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		</div><p>India has edged closer to recording nearly 100,000 coronavirus cases in 24 hours as it ordered the retesting of many people whose first screening results were from a less reliable method than is being widely used.</p>
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<p>According to the health ministry, India recorded another spike of 96,551 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its caseload to 4.56 million.<br />
It also reported another 1,209 deaths, taking the total fatalities to 76,271.</p>
<p>The government said some negative rapid antigen tests should be done again through the more reliable RT-PCR method, the gold standard of coronavirus tests, which looks for the genetic code of the virus.</p>
<p>The retesting order applied to people who had negative results but had fever, coughing or breathlessness, or people who developed those Covid-19 symptoms within three days of their negative test results.<br />
Using the rapid antigen or viral protein tests has allowed India to dramatically increase its testing capacity to more than 1.1 million a day – but the quicker, cheaper test is less reliable and retesting is often recommended.<br />
The directive was meant to ensure infected people did not go undetected and to check the spread of the disease among their contacts.</p>
<figure id="attachment_161861" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-161861" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/682A78C1-2D37-4C90-B500-944C514AE22C.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-161861" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-161861" class="wp-caption-text">People wait to give their nasal swab samples to test for Covid-19 in Gauhati</figcaption></figure>
<p>Meanwhile, South Korea’s daily count of new coronavirus cases is under 200 for a ninth straight day, continuing a downward trend in fresh infections for the country.</p>
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<p>The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said the 176 cases added in the previous 24 hours took the national tally to 21,919, with 350 deaths.<br />
South Korea’s daily caseload was above 400 in late August, with clusters of new infections in churches, schools, restaurants and other spots, mostly in the Seoul metropolitan area.</p>
<p>The outbreak has gradually slowed after authorities imposed stronger social distancing rules.<br />
Health official Yoon Taeho said the government believes the country’s caseload is in general on a downward trajectory, though he urges people to keep trying to reduce face-to-face contacts with others and to follow social distancing guidelines.</p>
<figure id="attachment_161860" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-161860" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/B8C3DD4A-817D-4F99-9AD7-846D945C20DB.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="368" class="size-full wp-image-161860" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-161860" class="wp-caption-text">The downward trend is continuing in South Korea</figcaption></figure>
<p>In France, the daily case count has climbed back up as summer vacations brought relaxed virus vigilance.<br />
The number of infected patients in hospitals and intensive care units had stayed low and stable for several weeks – until now.</p>
<p>Doctors in Marseille – the country’s latest virus hotspot — started sounding the alarm this week.<br />
The 70 ICU beds dedicated to virus patients in France’s second-biggest city and the surrounding Bouches-du-Rhone region were all occupied by Tuesday.<br />
The number of ICU virus patients in the region has doubled in the past 10 days and now surpasses 100.</p>
<p>“The beginning of summer was relatively calm but in the past few weeks there is a new rise,” said the Laveran Military Training Hospital’s chief doctor, Pierre-Yves, who can only be identified by his first name according to military policy.</p>
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<p>“What is going on here is just like what is going on in other hospitals of the region.”<br />
The number of people infected with coronavirus is also surging in the Czech Republic, as a new record was set for the second time in a week.</p>
<p>The health ministry said the day-to-day increase in cases reached 1,382 on Thursday.<br />
In the two previous days, the number of infected in one day surpassed 1,160.<br />
In reaction to the spike, the Czech Republic has returned to the mandatory wearing of face masks in interior spaces.</p>
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