Coronavirus Live Updates: Full lockdown will be applied every Sunday in Karnataka from July 5, the state government has decided after a meeting convened by Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa to discuss the situation of coronaviruses, one day when the state capital, Bengaluru, reported 596 positive cases – the city’s highest daytime peak. No activity will be allowed on Sundays, except essential services.
Monday afternoon, the night curfew will start at 8 p.m. compared to 9 p.m. earlier, but the 5 a.m. end time will remain, officials said.
All government offices will have a five-day week with Saturday as a holiday.
The state reported 918 cases of coronavirus – also the highest day-long peak in the state – and 11 deaths today. The total number of cases in the state increased to 11,923; to date, 7,287 people have recovered and 191 have died.
Six days after recording four lakh infections, India’s COVID-19 count surpassed five lakh on Saturday with the highest one-day jump of 18,552 cases, according to data from the Union’s Department of Health. 384 deaths from COVID-19 were also reported during the period, bringing the total number of victims of the virus to 15,685. The number of active cases amounted to 1,977,387, while 2,95880 people died. restored and that a patient has migrated, according to the updated figure at 8 am.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in India Live updates:
The number of coronavirus cases in Assam crossed the 7,000 mark on Saturday after an additional 246 people, including 31 police officers, tested positive, while the number of deaths due to the disease rose to 10, the minister said. Himanta Biswa Sarma Health.
Bihar witnessed a huge increase in COVID-19 infections on Saturday, with 301 people testing positive for the virus, while two other deaths pushed the death toll to 58, officials said.
With the new cases, the state’s coronavirus count has reached 8,979. According to Health Secretary Lokesh Kumar Singh, a 60-year-old man from Rohtas district died on Friday. He also suffered from other ailments.
The other death was reported in Begusarai, although details such as time of death, age and medical history of the deceased were not known. Begusarai now has four dead. Only Darbhanga, Patna and Saran – with five dead each – reported a higher number of victims, reported the PTI news agency.
The global number of COVID-19 cases has exceeded 9.6 million after more than 179,000 new positive tests worldwide have been confirmed in the past 24 hours, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday .
According to the WHO Daily Statistical Bulletin, a total of 179,316 new cases were reported in the past day, a slight increase from the 177,012 new positive tests reported on Friday.
The organization has confirmed 40,526 new cases in the United States, 39,483 new positive tests in Brazil and 18,552 new cases in India in the past 24 hours.
Following the latest increase, the global total of coronavirus cases now stands at 9.65 million, according to the WHO.
An additional 6,866 deaths have also been recorded in the past 24 hours, bringing the global number of deaths from COVID-19 to 491,128, the organization said. The Americas were the most severely affected, recording 74.8% of all deaths in the past day.
On Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the organization fully expects the total number of cases to exceed 10 million next week. He added that nearly four million new cases have been registered in the past month.
The United States surpassed 2.5 million cases of coronavirus on Saturday, a Johns Hopkins University tracker said, as the hardest-hit country in the world struggled with a wave of infections in several states.
There were 2,500,419 confirmed cases in the United States, according to the University of Baltimore at 5:30 p.m. (9:30 p.m. GMT).
Deaths in the United States now exceed 125,000, or about a quarter of the world total of more than 495,000.
Florida reported a record 9,585 cases in 24 hours as infections soared there on Saturday. The rapid reopening of the state has seen young adults flocking to beaches, boardwalks and bars.
It is one of more than half of the states in the United States, particularly in the south and west, that are experiencing peaks in COVID-19 cases – a dramatic setback to efforts to reopen and rescue severely battered economies.
Texas and Florida, both of which have Republican governors who have resisted prolonged blockades, have announced new bar restrictions.
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