LIVE: West Bengal reports highest single-day spike of 3,080 cases

Trinamool Congress MLA from Egra Samaresh Das, who tested positive for Covid-19, died on Monday, news agency PTI reported citing sources.

As many as 693 new Covid-19 cases have been reported in Rajasthan in the past 24 hours, state health department informed on Monday.

Ten others lost their lives, which took the total number to fatalities to 886.

Total number of cases now at 61,989 including 14,451 active cases, 46,652 recoveries.

China reported 22 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday in the mainland area.

According to a statement by country's national health commission, all of the new infections were imported cases, indicating drop in local transmission.

China's vaccine specialist CanSino Biologics Inc has won a patent approval from Beijing for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate Ad5-nCOV, state media reported, citing documents from the country's intellectual property regulator.

It is the first Covid-19 vaccine patent granted by China, Reuters reported citing state-owned newspaper People's Daily.

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian state apologised on Monday for failing to stop people carrying the novel coronavirus from disembarking from a cruise ship in Sydney in March, triggering what was at the time Australia's worst outbreak.

India reported 57,981 fresh cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the figures published on health ministry's site.

While 941 others succumbed to the viral disease, pushing the death toll to 50,921.

India tested 7,31,697 samples for Covid-19 on Sunday, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) informed today.

Lebanon has registered a record daily number of coronavirus infections, with 439 people contracting the virus and six fatalities, reports

India has exceeded 3 crore tests for Covid-19, the ministry of health informed on Monday.

"Enhanced and timely testing is not only keeping the Positivity Rate low but also the Fatality Rate low," it said.

New Zealand reported nine new cases Of Covid-19 on Monday, health chief informed.

With 25 fatalities in 24 hours, Australia's Victoria state reported its biggest daily death toll on Monday. The number of daily infections stood at 282.

In worst contraction on record, Japan's economy shrank at annual rate of 27.8% in April-June, as the coronavirus pandemic slammed consumption and trade, according to government data released Monday, reports AP.

South Korea warned of another mass infection after reporting the highest number of cases since early March.

New Zealand delayed its national election by four weeks over concerns its coronavirus outbreak could disrupt the campaign and balloting, country's prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced.