according

WTO warns 'darkened' trade outlook could deteriorate further in 2023

The World Trade Organisation is predicting global trade volumes will grow a lackluster 1% next year as crises and challenges weigh on markets, including high energy prices, rising interest rates and uncertainties about Chinese manufacturing output amid the lingering COVID-19 pandemic. The Geneva-based trade body said Wednesday that the amount of goods shipped between countries are expected to rise 3.5% this year, up from the 3% that WTO anticipated in its first forecast for the year in April. In 2023, the prediction is for such trade volumes to grow just 1%, down from the 3.4% expected previously. The risks are certainly to the downside next year, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told reporters at its headquarters. This year, the higher predicted increase in trade volumes stems from better data that arrived in the middle of the year, contributing to a clearer forecast, and a boom in trade volumes from oil- and gas-producing countries in the Middle East as supplies from Russ

23% of SMBs remain closed in India as pandemic wanes, says Meta Inc

A Meta (formerly Facebook) survey of small- and medium-sized business (SMB) leaders in India has revealed that 23% of SMBs remain closed as the Covid-19 pandemic wanes

Cleartrip 2.0: The second coming of the 16-year-old travel company

Cleatrip, which was acquired by Flipkart in a distress sale last year now becoming one of the fastest-growing online travel platforms

Latest news LIVE: TRS renamed as Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), says KCR

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One in every two South Koreans have been infected with Covid-19: Report

Nearly one in two South Koreans have been infected with Covid-19, with the reinfection rate on the rise, the government said Wednesday

New Zealand could face another Covid-19 wave before year-end: Report

New Zealand could be hit by another wave of coronavirus before the end of the year, a Covid modeler warned

India's support to poor during Covid remarkable, says World Bank president

India's support to the poor and needy during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis is remarkable, and other nations should adopt the Indian move of targeted cash transfer instead of broad subsidies, World Bank President David Malpass said on Wednesday. COVID-19 marked the end of a phase of global progress in poverty reduction. During the three decades that preceded its arrival, more than 1 billion people escaped extreme poverty. The incomes of the poorest nations gained ground, Malpass said in the forward to a study -- Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report -- released by the World Bank. The poorest people bore the steepest costs of the pandemic -- income losses averaged four per cent for the poorest 40 per cent, double the losses of the wealthiest 20 per cent of the income distribution. Global inequality rose, as a result, for the first time in decades, as per the report. Malpass in the forward to the report said the rise in poverty in poorer countries reflects economies that are more informa

Maharashtra's Thane records 40 new Covid-19 cases; active tally at 302

As many as 40 new COVID-19 cases have been detected in Maharashtra's Thane district, taking its infection count to 7,45,189, a health official said on Wednesday. With the addition of the latest cases on Tuesday, there are currently 302 active COVID-19 cases in Thane, which comes under the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, he said. The death toll in Thane remained unchanged at 11,962, he said, adding that the recovery count has reached 7,33,653.

14.8 million US children infected with Covid-19 since pandemic's onset

Nearly 14.8 million children in the US have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association