Odisha News
? Odisha reports single-day spike of 3235 Covid-19 cases including 1915 quarantine and 1320 local contact cases in 24 hours. Total cases now stand at 212609.
? Khordha continues to be the worst-affected District in the State with highest ever 506 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours followed by Cuttack (306) and Bargarh (137).
? Odisha conducts 47,634 COVID-19 tests in the last 24 hours including 40,945 Antigen, 6,648 RT-PCR & 41 TruNat tests.
? Odisha reports 16 new COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, toll mounts to 813.
? Railways generates over 10 lakh ‘man days’ of work in 6 states including Odisha.
? Khordha Dist Administration declares Nijigarh Tapang prohibited Area.
India News
? India’s COVID-19 tally crosses 60-lakh mark with a spike of 82,170 new cases & 1,039 deaths in last 24 hours; death toll reaches 95,542 deaths.
? India’s case tally stands at 60,74,703 including 9,62,640 active cases, 5,01,6521 cured/discharged/migrated & 95,542.
? 7,19,67,230 samples tested up to 27th September for #COVID19. Of these, 7,09,394 samples were tested yesterday: ICMR.
? India’s total recoveries cross 50 lakh mark. As many as 50,13,367 patients have recovered from the deadly disease in India so far.
? Fire broke out in ICU section of govt hospital in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district; no casualty eported.
? A Virtual Bilateral Summit is being held between PM Narendra Modi and his Denmark counterpart Mette Frederiksen.
? Sensex soars 223.65 points, currently at 37,612.31.
World News
? Global Covid-19 cases near 33 million mark; deaths over 996000.
? US Judge blocks President Trump’s order to ban TikTok from App Store.
? U.S. tells Iraq it’s planning to pull out of Baghdad embassy.
? 23 people killed, over 100 injured in Azeri-Armenian clashes.
