Highlights: 9,431 fresh Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra, tally climbs to 3.75 lakh

Jharkhand registered 214 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours taking the state's infection tally to 7,841, the health department said in a bulletin. The toll due to the coronavirus disease has risen to 83 with 7 more fatalities.

Of the new fatalities, two each were reported from Ranchi and East Singhbhum districts, while one each was reported from Sareikela, Dhanbad and Ramgarh, the bulletin said.

"During Covid-19 pandemic, Balbir Kaur, sarpanch of Trewa in Jammu, built a 30-bed quarantine bed in her panchayat. Jaituna Begum of Chountliwar in Ganderbal resolved that her panchayat will fight Covid-19 and also create employment opportunities," PM Modi said on 'Mann ki Baat'.

"India's Covid-19 recovery rate is better than others. Our fatality rate is much less than most other countries. We are able to save the lives of lakhs of people but threat of coronavirus is not over yet. It is spreading at a rapid pace which is why we need to remain vigilant," PM Modi said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed the declining Covid-19 fatality rate and increasing recovery rate. He, however, emphasised that the coronavirus disease continues to lethal and renewed his pitch for taking precautionary measures.

The Prime Minister was addressing his monthly radio programme 'Mann ki Baat'.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister on Sunday tweeted that he was fine and thanked all corona warriors for their effort.

"Selflessly risking his life #COVID19 I salute all the Corona warriors of the state who served the victims," he wrote on Twitter in Hindi.

Thousands of Israelis held several demonstrations across the country against their prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday with the main protest taking place in Jerusalem outside the official residence of the premier.

After Britain announced its decision to take Spain off a safe-travel list over a rise in coronavirus cases, tourists flying home on Sunday reacted to the move to make everyone arriving from the Mediterranean country spend 14 days in quarantine.

The number people of who have contracted the coronavirus disease in India rose to 1,385,522 on Sunday with 48,661 cases reported in the last 24 hours.

Of the total 467882 are active cases while 885576 people have recovered from the infection so far. The toll due to the disease has risen to 32,063.

In a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates said South Korean pharmaceutical company SK Bioscience may be capable of producing 200 million coronavirus vaccine kits by next June.

Australia’s Victoria state reported a daily high in the number of deaths from the coronavirus and another surge in infections. The fatalities bring Victoria's toll to 71 and Australia's national tally to 155. A total of 228 people are hospitalized in Victoria, 42 in intensive care.

With 305 more people contracting the coronavirus dosease in the last 24 hours, Germany's infection tally has gone up to 205,269, according to data released by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Sunday.

An ambulance driver allegedly forced two boys, who are Covid-19 positive, and their mother to get off the vehicle as they could not pay the exorbitant fare he demanded for a six-km journey between two hospitals in Kolkata, news agency PTI reported.

Rajasthan health department has issued fresh guidelines for Covid-19 testing in the state. It is now mandatory to submit Aadhaar Card ID in the RT-PCR App for the person being tested for coronavirus. The testing labs are now required to provide results within 24 hours of conducting the test.

"Corona bed occupancy has come down sharply from 23 June to 26 July.

Much lesser no of people are now falling ill. Most of those falling ill are getting treated at home. Therefore, v few people are now needing hospitalization," Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a tweet on Sunday.

The first part of Phase-1 of Covaxin human trial completed on Saturday at Post-Graduate Institute (PGI) of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, said Dr Savita Verma, principal investigator of the vaccine trial team.

Six people were administered the vaccine on Saturday under the second part of Phase-1, Verma told news agency ANI.