₹50,000 crore in the next 12 months by issuing debt securities. India’s largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) said on 16 June that it plans to raise ₹20,000 crore of equity capital in FY21.A person aware of the development said while there has been a surge in banks and other financial institutions hitting the market for capital, institutional investors have been seeking additional safeguards.“There is a lot of uncertainty in the market and investors are willing to wait before they commit to more funds.

This will, however, not be a problem for large banks with better asset quality," said the person cited above.Experts had forecast that Indian banks will need to raise capital to tide over the covid-19 pandemic.

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Crowds flock to Jersey shore for 4th of July weekend despite pandemic concerns

BELMAR, N.J. - As coronavirus-related restrictions are eased and temperatures climb, people are flocking back to the Jersey Shore.And with the July Fourth holiday weekend upon us, that’s making some people nervous, particularly given the large crowds that have surfaced at some popular shore spots recently and poor compliance with mandated measures to help slow the spread of the virus.“I am really concerned,” said Paul Kanitra, mayor of Point Pleasant Beach, a popular shore town that was unexpectedly overrun by thousands of tourists who swarmed the beach and boardwalk a few weeks ago at a “pop-up party,” paying little heed to social distancing or masks.FULL COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS“We’re seeing spikes across the country in states that opened up

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The 2020 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has been cancelled.

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Coronavirus 'has mutated into new, more infectious strain' warn scientists

FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inbox University of Sheffield has co-authored a bombshell study suggesting the coronavirus has mutated into a more contagious form. With global cases now topping 10.6m and over 500,000 recorded deaths, scientists are still grappling with understanding the novel virus and preventing a second wave of infections.Now a joint study from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Duke University and University of Sheffield claims that a new and more contagious variant of the killer bug, called ‘D614G’, has developed.

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Firms with adequate balance sheet strength may manage Covid impact: SBI report

MUMBAI : Corporates with adequate balance sheet strength are more likely to sustain the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic which has affected all the sectors, says a report.In the current exceptional circumstances, it is futile to look at profit and loss parameters, according to the SBI's research report, Ecowrap."What will be more important to closely observe the balance sheet strength. Ideally, corporates with such strength will be able to navigate through this exceptional times," the report said.It said no sector is untouched with the impact of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdowns even after opening up will prolong the economic pain.

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Miami-Dade mayor sets new curfew, closes some businesses

MIAMI – Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said he's instituting an overnight curfew and closing some businesses as the county's number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalization rates continue to rise.Gimenez said Thursday night that the 10 p.m.to 6 a.m. curfew, which begins Friday, will be in place indefinitely.

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Domestic air traffic to decline by 41-46% in FY21 due to COVID impact: Icra

MUMBAI : The recommencement of commercial passenger flight services in a graded manner is unlikely to help the domestic aviation industry recover in the current financial year with domestic air traffic expected to shrink by 41-46% and international travel demand by a negative 67-72% year-on-year owing to COVID-19, a report said on Friday.The domestic passenger flight services restarted from May 25 after a two months hiatus due to the lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic. The international operations, however, remained suspended since March 22 for similar reasons.

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Riverside County man dies one day after posting about contracting virus at party

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. - “Don’t be a (bleeping) idiot like me,” wrote Thomas Macias on his Facebook page. It was a message full of regret.

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Kim Jong Un hails North Korea’s ‘shining success’ in handling coronavirus

Kim Jong Un urged officials to maintain alertness against the coronavirus, warning that complacency risked “unimaginable and irretrievable crisis,” state media said Friday.Despite the warning, Kim reaffirmed North Korea’s claim to not have had a single case of COVID-19, telling a ruling party meeting Thursday that the country has “thoroughly prevented the inroad of the malignant virus” despite the worldwide health crisis, the Korean Central News Agency said.

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11-year-old boy from Miami-Dade dies of COVID-19

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – An 11-year-old boy from Miami-Dade County has died as a result of COVID-19, News 6 sister station Local 10 reports.Daequan Wimberly was a special needs child who overcame many obstacles and illnesses and was “a champ,” his family says.He is Florida’s youngest known death from the disease.“I loved the way he treated people, the way he showed love to people, and I think of the simplicity of love and how far it reaches,” said the boy’s father Jerry.The state’s health department does not identify coronavirus victims in its reporting but listed an 11-year-old boy among Florida’s latest confirmed fatalities as a result of COVID-19 on Thursday.Miami-Dade has lost 1,018 residents to COVID-19, most in the state.

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Community thanks Uddingston shop owners for their support during Covid-19 crisis

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Shop owners Helen and Bobby Whyte received a heart-felt thank you from people in Uddingston last week for their support throughout the Covid-19 crisis.A presentation was arranged for the couple, who run Anne’s Pantry in Kylepark, to acknowledge their kindness and dedication to customers since lockdown began.The Whytes, who have owned the store for 33 years, were given flowers, cards and £450 in cash by grateful residents and were overwhelmed by the gesture.Helen, 67, said: “This is a lovely surprise and totally unexpected. But it’s nice to be appreciated.

