Coronavirus live updates: Will decide in July on international flights' resumption, govt says

Beijing authorities imposed more restrictions to stop the spread of a fresh outbreak of coronavirus in the Chinese capital to other provinces, banning outbound travel of high-risk people and suspending some transportation services out of the city. Beijing officials reported on Tuesday 27 new confirmed Covid-19 cases for June 15, taking the cumulative number of infections in the city's current outbreak to 106. That makes it the most serious flare-up in China since February, stoking fears of a second-wave of the respiratory disease which emerged in the central city of Wuhan late last year and has now infected more than 8 million people worldwide. Read more

The country needs to increase Covid-19 testing by roughly 10 times — to at least one million samples daily,” Rakesh Mishra, director of Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), said during a video conference with Telangana governor Tamilisai Sounderajan and others on Monday. Between 1.15 lakh and 1.5 lakh people were tested daily in India from June 10-14, according to Union health ministry figures. Read more

ICMR has recommended use of the first antigenbased testing kit to enable faster diagnosis, at lower rates and without lab examinations of samples, reports Sushmi Dey. The antigen test — developed by SD Biosensor — is validated by AIIMS and can detect presence of Covid-19 in swab collected from the nose alone. The maximum time to interpret a positive or negative test is 30 minutes. Officials say the test will be cheaper than RT-PCR. Read more

He also said that it is necessary to enter name and address of the person who gets his test conducted. He assured that a person belonging to any state can get his sample tested for Covid-19 in Gurugram, he only has to give his correct address: Haryana Chief Minister's Office (CMO)

Mumbai’s Covid-19 death toll could climb substantially as the Maharashtra government has asked the BMC to revisit hundreds of deaths that may not have been added to the pandemic toll, report Sumitra DebRoy and Bhavika Jain. Multiple sources confirmed to TOI that Covid-19 mortality numbers in the city could jump by 400-500 though civic authorities were tightlipped about the exercise. Mumbai’s toll touched 2,250 on Monday. Read more

In the sharpest single-day rise in Covid-19 deaths, India recorded 396 fatalities on Monday although the number of fresh infections fell to a six-day low of 10,373. The first 15 days of June have seen more cases and fatalities than the whole of May, when over 1.5 lakh infections and 4,267 deaths were reported in the country. Monday was the sixth straight day of more than 300 deaths being reported. While Maharashtra recorded its highest daily toll of 178, fatalities rose in Delhi (73) and Tamil Nadu (44). Fresh cases dipped in all three states even as Haryana and Andhra reported a surge. Read more

"We're making very good headway with respect to vaccines. So, we're making very good headway therapeutically and a cure-wise, I think really, really tremendous headway. I've seen the results. I've met with some of the people that do the work, smart people, great people, people that have succeeded before," he said."We'll have some very good news for you on vaccines and therapeutics and cures, frankly, because I guess, if you look at therapeutics, if it acts fast enough, I guess you'd call it a cure, wouldn't you say? So, I think we're going to have some very good news on that," Trump said.

Mainland China reported 40 new confirmed coronavirus cases for June 15, down from 49 a day earlier, the National Health Authority said on Monday. Twenty seven of the new cases were in Beijing, down from 36 a day earlier. The city is facing a new outbreak of the virus that is believed to have originated in a local grocery market.

In a bid to ensure COVID-19 testing of all symptomatic persons and close contacts of people infected with the novel coronavirus, ASHA and ANM workers have been tasked to conduct door to door health screening in Odisha.

Brazil registered 627 new deaths from COVID-19 on Monday, the Health Ministry said, with a new total of 888,271 confirmed cases of coronavirus