Eight states have shown a steep rise in the number of Covid cases in the last 24 hours. A cumulative of 84.61% of 72,330 new cases registered in the last 24 hours are from the state of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Punjab, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. (PIB)
India’s total Active Caseload has reached 5,84,055. It now comprises 4.78% of the country’s total Positive Cases. A net incline of 31,489 cases recorded from the total active caseload in the last 24 hours.
Five states, namely Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Punjab cumulatively account for 78.9% of the total active cases in the country. Maharashtra alone accounts for more than 61% of the active caseload of the country.
459 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
Six States account for 83.01% of the new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (227). Punjab follows with 55 daily deaths.
Union Health Minister Rajesh Bhushan urged the officials of states and UTs to ensure timely utilization of available stocks of the Covid-19 vaccine and maintain vaccine wastage less than one per cent.
The minister along with the NITI Aayog members held a high-level meeting through video conferencing with Health Secretaries, State Mission Directors of National Health Mission (NHM) and State Immunization officers of all states and UTs to review the status, pace and issues regarding COVID vaccination across the country as well as the preparations from April 1 when vaccination would be extended to all persons above the age of 45.
Bhushan also advised the states and UTs to implement the ‘Test, Track, Treat, Vaccinate’ strategy efficiently.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain announced that Covid-19 testing will be increased to 80,000 per day in the national capital, reports ANI.
He said, “From today, we’re going to increase testing to over 80,000 tests daily. Yesterday, government issued an order for increasing 220 beds in ICU wards in private hospitals for COVID patients. There is just 25% occupancy in private & govt hospitals in Delhi.”
The national capital has been witnessing a surge in Covid-19 infections in the past few days, reporting 992 new infections on Tuesday.
Nagpur: An 81-year-old Covid positive patient committed suicide by hanging himself with an oxygen pipe in the bathroom of Nagpur hospital where he was admitted for treatment.
The victim was found hanging from the exhaust fan of the bathroom after the doctors and attendants broke open the door. A case of accidental death has been registered where no suicide note was found by the police.
The long-awaited report on COVID-19 origin tracing following a mission in Wuhan of central China’s Hubei Province will be released on Tuesday, head of World Health Organization (WHO) said at a virtual press conference in Geneva on Monday.
Director-general of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “WHO has received the full mission report over the weekend on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the team that visited Wuhan earlier this year.”
“All hypotheses are open, from what I read from the report… and warrant complete and further studies,” Tedros said.
The report was not public yet, he added. He said a mission briefing would be held between the international experts and the WHO’s 194 member states on Tuesday, after which the report would be published on the WHO’s website.
“We will read the report and discuss, digest its content and next steps with member states,” Tedros said. “I will have more to say following further review and understanding of the report. But for now, all hypotheses will be on the table and will need further study.”
Tedros said the international experts would hold a press conference on Tuesday to discuss their findings. “Listening to them will be very, very important,” he said.
As a part of global scientific research on the origin of the novel coronavirus, Chinese experts and WHO experts worked together in Wuhan from January 14 to February 10.
India continues to report daily high surge in the number of Covid cases. In the last 24 hours, 56,211 new cases have been reported, 78.56% of which are from Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.
India’s total Active Caseload has reached 5,40,720 today. India’s present active caseload now stands at 4.47% of India’s total Positive Cases. A net incline of 18,912 cases recorded from the total active caseload in the last 24 hours.
BS Yediyurappa, CM of Karnataka has said that no rallies, protests will be allowed in state for the next 15 days amid surge in coronavirus cases but there will be no lockdown as well.
After a meeting with ministers, health experts and senior officials of the state government in Bengaluru, CM said that the number of election rallies “will need to be dropped” to contain the covid situation in the city.
He said that strict action will be taken against people who don’t wear mask and no celebrations or parties will be allowed from Monday, 29 March 2021.
CM Yediyurappa appointed eight IAS officers as nodal officers to keep a check of the Covid situation and control the spread of the disease in eight zones of BBMP in Bengaluru.
CM also appealed to the public to observe proper Covid restrictions and avoid crowding.
As India witnesses second wave of Covid-19, more than 60,000 are being reported daily, the highest tally of the year. 68,020 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours.
Eight States, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh have reported high number of COVID daily new cases. 84.5% of the new cases are reported from these 8 states.
Maharashtra has reported the highest daily new cases at 40,414. It is followed by Karnataka with 3,082 while Punjab reported 2,870 new cases.
291 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
Seven States account for 81.79% of the new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (108). Punjab follows with 69 daily deaths.