Highlights: 2,033 fresh coronavirus cases in Delhi, recovery rate nears 75%

Six more people tested positive for Covid-19 in the Union Territory of Ladakh, bringing the infection tally to 1,047, officials said on Wednesday.

The fresh cases were detected in Leh district even as 28 more patients -- 24 in Leh and four in Kargil -- were discharged after recovering from the novel coronavirus, the officials said.

Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday inaugurated a 500-bed COVID care centre at the Commonwealth Games village.

Doctors For You, a not-for-profit organisation, supported the Delhi government in setting up the facility which is attached to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital.

Uttar Pradesh's Covid-19 tally reaches 31,156 with 1,188 fresh cases; 18 more deaths take toll to 845: Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad

The office of the Civil Defence Directorate at Jawahar Bhawan will remain closed for two days after a coronavirus patient was found in the local intelligence unit office on the same floor, a senior official said.

Covid-19 tally in Mumbai's slum colony Dharavi rises to 2,338 with addition of 3 new cases: BMC

Lockdown will be imposed in containment zones in West Bengal for seven days from 5 pm Thursday to check the surge in novel coronavirus cases, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday.

A family from Kopri in Thane city, who had cremated a stranger due to a goof-up by a Covid-19 hospital, will now again have to perform the last rites of their kin who died of the infection late on Tuesday night.

Bihar reports highest single-day spike of 749 Covid-19 cases; tally now 13,274: State health department

Puducherry registered its highest ever single day spurt of 112 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the aggregate number of those infected by the virus in the Union Territory to 1,151.

Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Wednesday said the state will start using the convalescent plasma therapy for treating Covid-19 patients from next week.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Oman exceeded 50,000 on Wednesday, the Health Ministry said.

Assam reported five more Covid-19 fatalities on Wednesday, taking the state's death toll due to the disease to 21 while the total number of cases stood at 13,336, Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

Bengaluru Mayor M Gautham Kumar is under home quarantine after his Personal Assistant tested positive for Covid-19, a city civic body official said on Wednesday.