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Published : Jun 13, 2020, 8:38 AM IST

Updated : Jun 13, 2020, 11:10 PM IST

23:07 June 13

333 fresh COVID-19 cases take Rajasthan's total tally to 12,401; death tool rises to 282

Rajasthan reported 333 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday which took the total tally to 12,401, while the death toll climbed to 282 with 10 new fatalities, officials said.

Four deaths each were reported from Jaipur and Bharatpur, while the rest were non-natives of the state, they said.

Among the fresh cases, 75 were reported from Jodhpur, 62 from Pali, 39 from Bharatpur, 27 from Jaipur, 16 from Sikar, 14 from Dholpur, 13 from Sirohi, 12 from Jhunjhunu, 11 each from Ajmer and Nagaur, health department officials said.

23:05 June 13

3 more test COVID-19 positive in Chandigarh; count rises to 348

 Chandigarh reported three fresh coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the tally to 348 in the Union territory, officials said. Two girls, aged two and 13 years, were among the new patients, according to a medical bulletin.

So far, 5,839 samples have been taken for testing and 5,459 of them have tested negative, while reports of 34 patients are awaited, it said.

23:05 June 13

17 Punjab policemen test positive for coronavirus

Seventeen asymptomatic Punjab policemen have tested positive for coronavirus in a random sampling of 7,165 officers posted at various police stations and doing frontline jobs, state DGP Dinkar Gupta said on Saturday.

It translates to around 0.9 per cent positive cases of the total samples for the police force, as compared with the average of two per cent positive cases for the entire state, he said.

23:04 June 13

J-K reports 148 new COVID-19 cases; tally rises to 4,878

Jammu and Kashmir recorded 148 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the total tally in the Union territory to 4,878, officials said.

23:04 June 13

Two more die of COVID-9 in Punjab; 77 fresh cases reported

Two more people died of coronavirus in Punjab while 77 fresh cases were reported, pushing the tally to 3,063 in the state, officials said on Saturday.

23:04 June 13

22 CRPF personnel test coronavirus positive in south Kashmir

At least 22CRPFpersonnel from several battalions have tested positive for coronavirus in south Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.

The officials said the health authorities had collected samples from CRPF personnel from various battalions at Uranhall in south Kashmir,out of which test results for 22 samples have come out as positive.

They said these tests were undertaken at SKIMS laboratory here and were among the total 66 positive cases detected via tests conducted at the laboratory on Saturday.

23:04 June 13

MP COVID-19 case count up by 198 to 10,641; death toll 447

The number pf COVID-19 cases in Madhya Pradesh reached 10,641 on Saturday after 198 new cases were detected, with Bhopal accounting for 63 of them, an

official said.

23:03 June 13

Coronavirus claims 12 more lives in West Bengal, death toll reaches 468

COVID-19 claimed 12 lives in West Bengal on Saturday taking the death toll to 468 while the number of those infected shot up to 10,698 with the addition of 454 fresh cases, a bulletin of the state health department said.

23:03 June 13

Noida: 35 new COVID-19 cases; 13,066 test samples collected so far

Thirty-five more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Saturday, taking the tally in the district to 865, officials said.

23:03 June 13

Goa COVID-19 case tally reaches 523 with 60 new patients

Goa on Saturday reported 60 new COVID-19 cases, including two employees of ESI hospital in Margao, taking the total case count to 523, a state Health

official said.

At least five cases are found linked to the hospital, including the two employees and their relatives, he said. The new cases were reported from New Vaddem, Baina and Sada near Vasco town in South Goa and Morlem and Chimbel in North Goa.

23:02 June 13

COVID-19: Nagpur count touches 966 as 33 new cases detected

Nagpur in Maharashtra inched towards the 1000-mark as 33 new COVID-19 cases were detected on Saturday, an official said.

The COVID-19 count reached 966, though the number of active cases is 395 as 555 people have been discharged post recovery and 16 have lost their lives so far, he added.

The total number of samples tested so far stood at 17,834.

23:02 June 13

Gujarat COVID-19 cases cross 23,000 mark; 33 more die

With 517 new COVID-19 cases being reported in Gujarat on Saturday, the overall case count has mounted to 23,079, state Health department said.

With 33 more people succumbing to the viral infection, the number of fatalities has risen to 1,449, it said.

20:42 June 13

AIADMK MLA from Tamil Nadu tests positive for coronavirus

A ruling AIADMK MLA in Tamil Nadu has tested positive for coronavirus and is being treated at a private hospital in the city, a senior party functionary said here on Saturday. The 58-year old K Palani is the second legislator in the state to contract the virus.
DMK MLA J Anbazhagan died on Wednesday after battling COVID-19 for eight days.

20:41 June 13

344 new coronavirus cases, 26 deaths in Ahmedabad district

344 new coronavirus patients were reported in Ahmedabad on Saturday, taking the number of cases in the district to 16,306, the Gujarat health
department said.
Twenty-six patients died during the day, taking the number of coronavirus deaths in the district to 1,165.

20:41 June 13

308 fresh COVID-19 cases, three more deaths in Karnataka

The coronavirus cases in Karnataka climbed to 6,824 with 308 more people testing positive for the infection on Saturday while the toll rose to 81 with three more deaths, the state health department said.


