23:09 June 18
One more COVID-19 death in Jharkhand, toll rises to 11
Jharkhand reported one more COVID-19 fatality on Thursday, taking the coronavirus death toll in the state to 11, a government bulletin said.
This is the second death in the last two days with the mortality rate of the state standing at 0.57 per cent compared to the national rate of 3.33 per cent, it said.
23:08 June 18
COVID-19 cases in MP rise to 11,426; death toll reaches 486
The COVID-19 case count in Madhya Pradesh climbed to 11,426 on Thursday with 182 fresh cases, including 57 from Indore, the worst-hit district in the state, the health department officials said.
23:08 June 18
82 new coronavirus patients in Chhattisgarh, count 1,946
The number of COVID-19 cases in Chhattisgarh increased to 1,946 after 82 more people tested positive on Thursday, a health official said.
23:08 June 18
Maharashtra adds 3,752 new COVID-19 cases; 100 patients die
Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally increased by 3,752 cases to 1,20,504 on Thursday, while 100 more patients succumbed to the infection, said a health
department official.
23:07 June 18
Punjab reports 5 coronavirus deaths, 118 fresh cases
Five people succumbed to the novel coronavirus in Punjab on Thursday, pushing the death toll to 83 while 118 fresh cases raised the virus count to 3,615 in the state, according to a medical bulletin.
23:07 June 18
Ahmedabad: Coronavirus cases reach 17,946; death toll 1,275
The coronavirus positive cases in Ahmedabad grew to 17,946 after 317 people tested positive for the infection on Thursday, the state health department said.
23:06 June 18
12 more COVID-19 deaths in West Bengal, toll rises to 518
West Bengal reported 12 more COVID-19 fatalities on Thursday, taking the coronavirus death toll in the state to 518, a state health bulletin said.
All of the 12 deaths "were due to the comorbidities where COVID-19 was incidental", the bulletin said.
20:47 June 18
Dharavi records 28 new COVID-19 cases; no fresh death
Mumbai's slum colony of Dharavi reported 28 new cases of COVID-19, taking the tally to 2,134 on Thursday, the city civic body said.
A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said no fresh death was reported from the slum-dominated area in the past 24 hours, keeping the toll constant at 78.
20:46 June 18
Six health workers among 18 fresh coronavirus cases in UP's Muzaffarnagar
Eighteen people, six of them health workers, tested positive for COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district on Thursday, taking the virus count to 217, officials said.
20:46 June 18
Gujarat's COVID-19 count up by 510 to 25,660; death toll 1,592
Gujarat reported 510 new coronavirus positive cases on Thursday, taking the state's tally to 25,660, while the fatality count mounted to 1,592
with the death of 31 more patients, the health department said.
20:46 June 18
Manipur reports 54 new COVID-19 cases, tally rises to 606
Manipur reported 54 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the northeast state's tally to 606, officials said on Thursday.
All the 54 people who tested positive for COVID-19 had returned from other states, they said.
20:45 June 18
70 new COVID-19 cases in Maha's Aurangabad, tally now 3,106
Seventy more people tested coronavirus positive in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra on Thursday, which pushed its overall count of patients to 3,106, an official said.
Of the total number of cases, 1,709 patients have been discharged from hospitals after recovery, the official said. "Thirty-one females and 39 males tested positive on Thursday, which took the tally to 3,106," he said. The virus has so far claimed 166 lives in the district, he added.
20:45 June 18
COVID-19: 210 new cases and 12 deaths in Karnataka
With 12 coronavirus related fatalities reported on Thursday, the toll mounted to 114 in Karnataka, where 210 new cases were confirmed, taking the
total number of infections to 7,944. The day also saw 179 patients getting discharged in the state after recovery.
20:44 June 18
49 more die of COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu; over 2,000 new cases reported
Forty nine people have lost their lives due to the deadly coronavirus in Tamil Nadu, which also registered more than 2,000 fresh cases for the second
consecutive day on Thursday, the health department said.
A bulletin issued by the department said 26,736 samples were tested on Thursday alone and the total number of fresh cases stood at 2,141.
