Coronavirus live updates: First time since August, daily tests below 9 lakh for 3 days

External affairs minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar on Monday lauded India's COVID-19 response, saying that it should give people confidence in the country's future. Speaking at the third edition of Deccan Dialogue, Jaishankar said: "A nation that had no preparedness for an enormous crisis, responded in a way that it should give us all confidence in our future."

The Philippines' health ministry on Monday recorded 1,738 new coronavirus infections and seven additional deaths, the lowest daily increase in casualties in nearly three months. In a bulletin, the ministry said total confirmed cases had increased to 409,574, while deaths had reached 7,839.

At least 749 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Odisha, taking the tally to 3,09,408 on Monday, while 16 fresh fatalities pushed the toll in the state to 1,543, a health department official said. Of the 749 cases, 437 were reported from quarantine centres, and the remaining detected during contact tracing.

The Czech Republic, one of the worst-hit countries in Europe amid the second the wave of the coronavirus pandemic, reported 1,887 new cases for Nov. 15, its lowest daily tally since Oct. 4, Health ministry data showed on Monday.

Thane has reported 907 new cases of Covid-19, taking the tally of infections in the Maharashtra district to 2,19,473, an official said on Monday. The district also reported 14 deaths due to coronavirus on Sunday, raising the toll to 5,521, he said. So far, 2,07,527 patients have recovered, while there are 6,425 active Covid-19 cases in the district.The COVID-19 recovery rate in the district is 94.56 per cent, while the mortality rate stands at 2.52 per cent, the official said.

Sources in Union home ministry claimed that around 75 doctors will be in Delhi from different parts of the country. These doctors will be in Delhi in the next few days. The move comes a day after a Covid-19 review meeting held at the home ministry.

Johnson & Johnson launched a new large-scale late-stage trial on Monday to test a two-dose regimen of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine and evaluate potential incremental benefits for the duration of protection with a second dose. The US drugmaker plans to enrol up to 30,000 participants for the study and run it in parallel with a one-dose trial with as many as 60,000 volunteers that began in September.

For the second consecutive day Arunachal Pradesh reported more Covid-19 recoveries than fresh cases as 79 people were cured of the disease while 20 new infections pushed the tally to 15,812, a health department official said on Monday. With 79 more people getting cured of Covid-19, the total number of recoveries rose to 14,500.

Places of religious worship in Maharashtra, which were shut since the imposition of Covid-19 lockdown in March, reopened on Monday with devotees visiting some of the prominent temples and shrines in the state. The reopening of the places of worship coincided with the Diwali 'Padwa', which is an important festival in the state.

Nine more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, pushing the union territory's coronavirus caseload to 4,536, a health department official said on Monday. Of the nine new cases, five were detected during contact tracing, while four have travel history, the official said. Fifteen more people recovered from the disease taking the total number of Covid-19 recoveries in the union territory of 4,330.

More than 54.22 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,315,628? have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

Jharkhand's Covid-19 tally mounted to 1,06,064 as 129 more people tested positive for the infection, a health department official said on Monday. Two more fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 924, he said.