Highlights: Maharashtra reports 4,841 Covid-19 cases today

Tourism industry stakeholders in Shimla held an awareness and training programme as the city prepares to welcome tourists amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

A total of 65,000 ASHA workers in Maharashtra are likely to get a monthly pay hike of ₹2,000 as an incentive for their hard work during the coronavirus pandemic, a government official said.

The Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA workers) have so far been earning about ₹10,000 per month, he was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

Indian-American doctors from in and around Washington with a prominent gurdwara have launched a food drive for the people infected with the coronavirus disease, news agency PTI reported.

Goa Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao on Wednesday said that the churches in the Union Territory will be permitted to open if they comply with Covid-19 safety protocols.

The Archbishop announced stringent rules while rolling out a formal protocol for the re-opening of churches, news agency ANI reported.

Even as Covid-19 cases continue to surge in Turkey, the government is not considering lockdowns, the health minister was quoted as saying y news agency Associated Press.

With the steepest single-day spike of 16,922 cases, total confirmed cases of coronavirus disease have reached 473,105 in India, according to latest figures provided by the Union ministry of health and family welfare. The death toll has mounted to 14,894.

Brazil registered a spike of 42,725 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said Wednesday, according to news agency AFP. Experts have warned that the country was exiting lockdown too soon.

A floor in Sri Sri Ravishankar Ashram in Karnataka's Bengaluru has been reserved for asymptomatic and mild symptomatic police personnel infected with the coronavirus disease, the Karnataka government said on Wednesday, according to news agency ANI.

Europe is on track to reopen borders on July 1, however, Americans are unlikely to be allowed into more than 30 European countries for business or tourism due to the Covid-19 pandemic and President Donald Trump's ban on European visitors.

Tough measures including quarantines and stay-at-home advice were put in place in US on Wednesday, as the coronavirus cases in the nation were nearing record levels after surging across the nation's South and West, according to news agency AFP.

A special Air India flight carrying 224 Indian nationals departed from Washington DC to New Delhi on Wednesday under the third phase of Vande Bharat Mission launched to repatriate Indians stranded abroad due to Covid-19 travel restrictions.

Union civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said that nearly 1,25,000 Indians have returned from different countries under the Vande Bharat Mission.

A total of 46 new coronavirus cases were reported in Indore on Wednesday, according to latest figures provide by the district health department. The districts's tally has reached 4,507, which includes 3,344 who have recovered from the disease and 211 who have died.

As per Johns Hopkins University’s tally, global confirmed Covid-19 cases have climbed to 9,405,800 while the death toll has mounted to 482,128. The US continues to be the hardest hit with 2,380,452 cases.