 

20:40 June 13

Maha COVID-19 cases jump by 3,427 to 1,04,568; 113 more die

Maharashtra on Saturday reported 3,427 new COVID-19 cases and 113 deaths, state Health department said. With this, the latest case count stands at 1,04,568
and fatalities at 3,830, an official release said.

A total of 1,550 patients were discharged in the day, taking the number of recovered cases to 49,346, it said. The state now has 51,392 active cases. The COVID-19 recovery rate now stands at 47.2 per cent and fatality rate at 3.7 per cent, it stated.

20:39 June 13

91 test positive, Aurangabad count reaches 2,626

The number of COVID-19 cases touched 2,626 in Maharashtra's Aurangabad as 91 people tested positive for novel coronavirus on Saturday, an official said. Of the 91 patients, 63 are men and 28 women, he added. "The number of active cases is 1,091 as 1,400 people have been discharged and 135 have succumbed to the infection," he said. 

20:37 June 13

Four health workers among 85 infected with coronavirus in Kerala; Over 2.35 lakh under observation

Four health workers are among the 85 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in Kerala on Saturday as the infection count soared to 2,406 and over 2.35 lakh people are under observation in the state. The active cases in the state touched 1,342 while 1,045 people have recovered from the infection, including 46,
who were discharged today.
        

19:30 June 13

222 cases in AP: 2 deaths take toll at 82

The COVID-19 graph climbed further up in Andhra Pradesh to 5,676 on Saturday as 222 new cases were added while fatalities increased by two to 82.
In the last 24 hours, 94 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospitals, taking the cumulative to 3,185.

 According to the latest COVID-19 bulletin, 186 locals, 33 from other states and three foreign returnees tested positive for the virus as a record 14,477 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.
Coronavirus claimed two lives in Krishna district on Saturday, it said.
 

19:29 June 13

TN reports 30 deaths, highest for a single day as fresh cases continue to surge

Tamil Nadu reported 30 COVID-19 deaths that occurred on various dates recently together on Saturday pushing the toll to 397 while the state recorded 1,989 fresh cases, the fourth successive day of close to 2,000 cases.
Eighteen deaths occurred in government hospitals and 12 in private and 23 people had co-morbidities, a health department bulletin said.

The 30 deaths, which occurred on various dates recently, were together reported today by the government and this is the highest number of fatalities declared for a single day in Tamil Nadu.

19:29 June 13

25 new COVID-19 cases in Assam, tally rises to 3,718

Twenty-five new COVID-19 cases were reported in Assam, taking the state's tally to 3,718, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday. Of the new cases, 10 are from West Karbi Anglong, five from Jorhat, three each from Baksa and Karbi Anglong, two from Dhemaji and one each Golaghat and Nagaon, the minister said.
 Of the total 3,718 cases, 2,123 are active cases as 1,584 people have been cured and discharged from different hospitals of the state and three people had migrated out of the state, the minister said.
          

19:29 June 13

2 more coronavirus deaths in Uttarakhand, 35 fresh cases

Two more COVID-19 patients have died in Uttarakhand, taking the death toll to 21, while the state's virus count reached 1,759 with 35 people testing positive for the infection on Saturday, according to a health bulletin.
The fresh fatalities comprise a 58-year-old woman, who died at SMI hospital, Dehradun on Thursday, and a 76-year-old woman, who died at LD Bhatt hospital, Kashipur on Friday, the state health department bulletin said.

19:26 June 13

Fire station, panchayat office in Kerala shut after 2 test postive for COVID-19

At least 60 employees of a fire station and a gramma panchayat office in the district were asked to go on quarantine after two people tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. According to the health department, an officer of nearby Perinthalmanna Fire & Rescue station and another working with the Edappal panchayat office tested positive for the disease.
The fire station and the panchayat office have been closed for five days and they would be disinfected.

19:26 June 13

Loss of smell or taste added to list of COVID-19 symptoms: Health ministry

Loss of smell or taste has been added to the list of COVID-19 symptoms, according to the revised clinical management protocols released by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday.
The ministry said that coronavirus-infected patients reporting to various COVID-19 treatment facilities have been reporting symptoms like fever, cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, expectoration, myalgia, rhinorrhea, sore throat and diarrhea.
They have also complained of loss of smell (anosmia) or loss of taste (ageusia) preceding the onset of respiratory symptoms.

19:24 June 13

Airport manager tests positive, 30 officials go into quarantine

At least 30 personnel of the Kozhikode International Airport have been asked to go into quarantine after anofficial tested positive for the coronavirus infection on Saturday,officials said.
District Collector Jaffer Malik told a news agency that a terminal manager of the airport tested positive today. Health department officials said his sample was
collected on June 7,result of which came out only this evening.

The official had no signs of the disease, and was on duty today also,they said. Consequent to this development, officials who were suspected to have come into contact with the manager have been asked to go into quarantine.
         

19:24 June 13

Health ministry okays remdesivir under emergency use authorization, HCQ for early course of COVID-19

The Union Health Ministry has recommended use of anti-viral drug remdesivir under emergency use authorization, off-label application of immunomodulator tocilizumab and convalescent plasma therapy for treating COVID-19 patients in moderate stage of criticality.

Backtracking from its earlier stance, the ministry in its revised 'Clinical Management Protocols for COVID-19', released on Saturday, said anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) should be used in the early course of the disease to achieve any meaningful effect and should be avoided in severe cases. 

