Coronavirus in Meghalaya LATEST Updates
Coronavirus Updates: Karnataka reports 7,040 new cases; health minister B Sriramulu discharged after recovery
Coronavirus Updates: Sriramulu was admitted to Bengaluru's Bowring hospital on 9 August after testing positive for COVID-19

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Coronavirus in India LATEST Updates
98-year-old war veteran defeats COVID-19
Indian Navy on Sunday said that a 98-yr-old retired war veteran Sepoy Ramu Laxman Sakpal has defeated the novel coronavirus, reports ANI.
"Sepoy Ramu Laxman Sakpal (Retd), a 98-yr-old war veteran, residing at Nerul was admitted to Naval Hospital Ship Asvini in a critical state. He was diagnosed with Pneumonia due to COVID a few weeks ago. His condition was successfully managed, leading to freedom from COVID-19," the statement from the Indian Navy read.
Sakpal (Retd) was accorded a warm farewell at INHS Asvini, the primary naval healthcare centre in the war against COVID-19 and managing the care of serving and retired COVID-19 patients from Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard.
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Coronavirus in Meghalaya LATEST Updates
Night curfew in Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district extended till 24 Aug
Coronavirus in Maharashtra LATEST Updates
Pune reports 2,800 fresh infections
Pune district in Maharashtra reported 2,800 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the overall number to 1,25,197, a health official said on Sunday. The toll in the district crossed the 3,000-mark to reach at 3,022 after 65 patients succumbed to the infection, he said."Of the 2,800 cases, 1,522 were from areas within the limits of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), where the infection count has gone up to 74,098," the official said. As many as 1,412 patients were discharged from hospitals during the day, he added.
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Coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh LATEST Updates
90 inmates of govt shelter home for girls in Bareilly test positive
Ninety inmates of a government shelter home for girls in Bareilly have tested positive for COVID-19, an official said on Sunday.Deputy Director of Women Welfare Department Nita Ahirwar said, "In the past two days, 90 inmates of Nari Niketan here have tested positive for COVID-19. All of them have been isolated."How the inmates got contracted the coronavirus infection is being investigated, he said.
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Coronavirus in West Bengal LATEST Updates
West Bengal registers 51 deaths, 3,066 new cases
Coronavirus in Kerala LATEST Updates
Kerala reports 1,530 new case; CM, 7 other ministers test negative
Kerala on Sunday reported over 1,500 COVID-19 cases for the fourth straight day, taking the tally to 44,415 while Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and seven of his cabinet colleagues along with top officials tested negative, several of them for the second time. As many as 53 health workers were among the 1,530 fresh cases, 1,351 of them through contacts, and ten COVID-19 deaths took the toll due to the disease to 156, Health Minister KK Shailaja said in a health department release. Vijayan, Shailaja and others, who went into self- quarantine on Friday after the Malappuram District Collector contracted the virus days after accompanying them to the air crash site there, tested negative for coronavirus, sources in the Chief Minister's office said.
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Coronavirus in Karnataka LATEST Updates
Karnataka health minister B Sriramulu thanks colleagues, doctors after recovery
Karnataka health minister B Sriramulu said he has been discharged from Bengaluru's Bowring Hospital after recovering from COVID-19. The minister had tested positive on 9 August. "It is owing to the dedicated service of the doctors and medical staff there that I have recovered quickly and I am indebted and grateful to them for the same," the minister said on Twitter.
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— B Sriramulu (@sriramulubjp) August 16, 2020
I also take this opportunity to thank our Chief Minister and all my cabinet colleagues for all the support extended during this period.#Covid19#Bowring_And_Lady_Curzon_Hospitals
Coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh LATEST Updates
Madhya Pradesh records highest single-day rise of 1,022 new cases
Coronavirus in Maharashtra LATEST Updates
Mumbai reports 1,010 new cases, 49 deaths and 719 recoveries
Mumbai's coronavirus case count went up to 1,28,726 with 1,010 more testing positive today, reports ANI quoting the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). With 47 deaths, the toll rose to 7,130 while 719 recoveries took the active caseload to 17,828 active cases.