With 49 more fatalities, the toll due to the infection in the state rose to 625, it said
20:44 June 18
Excise personnel dies of COVID-19 in Kerala; 97 new cases reported
The COVID-19 tally in Kerala rose to 2,794 on Thursday with 97 fresh cases being reported, while the toll touched 21 after an excise department
personnel succumbed to the disease. With 89 recoveries today, 1,359 people are presently under treatment and 1.26 people are under observation,Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.
20:43 June 18
A record 202 new coronavirus detected in Navi Mumbai; 9 die
A record 202 persons, including half a dozen children aged below 10, tested positive for coronavirus in Navi Mumbai, taking the tally to 4,391 on
Thursday, while nine more patients succumbed to the infection, an official said.
20:43 June 18
Andhra Pradesh reports 425 fresh COVID-19 cases, tally rises to 7,496
The COVID-19 surge continued unabated in Andhra Pradesh with a record single day high of 425 new cases being added, taking the overall tally to 7,496 on Thursday. The coronavirus toll also continued its upward trend as two more patients died in Krishna district, making it a total of 92 so far in the state, according to the latest bulletin.
20:42 June 18
U'khand's COVID-19 tally reaches 2,079
The number of COVID-19 cases in Uttarakhand rose to 2,079 on Thursday with 57 more people testing positive.
Twenty-eight fresh cases were detected in Dehradun district, 14 in Pauri, five in Haridwar, four in Rudraprayag, three in Chamoli and one each in Almora, Uttarkashi and Tehri, according to a state health department bulletin.
16:15 June 18
16 residents of slum in Kolkata test positive for COVID-19
At least 16 slum dwellers in the city's Bagbazar area here have tested positive for COVID-19, following which they were sent to a quarantine centre on the
outskirts of the metropolis, sources in the state health department said on Thursday.
Those that came in contact with the COVID-19 patients, including family members, have been sent to another isolation unit in neighbouring Howrah district.
Locals in the area have been advised home quarantine, in accordance with the rules applicable to all containment zones in Bengal, the sources said.
16:15 June 18
Odisha reports 174 fresh cases of COVID-19, total positive case rises to 4,512
Odisha reported 174 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, taking the total to 4,512 in the state, officials said. Of the fresh cases, 146 were reported from different
quarantine centres where people returning from other parts of the country are lodged, they said.
16:14 June 18
J&K: 7 die of COVID-19 in 24 hrs; death toll rises to 71
Jammu and Kashmir reported seven COVID-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities due to coronavirus in the union territory to 71, officials said on Thursday.
14:33 June 18
Nine more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, taking the northeastern state's tally to 130, Health Minister Dr R Lalthangliana said on Thursday.
South Mizoram's Lawngtlai and Siaha districts have reported four new cases each while one case was reported from Lunglei district, he said.
Of the new cases, four each had returned from Delhi and Haryana while one had come back from Maharashtra, the minister added.
14:30 June 18
Two more people have died due to COVID-19 in Jammu city raising the number of fatalities in Jammu and Kashmir to 71, officials said on Thursday.
A 65-year-old coronavirus positive man, who had returned from New Delhi along with three family members, died at the Government Medical College (GMC) in Jammu on Wednesday night, officials said.
14:29 June 18
With 57 persons testing positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the case count in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district has gone up to 4,191, a health official here said on Thursday.
14:29 June 18
Rajasthan registered 10 COVID-19 deaths and 84 positive cases of coronavirus on Thursday, according to an official report.
With this, the number of fatalities due to coronavirus in the state has gone up to 323, while 13,626 patients have tested positive.
14:28 June 18
A 72-year-old man was erroneously declared as having tested positive for COVID-19 in Meghalaya, which officials have attributed to a mechanical error.
The man, from Umsamlem village in Ri-Bhoi district, was declared a COVID-19 patient on June 9 after his samples tested positive for the infection in an RT-PCR test, an official said.
14:27 June 18
An excise staff died due to COVID-19 in Kannur district, taking the death toll in the state to 21.
Sunil Kumar (28), who was admitted to Pariyaram medical college died on Thursday morning.
He was a driver at the Mattannur excise unit.
11:52 June 18
The number of novel coronavirus cases in Arunachal Pradesh has crossed the 100-mark with four Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) personnel testing positive for the infection, a senior health official said on Thursday.
The four new cases have taken the virus count in the northeastern state to 103, of which 93 are active cases and ten persons have recovered, he said.
