Coronavirus (COVID-19) India Latest News LIVE Updates: The total number of COVID19 positive cases rose to 29,974 including the 7,027 people who have been treated and discharged so far. 62 deaths and 1,543 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours.
The Health Ministry Tuesday said the plasma therapy for COVID-19 is one of the therapies being experimented with but there is no evidence for its use as a treatment. Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said the use of this therapy without adequate safeguards can be “life threatening”. He also said that in the last 24 hours, 1,543 new cases of the coronavirus were detected in the country, of which 684 cases were cured. The recovery rate is now at 23.3 per cent with 7,027 people recovered so far, he added.
On the global front, over 3 million people have been infected from the novel coronavirus ever since its emergence in China last December, while 2,11,167 people have died. The United States continues to be the worst affected, with over 987,022 cases and over 56,144 deaths.
The country has recorded 1,303 deaths in the last 24 hours. After the US, Spain reported 2,29,422 infections followed by Italy (1,99,414), France (1,62,220), Germany (1,58,142), the United Kingdom (1,54,038) and Turkey (110,130).
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The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided to increase the penalty for not wearing a mask for shopkeepers and its staffers. Also, the license of the shop or the larriwala will be suspended for three months.
Covid-19 cases in Haryana stand at 308, including 224 discharges & three deaths. There are 81 active cases in the state: Haryana health department
Three new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Odisha, taking the total number of cases to 122, the State Health Department said, reports ANI.All the three people tested positive after returning from West Bengal and are asymptomatic, the State Health Department added.
11 traders of Delhi's Azadpur Mandi, Asia's largest wholesale market for fruits and vegetables have tested positive for COVID19.
SpiceJet on Wednesday has told its pilots they won’t be getting any salary for the months of April and May. Pilots operating cargo flights, the only ones allowed in the lockdown, will be paid for the hours flown. This low-cost carrier is one of the most financially stressed Indian carriers with precariously low cash reserves.
Azadpur Mandi is being properly disinfected. All the shops nearby, where positive cases were reported, have been sealed. Satyendra Jain, Delhi health minister to ANI
Of the 1,007 deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 400 fatalities, followed by Gujarat at 181, Madhya Pradesh at 120, Delhi at 54, Rajasthan at 51, Uttar Pradesh at 34 and Andhra Pradesh at 31.
Nearly 2500 cases in Madhya Pradesh, state tally mounts to 2481. 94 new cases reported in the last 24 hours.
Bhubaneswar reports first positive case in 14 days, taking Odisha's tally to 119.
"All officers of NITI Aayog are functional, available and currently working from home. As per the protocol of the Ministry of Health, the NITI Bhavan will resume normal operations after 48 hours," it said in a tweet.
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France is planning to ease its coronavirus lockdown from May 11 to avoid an economic meltdown, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said, adding caution that infections would spiral higher again if the country moved too swiftly. In an address to the parliament, he said schools will gradually reopen and businesses will be free to resume operations.
After five days, two fresh coronavirus cases were found in Assam on Tuesday taking the state’s total to 37, though only nine of them are active, state Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
In just a month, the national capital has seen 100 containment zones, with highest 21 from the South-East district, which also witnessed a new red zone on Tuesday. House numbers 152 to 162 in D-Block in Shaheen Bagh has been made a new containment zone on Tuesday.
Gujarat on Tuesday reported 226 new Covid-19 cases, taking the states tally to 3,774 with Ahmedabad alone registering over 65 per cent of these cases.
The Congress has initiated a process of distributing PPE kits to mediapersons who are on field reporting the Covid-19 outbreak. The distribution of PPE kits started on Tuesday and will continue on Wednesday. The party will distribute 200 kits among the mediapersons, of which 50 were handed over on Tuesday.
With 206 new cases getting reported in the last 24 hours, the total number coronavirus cases in the national capital reached 3,314 on Tuesday, with no death getting reported for the third consecutive day. A total of 201 patients were recovered on Tuesday, according to the Delhi Health Report.
After Mumbai, the second-most affected city in Maharashtra Pune recorded 143 new positive cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total count in the city to 1,491. Death toll increased to 83 after 3 more deaths were reported since yesterday.
Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday reported three fatalities due to COVID-19, taking the death toll to 34, and the number of cases in the state rose to 2,053 with 66 more people testing positive for the infection.
The crime branch team probing Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz case has also been hit by coronavirus, a constable of the investigation team, has been found COVID-19 positive. The constable was with the team in connection with the investigation. 15 people of the team have been quarantined.
The Appointments Committe of Cabinet on Tuesday appointed Dinesh Kumar Batra as Director Finance of Bharat Electronics Limited (BHEL).
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah suggested the state government to allow sale of liquor in green districts that have no COVID-19 active cases, with certain restrictions.
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