19:24 June 13

SAIL Chairman goes in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19: Sources

SAIL Chairman Anil Kumar Chaudhary is in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19, sources said on Saturday. The total number of COVID cases in SAIL's corporate office here has grown five-fold to 25, they added. "SAIL Chairman A K Chaudhary is in quarantine after he was tested positive for the COVID virus. He was tested on June 1.

A virus positive person had gone close to him in his office. Following which tests were conducted for three consecutive days at the corporate office," one of the sources said.

15:41 June 13

TRS MLA tests positive for COVID-19

A ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLA has tested positive for COVID-19, TRS sources said on Saturday. He is undergoing treatment, they said. Meanwhile,Telangana Finance minister T Harish Rao tested negative for the virus after he took the test in the wake of a staff member being found positive for the infection.
When contacted, Harish Rao said he went into self-quarantine after a personal assistant at his camp office at Siddipet tested positive for the virus. 

As at 5 PM on Friday, the tally of positive cases in Telangana stood at 4484.

15:37 June 13

NDMC municipal health officer tests COVID-19 positive

The municipal health officer of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) on Saturday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is admitted to a private hospital here.

Dr Ashok Rawat said he got to know about the infection on Friday. "Yes, I have tested positive for COVID-19. We are in the frontline of this battle, so chances of such people getting infected is higher. I have got myself admitted to a private hospital," he said. 

Many civic officials, doctors, nurses, sanitation workers and other staffers of the municipal corporations in Delhi have tested positive till date.  A junior engineer employed with NDMC died of COVID-19 on June 1. In the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, a sanitation worker succumbed to the disease in late May.

15:37 June 13

Two persons test positive for COVID-19 in Diu

Two persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Diu district, taking the tally of cases to 34 in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu (DNHDD), a health official said on Saturday.

The number of positive cases in Daman district rose to four after two more persons tested positive for the deadly infection on Friday, the official said.

15:36 June 13

Two COVID-19 patients in Sikkim recover, active cases at 58

Two COVID-19 patients in Sikkim recovered on Saturday and were discharged from the STNM Hospital near Gangtok, an official said.

Those recovered are the state's first two COVID-19 patients -- a 25-year-old man and a 54-year-old man, said Health Secretary Pempa T Bhutia. They have recovered completely and were discharged from the STNM Hospital earlier in the day, he said. Three patients had recovered from COVID-19 earlier this week, he said.

After the recovery of five patients, the number of active cases in Sikkim stands at 58, he added.

15:36 June 13

3 more test positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, total count 107

Three more persons, including two women, tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, taking the total tally in the state to 107, a Health Department official said on Saturday.

13:54 June 13

Three more deaths from coronavirus in Rajasthan

Three deaths and 118 fresh cases of coronavirus were reported in Rajasthan on Saturday, taking the total number of fatalities and positive cases to 275 and 12,186, respectively, officials said.

Two deaths were reported from Jaipur and one from Bharatpur on Saturday, they said.

13:53 June 13

9 more test positive for COVID-19 in Tripura

At least 39 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Tripura, raising the tally in the state to 964, officials said on Saturday.

Of the fresh cases, 27 were from Sepahijala, seven from West Tripura, three from Gomti and one each from Unakoti and South Tripura districts, they said.

13:53 June 13

13 new COVID-19 cases in Pondy, total rises to 176

Thirteen more COVID-19 cases were reported in Puducherry on Saturday taking the tally of viral infections in the union territory to 176.

13:52 June 13

Maha govt slashes charges for COVID-19 tests by private labs

Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Saturday said that the government has reduced the rates of the COVID-19 tests conducted by private
laboratories from Rs 4,500 to Rs 2,200.

13:52 June 13

Odisha reports highest single-day spike with 225 COVID-19 cases

Odisha on Saturday reported its highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases after 225 more people tested positive for the disease, taking the state's tally to 3,723, a Health Department official said.

Of the fresh cases, 196 were reported from various quarantine centres where people returning from other states were lodged, while 29 others were detected in contact-tracing exercises, he said.

12:02 June 13

Delhi death toll reaches 129

Ten days after recording two lakh COVID-19 cases, India surpassed the three lakh-mark on Saturday with the worst daily spike of 11,458 infections, while the death toll too climbed to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said.

Of the 386 new deaths, Delhi accounted for the highest 129 fatalities followed by Maharashtra 127. The virus is moving rapidly in Delhi, which for the first time reported over 2,000 cases on Friday, and Maharashtra, where the number of cases has crossed one lakh.

Gujarat reported 30 deaths, Uttar Pradesh 20, Tamil Nadu 18, West Bengal, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh 9 each, Karnataka and Rajasthan 7 each, Haryana and Uttarakhand 6 each, Punjab 4, Assam 2, Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir and Odisha 1 each.

Of the total 8,884 deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 3,717 fatalities followed by Gujarat with 1,415, Delhi with 1,214, West Bengal with 451, Madhya Pradesh with 440, Tamil Nadu with 367, Uttar Pradesh with 365, Rajasthan with 272 and Telangana with 174 deaths.