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Coronavirus: Toronto Blue Jays still figuring out where to play their shortened season

Toronto Blue Jays will return home to the Rogers Centre for training camp after the Major League Baseball team was granted an exemption by the Canadian government on Thursday but where they will play their COVID-19 shortened regular season remains uncertain.With the border to the U.S. closed to non-essential travel until at least July 21, anyone entering Canada must self-isolate for 14 days.

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Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.A joint venture established by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and ChemRar Group is set to boost production of Avifavir, which secured temporary approval from the Russian government to treat Covid-19. Avifavir is a generic version of an anti-flu drug, Avigan (favipiravir), which has been used in Japan since 2014 to treat severe forms of influenza.

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India's Covid-19 recoveries exceed active cases by more than 1.5 lakh: Govt

India's Covid-19 cases soared by over 20,000 in a day for the first time taking the country's total tally to 6,25,544 on Friday, while the death toll climbed to 18,213 with 379 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data.The country recorded 20,903 coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours till Friday 8 am, with Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi,Telangana and Karnataka being the major contributors to the single day rise."Coordinated efforts at all levels of government for prevention, containment and management of Covid-19 are showing good results with consistently increasing gap between recoveries and active cases. As on date, there are 1,52,452 recovered cases more than the active Covid-19 cases," the ministry said.

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Mexican state eyes closing US border as COVID-19 cases rise in Arizona

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Globe-galloping cowboy Filipe Masetti Leite to ride into Calgary after 8-year journey

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Florida travelers face 2-week quarantine in Chicago

CHICAGO – People traveling to Chicago from 15 states with increasing numbers of confirmed cases of the coronavirus will have to quarantine for two weeks upon arrival or face possible fines, city officials announced Thursday.To comply with the order that takes effect Monday, travelers must stay at a single home or other dwelling for 14 days except to seek medical care or be tested for COVID-19.Mayor Lori Lightfoot said on Twitter that the order is intended to “preserve the gains Chicago had made.”EFFECTIVE MONDAY: To preserve the gains Chicago has made, we're issuing an Emergency Travel Order directing travelers entering or returning to Chicago from states experiencing a surge in new COVID-19 cases to quarantine for a period of 14 days.

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Gov. Abbott issues statewide face covering requirement for Texans

AUSTIN, Texas - Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide face covering requirement on Thursday as the coronavirus outbreak continued to worsen in Texas."Governor Greg Abbott today issued an Executive Order requiring all Texans to wear a face covering over the nose and mouth in public spaces in counties with 20 or more positive COVID-19 cases, with few exceptions," the order read.Abbott's order goes into effect 12:01 p.m.

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WHO's Covid-19 envoy urges caution over travel

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COVID-19 policy to those who are under quarantine in facilities identified the government. The coverage amount will be up to the sum insured under the policy, the company said in a statement.

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Penn State student, 21, dies of coronavirus-related complications

(Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - A 21-year-old Penn State student has died of coronavirus-related complications just 10 days after he was tested for the virus, the University announced on Thursday.Juan Garcia, a student at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences student, died on Tuesday from respiratory failure and COVID-19, according to a release.Garcia was reportedly living off-campus when he began feeling ill.

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Miami-Dade reinstates curfew, rolls back reopening of entertainment venues

MIAMI, Fla. - South Florida is once again trying to curb a massive wave of coronavirus cases.Miami-Dade County has remained one of the state's hardest-hit by the pandemic and as cases skyrocket in the sunshine state, the county's government is taking steps to try and keep things from getting worse.Miami-Dade announced Thursday it is bringing back the 10 p.m. - 6 a.m.

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Study uncovers which non-medical face mask best protects against coronavirus

LOS ANGELES - Researchers say face masks can prevent the spread of COVID-19, but which type of mask is the most effective?While there are relatively few specific guidelines pertaining to mask materials and designs, a new study from Florida Atlantic University, titled “Physics of Fluids”, found which types of masks offer the best protection against the coronavirus.Researcher Siddhartha Verma and his team experimented with different choices in material and design to “determine how well face masks block droplets as they exit the mouth,” the study explained.“We tested actually three homemade masks and one off-the-shelf commercial mask,” Verma said.Using droplets that were coughed and sneezed out of a mannequin head, the group of researchers

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CERB poses back-to-work dilemma: ‘We’re being incentivized to make just under $1,000’

Why some Canadians have already run out of CERB: ‘I was in tears’ That’s because recipients of the CERB, which provides $2,000 a month to Canadians who’ve lost their income due to COVID-19, can only earn up to $1,000 in a four-week period before losing their benefits.“If they accepted even one more dollar’s worth of work, they lose the $2,000 CERB benefit and are left with $1,001 to support themselves and their family,” economist Tammy Schirle noted in a report for the C.D.

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₹365, up 0.48% from its previous close, while the benchmark index, Sensex, gained 0.30% to 35949.88.The drug maker announced that its plasmid DNA vaccine candidate for covid-19 (ZyCoV-D), developed indigenously at its Vaccine Technology Centre in Ahmedabad (Gujarat), has successfully completed the pre-clinical phase. It has now received permission from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), headed by the DCGI, to initiate Phase I/II human clinical trials in India.In animal studies, the vaccine was found to elicit a strong immune response in multiple animal species such as mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits.

