Highlights: France reports over 25,000 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours
Cinema halls and multiplexes reopened in several states from today while those in other states reopened from Thursday, with 50% occupancy.
India on Friday recorded 63,371 new Covid-19 cases, which took its tally to 7,370,468. Earlier, on Thursday, India’s coronavirus caseload went past 7.3 million mark as the country logged 67,708 new infections. Also on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a review meeting of research and vaccine deployment system against Covid-19. During the meeting, he directed health authorities to scale up testing and serosurveys.
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Elsewhere, the caseload of the United States, the world’s worst-hit country, went past the eight million, making it the first country to breach the mark. It recorded 60,000 new cases on Wednesday—the highest since August 14—to cross the eight million mark. India, Brazil, Russia and Spain, in that order, are the next four worst-hit countries.
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India continues to have one of lowest deaths/million population: Govt
India continues to have one of the lowest deaths per million population globally (presently pegged at 80). Some states/UTs are performing better and reporting much lower deaths/million population than the national average: Health ministry
India continues to have one of the lowest deaths per million population globally (presently pegged at 80).
— ANI (@ANI) October 16, 2020
Some states/UTs are performing better and reporting much lower deaths/million population than the national average: Ministry of Health pic.twitter.com/axXU5SoYUX
First published: Oct 16, 2020 06:53 IST