LIVE News Updates: 5,879 new COVID-19 cases in Tamil Nadu, 2,51,738 total cases

5,172 new COVID-19 cases and 98 deaths reported in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, taking total cases to 1,29,287 including 53,648 discharges and 2,412 deaths. The number of active cases stands at 73,219: State Health Department.

A Delhi police head constable has died due to COVID-19 at a city hospital, officials said on Saturday.

The head constable Leela Dhar was posted at Defence colony police station. He was admitted to the hospital on July 11 after reporting mild fever.

Later, he was shifted to ICU on July 19 and was given plasma therapy, after being tested positive for coronavirus.

On Friday, he succumbed to the deadly virus.

5,879 new COVID-19 cases and 99 deaths reported in Tamil Nadu in the last 24 hours, taking total cases to 2,51,738 including 1,90,966 discharges and 4,034 deaths. 60,580 samples were tested for the disease in the last 24 hours: State Health Department.

Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh passed away. Singh, 64, was ill for a very long time and was undergoing treatment in a Singapore hospital for some months, reports Hindustan Times

A recent news report said he was in ICU and his family was by his side. Earlier, Singh had suffered kidney failure in 2013.

It is police's duty to probe after FIR by Sushant’s father. No objection to CBI probe if family asks for it: Nitish Kumar, reports News18

Police have arrested one of the three men accused of raping a 15-year-old girl here, an official said on Saturday.

According to an FIR registered in the case, the accused abducted the minor on Thursday when she had gone out of her house to throw garbage in the village dump yard.

They allegedly took the girl to a sugarcane field and took turns to rape her, SHO of Bhopa police station Sanjeev Kumar said, adding that one of the three men had also recorded a video of the incident.

With a total of 46,688 fatalities, Mexico now accounts for the world's third highest number of coronavirus fatalities in the world, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

Previously the UK had the third highest toll, and registered 46,204 deaths as of Saturday, the University revealed in its latest update.

The US currently accounts for the world's highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths at 4,562,170 and 153,314.

Brazil comes in the second place with 2,662,485 infections and 92,475 fatalities.

10 people have been reportedly killed and one person injured after a huge crane collapsed at the Hindustan Shipyard Limited in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh today, reports Indian Express

Flash flooding in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 16 people after heavy rains swept parts of a mountainous area, an Afghan official said Saturday.

Puducherry reports 139 new COVID-19 positive cases, taking the total number of positive cases to 3,593 including 1,357 active cases, 2,185 discharges and 51 deaths: UT Health Department, reports ANI.

In the highest-ever spike in daily COVID-19 count, Telangana on Saturday reported 2,083 new cases pushing the state's tally to 64,786.

For the first time, the state breached the 2,000-mark in daily cases and it improved on its last count of of 1,924 just the day after the state recorded its highest single-day jump till that time.

Eleven people also succumbed to the virus during the last 24 hours ending Friday 8 p.m. With this the death toll mounted to 530.

1,602 new COVID-19 cases reported in Odisha in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 33,479. The number of recovered cases is 20,517 and active cases are 12,737: State Health Department.

232 more Maharashtra Police personnel test positive for COVID-19 and 1 died in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 103. Total number of police personnel infected with Corona at 9,449, out of which 7,414 have recovered and 1,932 are active cases: Maharashtra Police

Single-day spike of 57,117 positive cases and 764 deaths in India in the last 24 hours. Total COVID positive cases stand at 16,95,988 including 5,65,103 active cases, 10,94,374 cured/discharged and 36,511 deaths: Health Ministry, reports ANI.

The total number of COVID-19 samples tested up to 31st July is 1,93,58,659 including 5,25,689 samples tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), reports ANI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday extended Eid greetings and hoped that the festival inspires us to create a "just, harmonious and an inclusive" society.

As part of the precautionary measures against COVID-19, Palestine has imposed a full lockdown on the West Bank districts during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

The lockdown began on Friday upon an earlier government's decision and will remain until Sunday morning, reports Xinhua news agency.

The measures include banning transportation between towns and villages all over the West Bank.

Two aircraft collided midair on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, which led to the death of a state Republican Representative.

The accident took place on Friday near the Soldotna Airport, reports Xinhua news agency.

One of the aircraft involved in the crash about two miles northeast of the airport was a single-engine de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 17.5 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 678,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

As of Saturday morning, the total number of cases stood at 17,516,264 and the fatalities rose to 678,226, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

The US accounted for the world's highest number of infections and fatalities at 4,559,008 and 153,311, respectively, according to the CSSE.

Brazil came in the second place with 2,662,485 infections and 92,475 deaths.

In terms of cases, India ranks third (1,638,827), and is followed by Russia (838,461), South Africa (493,183), Mexico (424,637), Peru (407,492), Chile (355,667), the UK (304,793), Iran (304,204), Spain (288,522), Colombia (286,018), Pakistan (278,305), Saudi Arabia (275,905), Italy (247,537), Bangladesh (237,661), Turkey (230,873), France (225,196), Germany (210,399), Argentina (191,302), Iraq (124,609), Canada (118,265), Qatar (110,695) and Indonesia (108,376), the CSSE figures showed.

The other countries with over 10,000 deaths are the Mexico (46,688), UK (46,204), India (35,745), Italy (35,141), France (30,268), Spain (28,445), Peru (19,021), Iran (16,766) and Russia (13,939).