Coronavirus live updates: India records highest ever single day recoveries of 51,706 patients

There are 5,86,244 active cases. 1,28,2215 have been discharged; death toll at 39,795

Of the 60,000 ventilators being procured by the government, 50,000 ventilators worth around Rs 2,000 crore are funded through the PM Cares fund, the health ministry said underlining that 96% of the ventilators being procured are locally made.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 741 to 212,022, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Wednesday. The reported death toll rose by 12 to 9,168, the tally showed.

In wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, sanitisation work has been done at the Hanuman Garhi temple in the morning ahead of the Prime Minister's visit. Strict security and Covid-19 protocols will be followed at the temple.

Hong Hong has reported 80 new cases of COVID-19 and four additional deaths, while new cases in mainland China fell to just 27.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik called on people of the state to join him in one-minute prayer at 6 pm on Wednesday for the Covid warriors who lost their lives in the State.

Even as deaths due to Covid-19 continue to be higher in the elderly with those above 60 accounting for 50% of total mortalities, those in the relatively younger age band of 45-60 years are also appearing increasingly vulnerable — accounting for 37% of fatalities.

Amid rising concerns about false negatives in results of rapid antigen tests to detect Covid-19, leading to asymptomatic cases being missed, the Centre on Tuesday said chances were high that such a person would also test negative if subjected to an RT-PCR test. This reduces the scope of a significant number of infections being undetected.

More than 18.41 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 695,172? 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.

India recorded the highest count of fresh Covid-19 cases in the world for the second day running while also reporting the most daily deaths from the virus on Monday. India’s death toll, at 814, was way higher than the fatalities reported in the day in Brazil (572) and the US (568), the two countries worst hit by the pandemic, as per data from worldometers.info.

Defending champion Rafael Nadal says he will not play at 2020 US Open, cites Covid-19 pandemic.