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DATA STORY: India sees highest single-day recovery, first drop in active cases since Aug 25

With 95880 new daily recoveries, the most in a day so far, India has overtaken the US by number of cured cases and become number 1. The country's recovery rate has improved to 79.28%

At 4.2 mn, India has most number of patients to recover from Covid-19

The national recovery rate has increased to nearly 80 per cent even though the country's total cases exceeded 5.3 million

Puducherry adds 543 new coronavirus cases, 11 deaths take toll to 448

Puducherry reported 543 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday taking the overall tally in the union territory to 22,456

India overtakes USA to record highest number of coronavirus recoveries

India has overtaken the United States to register the highest number of Covid-19 recoveries in the world, informed Union Health Ministry on Saturday

Covid-19 Factoid: India accounts for most number of recoveries in the world

Second time in 26 days since August 25 that the country's daily recoveries were more than new cases added.

Coronavirus update: Case count in Pune rises by 4,093, death toll by 85

The coronavirus infection count in Pune district of Maharashtra reached 244,516 with the single-day spike of 4,093 cases

Global coronavirus update: Cases top 30.3 million, says Johns Hopkins

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 30.3 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 950,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University

Brazil coronavirus update: Covid-19 death toll crosses 135,000-mark

Another 858 Covid-19 patients have died in Brazil, raising the country's death toll to 135,793, the Brazilian Ministry of Health said

All safety measures being taken to reduce risk of Covid-19: Patna airport

Authorities at Patna's Jay Prakash Narayan Airport are making efforts to ensure that all passengers are screened and social distancing norms being adhered to.

HCL Foundation sets up Covid-19 facilities at LNJP and DDU hospital

In a noble gesture, the HCL foundation has helped set-up isolation and treatment units for the Covid-19 disease at two government hospitals here

Indore records highest single-day spike of 408 new Covid-19 cases

Indore on Friday witnessed the highest single-day spike with 408 new COVID-19 cases detected, according to the office of the CMO

Second wave of coronavirus coming to United Kingdom: Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson warned that a second wave of Covid-19 in Britain is "coming in", and his government may need to "intensify things to help bring the rate of infections down"

Expect to have enough Covid vaccines for every American by Apr 2021: Trump

US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) said that his administration expects to have enough doses of coronavirus vaccines for every American citizen by April 2021

France coronavirus update: New daily record of 13,215 Covid cases reported

A further 13,215 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in France, making it the highest number of infections recorded in a single day since the coronavirus outbreak

Odisha coronavirus update: 4,180 new cases, recovery of 4,101 patients

Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 1,71,341 on Friday as 4,180 more people tested positive for the infection, while 13 fresh fatalities took the state's coronavirus death toll to 682

Sikkim coroanvirus update: Three more Covid-19 fatalities, 29 new cases

A female health worker was among three more COVID-19 fatalities in Sikkim, where the death toll mounted to 25, an official said on Friday.

Coronavirus: Canada, US agree to extend cross-border closure to October 21

Canada and the US have agreed to extend the cross-border closure to non-essential travels for another month until October 21 to slow the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic

Karnataka coronavirus update: Covid-19 case tally crosses 500,000-mark

With 8,626 fresh cases across the state on Friday, Karnataka's Covid-19 tally crossed the 5 lakh mark, while 10,949 people were discharged after treatment in the last 24 hours

High Court seeks details from Tripura govt on coronavirus preparedness

The Tripura High Court on Friday sought more detail on the states' preparedness and measures undertaken to fight the novel coronavirus

Kerala coronavirus update: Cases cross 4,000 for second successive day

Kerala's new Covid cases crossed 4,000 for the second consecutive day on Friday, officials said