The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,694 in India as the number of positive cases inched near 50,000 on Wednesday, according to data released by the Union health ministry.
Even as several nations made great strides in taming the virus, Britain has become the first country in Europe to confirm more than 30,000 coronavirus deaths. In Russia, the number of infections rose sharply again, with Moscow reporting more than 10,000 new cases for three days in a row. But China marked its third week with no new virus deaths and South Korea restarted its professional baseball season.
In the US, some states began halting steps to lift the lockdown restrictions being blamed for throwing millions out of work and upending the global economy even as thousands of new U.S. infections and deaths were being reported daily.
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1:45 PM: Seven new positive cases of COVID19 have been reported in Haryana today. Total number of positive cases rise to 555 in the state. The death toll stands at 6: Haryana Health Department
1:00 PM: 19 more COVID19 cases reported in Karnataka from 5 pm yesterday till 12 pm today. Total number of positive cases in the state is now at 692, including 345 discharges & 29 deaths: State Health Department
12:00 PM: A 90-year-old woman was discharged from the civil hospital here in Maharashtra on Tuesday after recovering from COVID-19, the district administration said.
11:30 AM: The COVID-19 death toll in Rajasthan increased to 90 with one more fatality reported on Wednesday, while 35 people tested positive for the disease, taking the number of cases to 3,193 in the state.
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11: 00 AM: Domestic manufacturers have reached the capacity of producing nearly 2.5 lakh PPE and 2 lakh N-95 masks per day which is sufficient to meet the country's requirement in dealing with the novel coronavirus pandemic in the near future, the Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 has been informed.