The death toll reached 80 in Andhra Pradesh, 79 in Karnataka, 70 in Haryana and 63 in Punjab. Jammu and Kashmir has reported 53 COVID-19 fatalities, Bihar 36 and Uttarakhand 21, Kerala 19, Odisha 10 and Jharkhand and Assam 8 each.

Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh have registered 6 deaths each, Chandigarh 5, Puducherry 2, while Meghalaya, Tripura and Ladakh 1 each, according to the health ministry.

More than 70 per cent deaths have happened due to comorbidities, the ministry said.

Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of cases at 1,01,141 followed by Tamil Nadu (40,698), Delhi (36,824), Gujarat (22,527), Uttar Pradesh (12,616), Rajasthan (12,068) and Madhya Pradesh (10,443).

The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 10,244 in West Bengal,6,516 in Karnataka,6,334 in Haryana and6,103 in Bihar. It has risen to 5,680 in Andhra Pradesh,4,730 in Jammu and Kashmir, 4,484 in Telangana and 3,498 in Odisha and Assam each.

Punjab has reported 2,986 cases while Kerala has 2,322 cases.

A total of 1,724 people have been infected by the virus in Uttarakhand, 1,617 in Jharkhand, 1,424 in Chhattisgarh, 961 in Tripura, 486 in Himachal Pradesh, 463 in Goa, 385 from Manipur and 334 in Chandigarh.

Ladakh has registered 239 COVID-19 cases, Puducherry 157, Nagaland 156, Mizoram 104, Arunachal Pradesh 67, Sikkim 63, Meghalaya 44 while Andaman and Nicobar Islands has registered 38 cases.

Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu together have reported 30 cases.

The ministry said 7,984 cases are being reassigned to states and "our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR". State-wise distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation, it added.

11:33 June 13

With one more death, COVID-19 fatalities rise to 54 in J&K

A 74-year-old retired doctor, who was COVID-19 positive, died at a hospital here, officials said on Saturday taking the number of fatalities due to coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir to 54. 

A retired doctor from Parray Pora area of the city here passed away due to cardiac arrest at SKIMS hospital, Bemina at around 1 am last night, the officials said.

11:32 June 13

71 new COVID-19 positive cases in Lucknow

Lucknow King George's Medical University (KGMU) said: "Out of the 2220 samples tested yesterday for COVID-19, results of 71 are positive."

11:31 June 13

Worst daily coronavirus spike: 11,458 fresh cases push total to 3,08,993

India's COVID-19 tally breached the three-lakh mark on Saturday with a record single-day spike of 11,458 infections, while the death toll rose to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said.

With a COVID-19 caseload of 3,08,993, India is now the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic, according to the Worldometer, a coronavirus statistics website.

08:22 June 13

India's COVID-19 tally crosses 3 lakh

The nationwide COVID-19 tally reportedly crossed the 3-lakh mark on Friday with a record number of over 10,000 new cases getting detected across states and union territories. 

The government stressed on the need for stringent containment measures to check the pandemic with the last one lakh cases emerging in just ten days.

The Centre has asked states and UTs to pay special attention on emerging epicentres of cases and to focus on containment, testing and tracing, upgrading health infrastructure, clinical management and community engagement for effective management of COVID-19, the Union Health Ministry said.

While the first case of the novel coronavirus infection was detected in India on January 30, it took more than 100 days to reach the one-lakh mark on May 18, but the 2-lakh mark was breached only about a fortnight later on June 2.

India is the fourth worst-hit nation by the COVID-pandemic 19 after the US, Brazil and Russia. While the US has reported more than 20 lakh confirmed cases so far, the tally for Brazil is over 8 lakh and for Russia more than 5 lakh.

06:36 June 13

COVID UPDATES

Nine Covid deaths, 164 new cases in Telangana

Hyderabad: In the continuing surge in Covid-19 cases, Telangana on Friday reported nine deaths and 164 new infections.

The fresh fatalities pushed the death toll in the state to 174 while the tally of Covid-19 positive cases mounted to 4,484.

According to the director of public health and family welfare, out of 164 new cases, 133 were reported from Greater Hyderabad, the worst-affected among all 33 districts. The remaining cases were reported from 13 districts.

The number of patients undergoing treatment in hospitals was 2,032 as 2,278 have so far been discharged after recovery.

Meanwhile, the junior doctors at Gandhi Hospital, Telangana's exclusive facility to treat Covid-19 patients, on Friday called off the strike on the condition that the state government address their demands in 15 days.

Over 300 junior doctors were on strike since Tuesday night after one of their colleagues on duty was assaulted by relatives of a patient, who had succumbed to Covid-19.

They had decided to boycott the duties till the government accepted their demands including resuming non-Covid healthcare services at Gandhi Hospital and decentralisation of management of SARI and Covid-19 positive cases.

Telangana Junior Doctors' Association (JUDA) also demanded recruitment of doctors and nurses and deployment of Special Protection Force (SPF) at all government teaching hospitals.

The two rounds of talks between JUDA and Health Minister E. Rajender had failed to resolve the issue. However, following the assurances given by the minister late Thursday, the medicos decided to end the strike.

"Taking public health into consideration especially in view of the pandemic we are fighting and trusting the Health Minister's reassuring words, Juda has decided to conditionally call off the strike and resume duties with immediate effect," they said.

JUDA said that the minister should personally address their demands so that they don't have to boycott their duties again.

