1. India on Tuesday reported 10,667 new cases and 380 deaths, taking the country’s tally to 3,43,091. The overall toll stood at 9,900. India is currently the fourth-most affected country in the world.
  2. Tamil Nadu reported 49 deaths in a day, the highest so far, taking the toll in the state to 528. The total cases in the state breached the 48,000-mark after 1,515 new infections. However, Chief Minister K Palaniswami claimed that the overall fatalities in the state were low and that the recovery rate was high. Meanwhile, the count in Maharashtra, the worst-affected state in India, rose to 1,13,445, including 5,537 deaths. Delhi’s tally rose to 44,688, including 1,837 deaths.
  3. Researchers in the United Kingdom have achieved a breakthrough with the discovery that the drug dexamethasone cuts the risk of death for coronavirus patients on ventilators by 33%. The drug also reduces deaths of patients on oxygen support by 20%, the researchers found. The discovery was made during a major trial to find a treatment for the coronavirus, that examines existing treatments.
  4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that there are signs of green shoots in the economy and that India’s fight to tackle the coronavirus pandemic is a fine example of cooperative federalism. He made the comments while speaking with the chief ministers and lieutenant governors of 21 states and Union Territories to discuss the situation in the country. Modi also said India’s death rate was among the lowest in the world.
  5. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain was hospitalised and tested negative for the coronavirus. On Monday, he was admitted with high fever and breathing problems.
  6. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy and many of his Cabinet ministers attended the first day of the shortened two-day budget session of the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday without wearing face masks. The state government had ordered that any person who ventured out without wearing a mask will be fined Rs 1,000 in urban areas, and Rs 500 in rural areas.
  7. As many as 451 deaths of patients of the coronavirus in Mumbai have not been reported by the city’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, a data reconciliation exercise by the Maharashtra government has shown. The BMC said that over the last week, it had reported another 57 of the 451 deaths in a “staggered manner”. This meant that the reporting of only 371 deaths, and not 451, is pending now, it claimed.
  8. Authorities in Chinese capital Beijing restricted travel, closed all sports and entertainment sites and ramped up testing after a city official warned that the coronavirus situation is “extremely severe”. Most of the cases were linked to the Xinfadi seafood supermarket in Beijing’s southern Fengtai district. The wholesale market was closed on June 13 after it was identified as being at the centre of a new cluster of cases.
  9. The head of the World Health Organization said that even though the coronavirus pandemic is ebbing in some countries that were badly-affected initially, the number of new cases is growing faster than ever, with more than one lakh reported each day.
  10. Globally, the coronavirus has infected over 80.56 lakh people so far, and killed more than 4.37 lakh, according to the Johns Hopkins University.