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South Africa has more than half of all Covid-19 cases, while Tanzania's lack of data is a "concern".

The cumulative positivity rate for all the cases stands at 20.13%.The United Nations says the ranks of the world’s hungry grew by 10 million last year and warns that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 130 million more people into chronic hunger this year.The grim assessment was contained in the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, an annual report released Monday by the five U.N. agencies that produced it.Preliminary projections based on available global economic outlooks suggest the pandemic may add an additional 83 (million) to 132 million people to the ranks of the undernourished in 2020, the report said.Also compounding the situation is what the report’s authors described as unprecedented Desert Locust outbreaks” in Eastern Africa.The U.N. agencies estimated that nearly 690 million people, or nearly 9% of the world’s population, went hungry last year, an increase of 10 million since 2018 and of nearly 60 million since 2014.The report noted that after steadily declining for decades, chronic hunger slowly began to rise in 2014 and continues to do so.In terms of sheer numbers, Asia is home to the greatest number of undernourished people, an estimated 381 million, the report said. The study, published in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, noted that the ‘nanobodies’ can prevent infection with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by blocking its interaction with the protein ACE2, which it uses as a gateway to enter and infect cells.The State Government has made home isolation and quarantining of those who have given their samples for COVID-19 tests mandatory as they can spread the infection to several others, if they are positive, by the time their test results are ready.In  a circular issued by Jawaid Akhtar, Additional Chief Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) here on Tuesday, the government has said this decision has been taken as a matter of abundant caution.Tamil Nadu government extends the ban on public transport by government and private operators across the State till July 31, in its attempt to contain the spread of COVID-19.Even as the COVID-19 cases are increasing rapidly, Mysuru is not enforcing a blanket lockdown like Bengaluru but the clampdown will be confined to a few pockets where the infection and death rates were high, particularly in Narasimharaja assembly constituency, in the city limits.Here, the ‘Dharavi model’ will be replicated with intensive screening of the population with door-to-door surveillance for a period of one week possibly from Wednesday onwards.Biotechnology major Biocon on Monday said it will launch biologic drug Itolizumab for the treatment of moderate to severe COVID-19 patients at a price of around 8,000 per vial.The company has received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to market Itolizumab injection 25mg/5mL solution for emergency use in India for the treatment of cytokine release syndrome in moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to COVID-19.A deputy magistrate in West Bengal died due to COVID-19 on Monday, the first senior government officer to have succumbed to the infection in the state, a health department official said.Debdutta Ray, who was posted in Hooghly district, died at a private hospital in Serampore.The Punjab government issued revised guidelines on Monday, completely disallowing public gatherings and restricting social gatherings to five attendees and marriages and other functions to 30 instead of the current 50.It asked police to register FIRs against those violating the curb on public gatherings.A 39-year-old man was discharged from the newly set up Sardar Patel COVID care centre on Monday, becoming the first patient to be completely cured of the disease at the facility here, officials said.The patient, a resident of South Delhi, was admitted to the COVID care centre on July 5, they said.After Bengaluru urban and rural, lockdown has been announced in Dharwad and Dakshina Kannada districts by the administrations there on Monday, aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19.While Dharwad will be under lockdown for nine days from July 15, in Dakshina Kannada it will be for a week from Wednesday night.The Calcutta High Court will continue to remain closed till July 19 in view of a rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 patients in the city and a new phase of lockdown in containment zones here, Chief Justice T B N Radhakrishnan said in an administrative order on Monday.The high court was closed till Monday from Friday last owing to the newly imposed lockdown in the city and for sanitisation of the court buildings in view of the coronavirus pandemic.Health authorities in Indore in Madhya Pradesh have disclosed two COVID-19 deaths more than three months after they occurred.A 36-year-old man and a 70-year-old man, detected with the infection, died on April 7 and 10 respectively in two private hospitals, and the official information on these casualties was shared by health department authorities in a COVID-19 bulletin released on Sunday.In a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus in Ahmedabad, the city authorities on Monday raised the penalty for not wearing face mask in a public place to ₹500 from ₹200 announced earlier.A fine of ₹10,000 will also be imposed on paan shop owners if their customers are found spitting in the open near their shops, said Additional Chief Secretary Rajiv Gupta, who was appointed to oversee works related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city.Amid reports that patients were being denied treatment in some non-COVID hospitals of Odisha over fears of virus transmission, the state on Monday issued an order, asking all healthcare facilities to ensure necessary medical services are provided to those in need.The health department directive also stated that emergency procedure should not be delayed or deferred over COVID-19 scare.Kerala’s first Plasma Bank has been set up at the Government Medical College Hospital at nearby Manjeri, where two critically-ill COVID-19 patients have recovered after undergoing plasma therapy.Two more people, who undertook the therapy, are now out of danger and would be discharged soon.Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday attacked the Yogi Adityanath government over the rising coronavirus cases in Uttar Pradesh, saying no one has understood the logic of the weekend lockdown “baby pack” and efforts are on to hide failures.Her attack came after the Uttar Pradesh government decided to impose a stricter lockdown across the state on weekends to stop the coronavirus spread.The Supreme Court Monday refused to entertain a plea which sought directions for restriction on this year’s Shri Amarnath Yatra due to the COVID-19 pandemic.A bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud said that the decision on permitting pilgrims and imposing conditions for their safeguard falls within the domain of executive and the administration would take a call on it.The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) Monday informed the Supreme Court that the May cycle of CA examination, scheduled between July 29 and August 16, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.