'Let us always remember: Wear a mask. Wash hands. Follow social distancing. Practice ‘Do Gaj Ki Doori.’ Together, we will succeed. Together, we will win against COVID-19,' he said.
This is the seventh consecutive day that India, which has the third-highest caseload in the world, has reported more cases in a day.
With a consistent and sustained increase in recoveries, the gap between recovered patients and active COVID-19 cases has reached nearly 9.5 lakh.
The patient had been brought from East Midnapore's Tomluk. The deceased's husband had died of Covid-19 three days ago.
Recovery of 15,35,743 patients has been made possible because of the policy of TESTING aggressively, TRACKING comprehensively & TREATING efficiently, government said.
The 78-year-old doctor was the director and professor of the Pulmonology department at the hospital.
With the exception of Delhi and of Rajasthan most states mandate quarantine in government centres for varying lengths of time.
Having threatened to truncate funding to the World Health Organization, Donald Trump has now threatened to pull the US out of the global body altogether unless it makes 'major substantive improvements'.
UNICEF warned in a message that millions of mothers and babies born during Covid-19 will be threatened by a strained health system and disruptions in health services.
Rainfall and strong winds hit Digha and Kolkata in West Bengal on Tuesday afternoon, a day before the date for which the IMD predicted the super cyclone to make landfall in the state.