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₹1.2 trillion from the markets over the next one year. HDFC does not need to raise capital as its adequacy ratios are superior, and the need for provisioning is far less than its peers.

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'Action will be taken against Patanjali if it confuses or misleads people that Coronil can cure Covid-19'

NEW DELHI : Maharashtra FDA Minister Rajendra Shingne on Friday said that action will be taken against Patanjali if the company created confusion or misled people that Coronil can cure Covid-19.On 23 June, Patanjali had launched launched 'Coronil and Swasari', what it claims is the Ayurvedic cure for treating COVID-19, which they said has been shown 100 per cent favourable results during clinical trials on affected patients, at Patanjali Yogpeeth in Haridwar.After the news of the launch of claimed Covid cure went viral, Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) took cognizance of the reports and stated that the facts and details of the stated scientific study are not known to the ministry.

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Steps taken for safe disposal of COVID-19 victims' bodies: BMC

MUMBAI : The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday told the Bombay High Court that it was taking adequate safety measures and scrupulously following the guidelines prescribed for the safe disposal of bodies of persons who died due to COVID-19.The civic body was responding to a petition filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar, which alleged that there were several lapses in handling of COVID-19 victims' bodies in crematoriums at Shivaji Park in Dadar, at Sion in central Mumbai and at the Chandanwadi crematorium in south Mumbai.As per the plea, the staff at these crematoriums are not provided with safety gears like PPE kits, masks and sanitizers.BMC counsel Anil Sakhare told a division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and

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Coronavirus: Almost 20,000 people have died in care homes with Covid-19

Almost 20,000 people in care homes have died with coronavirus, while and one in five residents were infected.

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Covid-19 impact: JSW crude steel production falls to 2.96 million tonnes in Q1

Mumbai: JSW Steel, the flagship business of 12 billion dollar JSW Group, on Friday reported crude steel production of 2.96 million tonnes in the first quarter of the current financial year (April to June).It had reported crude steel production of 4.24 million tonnes in the corresponding period of previous fiscal (Q1 FY20) and 3.97 million tonnes in the January to March quarter (Q4 FY20).The company said its average capacity utilisation dropped to 76 per cent in June due to a fall in production at Vijayanagar works as certain employees tested COVID-19 positive.The production of flat-rolled products totalled 2.05 million tonnes in Q1 FY21 as compared to 2.87 million tonnes in Q4 FY20 and 2.91 million tonnes in Q1 FY20.The production of long

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Pakistan's coronavirus tally crosses 221,000-mark

Pakistan on Friday reported that 113,623 persons have recovered from the deadly coronavirus, surpassing the number of active COVID-19 infections in the country for the first time, authorities said.According to the Ministry of National Health Services, “out of the total 221,896 COVID-19 positive patients, 113,623 have so far recovered from the disease across the country".The recovered patients have surpassed the number of active 108,273 COVID-19 infections.In Sindh, out of the 89,225 confirmed cases 49,926 have recovered, while in Punjab, out of 78,956 patients, 33,786 have recovered.

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Covid-19 causes 13% death increase between March and June

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Young mum dies of coronavirus just moments after giving birth to twins

FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inbox A young mum died from Covid-19 complications just moments after fulfilling her dream of giving birth to her twin boys.

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Coronavirus: Deadly bug has mutated into a new, more infectious strain, scientists warn

Coronavirus cases around the world are now at over 10.6 million, and now a new study suggests that most of those cases are caused by a new, more infection strain of the virus.

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Trump tours 200th completed mile of U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona

As U.S. President Donald Trump gears up his re-election campaign, he headed to Arizona on Tuesday, with a focus on border security. Trump participated in a commemoration of the 200th mile of the new border wall built on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Deputy Chief Medical Officer press conference about COVID-19 on 3 July 2020

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Mint Covid Tracker: India now has over 425 districts with at least one death each

medical capacity and overburdened health system.Over the past few weeks, new infections and deaths have been rising faster in India than in most other badly-hit countries. The country’s death toll is the eighth worst in the world.

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India targets to launch first Covid-19 vaccine by August 15

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Why the standard covid-19 health policy may not come cheap

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Trump's Rushmore trip draws real and figurative fireworks

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – President Donald Trump will begin his Independence Day weekend on Friday with a patriotic display of fireworks at Mount Rushmore before a crowd of thousands, but even in a part of the country where many remain supportive of the president, the event has drawn controversy and protests. Trump is expected to speak at the event, which has issued 7,500 tickets to watch fireworks that he previewed on Thursday as a “display like few people have seen.” The president will likely enjoy a show of support, with the state Republican Party selling T-shirts that feature Trump on the memorial alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

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Bharat Biotech covid-19 vaccine trial results to be released by 15 August: ICMR

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With 20,903 Covid-19 cases, India sees highest single-day spike

COVID-19 tally to 6,25,544, as per the data released by the Union Health Ministry. The death toll from coronavirus rose to 18,213, including 379 fatalities in 24 hours.

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Business advocates ask Alberta government to supply non-AHS doctors with PPE, according to CFIB survey

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