Coronavirus: Bihar, UP, Gujarat, West Bengal and Telangana need to increase testing, says PM Modi

2.23 pm: “Every state is fighting the battle against the challenging situation arising due to Covid-19 pandemic,” Modi says. “Role of each and every state is very significant in overall control of the spread of the disease.”

2.16 pm: The prime minister identifies

, West Bengal, Gujarat and Telangana as states where not enough testing has been carried out, and test positivity rate is high. He says these states need to increase testing, a matter that was discussed in the meeting.

2.14 pm: “The average fatality rate has been continuously decreasing while the recovery rate is increasing every day, this shows that measures being taken by us are in the right direction,” Modi says according to News18.

2.07 pm: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte says he is willing to be the first to be administered the first shot of a vaccine produced by Russia, Bloomberg

reports. “When the vaccine arrives, I will have myself injected in public,” he says. “Experiment on me first, that’s fine with me.” Russia is set to allow public use of its vaccine even before human clinical trials are completed.

2 pm: A 28-year-old man accused of robberies and suffering from the coronavirus has escaped from a hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for Covid-19, in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh, PTI reports. Devendra...

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