Daily Covid-19 cases in the country inched closer to the 50,000 mark, with 49,000-plus fresh infections reported on Friday. The death toll also rose by a record 757 as the pandemic’s massive surge continued, with both fresh cases and deaths touching new peaks for the third day running.
Madhya Pradesh Cheif Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Saturday became the first CM to test positive for the novel coronavirus. He is likely to get admitted to Chirayu hospital in capital city Bhopal. His reports came days after Cabinet Minister Arvind Bhadoria, who had attended a Cabinet meeting and had travelled with the CM to Lucknow to attend the funeral of Governor Lalji Tandon earlier this week. tested positive for the disease.
The number of coronavirus cases in India have doubled in nearly three weeks since July 2 when the country crossed the six lakh-mark. The country’s Covid tally touched the 10 lakh-mark last Friday. Since then, around three lakh new infections have been reported.
At 864 cases and less than 21 deaths per million population, India has one of the world’s lowest COVID-19 infection and death rate, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said today, underlining that the recovery rate among coronavirus-infected patients in the country is 63.45 per cent and mortality is 2.3 per cent.
Meanwhile, AIIMS Delhi on Friday administered first dose of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin to a 30-year-old male. The subject will be monitored for two weeks after which he will be given the second dose.
Globally, 15,736,499 people have been infected and 638,577 have succumbed to the virus. As many as 8,986,470 recoveries have been reported so far.
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Serum Institute of India (SII), which has partnered with AstraZeneca for manufacturing the Oxford vaccine candidate for COVID-19, has sought permission from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for conducting phase 2/3 human clinical trials of the potential vaccine, unnamed sources told news agency PTI. The sources told PTI that the Pune-based drug firm submitted its application to the DCGI on Friday seeking permission for conducting the trials of 'Covidshield'.
India has gradually ramped-up its testing capacity for COVID-19 and conducted over 4.20 lakh tests in a day, the highest ever, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday, crediting the increase in number of labs for the achievement. India had only one lab for testing samples for the disease in January but it has now increased the number to 1,301, including private labs. The Health Ministry said revised guidelines by ICMR and all-round efforts by states also aided in widespread testing.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said people of the city, his government and the Centre together have attained victory over COVID-19 but the fight is not yet over.
A 62-year-old woman died of COVID-19 at the Taluk hospital at Sulthan Bathery in Kalpetta district on Saturday.
Laila, a native of Thalassery in Kannur district, died of the pandemic on Saturday morning.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said that he is not considering the “complete lifting” of Covid-19 lockdown in the state only to address the economic concerns as he highlighted the need to strike a balance between issues related to health and economy amidst the ongoing crisis.
Srinagar registered 3600 COVID-19 infections as on Saturday, according to Shahid Choudhary, District Magistrate, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Of the total, 15,00 patients have been discharged.
"In the last month, we have seen a spike in infections at 100 locations," said Choudhary.
"I will be admitted at COVID-19-dedicated Chirayu Hospital on the advice of doctors," said Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday.
An ambulance arrived at the residence of Chouhan after he tested positive for the COVID-19.
West Bengal government imposed a town-wide lockdown in Kalimpong Municipality for seven days, starting 9 am on 26 July (Sunday), ANI reported.
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday.
Authorities in Srinagar have added 3,000 beds in wellness centres in the district for Covid-19 patients and will add 2,000 more soon as the number of coronavirus cases in Jammu and Kashmir, especially in the summer capital here, have spiked in the past three weeks.
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Due to the coronavirus lockdown in the state, the flight operations at the Kolkata airport will remain suspended today and on July 29,
Mharashtra remains the worst hit state due to coronavirus, cases speed past 3.5 lakh mark, deaths cross 13,000 in state.
The nine states are Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Assam.