India News | 41 More COVID Patients Die in Bengal; 2,294 Fresh Cases Detected
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The COVID-19 death toll in West Bengal rose to 1,490 on Wednesday after 41 people succumbed to the disease, the state health department said in a bulletin.
Kolkata, Jul 29 (PTI) The COVID-19 death toll in West Bengal rose to 1,490 on Wednesday after 41 people succumbed to the disease, the state health department said in a bulletin.
A total of 2,294 fresh cases of coronavirus infection pushed the state's tally to 65,258, the bulletin said.
Since Tuesday, 2,094 patients have recovered from the disease, the highest in a single day so far.
The number of active cases is 19,652 now.
A total of 17,144 samples have been tested in the last 24 hours, it added. PTI SCH NN SMN SMN 07292124 NNNNatus.
Russia owes a $5 million fine and $1.3 million in other costs.
The freeze lasts until the World Athletics council meets July 29-30 and could prevent some top Russians competing when the Diamond League restarts next month.
“It is a great pity that in this situation the main blow — terrible, catastrophic — is landing on our athletes, who are hostages of the mistakes which were made in a previous period by people known to us,” Yurchenko said in a statement.
“World Athletics unfortunately is refusing to take into account the economic and epidemiological situation and the damage which has been wrought by the pandemic in Russia and the wider world," he said Thursday.
The fine was imposed in March over a case involving allegedly forged medical documents to give an athlete an alibi for not being available for drug testing, under Yurchenko's predecessor Dmitry Shlyakhtin.
On behalf of the federation, Yurchenko in March admitted charges that it broke anti-doping rules in that case. Disciplinary charges filed against Shlyakhtin and six other people by the Athletics Integrity Unit remain unresolved.
When World Athletics issued the fine in March, Yurchenko pledged that the federation, known as RusAF, would make every effort to pay. He later said it could not afford the payments.
RusAF itself has been under suspension from World Athletics since 2015 over widespread doping. That forces its athletes to register for neutral status to compete outside their home country. (AP)
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