Serena Williams' coach&nbsp;Patrick Mouratoglou&nbsp;feels that having the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament at a time when the United States is dealing with the global pandemic is a bit crazy. The coach referring to the recent spike in the number of positive cases said that it's not reasonable to call tennis players from all over the world to mix them together. Patrick who also coaches Coco Gauff&nbsp;said that&nbsp;New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may cancel the event last minute.&nbsp;

Serena Williams' coach Patrick Mouratoglou feels that having the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament at a time when the United States is dealing with the global pandemic is a bit crazy. The coach referring to the recent spike in the number of positive cases said that it's not reasonable to call tennis players from all over the world to mix them together. Patrick who also coaches Coco Gauff said that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may cancel the event last minute.

PTI, New Delhi:&nbsp;No one should be turned away from hospital due to higher cost of treatment, the Supreme Court Tuesday said while asking the government to consider framing guideline on the issue of cost of treatment for Covid-19 infection.
Though the apex court opined that &ldquo;cost of the treatment should not be higher at the present time," it also said that court is not equipped to either regulate cost of treatment or say what should be the best model of treatment for patients infected with coronavirus.
A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices R S Reddy and A S Bopanna, was hearing through video-conferencing a plea filed by advocate Sachin Jain who has sought a direction for regulating the cost of treatment of Covid-19 at private hospitals across the country.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, told the bench that government is looking into all the issues related to coronavirus and concerns raised by the petitioner would be taken care of. During the hearing, the bench referred to the affidavit filed earlier in the matter by the Centre which had said that there is no provision under the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 "whereby it is mandated that the private hospitals running on the public land shall treat Covid-19 patients on free basis". "It is again reiterated that such policies may only be defined and implemented by the respective state governments," the Centre&rsquo;s affidavit had said.
The counsel appearing for federation of private hospitals said that states have their own models and there cannot be a uniform pricing for all the states.
He said as far as charitable hospitals are concerned, they are already providing free treatment to Covid-19 patients.
He said each state is grappling with the problem of coronavirus and it is not that private hospitals are making money during the time of pandemic.
Jain claimed in the court that some private hospitals are charging exorbitant rates for Covid-19 treatment at this time of this pandemic.
The apex court said that concerned authority of Union health ministry should consider framing guideline on this aspect. In June, the apex court had asked private hospitals whether they were ready to provide treatment to Covid-19 infected patients at the charges prescribed under the government's Ayushman Bharat Scheme.

PTI, Kolkata:&nbsp;The West Bengal government on Tuesday extend the total lockdown in containment zones till July 19.
According to a notification by the Home Department, the rigorous containment in these areas would be extended from July 15 to July 19.
These zones are located in and around Kolkata, besides Jalpaiguri, Malda, Cooch Behar, Raiganj and Siliguri, it said.
The total lockdown was enforced in the containment zones from 5 pm of July 9 to stem the spike in Covid-19 cases.&nbsp;

PTI, New Delhi:&nbsp;Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated Delhi's second plasma bank at the state-run Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital on Tuesday, and asserted that plasma therapy was "really helpful" in saving lives of Covid-19 patients.
Kejriwal inaugurated the first plasma bank at the state-run Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences on July 2. He said over 200 people have taken plasma from ILBS so far.
"Plasma therapy is really helpful in saving lives. We cannot say it can save 100 percent of the lives...but the death rate has reduced in Delhi and plasma has a role in it," the chief minister said at the launch.
The LNJP Hospital is located in central Delhi, so it is easily accessible to those willing to donate plasma, he said.
Covid-19 patients can donate their plasma 14 days after recovery.
Such people should aged between 18 and 60 and weigh not less than 50 kg.
However, women who have been pregnant, people with diabetes, hypertension, cancer survivors, those with chronic heart, liver, lung and kidney diseases and high blood pressure cannot donate plasma.
"We do not want to store plasma in plasma bank forever, but no one should suffer for lack of plasma either. The arrangement should be such that those needing plasma get it easily. So far, no one has been denied plasma," Kejriwal said.
He said his government will continue setting up facilities and beds even if the beds for COVID-19 patients remain vacant to ensure there is no shortage if the cases increase.
He said the spread of COVID-19 in Delhi is gradually reducing.&nbsp; "The recovery rate is increasing very fast. Earlier, 35 out of 100 people tested would be diagnosed with coronavirus. Now only 7 or 8 people out of 100 are found positive.
The chief minister said the number of fatalities has also decreased.
"In mid-June, there were about 101 deaths per day but there are about 40 deaths now. All of us together have to reduce it further," he said.
However, Kejriwal cautioned people against any complacency.
"Nothing is known about COVID-19, it may rise again tomorrow. Therefore, we need to take precautions. We always have to wear a mask, maintain social distancing, wash our hands and sanitize them repeatedly," he said.
He also said the city government has successfully implemented the home isolation programme and there has been no death among those undergoing home isolation.
Kejriwal said he was happy that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also praised the model implemented in Delhi and everyone's cooperation in it.
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PTI, Chandigarh: Former Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun in Kerala, has tested positive for coronavirus, a Health Department official said on Tuesday.
A Kottayam court in Kerala had on Monday cancelled Mulakkal&rsquo;s bail for his failure to appear for the trial in the rape case and issued a non-bailable warrant against him.
&ldquo;He (Mulakkal) has tested positive for coronavirus,&rdquo; said COVID-19 nodal officer for Jalandhar, T P Singh.
Mulakkal&rsquo;s report, confirming him to be positive for COVID-19, came on Monday evening, he added.
The rape case against the Bishop was registered by Kottayam district police in Kerala.
In her complaint to the police in June 2018, the nun had alleged that she was subjected to sexual abuse by the Bishop between 2014 and 2016.
The bishop, who was arrested by the Special Investigation Team which probed the case, has been charged with wrongful confinement, rape, unnatural sex and criminal intimidation.