09:52 June 18
With the highest single-day increase of 12,881 COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's coronavirus count has reached 3,66,946 on Thursday.
This includes 1,60,384 active cases and 1,94,325 cured, discharged and migrated patients, according to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.
Meanwhile, with 334 deaths being reported due to the infection, the toll due to the virus stands at 12,237 in the country.
There is a big increase in the number of confirmed cases in the country today as compared to the recent days when the spike had been limited to under 11,000 cases.
Maharashtra with 1,16,752 cases continues to be the worst-affected state in the country with 51,935 active cases while 59,166 patients have been cured and discharged in the state so far. The toll due to COVID-19 stands at 5,651 in the state.
The number of confirmed cases in Tamil Nadu also crossed the 50 thousand mark on Thursday and reached 50,193. The national capital is the third-worst affected by the infection in the country with the count reaching 47,102 today.
07:23 June 18
As many as 43 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Tripura, out of total 1,250 samples tested, as per information provided by Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb.
The chief minister tweeted the information adding that majority of the COVID-19 patients have a travel history and the others were in contact with coronavirus-infected patients.
Among them, three were from 34 Battalion BSF, six from Maharani BSF Camp, four from 120 Battalion BSF, 26 from 74 Battalion BSF, and four civilians.
The count includes 30 cases in the West District, 10 cases in the Gomati Dist, two cased in the South District and one case in the Sepahijala District.
06:20 June 18
Coronavirus updates
Mathura: The chief medical superintendent of the district hospital tested positive for COVID-19 here on Wednesday, taking the number of infections to 181, an official said.
"The chief medical superintendent of the district hospital has been sent for treatment in K D Medical College" DM Sarvagya Ram Mishra said.
He said, the contacts of the medical superintendent, including staff of the district hospital, are being traced.
They would be sent for quarantine and their sampled will be collected for testing, the district magistrate said.
So far, 87 people have recovered from the infection, leaving 87 active cases in Mathura district, he said, adding seven coronavirus patients have died.
Of the 5,824 samples taken so far, the results of 5,215 came out negative, while reports of 372 are awaited, the DM said.
23:09 June 18
One more COVID-19 death in Jharkhand, toll rises to 11
Jharkhand reported one more COVID-19 fatality on Thursday, taking the coronavirus death toll in the state to 11, a government bulletin said.
This is the second death in the last two days with the mortality rate of the state standing at 0.57 per cent compared to the national rate of 3.33 per cent, it said.
23:08 June 18
COVID-19 cases in MP rise to 11,426; death toll reaches 486
The COVID-19 case count in Madhya Pradesh climbed to 11,426 on Thursday with 182 fresh cases, including 57 from Indore, the worst-hit district in the state, the health department officials said.
23:08 June 18
82 new coronavirus patients in Chhattisgarh, count 1,946
The number of COVID-19 cases in Chhattisgarh increased to 1,946 after 82 more people tested positive on Thursday, a health official said.
23:08 June 18
Maharashtra adds 3,752 new COVID-19 cases; 100 patients die
Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally increased by 3,752 cases to 1,20,504 on Thursday, while 100 more patients succumbed to the infection, said a health
department official.
23:07 June 18
Punjab reports 5 coronavirus deaths, 118 fresh cases
Five people succumbed to the novel coronavirus in Punjab on Thursday, pushing the death toll to 83 while 118 fresh cases raised the virus count to 3,615 in the state, according to a medical bulletin.
23:07 June 18
Ahmedabad: Coronavirus cases reach 17,946; death toll 1,275
The coronavirus positive cases in Ahmedabad grew to 17,946 after 317 people tested positive for the infection on Thursday, the state health department said.
23:06 June 18
12 more COVID-19 deaths in West Bengal, toll rises to 518
West Bengal reported 12 more COVID-19 fatalities on Thursday, taking the coronavirus death toll in the state to 518, a state health bulletin said.
All of the 12 deaths "were due to the comorbidities where COVID-19 was incidental", the bulletin said.
20:47 June 18
Dharavi records 28 new COVID-19 cases; no fresh death
Mumbai's slum colony of Dharavi reported 28 new cases of COVID-19, taking the tally to 2,134 on Thursday, the city civic body said.
