NEW DELHI: Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus crisis in India and other parts of the world on Wednesday.
3:01 p.m. India may see 2.87 lakh COVID-19 cases a day by winter 2021, MIT study says.
2:58 p.m. Customs seizes 4.5 lakh cigarette sticks from COVID special train at old Delhi railway station.
Specialist from AIIMS to provide guidance on clinical management of COVID-19 to docs in 17 states.
2:53 p.m. Bengaluru Mayor M Gautham Kumar is under home quarantine after his PA tested positive for COVID-19, official says.
2:39 p.m. Elderly patient with COVID-19 symptoms jumps to death in Rajasthan.
2:27 p.m. Process pregnant women’s requests for COVID-19 tests and results quickly, HC tells AAP government.
2:13 p.m. No need for panic over research of coronavirus being airborne, wear mask for longer time, says expert.
2:05 p.m. Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren goes into home quarantine after a cabinet minister whom he had met recently tested positive for COVID-19.
1:34 p.m. A Gujarat minister has tested positive for coronavirus, states Deputy CM Nitin Patel.
Thane CP Vivek Phansalkar urges people to stay indoors amid COVID-19 lockdown.
1:30 p.m. Hiring activities up 33 per cent in June compared to May, report says.
1:04 p.m. ‘Nationalism’, ‘citizenship’, and ‘demonetisation’ are among chapters dropped from CBSE syllabus.
12:43 p.m. COVID-19 death toll rises to 48 in Odisha.
12:36 p.m. Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar says the surge in the number of COVID-19 cases that Bengaluru is witnessing was expected by July-end, but there is no need for worry as the government is prepared to handle the situation.
Delhi HC declines to entertain plea claiming lack of testing in non-containment zones.
12:28 p.m. Six COVID-19 deaths reported in Rajasthan.
Noon. Puducherry records highest surge of 112 COVID-19 cases.
11:58 a.m. A 40-yr-old Delhi Police constable dies of COVID-19.
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar inaugurates Plasma Therapy Unit for treating COVID-19 patients at the Seven Hills Hospital in suburban Andheri.
11:53 a.m. Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal asks Fisheries Dept to create job opportunities for returnees.
11:28 a.m. India’s coronavirus caseload climbs to 7,42,417, according to Union Health Ministry data.
11:08 a.m. CM Arvind Kejriwal seeks report from health secretary on COVID-19 deaths in the city.
10:47 a.m. BJD MLA becomes second legislator in Odisha to test positive for COVID-19.
10:36 a.m. PM Narendra Modi wishes Brazilian president speedy recovery from COVID-19.
Scientists develop novel air filter to “catch and kill” coronavirus.
10:30 a.m. Several Congressmen and top American educational institutions decried the Trump administration’s policy change that will require international students in the US with an F-1 visa to take at least one in-person course or else face the prospect of deportation.
10:26 a.m. A 32-year-old man, who recently returned from India and tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, will be charged with absconding from a managed isolation facility in Auckland to go to a supermarket, according to media reports.
8:50 a.m. Hydroxychloroquine has become highly politicised in US but India uses it widely, WH official says.
5:15 a.m. US formally notifies UN of decision to withdraw from WHO.