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Highlights: Spain’s Covid-19 death toll crosses 30,000

A total of 25 MPs tested positive for the infection on Monday, as Parliament reconvened for its monsoon session, after being adjourned in March due to the pandemic.

By hindustantimes.com | Updated: Sep 16, 2020 00:00 IST
Highlights: Spain’s Covid-19 death toll crosses 30,000
A health worker gears up to collect swab samples for coronavirus rapid antigen testing.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc in India, after the country's tally, as on Monday night, stood at over 4.8 million, the Union health ministry's dashboard showed.

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On Monday, Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia announced that he, too, has tested positive for the virus.

The global Covid-19 tally, meanwhile, spiked to over 29 million, of which there are more than 9.3 lakh fatalities and 2.1 million recoveries, as per worldometers. United States continues to be the worst-hit country, followed by India and Brazil. Russia, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, Spain and Argentina complete the list of ten worst-hit countries in the world.

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09:46 AM IST

Use of Covid-19 hospital beds 'close to saturation' in France's Marseille

As France witnesses a fresh surge in its coronavirus cases, use of hospital beds by Covid-19 patients is 'close to saturation' in the city of Marseille, reports BBC.

09:32 AM IST

India registers 83,809 new cases of Covid-19

08:31 AM IST

5,83,12,273 samples tested till September 14

08:05 AM IST

Eight new Covid-19 cases in mainland China

Eight new cases of coronavirus in mainland China, as compared to ten a day earlier. Total confirmed Covid-19 tally stands at 85,202, including 4,634 deaths.

08:02 AM IST

India's Covid-19 recoveries are the highest

Data from John Hopkins University shows that India has the highest number of Covid-19 recovered cases in the world. With 3,780,107 recoveries, India has overtaken Brazil. United States is at third.

07:34 AM IST

Assam's Covid-19 tally rises to 1,44,166

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma says that the state's Covid-19 tally has reached 1,44,166 after 2,403 new cases. The death toll reached 482 with 13 more fatalities.

First published: Sep 15, 2020 07:05 IST