India’s COVID-19 caseload went past 86 lakh on Wednesday, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 80.13 lakh, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.79 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data.
With 44,281 more people testing positive for coronavirus in a span of 24 hours, the infection tally mounted to 86,36, 011, while the deaths rose to 1,27,571 after 512 new fatalities were reported, the data updated at 8 am showed.
Crossing another “milestone” in the fight against the pandemic, the COVID-19 active caseload in India has fallen below the 5 lakh-mark for the first time after 106 days and comprises merely 5.73 per cent of the total cases, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Cyprus on Wednesday announced partial lockdowns in its virus hotspots on the Mediterranean coast and other measures in an effort to curb a spike in coronavirus cases.
The resort towns of Limassol and Paphos on the south coast are to go into partial lockdown from Thursday until the end of November.
Health Minister said that travel into or out of the towns would be banned, and a curfew in force from 8 pm to 5 am.
China reported 15 new COVID-19 cases for November 11, down from 17 cases a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Thursday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that one of the new cases was a local infection in Tianjin.
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