PTI,&nbsp;New Delhi:&nbsp;The HRD Ministry on Tuesday announced guidelines for online classes by schools and recommended a cap on duration and the number of sessions in a day for students.&nbsp;
 The guidelines have been framed by the ministry, following concerns raised by parents about schools conducting online classes like regular schools, which has increased children's screen time after the COVID-19 pandemic mandated a shift from classroom teaching to online learning as schools continue to remain shut for over four months.&nbsp;
In the guideline called "Pragyata", the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has recommended that the duration for online classes for pre-primary students should not be for more than 30 minutes.&nbsp;
For classes 1 to 8, the HRD Ministry has recommended two online sessions of up to 45 minutes each while for classes 9 to 12, four sessions of 30-45 minutes duration have been recommended.&nbsp;
"The Covid-19 pandemic has led to closure of schools and has impacted over 240 million children of the country who are enrolled in schools. Extended school closures may cause loss of learning.&nbsp;
"To mitigate the impact of the pandemic, schools will not only have to remodel and reimagine the way teaching and learning have happened so far, but will also need to introduce a suitable method of delivering quality education through a healthy mix of schooling at home and schooling at school," HRD Minister Ramesh&nbsp;Pokhriyal&nbsp;'Nishank' said.&nbsp;
He said that the guidelines have been made with a focus on online education for students who are at home.&nbsp;
"The guidelines have been developed from the perspective of learners, with a focus on online, blended, digital education for students who are presently at home due to the lockdown.&nbsp;These guidelines on digital education provide a roadmap or pointers for carrying forward online education to enhance the quality of education,"&nbsp;Nishank&nbsp;added.&nbsp;
 Universities and schools across the country have been shut since March 16, when the Centre announced a countrywide classroom shutdown as part of measures to contain the Covid-19 outbreak. A nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24, which came into effect the next day.&nbsp; While the government has largely eased restrictions, schools and colleges continue to remain closed.&nbsp;

PTI, New Delhi: As the number of coronavirus cases crossed the 9-lakh mark on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said that 86 per cent of the total active cases were recorded in 10 states of the country.&nbsp;
Addressing a press briefing, Rajesh Bhushan, the officer on special duty in the Health Ministry, said two of the most affected states are Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu which are contributing to 50 per cent of the total active cases (154,134 active cases).&nbsp;
Karnataka, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Gujarat and Assam are the other affected states that contribute to 36 per cent of the total active cases (111,068 active cases) Bhushan also said that the total recovered cases of COVID-19 are about 1.8 times the number of active cases.&nbsp;
On Covid-19 testing, he said that 22 states are currently performing more than 140 tests per day per million population.&nbsp;
Responding to a question on the fatality rate, he said the national COVID-19 fatality rate is 2.6 per cent and it is coming down rapidly.&nbsp;
"Compared to the global case, fatality rate it is significantly lower," he added.&nbsp;&nbsp;

A doctor attached with the Indian boxing team tested positive for Covid-19&nbsp;on Monday. However, test results of all the 11 boxers, including Asian Games champion and world silver-medallist Amit Panghal&nbsp;came out to be negative. All the boxers who had assembled for training in Patiala though will now be retested as they were at the same quarantine facility with the doctor. According to a source close to the team,&nbsp;Dr Patil is completely asymptomatic and should recover soon enough. The same boxers were staring at a possible suspension by the Sports Authority of India for&nbsp;breaching quarantine norms at the Patiala&nbsp;camp.

