Highlights: Indore records highest single-day spike of 295 Covid-19 cases

Forty-two more persons tested positive for Covid-19 in Meghalaya on Tuesday, taking the state's tally to 3,076, Health Minister A L Hek said.

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Tuesday recorded 236 new Covid-19 patients, the biggest single-day surge for the district which pushed its infection tally to 9,126, official data showed.

Covid-19 tally in Mumbai slum colony Dharavi rises to 2,830 with addition of 6 new cases: BMC.

Kerala reports 3,026 new Covid-19 positive cases and 1,862 recoveries. Active number of cases now at 23,217; so far 68,863 patients have recovered.

With the detection of 295 fresh infections, Madhya Pradesh's Indore district on Tuesday recorded a highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases that has taken its tally to 15,165, an official said.

The monsoon session of West Bengal assembly will be held for only a day on September 9 due to the ongoing pandemic, Speaker Biman Banerjee said on Tuesday.

Current surge in Covid-19 cases in the capital will "plateau" in next 10-15 days; No need to panic: Delhi Health Minister to PTI

Case fatality rate is continuously declining. It was at 2.15% in the first week of August, now it stands at 1.70%: Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Union Health Ministry

Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu account for 70% of total active Covid-19 cases in India: Health Ministry.

India's Covid-19 cases per million is 3,102 which is among the lowest in the world. India's Covid-19 deaths per million population is 53 which is among the lowest in the world, said Health Ministry.

All 22 teams will start the 10th stage of the Tour de France after their riders tested negative for Covid-19, organisers said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that four members of staff had returned positive tests.

Uttarakhand BJP president Bansidhar Bhagat, who was admitted to the Doon Hospital here after testing positive for coronavirus infection, was discharged on Tuesday, the party said.

Mohamed Fathi, an Egyptian man who has recovered from Covid-19, winced as he watched tubes running down his arm to donate blood plasma, but insisted: "if I can help just one person, that's a very good thing".

Twenty-seven more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, taking the coronavirus tally in the union territory to 3,359, an official said on Tuesday.

Egypt has detected more than 100,000 Covid-19 infections and reported 5,541 deaths from the virus disease, the health ministry said Tuesday.