Highlights: Czech Republic, Russia see rise in new coronavirus cases

Close to 25,000 Maharashtra Police personal have been infected by Covid-19

127 police personnel tested positive for #COVID19 in the last 24 hours, taking total positive cases to 24,862 in the force, including 22,300 recoveries, 2,303 active cases, and 259 deaths: Maharashtra Police pic.twitter.com/r599OKgy3h

— ANI (@ANI) October 10, 2020

Indonesia on Saturday reported 4,294 new coronavirus infections to bring the total tally of 328,952, data from the country's Covid-19 task force showed.

The Southeast Asia country also reported 88 more people have died from the virus, the lowest daily number in a week. Indonesia's total number of coronavirus deaths now stands at 11,765.

Covid-19 patients who are being treated at Hindu Rao hospital in Delhi, will be transferred to state government run hospitals as doctors and staff announce strike over salary issue, health minister Satyendar Jain said.

"Staff of the hospital should be paid their salaries. If Municipal Corporation of Delhi is not able to run Hindu Rao, and Kasturba hospitals, then they should handover them to State government," said Jain.

The death toll due to Covid-19 in Odisha toll crossed 1,000-mark on Saturday as 15 people succumbed to the disease. The state recorded 2,854 new cases, pushing tally to over 2.49 lakh.

A case was filed against BJD MLA Umakanta Samantray after he attended the funeral of party leader Pradeep Maharathy despite testing positive for Covid- 19, police said on Saturday.

The case was registered at the Sea Beach Police Station in Puri on Friday night.

The Union Territory of Ladakh reported 85 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the virus caseload to 4,987, an official bulletin said on Saturday.

With 346 more patients cured of the infection, the number of active cases in the region dropped to 1,038 -- 772 in Leh district and 266 in Kargil district, the bulletin released by the directorate of health services said.

India's Covid-19 tally neared 7 million mark as it recorded 73,272 new cases the the last 24 hours. The tally has reached 6,979,423.

Australia recorded no coronavirus deaths for a third straight day on Saturday, but its hotspot city of Melbourne faced a prolonged lockdown as new infections stayed stubbornly above the target for re-opening.

New Mexico is losing ground in efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 as newly reported daily infections hit a record of 488 cases.

Three additional deaths from the pandemic also were disclosed Friday by state health officials as fatalities from the pandemic surpassed 900.

US President Donald Trump said he was "medication free" and revealed more details of his fight with Covid-19 in a televised interview aired Friday, one week after he was hospitalized with the virus.

"Right now I'm medication-free, I'm not taking any medications as of, you know, probably eight hours ago," Trump said in televised interview.

Mainland China reported 15 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Oct. 9, down from 21 a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Saturday.

All the new cases were imported infections involving travellers from overseas, the National Health Commission said in a statement.