Coronavirus live updates: 1,000 Covid testing labs in India, says ICMR

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Monday that his government will give pulse oximeters to the COVID-19 patients under home isolation in the city and said the number of coronavirus tests has increased by three times in the national capital.

50 mobile dispensary vans will visit Mulund, Bhandup, Andheri, Malad, Borivali, Dahisar & Kandivali for 2-3 weeks for preliminary examination of patients

Health authorities in South Korea said for the first time on Monday it is in the midst of a "second wave" of novel coronavirus infections focused around its densely populated capital, stemming from a holiday in May. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) had previously said South Korea's first wave had never really ended. “In the metropolitan area, we believe that the first wave was from March to April as well as February to March," KCDC director Jeong Eun-kyeong said at a regular briefing. "Then we see that the second wave which was triggered by the May holiday has been going on.”

We are steadily maintaining a healthy recovery rate of 61.39% & mortality rate remains low at 1.49%. We're continuing to effectively trace contacts of positive case within 24 hours & every inter-state arrival is being quarantined for 14 days: Karnataka Minister for Medical Education

A weekly coronavirus testing regime using a "no-swab" saliva test is being trialled in Southampton, southern England, and could result in a simpler and quicker way to detect outbreaks of the virus, the British government said on Monday. "Saliva testing could potentially make it even easier for people to take coronavirus tests at home, without having to use swabs," said Health Secretary Matt Hancock. "This trial will also help us learn if routine, at-home testing could pick up cases of the virus earlier."

Total deaths rise to 50,617 from 49,976 yesterday

The city of over 20 million people reported its first case linked to a wholesale food centre in the southwest of Beijing in the latest wave on June 11. So far, 236 people have been infected in the worst outbreak in Beijing since COVID-19 was identified at a seafood market in the central city of Wuhan late last year. "If you control the source, and cut the chain of transmission, the number will have a cliff-like drop," Wu Hao, a disease control expert from the National Health Commission, told state television in an interview aired on Sunday night. Millions in Beijing have had their daily lives upended by the resurgence of the disease over the past 11 days, with some fearing the city is headed for a lockdown.

The Supreme Court Monday said Chief Justice S A Bobde has agreed to set up a three-judge bench to hear during the day the pleas seeking modification of its order which stayed this year's historic Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra in Puri due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra, before whom the Centre mentioned the matter and sought modification of the June 18 order, told the lawyers that the CJI has agreed to set up a three-judge bench for hearing the pleas which have sought to allow the Rath Yatra with certain conditions.