Coronavirus News Live Updates: 40 cases of Delta Plus variant of COVID-19 found in Maharashtra, MP, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, says govt sources

Coronavirus Live Updates: India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases crossed the 3-crore mark with one crore infections being added in 50 days. the entire tally mounted to three ,00,28,709, with 50,848 new coronavirus infections being reported during a day. The price climbed to three ,90,660 with 1,358 fresh fatalities, consistent with the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. India’s total

New Zealand raised the COVID-19 alert level in its capital Wellington on Wednesday amid concerns that the town may are exposed to the highly infectious Delta variant that has triggered a fresh outbreak in neighbouring Australia. Wellington will move to the country`s `Alert Level 2`, one level in need of a lockdown, until midnight on Sunday as a precautionary measure to curb any potential outbreak after an Australian tourist tested positive for COVID-19 on returning to Sydney from a visit to the New Zealand capital over the weekend.

“This isn’t a lockdown … these are precautionary measures which can remain in situ while we contact trace and test all of these we’d like to,” New Zealand`s Covid response minister Chris Hipkins said at a press conference in Wellington. Under alert level 2, offices, schools and businesses can remain open but will need to maintain social distancing rules. Sport and recreation activities are allowed, subject to conditions including physical distancing, but gathering of quite 100 people won’t be allowed, including at weddings, funeral and other events.

With a population of 5 million people, New Zealand is among a couple of nations that have contained the spread of COVID-19 and returned to normalcy, with the last positive case thanks to community transmission reported about four months ago. New Zealand agreed to quarantine-free travel with neighbouring Australia earlier this year, as both nations had controlled the community spread of the coronavirus. But fresh concerns of an epidemic have emerged after the positive test for the unnamed male Australian tourist, who visited over a dozen locations including the national Te Papa museum, pubs, cafes, a bookshop and a hotel during his trip over last weekend.