Highlights: Total Covid-19 positive cases in Gujarat rise to 2,815

Doubling rate of Covid-19 cases in country is now 10 days: Health ministry

We are implementing community surveillance at district, state levels to check community spread of coronavirus: Health Ministry.

15 more Covid-19 positive cases have been reported in Bihar; taking the total number of cases to 197: Sanjay Kumar, State Principal Secretary (Health)

Surveillance is our primary weapon in the fight against Covid-19. Nine lakh people are on surveillance system: Dr. Sujeet Singh, Director, National Centre for Disease Control

Health ministry has announced Covid-19 sewa twitter handle to provide authentic information to citizens in real time by trained expert.

Situation especially serious in major hotspot districts or emerging hotspots like Ahmedabad & Surat (Gujarat); Thane (Maharashtra); Hyderabad (Telangana); and Chennai (Tamil Nadu): MHA

In last 28 days, 15 districts have had no new case. Till date, there are 80 districts in the country that have reported no new cases in last 14 days: Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry

In last 24 hours, 1684 Covid-19 positive cases have been reported which takes our total confirmed case to 23,077. Our recovery rate is 20.57%: Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry

IMCT team in Mumbai visited Dharavi, Govandi and Wadala slum areas.

IMCT has recommended use of institution quarantine facility for up to 3000 people in Dharavi. IMCT has also recommended increasing the number of testing and surveillance teams in Dharavi: MHA

Today’s discussion with Panchayat Sarpanchs was very insightful. They shared their strategies of fighting COVID-19. I salute all Sarpanchs for their hardwork and efforts in these extraordinary times

IMCT team in Indore is discussing ways of strengthening contact tracing and active cases screening, increasing of testing and sampling facilities and for increasing the supply of food and nutrients in the slum areas: MHA

IMCT team visiting Indore said that 20 out of 171 containment zones in the city are very critical: Health Ministry

Apart from 6 Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (IMCT) constituted earlier, Home Ministry today constituted four additional IMCTs, each headed by an Additional Secretary - level officer, to Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad & Chennai: Punya Salila Srivastava, Union Home Ministry

Seven police personnel in Coimbatore, including four women,test positive for coronavirus, reports PTI.

Iran's death toll from the new coronavirus rose by 93 on Friday, to reach a total of 5,574, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said on state TV.