Highlights: Gujarat’s Covid-19 tally nearing 69,000; death toll at 2,606
While the US, Brazil and India remained the top countries to account for the majority of cases, China meanwhile reported its first new case of locally transmitted Covid-19 in a week.
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Africa surpasses a million coronavirus cases
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53,139 new cases of Covid-19 in Brazil
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As the health authorities across the world rallied to develop a vaccine for raging coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the global tally surpassed 19 million mark on Friday.
While US, Brazil and India remained the top countries to account for the majority of cases, China meanwhile reported its first new case of locally transmitted Covid-19 in a week.
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In India, the daily caseload continued to remain above 50,000. In view of Covid-19, the union ministry of health and family welfare on Thursday informed that the country has substantively ramped up its testing infrastructure from one lab in January 2020 to 1,370 labs as of now.
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Africa surpasses a million coronavirus cases
Coronavirus has now infected more than a million people in Africa as the nations across the continent have recorded 1,000,054 infections and at least 21,724 deaths, accounting for around five per cent of global cases, according to an AFP tally as of Thursday.
First published: Aug 07, 2020 07:04 IST