A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said no fresh death was reported from the slum-dominated area in the past 24 hours, keeping the toll constant at 78.
20:46 June 18
Six health workers among 18 fresh coronavirus cases in UP's Muzaffarnagar
Eighteen people, six of them health workers, tested positive for COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district on Thursday, taking the virus count to 217, officials said.
20:46 June 18
Gujarat's COVID-19 count up by 510 to 25,660; death toll 1,592
Gujarat reported 510 new coronavirus positive cases on Thursday, taking the state's tally to 25,660, while the fatality count mounted to 1,592
with the death of 31 more patients, the health department said.
20:46 June 18
Manipur reports 54 new COVID-19 cases, tally rises to 606
Manipur reported 54 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the northeast state's tally to 606, officials said on Thursday.
All the 54 people who tested positive for COVID-19 had returned from other states, they said.
20:45 June 18
70 new COVID-19 cases in Maha's Aurangabad, tally now 3,106
Seventy more people tested coronavirus positive in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra on Thursday, which pushed its overall count of patients to 3,106, an official said.
Of the total number of cases, 1,709 patients have been discharged from hospitals after recovery, the official said. "Thirty-one females and 39 males tested positive on Thursday, which took the tally to 3,106," he said. The virus has so far claimed 166 lives in the district, he added.
20:45 June 18
COVID-19: 210 new cases and 12 deaths in Karnataka
With 12 coronavirus related fatalities reported on Thursday, the toll mounted to 114 in Karnataka, where 210 new cases were confirmed, taking the
total number of infections to 7,944. The day also saw 179 patients getting discharged in the state after recovery.
20:44 June 18
49 more die of COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu; over 2,000 new cases reported
Forty nine people have lost their lives due to the deadly coronavirus in Tamil Nadu, which also registered more than 2,000 fresh cases for the second
consecutive day on Thursday, the health department said.
A bulletin issued by the department said 26,736 samples were tested on Thursday alone and the total number of fresh cases stood at 2,141.
With 49 more fatalities, the toll due to the infection in the state rose to 625, it said
20:44 June 18
Excise personnel dies of COVID-19 in Kerala; 97 new cases reported
The COVID-19 tally in Kerala rose to 2,794 on Thursday with 97 fresh cases being reported, while the toll touched 21 after an excise department
personnel succumbed to the disease. With 89 recoveries today, 1,359 people are presently under treatment and 1.26 people are under observation,Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.
20:43 June 18
A record 202 new coronavirus detected in Navi Mumbai; 9 die
A record 202 persons, including half a dozen children aged below 10, tested positive for coronavirus in Navi Mumbai, taking the tally to 4,391 on
Thursday, while nine more patients succumbed to the infection, an official said.
20:43 June 18
Andhra Pradesh reports 425 fresh COVID-19 cases, tally rises to 7,496
The COVID-19 surge continued unabated in Andhra Pradesh with a record single day high of 425 new cases being added, taking the overall tally to 7,496 on Thursday. The coronavirus toll also continued its upward trend as two more patients died in Krishna district, making it a total of 92 so far in the state, according to the latest bulletin.
20:42 June 18
U'khand's COVID-19 tally reaches 2,079
The number of COVID-19 cases in Uttarakhand rose to 2,079 on Thursday with 57 more people testing positive.
Twenty-eight fresh cases were detected in Dehradun district, 14 in Pauri, five in Haridwar, four in Rudraprayag, three in Chamoli and one each in Almora, Uttarkashi and Tehri, according to a state health department bulletin.
16:15 June 18
16 residents of slum in Kolkata test positive for COVID-19
At least 16 slum dwellers in the city's Bagbazar area here have tested positive for COVID-19, following which they were sent to a quarantine centre on the
outskirts of the metropolis, sources in the state health department said on Thursday.
Those that came in contact with the COVID-19 patients, including family members, have been sent to another isolation unit in neighbouring Howrah district.
Locals in the area have been advised home quarantine, in accordance with the rules applicable to all containment zones in Bengal, the sources said.
16:15 June 18
Odisha reports 174 fresh cases of COVID-19, total positive case rises to 4,512
Odisha reported 174 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, taking the total to 4,512 in the state, officials said. Of the fresh cases, 146 were reported from different
quarantine centres where people returning from other parts of the country are lodged, they said.
