The Covid-19 tally in India
zoomed past 5.7 million after over 86,000 fresh cases were registered within a
single day. The death toll also climbed from 90,020 to 91,149 during the same
period, latest data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
suggested. However, India’s recovery rate continued to improve as the country’s
daily recovered cases exceeded the daily infections for the sixth consecutive
day. The total Covid-19 recoveries have surged to 46.7 lakh exceeding active
cases by more than 37 lakh. Nearly 74 per cent of the new Covid-19 recoveries
are from 10 states and UT, including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh,
UP, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Delhi, Kerala, West Bengal, and Chhattisgarh, the Union
Health Ministry said today.
Kerala on Thursday recorded
6,324 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking its overall tally past 1.5 lakh. The total
recovered cases recorded today were 3,168.
With 3,834 fresh coronavirus cases, Delhi's infection tally breached the
2.60-lakh mark on Thursday, while the death toll mounted to 5,123, authorities
said. The infection tally in the
national capital now stood at 2,60,623.
US President Donald Trump has hit out at China for not stopping the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives globally, as he yet again used the term "China virus" and urged his supporters not to call it coronavirus, saying the name sounds like a "beautiful place" in Italy. Addressing a packed election rally in the battle ground State of Pennsylvania, Trump told his supporters on Tuesday that if re-elected, over the next four years, his administration will make America a manufacturing superpower of the world and will end US's reliance on China once and for all.
According to
France Football, Liverpool have taken a significant interest in signing
out-of-favor Barcelona star, Ousmane Dembele on loan. The French star who
arrived from Dortmund for a stunning fee of 105 million euros has been a bit of
a disappointment, to say the least.
Liverpool is on the eastern
side of the Mersey Estuary and historically lay within the ancient hundred of
West Derby in North West England's county of Lancashire. Liverpool Football Club is a professional
football club in Liverpool, England, that competes in the Premier League, the
top tier of English football. Domestically, the club has won nineteen League
titles, seven FA Cups, a record eight League Cups and fifteen FA Community
Shields. Founded in 1892, the club
joined the Football League the following year and has played at Anfield since
its formation. Liverpool established itself as a major force in English and
European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe
Fagan and Kenny Dalglish led the club to a combined eleven League titles and
four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and
2019. One of the most widely supported
teams in the world, in 2019, Liverpool was the world's seventh highest-earning
football club, with an annual revenue of €604 million, and the world's eighth
most valuable football club, valued at $2.183 billion. Liverpool has
long-standing rivalries with Manchester United and Everton. The team changed
from red shirts and white shorts to an all-red home strip in 1964 which has
been used ever since. The club's anthem is "You'll Never Walk Alone".
The interesting
news from UK is – a school has banned
pupils from wearing Liverpool FC face masks in a bid to stop them from becoming
fashionable 'status symbols'. Lord
Derby Academy (LDA) in Huyton, Merseyside, sent a text message to parents
saying face coverings worn in the school must be 'black, grey, burgundy or
medical blue' in school from Monday, September 21. School chiefs say the
request is to 'ensure a completely inclusive approach' and that they are 'determined
to avoid any pupil being 'singled out' A mother has since aired her frustration
after he child's face mask, which is red and black and emblazoned with a
Liverpool FC badge, was one of those banned under the new school rule. She
added that 'it shouldn't matter what colour a mask is as long as the children
wear it and feel safer.'
But the school insists the
measures being put in place are to 'ensure a completely inclusive approach' and
that LDA is determined to avoid any pupil being 'singled out' and face
coverings becoming a 'status symbol.' Now that face masks are compulsory, people are turning
their backs on the blue medical ones in favour of more creative and designer
ones. It has led people to flock online to comb through the latest ‘must
have’ face mask designs. Manufacturers are all too pleased to meet the demands
and have made them available in floral, leopard print, camouflage and of course
team sports.
Pupils and staff at
secondary schools in local lockdown areas will have to wear face masks in
communal areas. This does not include classrooms and does not apply to
primary-aged pupils. In all other parts
of the country, it will be up to head teachers to decide whether masks are
required. The Scottish government
announced yesterday that face coverings should be worn by staff and pupils when
they move around secondary schools from August 31. The rules will also apply on
school transport for primary school pupils aged five and above.
All these would end when
the virus loses its power – rather people developing the much needed vitality
to overcome the virus or when the fully developed vaccines are available. British scientists will be the first in the
world to carry out a controversial study in which healthy volunteers are
infected with coronavirus, according to reports. The 'challenge trial' - which could rapidly
accelerate the development of experimental jabs - is said to be set to begin in
January at a clinic in east London. Participants will be infected with a dose
of Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, a month after being jabbed with
a vaccine, according to the Financial Times.
The Government-funded study could help drugmakers test their Covid-19
vaccines without having to wait for volunteers to naturally catch the virus in
the community.
Between 100 and 200
participants are expected to be recruited for the trial, which is being run by
a US advocacy group that has campaigned for human Covid-19 challenge trials
throughout the crisis. It's unclear which vaccine candidate will be tested, but
Oxford University said that it was not taking part in the programme. Challenge trials are commonly deployed by
scientists trying to develop a vaccine and have been used in malaria, typhoid
and flu. But, unlike those illnesses, there is no proven treatment for people
with mild coronavirus, so there is nothing to stop the participants falling
seriously ill.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
24.09.2020.
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