23:07 June 13

333 fresh COVID-19 cases take Rajasthan's total tally to 12,401; death tool rises to 282

Rajasthan reported 333 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday which took the total tally to 12,401, while the death toll climbed to 282 with 10 new fatalities, officials said.

Four deaths each were reported from Jaipur and Bharatpur, while the rest were non-natives of the state, they said.

Among the fresh cases, 75 were reported from Jodhpur, 62 from Pali, 39 from Bharatpur, 27 from Jaipur, 16 from Sikar, 14 from Dholpur, 13 from Sirohi, 12 from Jhunjhunu, 11 each from Ajmer and Nagaur, health department officials said.

23:05 June 13

3 more test COVID-19 positive in Chandigarh; count rises to 348

 Chandigarh reported three fresh coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the tally to 348 in the Union territory, officials said. Two girls, aged two and 13 years, were among the new patients, according to a medical bulletin.

So far, 5,839 samples have been taken for testing and 5,459 of them have tested negative, while reports of 34 patients are awaited, it said.

23:05 June 13

17 Punjab policemen test positive for coronavirus

Seventeen asymptomatic Punjab policemen have tested positive for coronavirus in a random sampling of 7,165 officers posted at various police stations and doing frontline jobs, state DGP Dinkar Gupta said on Saturday.

It translates to around 0.9 per cent positive cases of the total samples for the police force, as compared with the average of two per cent positive cases for the entire state, he said.

23:04 June 13

J-K reports 148 new COVID-19 cases; tally rises to 4,878

Jammu and Kashmir recorded 148 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the total tally in the Union territory to 4,878, officials said.

23:04 June 13

Two more die of COVID-9 in Punjab; 77 fresh cases reported

Two more people died of coronavirus in Punjab while 77 fresh cases were reported, pushing the tally to 3,063 in the state, officials said on Saturday.

23:04 June 13

22 CRPF personnel test coronavirus positive in south Kashmir

At least 22CRPFpersonnel from several battalions have tested positive for coronavirus in south Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.

The officials said the health authorities had collected samples from CRPF personnel from various battalions at Uranhall in south Kashmir,out of which test results for 22 samples have come out as positive.

They said these tests were undertaken at SKIMS laboratory here and were among the total 66 positive cases detected via tests conducted at the laboratory on Saturday.

23:04 June 13

MP COVID-19 case count up by 198 to 10,641; death toll 447

The number pf COVID-19 cases in Madhya Pradesh reached 10,641 on Saturday after 198 new cases were detected, with Bhopal accounting for 63 of them, an

official said.

23:03 June 13

Coronavirus claims 12 more lives in West Bengal, death toll reaches 468

COVID-19 claimed 12 lives in West Bengal on Saturday taking the death toll to 468 while the number of those infected shot up to 10,698 with the addition of 454 fresh cases, a bulletin of the state health department said.

23:03 June 13

Noida: 35 new COVID-19 cases; 13,066 test samples collected so far

Thirty-five more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Saturday, taking the tally in the district to 865, officials said.

23:03 June 13

Goa COVID-19 case tally reaches 523 with 60 new patients

Goa on Saturday reported 60 new COVID-19 cases, including two employees of ESI hospital in Margao, taking the total case count to 523, a state Health

official said.

At least five cases are found linked to the hospital, including the two employees and their relatives, he said. The new cases were reported from New Vaddem, Baina and Sada near Vasco town in South Goa and Morlem and Chimbel in North Goa.

23:02 June 13

COVID-19: Nagpur count touches 966 as 33 new cases detected

Nagpur in Maharashtra inched towards the 1000-mark as 33 new COVID-19 cases were detected on Saturday, an official said.

The COVID-19 count reached 966, though the number of active cases is 395 as 555 people have been discharged post recovery and 16 have lost their lives so far, he added.

The total number of samples tested so far stood at 17,834.

23:02 June 13

Gujarat COVID-19 cases cross 23,000 mark; 33 more die

With 517 new COVID-19 cases being reported in Gujarat on Saturday, the overall case count has mounted to 23,079, state Health department said.

With 33 more people succumbing to the viral infection, the number of fatalities has risen to 1,449, it said.

20:42 June 13

AIADMK MLA from Tamil Nadu tests positive for coronavirus

A ruling AIADMK MLA in Tamil Nadu has tested positive for coronavirus and is being treated at a private hospital in the city, a senior party functionary said here on Saturday. The 58-year old K Palani is the second legislator in the state to contract the virus.
DMK MLA J Anbazhagan died on Wednesday after battling COVID-19 for eight days.

20:41 June 13

344 new coronavirus cases, 26 deaths in Ahmedabad district

344 new coronavirus patients were reported in Ahmedabad on Saturday, taking the number of cases in the district to 16,306, the Gujarat health
department said.
Twenty-six patients died during the day, taking the number of coronavirus deaths in the district to 1,165.

20:41 June 13

308 fresh COVID-19 cases, three more deaths in Karnataka

The coronavirus cases in Karnataka climbed to 6,824 with 308 more people testing positive for the infection on Saturday while the toll rose to 81 with three more deaths, the state health department said.