1,010 new #COVID19 cases, 719 recovered cases and 47 deaths reported in Mumbai today. Total number of cases now at 1,28,726 including 1,03,468 recovered/discharged cases, 17,828 active cases and 7,130 deaths: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) #Maharashtra pic.twitter.com/No0V1KHS1x
— ANI (@ANI) August 16, 2020
Coronavirus in Maharashtra LATEST Updates
Toll in Maharashtra climbs to 20,037
Coronavirus LATEST Updates: Karnataka reported 7040 new cases (including 2,131 cases from Bengaluru Urban), 6680 124 deaths, taking the total number of cases to 2,26,966 and toll to 3,947.
Former India opener Chetan Chauhan died on Sunday due to COVID-19 related complications after being put on life support for nearly 36 hours, his brother Pushpendra Chauhan said.
With a sharp fall in the case fatality rate to below 2 percent, India has one of the lowest COVID-19 mortality globally, according to the health ministry.
Over the last 24 hours, 303 new positive cases and one death were recorded in the Maharashtra Police force.
The reported active COVID-19 cases in India now stand at 6,77,444 with as many as 18,62,258 COVID-19 patients discharged so far, the Union Health Ministry has said in its latest update.
A spike of 65,002 cases took India’s COVID-19 tally past 25 lakh on Saturday, just a day after it crossed the 24 lakh mark, while the number of fatalities neared 50,000 with 996 deaths, Union Health Ministry data showed.
According to figures from the ministry, 18.08 lakh people have so far recuperated from the disease, pushing the recovery rate to 71.61 per cent.
India has been reporting over 60,000 cases daily since August 7, barring August 11 when the country registered 53,601 new instances of the infection.
The COVID-19 caseload stood at 25,26,192, while the death-toll climbed to 49,036, data updated on Saturday at 8 am showed.
Case fatality rate has declined to 1.94 per cent.
There are 6,68,220,active cases of coronavirus infections in the country, which is 26.45 per cent of the total caseload, while the number of recoveries has risen to 18,08,936.
India''s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20 lakh mark on August 7.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 2,85,63,095 samples have been tested up to August 14. Of these, 8,68,679 were examined on Friday, the highest in a day so far.
Of the 996 fresh deaths reported, 364 are from Maharashtra, 117 from Tamil Nadu, 104 from Karnataka, 97 from Andhra Pradesh, 60 from West Bengal, 55 from Uttar Pradesh, 25 from Punjab, 16 each from Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, 15 each from Gujarat and Jharkhand, 13 from Rajasthan, 11 each from Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir and 10 each from Kerala, Odisha and Telangana.
Besides, seven fatalities have been reported from Haryana, six from Assam, four each from Puducherry, Tripura and Uttarakhand, two each from Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Goa while Arunachal Pradesh and Chandigarh have registered one fatality each.
Of the total 49,036 deaths, Maharashtra counts for the maximum with 19,427, followed by 5,514 in Tamil Nadu, 4,178 in Delhi, 3,717 in Karnataka, 2,746 in Gujarat, 2,475 in Andhra Pradesh, 2,335 in Uttar Pradesh, 2,319 in West Bengal and 1,081 in Madhya Pradesh.
So far, 846 people have died of COVID-19 in Rajasthan, 731 in Punjab, 684 in Telangana, 520 in Jammu and Kashmir, 518 in Haryana, 442 in Bihar, 324 in Odisha, 224 in Jharkhand, 175 in Assam, 147 in Uttarakhand and 139 in Kerala.
Chhattisgarh has registered 130 deaths, Puducherry 106, Goa 93, Tripura 50, Chandigarh 28, Andaman and Nicobar Islands 24, Himachal Pradesh 19, Manipur 13, Ladakh nine, Nagaland eight, Meghalaya six, Arunachal Pradesh five, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu two and Sikkim one.
According to the Health Ministry, more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.
"Our figures are being reconciled with the Indian Council of Medical Research," the ministry said, adding that state-wise distribution of figures is subject to further verification and reconciliation.
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