Coronavirus live updates: Night curfew relaxed in West Bengal during Durga puja and Lakshmi puja

The Maharashtra government has approved a financial assistance of over Rs 138 crore for the families of state police officers and other staff members who died while on Covid-19 duty, the government's response to an RTI query has revealed.

A residential college on the city outskirts has been shut after 60 students tested positive for the Covid-19. While 59 students are asymptomatic and quarantined, the student with high fever has been admitted to the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital.

The DDMA in its meeting on Wednesday decided to reopen schools for junior classes after the festival season, official sources said. The DDMA maintained that the Covid situation in the city is "good" but precautions must be maintained, sources present in the meeting chaired by Lt Governor Anil Baijal said. It was decided during the meeting that "schools for remaining classes will be reopened after Diwali”, they said.

Odisha on Wednesday registered 565 new Covid-19 cases taking the state's tally to 10,25,874 while five fresh fatalities pushed the coronavirus death toll to 8,192, a health department official said.

Russia on Wednesday reported 857 new coronavirus-related deaths, the most in a single day since the pandemic began and the second day in a row it has set that record.

adakh recorded its highest ever single-day recovery of 56 coronavirus patients, taking the tally of recoveries to 20,487 and bringing down active cases to 94, officials said on Wednesday. Two new cases of COVID-19 pushed the infection tally to 20,788, officials said, adding both the cases were reported from Leh. Of the total active cases in Ladakh, 90 are in Leh and 4 in Kargil, officials said.

amily of a 108 emergency services pilot (driver) in Chhota Udepur, who succumbed to Covid-19, received monetary assistance of Rs 50 lakh on Tuesday.

The number of new daily coronavirus cases in Poland surpassed 1,000 for the first time since late May on Wednesday, the health minister told Radio Plus, as a fourth wave of the pandemic gathers pace amid low vaccination rates. "We said that by the end of September we would reach this average level of about 1,000 infections (daily), so for the time being this fourth wave is developing in line with our predictions," minister Adam Niedzielski said.

Fumio Kishida, who was elected to lead Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and is likely to be the next prime minister, vowed to show the transformed party to people in the upcoming general elections, while continuing with a fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Task force will meet soon to deliberate on expert committee recommendation to allow physical classes for Class IX-XII. The task force decision will then be sent to directorate of education for implementation.

Puducherry logged 93 fresh cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the total positives to 1,26,308. The new cases identified at the end of examination of 5,927 samples were spread over Puducherry 45, Karaikal 30, Yanam 3 and Mahe 15. One more person died of the virus in Puducherry region during last twenty- four hours raising the toll to 1,840. The active cases were 828 of whom 118 were undergoing treatment in hospitals while the remaining 710 patients were in home isolation

An analysis of admission and mortality in the nine hospitals empanelled under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (PMJAY) in Kerala (among the top 25 such hospitals with the maximum number of beneficiary deaths in India), shows that 13,609 beneficiaries died in these hospitals. Among them, 275 died of Covid, while the remaining 13,334 were beneficiaries treated for non-Covid diseases. From January 2020-August 2021, of the 4,29,454 PMJAY beneficiaries admitted to these hospitals, only an estimated 2% were treated for Covid. In Kerala, 60 % of the population is covered under the scheme.