 

20:40 June 13

Maha COVID-19 cases jump by 3,427 to 1,04,568; 113 more die

Maharashtra on Saturday reported 3,427 new COVID-19 cases and 113 deaths, state Health department said. With this, the latest case count stands at 1,04,568
and fatalities at 3,830, an official release said.

A total of 1,550 patients were discharged in the day, taking the number of recovered cases to 49,346, it said. The state now has 51,392 active cases. The COVID-19 recovery rate now stands at 47.2 per cent and fatality rate at 3.7 per cent, it stated.

20:39 June 13

91 test positive, Aurangabad count reaches 2,626

The number of COVID-19 cases touched 2,626 in Maharashtra's Aurangabad as 91 people tested positive for novel coronavirus on Saturday, an official said. Of the 91 patients, 63 are men and 28 women, he added. "The number of active cases is 1,091 as 1,400 people have been discharged and 135 have succumbed to the infection," he said. 

20:37 June 13

Four health workers among 85 infected with coronavirus in Kerala; Over 2.35 lakh under observation

Four health workers are among the 85 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in Kerala on Saturday as the infection count soared to 2,406 and over 2.35 lakh people are under observation in the state. The active cases in the state touched 1,342 while 1,045 people have recovered from the infection, including 46,
who were discharged today.
        

19:30 June 13

222 cases in AP: 2 deaths take toll at 82

The COVID-19 graph climbed further up in Andhra Pradesh to 5,676 on Saturday as 222 new cases were added while fatalities increased by two to 82.
In the last 24 hours, 94 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospitals, taking the cumulative to 3,185.

 According to the latest COVID-19 bulletin, 186 locals, 33 from other states and three foreign returnees tested positive for the virus as a record 14,477 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.
Coronavirus claimed two lives in Krishna district on Saturday, it said.
 

19:29 June 13

TN reports 30 deaths, highest for a single day as fresh cases continue to surge

Tamil Nadu reported 30 COVID-19 deaths that occurred on various dates recently together on Saturday pushing the toll to 397 while the state recorded 1,989 fresh cases, the fourth successive day of close to 2,000 cases.
Eighteen deaths occurred in government hospitals and 12 in private and 23 people had co-morbidities, a health department bulletin said.

The 30 deaths, which occurred on various dates recently, were together reported today by the government and this is the highest number of fatalities declared for a single day in Tamil Nadu.

19:29 June 13

25 new COVID-19 cases in Assam, tally rises to 3,718

Twenty-five new COVID-19 cases were reported in Assam, taking the state's tally to 3,718, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday. Of the new cases, 10 are from West Karbi Anglong, five from Jorhat, three each from Baksa and Karbi Anglong, two from Dhemaji and one each Golaghat and Nagaon, the minister said.
 Of the total 3,718 cases, 2,123 are active cases as 1,584 people have been cured and discharged from different hospitals of the state and three people had migrated out of the state, the minister said.
          

19:29 June 13

2 more coronavirus deaths in Uttarakhand, 35 fresh cases

Two more COVID-19 patients have died in Uttarakhand, taking the death toll to 21, while the state's virus count reached 1,759 with 35 people testing positive for the infection on Saturday, according to a health bulletin.
The fresh fatalities comprise a 58-year-old woman, who died at SMI hospital, Dehradun on Thursday, and a 76-year-old woman, who died at LD Bhatt hospital, Kashipur on Friday, the state health department bulletin said.

19:26 June 13

Fire station, panchayat office in Kerala shut after 2 test postive for COVID-19

At least 60 employees of a fire station and a gramma panchayat office in the district were asked to go on quarantine after two people tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. According to the health department, an officer of nearby Perinthalmanna Fire & Rescue station and another working with the Edappal panchayat office tested positive for the disease.
The fire station and the panchayat office have been closed for five days and they would be disinfected.

19:26 June 13

Loss of smell or taste added to list of COVID-19 symptoms: Health ministry

Loss of smell or taste has been added to the list of COVID-19 symptoms, according to the revised clinical management protocols released by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday.
The ministry said that coronavirus-infected patients reporting to various COVID-19 treatment facilities have been reporting symptoms like fever, cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, expectoration, myalgia, rhinorrhea, sore throat and diarrhea.
They have also complained of loss of smell (anosmia) or loss of taste (ageusia) preceding the onset of respiratory symptoms.

19:24 June 13

Airport manager tests positive, 30 officials go into quarantine

At least 30 personnel of the Kozhikode International Airport have been asked to go into quarantine after anofficial tested positive for the coronavirus infection on Saturday,officials said.
District Collector Jaffer Malik told a news agency that a terminal manager of the airport tested positive today. Health department officials said his sample was
collected on June 7,result of which came out only this evening.

The official had no signs of the disease, and was on duty today also,they said. Consequent to this development, officials who were suspected to have come into contact with the manager have been asked to go into quarantine.
         

19:24 June 13

Health ministry okays remdesivir under emergency use authorization, HCQ for early course of COVID-19

The Union Health Ministry has recommended use of anti-viral drug remdesivir under emergency use authorization, off-label application of immunomodulator tocilizumab and convalescent plasma therapy for treating COVID-19 patients in moderate stage of criticality.

Backtracking from its earlier stance, the ministry in its revised 'Clinical Management Protocols for COVID-19', released on Saturday, said anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) should be used in the early course of the disease to achieve any meaningful effect and should be avoided in severe cases. 