Ravinder Raina, who is the president of BJP&nbsp;in Jammu and Kashmir has&nbsp;tested positive for Covid-19.&nbsp; Reports said&nbsp;Raina was in isolation in the Narayana hospital in the Katra town of&nbsp;Reasi&nbsp;district.
On Sunday,&nbsp;Raina accompanied Union Minister of State (PMO) Jitendra Singh, national General secretary of the BJP, Ram Madhav and other senior leaders to offer condolences to the family of Wasim Bari, the local BJP leader who was killed along with his father and brother by militants in the Bandipora town in north Kashmir.&nbsp;
Singh on Tuesday&nbsp;went into self-quarantine as a precautionary measure. In a tweet, Singh said, "Have gone into self-quarantine with immediate effect, after receiving the news about Corona positive test of J&amp;K BJP President Ravinder Raina who had accompanied us from Srinagar to Bandipora on July 12."
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Zoya Akhtar's house has been sealed by BMC as the filmmaker lives in a apartment building next to veteran actress Rekha&nbsp;whose bunglow was sealed last week after a guard was tested Covid-19 positive.
The officials have put a banner outside filmmaker's&nbsp;Mumbai residence which read, 'this area has been declared as containment area as a resident has been found Covid-19 positive'.
The BMC has further prohibited the entry of any individual and mentioned that social distancing norms must be followed.

Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek&nbsp;Bachchan, who have both been diagnosed with Covid-19, will have to be in hospital for at least a week, news agency PTI&nbsp;reported.
According&nbsp;to an insider from the hospital, the father-son duo are responding well to the treatment.
Reportedly, Big B and Abhishek Bachchan are 'stable', and will have to be in the hospital for at least seven days.

PTI, Patna:&nbsp;There will be a total lockdown in Bihar from July 16-31 to contain the spread of Covid-19, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday announced.
On his official Twitter handle, Modi said the 16-day lockdown will remain in force at all municipal, district, sub divisional and block headquarters level and that guidelines were being prepared.
"The government has taken a decision to this effect... Corona has neither any vaccine nor any medicine," Modi said in a virtual rally, details of which were shared on his Twitter handle.
The move comes close on the heels of recent spike in positive cases which had necessitated lockdowns, imposed by the local administrations, in several districts.&nbsp;

Former India fast bowler Ashish&nbsp;Nehra&nbsp;feels that ICC's&nbsp;saliva ban has affected James Anderson's swing bowling. In an interview to PTI, he said that during England's 1st Test vs the Windies,&nbsp;Anderson was bowling short of the length at times which he hardly does. That was because the Dukes ball wasn't swinging.&nbsp;The reason being the lack of shine with no saliva being allowed. So, whenever he tried pitching it up, the&nbsp;batsmen were driving him easily. Nehra&nbsp;added that not being able to use saliva when there isn't much perspiration will be a problem. Anderson's strength is to pitch it up and get the ball to swing but he looked half the bowler when it stopped swinging.&nbsp;

Australian limited-overs skipper Aaron Finch came up with an interesting solution for breaking the second-grade student's remote learning monotony. Alex Altube, a young cricket enthusiast from the state of Victoria got to work on a special project during the&nbsp;lockdown. Finch through a video message asked the child to prepare a cricket magazine with a detailed explanation of the rules of the game including the different fielding positions and how it is played. As per Alex's teacher Kathryn Taylor, it was his best work for the year and by the looks of it, the student will remember his magazine &amp; work for a long time.&nbsp;

PTI, New Delhi: France will soon announce an "exceptional package" for India, including ventilators and expertise, as part of its efforts to jointly combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the French envoy to India said on Tuesday.&nbsp;In his message on the French National Day -- Bastille Day, French Ambassador to India Emmanuel&nbsp;Lenain&nbsp;said that since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, the two countries have shown exceptional solidarity.
&nbsp; "India has provided much needed equipment and drugs to French hospitals. Friendship is a two-way road and France has reciprocated,"&nbsp;Lenain&nbsp;said.&nbsp;
The French development agency AFD has granted an exceptional loan of 200 million euros (Rs 1,600 crore) to provide social services to the most vulnerable population in India, he said.&nbsp;
"We are going to announce soon an exceptional package comprising serological test (kits), ventilators and some expertise," the French envoy said in the message posted on all social media handles of the French Embassy here.&nbsp;

India will suffer the biggest gross domestic product loss of 11% due to the Covid-19 pandemic, S&amp;P said. India's GDP loss is nearly double that of Latin America and Africa and 5 to 6 times of the rest of Asia, S&amp;P added.&nbsp;S&amp;P Global cut its emerging market growth forecasts, predicting a 4.7% slump on average this year due to the coronavirus and warned that all countries would be left with permanent scars too.

