Coronavirus update: The government has claimed the escalation in COVID-19 cases is because of the testing. According to the ICMR, the country is conducting around one million tests every day, compared with two lakh tests a month ago

Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota have recently reported record one-day increases in new cases while Montana and Idaho are seeing record numbers of currently hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Non-residents also accounted for more than half the number of deaths reported in the national capital between August 3 and August 28

Share market next week: Macro-economic data, including Q1 GDP and manufacturing PMI, auto sales numbers, development on coronavirus front will set tone for Dalal Street

With a record 10,55,027 tests conducted on August 29 the country has further strengthened the national diagnostic capacity of testing more than 10 lakh samples for COVID-19 on a daily basis

Coronavirus update: The total coronavirus cases rose to 35,42,733, while the death toll climbed to 63,498 with 948 people succumbing to the diseases in a span of 24 hours

Coronavirus update: India can prevent as many as 2,91,144 deaths by December 1 if people follow social distancing norms and wear masks in public regularly. India's current COVID-19 death count stands at 62,550

Coronavirus vaccine: The market for coronavirus vaccine in India could potentially be $6 billion in terms of sales for the coming three years

More than 180,000 people have died from the coronavirus pandemic since the start of the outbreak in the US, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University

Coronavirus in India: Country has witnessed 1,057 deaths in just one day; India's recovery rate has improved to over 76 per cent, while death rate stands at 1.82 per cent

SII, the world's largest vaccine maker has signed an agreement to manufacture the potential vaccine developed by the Jenner Institute of Oxford University in collaboration with British-Swedish pharma company AstraZeneca

Coronavirus cases in India: Those aged 60 years or above account for almost half of the COVID-19 cases in India, while those falling in the 0-17 and 18-25 account for just 1 per cent of deaths

The record high recoveries have ensured that the number of active cases of COVID-19, which is the \"actual caseload\" of the country, comprises only 21.87 percent of the total cases

The president of National Students' Union of India (NSUI), Neeraj Kundan and president of the Delhi wing of the students' body commenced the hunger strike along with eight other members

Delhi has reported 1,544 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 1,64,071 in the 24 hours span. It is the first time in over a month that the number of new infections has crossed 1,500-mark in the national capital

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As the first step towards timely identification, prompt isolation and effective treatment, higher testing also results in limiting the spread of infection

India's COVID-19 tally sprinted past the 30-lakh mark in just 16 days.  It took 110 days for COVID-19 cases in the country to reach 1 lakh, but the 10 lakh tally was breached in just 59 days

In India, the government and the private sector have worked together to ensure the integrity of medical supply chains, and essential medicines from India have continued to reach the United States and some 150 partner countries, Sandhu wrote

Share market updates and analysis for August 25: Updates on AGR case hearing, cues from global markets and development on coronavirus front will set tone for Dalal Street