Highlights: Noida cinemas, gyms, swimming pools to remain closed till Aug 31

At least 45 Kolkata police personnel including two senior officers of the Detective Department have tested positive for Covid-19, an official said on Friday.

So far, over 1,100 police personnel have been infected by the virus, the official said.

Centre has informed the Supreme Court that Punjab, Maharashtra, Tripura and Karnataka haven't made timely payment to frontline Covid-19 healthcare workers and doctors despite its order.

The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to do needful to ensure that salaries of health workers involved in Covid-19 fight are paid in time.

The impact of 2020 coronavirus recession on GDP will continue to be felt for years to come with GDP levels in the largest advanced economies expected to remain around 3 to 4% below their pre-virus trend path by the middle of this decade, Fitch Ratings has said in a new report.

Odisha's Covid-19 tally rose to 31,877 as the state reported 1,499 more cases in the last 24 hours. While 11,918 are active cases, 19,745 people have recovered from the coronavirus disease, the state health department said.

Chief medical officer of Ghazipur has written to additional district magistrate of Ghazipur regarding 42 Covid-19 patients, who were neither found to be in hospitals nor in home isolation. The letter, quoted by news agency ANI, reads tracing of 42 positive patients is underway.'

Rajasthan now has 41,298 confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease after the state registered a single day spike of 362 cases. The toll due to the infection has risen to 674.

As many as 11,319 cases are active, the state health department said.

In the first days of the pilgrimage that witnesses very few attendees this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, many of the people were seen holding their phones aloft to snap selfies and livestream their progress to friends and family back home.

China on Friday reported 127 new coronavirus cases on the mainland for July 30, up from 105 the previous day, and the highest daily number since March 5 for locally transmitted cases of Covid-19 on the mainland.

Gilead Sciences Inc on Thursday posted quarterly results, which were worse-than-expected. The firm, however, has raised its 2020 sales forecast to include revenue from its antiviral drug remdesivir, one of the only treatments shown to help Covid-19 patients.

A US security official said that hackers linked to the Chinese government had earlier this year tried to target Moderna, one of the biotechnology firms leading coronavirus vaccine research, to steal their data.

People offer namaz at a mosque in Malappuram as Kerala is celebrating Eid-Al-Adha today.

Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan had on Thursday announced that the prayers can be offered in mosques with a limited number of people amid Covid-19 concerns.

#WATCH: People offer namaz at a mosque in Malappuram as Kerala celebrates #EidAlAdha today.

CM Pinarayi Vijayan had yesterday announced that the prayers can be offered in mosques today, with a limited number of people, in the wake of #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/IhTZYtJytl

— ANI (@ANI) July 31, 2020

The number of people, who have died of Covid-19 in Mexico rose by 639 to 46,000 in the past 24 hours, the health ministry has said. The total confirmed cases have surged to 416,179 with a daily spike of 7,730 cases.

As many as 55,078 cases reported in the last 24 hours, highest so far, pushed India's Covid-19 tally to 1,638,870. The death toll has reached 35,747.

As coronavirus cases continue to soar, the Boris Johnson led UK-government has put millions of people in northern England back in partial lockdown.

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte on Friday extended coronavirus restrictions in the country's capital Manila until mid-August and said the Southeast Asian country would be given priority by China if supplies of a vaccine became available.