A major proportion of Covid-19 survivors are displaying chronic damage, leading&nbsp;doctors to observe the after-effects that maybe worse that originally thought. According to Dr. Roberto Cosentini, a senior doctor at a hospital in the Italian town of Bergamo, the&nbsp;Covid-19 virus could lead&nbsp;to vessel damage in the whole body. Some survivors find it difficult to carry out physical activity, concentrate or work properly, shared British TV news channel Sky News. While it is too soon to know if these problems are permanent, doctors even found reports of irregular heartbeats, heart inflammation and damaged liver and kidney functioning. Bergamo was one of the worst-affected towns by Covid-19 in Italy.&nbsp;

PTI, New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the total number of coronavirus cases in the country will cross the 10 lakh-mark this week.
He had on Monday questioned the Centre&rsquo;s claims on battling COVID-19, asking if India was at a "good position" in the battle against the virus.
"This week, the figure of 10,00,000 will be crossed in our country," Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi. He also tagged a news report quoting the WHO chief who had said that if concrete steps were not taken, the coronavirus situation in the world would turn from bad to worse.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief on Monday slammed some government leaders for eroding public trust by sending mixed messages on coronavirus and warned that their failure to stop their countries' spiralling outbreaks meant there would be no return to normal for the foreseeable future.
With 28,498 fresh cases recorded in a day, India's COVID-19 tally sprinted past nine lakh on Tuesday, just three days after it crossed the eight lakh-mark, according to the Union health ministry data.

Cricket in India has been on a standstill for the 4th straight month now and due to the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the country,&nbsp;BCCI&nbsp;is still finding it tough to figure out the schedule for the remaining year. As the unlock phases progressed in India,&nbsp;BCCI&nbsp;was preparing to resume the national camp from mid-July which is now on hold. The decision came&nbsp;after the extension of&nbsp;lockdown&nbsp;in many states that rendered&nbsp;BCCI&nbsp;helpless. Since March,&nbsp;South Africa ODI&nbsp;series and the India tour of Sri&nbsp;Lanka&nbsp;and Zimbabwe have been cancelled. While BCCI&nbsp;was also forced to postpone the cash-rich IPL, they seem determined to host the event later this year. Speculations suggest that if the World T20 gets cancelled,&nbsp;IPL&nbsp;can be hosted in the same window and BCCI&nbsp;might&nbsp;also propose to shorten the India's tour Down Under. Currently, India is scheduled to tour Australia from December 2020 to Jan 2021 to play 4 Tests, 3 ODIs&nbsp;and 3 T20I matches.&nbsp;

13 out of the 17 professional football teams in Colombia&nbsp;have returned with positive Covid-19 tests as the local football association has now paused the plans to restart the season which has been on hold since March. A total of 41 results came out as positive as the teams scampered to get their premises sanitised by the government health officials. All the top club local clubs have been affected as the restart now appears to be postponed yet again. Colombia has seen over 1,50,000 positive cases and over 5000 deaths but experts in the South American nation are predicting a sharp rise in the cases in days to come.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Brazilian football club&nbsp;Chapecoense&nbsp;on Monday was hit by 14 new Covid-19 cases as the stadium, training grounds and all the facilities were locked after getting disinfected. The locker rooms, gym, medical and physiotherapy departments and media area were vaporised&nbsp;by medical personnel as the club is now shut once again. The&nbsp;team&nbsp;was scheduled to play on Sunday in the quarterfinals of a state championship but the match was cancelled after the positive results. The entire tournament was also suspended indefinitely after&nbsp;Chapecoense's striker Roberto was admitted to a hospital. Brazil has seen nearly 2 million cases and over 72,000 deaths as its the 2nd worst affected nation after the United States.&nbsp;

As the number of Covid-19 cases rise in USA&nbsp;again, voices for cancelling US Open get louder&nbsp;

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