COVID-19 news from across the nation

Government of India on Saturday announced guidelines for 'Unlock 4' to be in force till September 30. According to the new rules, metro services will be operational from September 7, as schools and colleges will continue to remain shut. On Saturday, India recorded a recovery rate of 76.74%. Till now 26 lakh people have recuperated from Covid-19.

Hyderabad:India's COVID-19 recoveries have crossed 26 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 76.47 per cent, which the Centre said has been made possible due to the strategic policy of "testing aggressively, tracking comprehensively and treating efficiently" in supervised home-isolation, facility-isolation and hospitals. The case fatality rate (CFR) has also been low when compared to the global average. It is on a continuous decline and currently stands at 1.81 per cent, the ministry underlined on Saturday. With 65,050 patients having recuperated from COVID-19 in 24 hours, the total number of recoveries have surged to 26,48,998

COVID-19 news from across the nation

Government of India on Saturday announced guidelines for 'Unlock 4' to be in force till September 30. Unlock 4.0, the fourth phase of opening of the economy after coronavirus lockdown, will start from September 1.

Delhi

New Delhi:Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal recently said that the number of Covid-19 tests in Delhi would be doubled to 40,000 a day in view of the rise in new cases. Delhi government has prepared the roadmap to ramp up testing and will run an awareness campaign urging people to go for testing.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday that the timing of testing at the nearly 300 Delhi government dispensaries has been extended by two hours and will be from 9 am to 2 pm to allow more people to get tested comfortably.

Maharashtra

Mumbai:An IPS officer who was part of the Mumbai police's team which was probing actor Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case has tested positive for coronavirus infection. The IPS officer and all other members of his family have contracted the viral infection, a senior police official said on Saturday.

Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow:BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj was forcibly home quarantined on Saturday for 14-day for violating COVID norms, a senior district official said. The MP from Uttar Pradesh had come to Giridih, over 200 km from Ranchi, to take part in a programme from Unnao via Dhanbad.

Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Satish Mahana said on Saturday that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus and isolated himself at home. Mahana requested those who have come in contact with him in the past few days to get their coronavirus tests done.

Uttarakhand

Dehradun: Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker Premchand Aggarwal on Saturday quarantined himself after he heard about state BJP president Bansidhar Bhagat testing positive for COVID-19.

Haryana

Chandigarh: Haryana Power Minister Ranjeet Singh Saturday said that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Singh, an Independent MLA supporting the BJP-JJP government, had got his test done just before the one-day Assembly session on Wednesday and his report returned negative.

Goa

Panji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday claimed that coronavirus cases in the coastal state were on the rise since Ganesh Chaturthi and this was because people violated safety norms during the festival. There has been a spike in cases, as people did not wear masks or follow social distancing norms during the festivities, Sawant said.

Kerala

Thiruvananthapuram: For Kerala health authorities, Saturday brought good news as a 110-year-old woman tested negative for Covid-19 and was discharged from the state-run Medical College near here. Pathu (110) thus became the oldest COVID patient to recover in the state. Previously, the state also saw two elderly COVID patients, aged 105 and 103 years, recovering and returning home.

Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s COVID-19 recoveries crossed 70K-mark as another 2888 patients recovered and are being discharged on Saturday. With 2888 patients cured today, Odisha’s COVID-19 recoveries now stand at 70,714, the H&FW Dept said.