Highlights: 16th Covid-19 positive case reported in Rail Bhawan

India recorded nearly 10,000 new Covid-19 cases in past 24 hours. According to the health ministry figures at 8 am on Tuesday, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country now stand at 266,598 including 1,29,9127 active cases, 1,29,214 cured / discharged patients and 7,466 deaths.

Devotees visited the Sreekanteswaram Siva Temple in Thiruvananthapuram to offer prayers as it reopened on Tuesday, after Kerala government allowed reopening of places of worship from today.

Kerala: Devotees arrive at Sreekanteswaram Siva Temple in Thiruvananthapuram to offer prayers as it reopens, after state govt allowed reopening of places of worship from today. pic.twitter.com/PjA4KZ2VA3

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A meeting of Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan will be held through video conferencing, today.

The president of the UN General Assembly said Monday that world leaders will not be coming to New York for their annual gathering in late September for the first time in the 75-year history of the United Nations because of the Covid-19 pandemic, reports AP.

But Tijjani Muhammad-Bande told a news conference that he hopes to announce in the next two weeks how the 193 heads of state and government will give their speeches on pressing local and world issues during the assembly's so-called General Debate.

University of Washington researchers estimated on Monday that 145,728 people could die of Covid-19 in the United States by August, raising their grim forecast by more than 5,000 fatalities in a matter of days, reports Reuters.

The new estimate came on the same day that Texas reported its highest number of hospitalizations so far in the pandemic and 22 US states showed at least a small uptick in the number of new confirmed cases, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

South Korea has reported 38 new cases of Covid-19 and one more death, bringing national totals to 11,852 infections and 274 virus-related fatalities, reports news agency AP.

Figures from South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday showed 35 of the new cases came from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, where officials have struggled to trace transmissions linked to entertainment venues, church gatherings and low-income workers who couldn’t afford to stay home.

The United States recorded 450 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the latest real-time tally reported Monday by Johns Hopkins University -- the lowest total in about two months, reports AFP.