Coronavirus India lockdown day 219 updates | Europe still virus epicentre this week

Coronavirus pandemic continued to rampage over the previous week the world over with a file common of 476,000 new every day circumstances, virtually 20% greater than throughout the earlier seven-day interval.

Again it’s in Europe that the acceleration is most marked, with an enormous 40% enhance. The continent is by far the area recording the very best variety of circumstances, forward of the United States and Canada with 80,000 new circumstances a day, a rise of 27 p.c on the earlier week.

You can observe coronavirus circumstances, deaths and testing charges on the nationwide and State ranges here. An inventory of State Helpline numbers is obtainable as nicely.

Here are the most recent updates:

WHO

First worldwide, Chinese skilled assembly on virus origin: WHO

The World Health Organization mentioned Friday that worldwide consultants had held their first assembly, albeit nearly, with their Chinese counterparts as a way to examine the animal origins of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The WHO has for months been working to ship a group of worldwide consultants, together with epidemiologists and animal well being specialists, to China to assist probe the animal origin of COVID-19 and the way the virus first crossed over to people.

Karnataka

17 districts in Karnataka report no deaths on October 30

The State on Friday reported 3,589 new circumstances taking the entire quantity to eight,20,398. With this, the positivity price for the day got here down to three.47%.

With 49 new deaths, the toll rose to 11,140. This is other than 19 non-COVID-19 deaths. With as many as 17 districts reporting zero deaths on Friday, the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) touched 1.36%.