Coronavirus India lockdown Day 87 live updates | COVID-19 vaccines could be available by 2020 end, says WHO
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The World Health Organisation is optimistic and hopeful that the COVID-19 vaccines could be available before the end of this year, according to the agency’s chief scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan.
She said that there are about 10 candidates which are in human testing phase and at least three of them are entering the new promising phase-three stage which proves a vaccine’s efficacy.
Here is a list of State Helpline numbers. You can track coronavirus cases, deaths and testing rates at the national and State levels here.
Here are the latest updates:
9 am | India
Mobile testing lab to boost last-mile testing
In a bid to improve India’s last-mile COVID-19 testing abilities, a mobile ILab (Infectious disease diagnostic lab) was launched by the Union Health Minister.
The lab has the capability to perform 25 RTPCR tests a day, 300 ELISA tests a day and additional tests for TB, HIV as per CGHS (Central Government Health Scheme) rates, and will be deployed to the interior and inaccessible parts of India.
8.30 am | Chennai
Chennai’s arterial roads to be off limits from today
Arterial roads in Chennai will be closed to the public and residents will have to walk to shops to buy essentials from today as the Tamil Nadu capital and its surrounding areas go into complete lockdown till June 30.
The lockdown will be enforced in parts of Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu and Kancheepuram districts as well.
As the news of the lockdown broke, the number of people leaving Chennai via various flights doubled. A majority of the flyers had been travelling to cities like Delhi, Guwahati and Kolkata, says Airports Authority of India officials.
8 am | India
Metros continue to report spike in case count
The rise in COVID-19 cases in Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi continues, with Delhi reporting over 2,800 cases in the past 24 hours. Chennai and Mumbai both reported more than 1,300 cases each in the past day.
At the time of this update, the number of cases in the four major metro cities (according to State authorities) are as follows:
Chennai: 37,070
Delhi: 49,979
Kolkata: 4,269
Mumbai: 61,587
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