19:24 June 13

SAIL Chairman goes in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19: Sources

SAIL Chairman Anil Kumar Chaudhary is in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19, sources said on Saturday. The total number of COVID cases in SAIL's corporate office here has grown five-fold to 25, they added. "SAIL Chairman A K Chaudhary is in quarantine after he was tested positive for the COVID virus. He was tested on June 1.

A virus positive person had gone close to him in his office. Following which tests were conducted for three consecutive days at the corporate office," one of the sources said.

15:41 June 13

TRS MLA tests positive for COVID-19

A ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLA has tested positive for COVID-19, TRS sources said on Saturday. He is undergoing treatment, they said. Meanwhile,Telangana Finance minister T Harish Rao tested negative for the virus after he took the test in the wake of a staff member being found positive for the infection.
When contacted, Harish Rao said he went into self-quarantine after a personal assistant at his camp office at Siddipet tested positive for the virus. 

As at 5 PM on Friday, the tally of positive cases in Telangana stood at 4484.

15:37 June 13

NDMC municipal health officer tests COVID-19 positive

The municipal health officer of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) on Saturday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is admitted to a private hospital here.

Dr Ashok Rawat said he got to know about the infection on Friday. "Yes, I have tested positive for COVID-19. We are in the frontline of this battle, so chances of such people getting infected is higher. I have got myself admitted to a private hospital," he said. 

Many civic officials, doctors, nurses, sanitation workers and other staffers of the municipal corporations in Delhi have tested positive till date.  A junior engineer employed with NDMC died of COVID-19 on June 1. In the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, a sanitation worker succumbed to the disease in late May.

15:37 June 13

Two persons test positive for COVID-19 in Diu

Two persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Diu district, taking the tally of cases to 34 in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu (DNHDD), a health official said on Saturday.

The number of positive cases in Daman district rose to four after two more persons tested positive for the deadly infection on Friday, the official said.

15:36 June 13

Two COVID-19 patients in Sikkim recover, active cases at 58

Two COVID-19 patients in Sikkim recovered on Saturday and were discharged from the STNM Hospital near Gangtok, an official said.

Those recovered are the state's first two COVID-19 patients -- a 25-year-old man and a 54-year-old man, said Health Secretary Pempa T Bhutia. They have recovered completely and were discharged from the STNM Hospital earlier in the day, he said. Three patients had recovered from COVID-19 earlier this week, he said.

After the recovery of five patients, the number of active cases in Sikkim stands at 58, he added.

15:36 June 13

3 more test positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, total count 107

Three more persons, including two women, tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, taking the total tally in the state to 107, a Health Department official said on Saturday.

13:54 June 13

Three more deaths from coronavirus in Rajasthan

Three deaths and 118 fresh cases of coronavirus were reported in Rajasthan on Saturday, taking the total number of fatalities and positive cases to 275 and 12,186, respectively, officials said.

Two deaths were reported from Jaipur and one from Bharatpur on Saturday, they said.

13:53 June 13

9 more test positive for COVID-19 in Tripura

At least 39 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Tripura, raising the tally in the state to 964, officials said on Saturday.

Of the fresh cases, 27 were from Sepahijala, seven from West Tripura, three from Gomti and one each from Unakoti and South Tripura districts, they said.

13:53 June 13

13 new COVID-19 cases in Pondy, total rises to 176

Thirteen more COVID-19 cases were reported in Puducherry on Saturday taking the tally of viral infections in the union territory to 176.

13:52 June 13

Maha govt slashes charges for COVID-19 tests by private labs

Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Saturday said that the government has reduced the rates of the COVID-19 tests conducted by private
laboratories from Rs 4,500 to Rs 2,200.

13:52 June 13

Odisha reports highest single-day spike with 225 COVID-19 cases

Odisha on Saturday reported its highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases after 225 more people tested positive for the disease, taking the state's tally to 3,723, a Health Department official said.

Of the fresh cases, 196 were reported from various quarantine centres where people returning from other states were lodged, while 29 others were detected in contact-tracing exercises, he said.

12:02 June 13

Delhi death toll reaches 129

Ten days after recording two lakh COVID-19 cases, India surpassed the three lakh-mark on Saturday with the worst daily spike of 11,458 infections, while the death toll too climbed to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said.

Of the 386 new deaths, Delhi accounted for the highest 129 fatalities followed by Maharashtra 127. The virus is moving rapidly in Delhi, which for the first time reported over 2,000 cases on Friday, and Maharashtra, where the number of cases has crossed one lakh.

Gujarat reported 30 deaths, Uttar Pradesh 20, Tamil Nadu 18, West Bengal, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh 9 each, Karnataka and Rajasthan 7 each, Haryana and Uttarakhand 6 each, Punjab 4, Assam 2, Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir and Odisha 1 each.

Of the total 8,884 deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 3,717 fatalities followed by Gujarat with 1,415, Delhi with 1,214, West Bengal with 451, Madhya Pradesh with 440, Tamil Nadu with 367, Uttar Pradesh with 365, Rajasthan with 272 and Telangana with 174 deaths.

The death toll reached 80 in Andhra Pradesh, 79 in Karnataka, 70 in Haryana and 63 in Punjab. Jammu and Kashmir has reported 53 COVID-19 fatalities, Bihar 36 and Uttarakhand 21, Kerala 19, Odisha 10 and Jharkhand and Assam 8 each.

Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh have registered 6 deaths each, Chandigarh 5, Puducherry 2, while Meghalaya, Tripura and Ladakh 1 each, according to the health ministry.

More than 70 per cent deaths have happened due to comorbidities, the ministry said.

Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of cases at 1,01,141 followed by Tamil Nadu (40,698), Delhi (36,824), Gujarat (22,527), Uttar Pradesh (12,616), Rajasthan (12,068) and Madhya Pradesh (10,443).

The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 10,244 in West Bengal,6,516 in Karnataka,6,334 in Haryana and6,103 in Bihar. It has risen to 5,680 in Andhra Pradesh,4,730 in Jammu and Kashmir, 4,484 in Telangana and 3,498 in Odisha and Assam each.

Punjab has reported 2,986 cases while Kerala has 2,322 cases.

A total of 1,724 people have been infected by the virus in Uttarakhand, 1,617 in Jharkhand, 1,424 in Chhattisgarh, 961 in Tripura, 486 in Himachal Pradesh, 463 in Goa, 385 from Manipur and 334 in Chandigarh.

Ladakh has registered 239 COVID-19 cases, Puducherry 157, Nagaland 156, Mizoram 104, Arunachal Pradesh 67, Sikkim 63, Meghalaya 44 while Andaman and Nicobar Islands has registered 38 cases.

Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu together have reported 30 cases.

The ministry said 7,984 cases are being reassigned to states and "our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR". State-wise distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation, it added.

11:33 June 13

With one more death, COVID-19 fatalities rise to 54 in J&K

A 74-year-old retired doctor, who was COVID-19 positive, died at a hospital here, officials said on Saturday taking the number of fatalities due to coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir to 54. 

A retired doctor from Parray Pora area of the city here passed away due to cardiac arrest at SKIMS hospital, Bemina at around 1 am last night, the officials said.

11:32 June 13

71 new COVID-19 positive cases in Lucknow

Lucknow King George's Medical University (KGMU) said: "Out of the 2220 samples tested yesterday for COVID-19, results of 71 are positive."

11:31 June 13

Worst daily coronavirus spike: 11,458 fresh cases push total to 3,08,993

India's COVID-19 tally breached the three-lakh mark on Saturday with a record single-day spike of 11,458 infections, while the death toll rose to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said.

With a COVID-19 caseload of 3,08,993, India is now the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic, according to the Worldometer, a coronavirus statistics website.

08:22 June 13

India's COVID-19 tally crosses 3 lakh

The nationwide COVID-19 tally reportedly crossed the 3-lakh mark on Friday with a record number of over 10,000 new cases getting detected across states and union territories. 

The government stressed on the need for stringent containment measures to check the pandemic with the last one lakh cases emerging in just ten days.

The Centre has asked states and UTs to pay special attention on emerging epicentres of cases and to focus on containment, testing and tracing, upgrading health infrastructure, clinical management and community engagement for effective management of COVID-19, the Union Health Ministry said.

While the first case of the novel coronavirus infection was detected in India on January 30, it took more than 100 days to reach the one-lakh mark on May 18, but the 2-lakh mark was breached only about a fortnight later on June 2.

India is the fourth worst-hit nation by the COVID-pandemic 19 after the US, Brazil and Russia. While the US has reported more than 20 lakh confirmed cases so far, the tally for Brazil is over 8 lakh and for Russia more than 5 lakh.

06:36 June 13

COVID UPDATES

Nine Covid deaths, 164 new cases in Telangana

Hyderabad: In the continuing surge in Covid-19 cases, Telangana on Friday reported nine deaths and 164 new infections.

The fresh fatalities pushed the death toll in the state to 174 while the tally of Covid-19 positive cases mounted to 4,484.

According to the director of public health and family welfare, out of 164 new cases, 133 were reported from Greater Hyderabad, the worst-affected among all 33 districts. The remaining cases were reported from 13 districts.

The number of patients undergoing treatment in hospitals was 2,032 as 2,278 have so far been discharged after recovery.

Meanwhile, the junior doctors at Gandhi Hospital, Telangana's exclusive facility to treat Covid-19 patients, on Friday called off the strike on the condition that the state government address their demands in 15 days.

Over 300 junior doctors were on strike since Tuesday night after one of their colleagues on duty was assaulted by relatives of a patient, who had succumbed to Covid-19.

They had decided to boycott the duties till the government accepted their demands including resuming non-Covid healthcare services at Gandhi Hospital and decentralisation of management of SARI and Covid-19 positive cases.

Telangana Junior Doctors' Association (JUDA) also demanded recruitment of doctors and nurses and deployment of Special Protection Force (SPF) at all government teaching hospitals.

The two rounds of talks between JUDA and Health Minister E. Rajender had failed to resolve the issue. However, following the assurances given by the minister late Thursday, the medicos decided to end the strike.

"Taking public health into consideration especially in view of the pandemic we are fighting and trusting the Health Minister's reassuring words, Juda has decided to conditionally call off the strike and resume duties with immediate effect," they said.

JUDA said that the minister should personally address their demands so that they don't have to boycott their duties again.

Last Updated : Jun 13, 2020, 11:10 PM IST

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