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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi and PM of Australia, Scott Morrison MP, jointly announced a Special COVID-19 Collaboration in 2020 during an India-Australia Leaders’ Virtual Summit on June 4, 2020.
Accordingly, Department of Science & Technology, GOI, and Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER), Australia, have invited joint research projects on COVID-19 from interested scientists and researchers under the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF), a platform for bilateral collaboration in science, jointly managed and funded by the governments of India and Australia, according to a PIB release. Meanwhile, Coronavirus confirmed cases climbed to 2,36,657 in India on June 6, 2020, which the death toll has jumped to 6,642.
Kerala: State recorded one more Covid-19 death taking the disease toll to 15. Former footballer and Santhosh Trophy player Hamsakkoya, 63, who had been under treatment at Manjeri MC in Malappuram, died on June 6, 2020. He is the first person in the state to undergo plasma therapy for Covid. His five family members are also being treated for Covid.
Among the 190 health workers who were quarantined after having close contact with a Covid-19 patient in Kozhikode MC, samples of 118 people tested negative. Six more Keralites have succumbed to the virus in the Gulf with the toll crossing 170. The number of Covid cases in the state rose to three-digit on June 5 with 111 more people testing positive.
Karnataka: State government permits to open hotels and restaurants with necessary precautionary measures and following union government guidelines. State issues new SOP for Maharashtra returnees: 21-day home quarantine with negative report. Chikkamagalur district becomes Covid free after 16 confirmed cases get cured. State sets a new single-day record of Covid-19 cases with 515 positives on June 5 and in a continuing trend 482 of them have come from other states.
Andhra Pradesh: All set to conduct Darshan trial run in Tirumala temple from June 8, 2020. Alipri Check Post gets transformed as foolproof COVID-19 checkpoint. Total number of migrants who tested positive is 741 with 467 of them active.
Telangana: Dialysis patients and their primary contacts are falling prey to novel coronavirus with four such cases reported on June 5, 2020. Telangana tops the secondary infection rate charts in the South, while it stands sixth across India amid growing fears over a rapid surge in Covid-19 cases.
Maharashtra: Hotspot Mumbai has reported 1,150 new infections taking the total number of positive cases in the city to 45,854 of which 25,539 patients have recovered so far. The recovery rate of Maharashtra stands at 43.81%, while case fatality rate is 3.55%.
Gujarat: 510 new COVID-19 cases have been reported taking the state tally of coronavirus positive cases to more than 19,000. While 35 patients died due to COVID-19 on June 5 as many as 344 persons also recovered during the day. The recovery rate of the state is improving and it now stands at 68.05 per cent from 44.3 per cent in the last week of May, 2020.
Madhya Pradesh: Most of the new cases have been reported from hotspots Indore and Bhopal followed by Neemuch district. So far, 384 people have died.
Rajasthan: The doubling rate of cases has gone up to 20 days in the state. Recovery rate also has improved to more than 70%, according to a PIB release.