16:14 June 18
J&K: 7 die of COVID-19 in 24 hrs; death toll rises to 71
Jammu and Kashmir reported seven COVID-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities due to coronavirus in the union territory to 71, officials said on Thursday.
14:33 June 18
Nine more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, taking the northeastern state's tally to 130, Health Minister Dr R Lalthangliana said on Thursday.
South Mizoram's Lawngtlai and Siaha districts have reported four new cases each while one case was reported from Lunglei district, he said.
Of the new cases, four each had returned from Delhi and Haryana while one had come back from Maharashtra, the minister added.
14:30 June 18
Two more people have died due to COVID-19 in Jammu city raising the number of fatalities in Jammu and Kashmir to 71, officials said on Thursday.
A 65-year-old coronavirus positive man, who had returned from New Delhi along with three family members, died at the Government Medical College (GMC) in Jammu on Wednesday night, officials said.
14:29 June 18
With 57 persons testing positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the case count in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district has gone up to 4,191, a health official here said on Thursday.
14:29 June 18
Rajasthan registered 10 COVID-19 deaths and 84 positive cases of coronavirus on Thursday, according to an official report.
With this, the number of fatalities due to coronavirus in the state has gone up to 323, while 13,626 patients have tested positive.
14:28 June 18
A 72-year-old man was erroneously declared as having tested positive for COVID-19 in Meghalaya, which officials have attributed to a mechanical error.
The man, from Umsamlem village in Ri-Bhoi district, was declared a COVID-19 patient on June 9 after his samples tested positive for the infection in an RT-PCR test, an official said.
14:27 June 18
An excise staff died due to COVID-19 in Kannur district, taking the death toll in the state to 21.
Sunil Kumar (28), who was admitted to Pariyaram medical college died on Thursday morning.
He was a driver at the Mattannur excise unit.
11:52 June 18
The number of novel coronavirus cases in Arunachal Pradesh has crossed the 100-mark with four Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) personnel testing positive for the infection, a senior health official said on Thursday.
The four new cases have taken the virus count in the northeastern state to 103, of which 93 are active cases and ten persons have recovered, he said.
09:52 June 18
With the highest single-day increase of 12,881 COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's coronavirus count has reached 3,66,946 on Thursday.
This includes 1,60,384 active cases and 1,94,325 cured, discharged and migrated patients, according to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.
Meanwhile, with 334 deaths being reported due to the infection, the toll due to the virus stands at 12,237 in the country.
There is a big increase in the number of confirmed cases in the country today as compared to the recent days when the spike had been limited to under 11,000 cases.
Maharashtra with 1,16,752 cases continues to be the worst-affected state in the country with 51,935 active cases while 59,166 patients have been cured and discharged in the state so far. The toll due to COVID-19 stands at 5,651 in the state.
The number of confirmed cases in Tamil Nadu also crossed the 50 thousand mark on Thursday and reached 50,193. The national capital is the third-worst affected by the infection in the country with the count reaching 47,102 today.
07:23 June 18
As many as 43 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Tripura, out of total 1,250 samples tested, as per information provided by Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb.
The chief minister tweeted the information adding that majority of the COVID-19 patients have a travel history and the others were in contact with coronavirus-infected patients.
Among them, three were from 34 Battalion BSF, six from Maharani BSF Camp, four from 120 Battalion BSF, 26 from 74 Battalion BSF, and four civilians.
The count includes 30 cases in the West District, 10 cases in the Gomati Dist, two cased in the South District and one case in the Sepahijala District.
06:20 June 18
Coronavirus updates
Mathura: The chief medical superintendent of the district hospital tested positive for COVID-19 here on Wednesday, taking the number of infections to 181, an official said.
"The chief medical superintendent of the district hospital has been sent for treatment in K D Medical College" DM Sarvagya Ram Mishra said.
He said, the contacts of the medical superintendent, including staff of the district hospital, are being traced.
They would be sent for quarantine and their sampled will be collected for testing, the district magistrate said.
So far, 87 people have recovered from the infection, leaving 87 active cases in Mathura district, he said, adding seven coronavirus patients have died.
Of the 5,824 samples taken so far, the results of 5,215 came out negative, while reports of 372 are awaited, the DM said.
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