A man places sanitizer bottles for public to be placed across the city. (Source: PTI)
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Jun 13, 2020
The world's second-most populous nation added 11,458 fresh cases in the last 24 hours taking the total tally to 3,08,993, according to the health ministry's 8 a.m. update on June 13. This includes 8,884 deaths and 1,54,330 patients who have recovered.
Mumbai police had the worst single-day death toll for Covid-19 as four policemen succumbed on Saturday.
So far, 25 police personnel and one officer have died due to the illness, while several hundred are undergoing treatment at various hospitals, an official told PTI.
The Union Health Ministry has added loss of smell or taste as part of the symptoms for Covid-19, according to its revised clinical management protocols.
Older people and immune-suppressed patients in particular may present with atypical symptoms such as fatigue, reduced alertness, reduced mobility, diarrhoea, loss of appetite, delirium, and absence of fever, the ministry said.
According to the health ministry, people infected by the novel coronavirus are the main source of infection.
The total number of Covid-19 positive cases in the North-eastern state of Nagaland rose to 163 on Saturday after it reported seven new cases, officials told PTI.
All the new patients had recently returned to the state from other parts of the country and were placed under institutional quarantine, they said.
Of the 163 cases, 114 are active while 49 people have been cured of the disease, he said, adding that the current recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in the state stands at 30.06%.
580 Indian nationals stuck in Kuwait returned to the country on Saturday. They returned by two special flights operated by the gulf nation, airport officials of Chennai told PTI.
The passengers hailed from different parts of Andhra Pradesh and were later taken in special busses arranged by the Andhra government.
The required Covid-19 quarantining will be done on their return to Andhra Pradesh.
Globally, cases had crossed 76 lakh leaving over 4.25 lakh people dead as of Saturday morning.
The U.S. might need new lockdowns if cases surge dramatically, top health officials said, as they forecast as many as 140,000 deaths by Independence Day on July 4. Brazil’s death toll passed the U.K. to become the second highest in the world.
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