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Coronavirus India LIVE Updates: 3.6 Lakh Cases, 3,293 Deaths In India In Biggest Spike In 24 Hours
COVID-19 Cases: Several countries have promised to rush medical supplies to India amid Covid surge.
New Delhi:
India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases surged to 1,79,97,267 with 3,60,960 new infections, while the recoveries have surged to 1,48,17,371, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.
The death count increased to 2,01,187 with 3,293 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
Meanwhile, the first emergency medical supplies have arrived in India as part of a global campaign to staunch a catastrophic wave in the latest pandemic hotspot, with the United States also pledging to export millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses. Crates of ventilators and oxygen concentrators from Britain were unloaded at the Delhi airport early Tuesday, the first emergency medical supplies to arrive in the country where infection and death rates are growing exponentially.
The explosion in infections in India — 350,000 new cases were recorded there on Tuesday alone — has driven a surge in global cases to 147.7 million and the virus has now killed more than 3.1 million people worldwide.
In New Delhi, images showed smoke billowing from dozens of pyres lit inside a parking lot that has been turned into a makeshift crematorium.
The United States, France, Germany, Canada, the EU and the World Health Organization have all promised to rush supplies to India. On Monday, US President Joe Biden announced the United States would send up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine abroad.
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In a bid to ramp up testing in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, two drive-in COVID-19 testing centres have been set-up at the Nehru Stadium and Dussehra Maidan in the city by the municipal corporation. These testing facilities aim to resolve the pendency in sample collection for Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction or RT-PCR tests. They charge Rs 600 for the test.
At least 123 more people including 15 security personnel tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the total caseload in the northeastern state to 17,898, a senior health department official said here on Wednesday. Of the fresh cases, 109 were detected through rapid antigen tests, while nine through RT-PCR and five through TrueNAT methods, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said.
India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases surged to 1,79,97,267 with 3,60,960 new infections, while the recoveries have surged to 1,48,17,371, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death count increased to 2,01,187 with 3,293 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
#WATCH | ‘Oxygen Express’, carrying 6 Oxygen tankers from Jharkhand’s Bokaro, arrives at Mandideep railway station in Bhopal. Two tankers each will be unloaded at Mandideep and Sagar and one tanker will be sent to Jabalpur.#COVID19pic.twitter.com/CrFBReKWAn
– ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2021
Delhi recorded 381 deaths over the last 24 hours — the highest since Covid reached the city last year. The number of fresh infections was 24,149, which took the number of active cases to 98,000. The positivity rate remained at 32.72 per cent. The numbers in Delhi have been inching down since the lockdown started in the city last week. Covid had exploded in the city this month, reaching a 28,000-plus figure at one point. Read Here
Vaccinated People Don’t The United States is sending a whole series of help that India needs in its battle against COVID-19, US President Joe Biden said, reiterating that New Delhi had done the same when his country was in need last year. Joe Biden had spoken at length with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and conveyed solidarity with India in its fight against the viral disease. Need Mask Outside Except In Crowd: US Health Body
Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus no longer need to wear masks outdoors, except at crowded events, US government health authorities said Tuesday. Under the newly released guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, fully vaccinated people can eat, walk or attend small gatherings outside without a mask.
One dose of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines reduces the chances of someone infected with coronavirus from spreading it to other household members by up to 50 percent, according to a English study published Wednesday. The Public Health England (PHE) research found that those who became infected three weeks after receiving their first jab were between 38 and 49 percent less likely to pass the virus on to their household contacts than those who were unvaccinated.
West Bengal: People in large numbers gathered at a vaccination center in Birbhum, yesterday; COVID19 norms flouted. pic.twitter.com/m4kPMEqvGN
– ANI (@ANI) April 27, 2021
Madhya Pradesh: Two drive-in COVID19 testing facilities have been started at Nehru Stadium and Dussehra Maidan in Indore.
Visuals from Nehru Stadium. (27/4) pic.twitter.com/0sdnryjt6t
– ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2021
A 54-year woman has died in Canada after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, the first fatality linked to the drug in the country, provincial authorities announced Tuesday. “I’m sad to know that a healthy 54-year-old woman… died because she was vaccinated. It’s hard to take,” Francois Legault, the premier of Quebec, said.
Chief public health officer Horacio Arruda said life-saving treatments did not work and the unidentified patient died of cerebral thrombosis after being vaccinated. But he cautioned that the death should not change the government’s recommendations to use the vaccine for those over 45 years old.
“We knew about serious complications, there was one in 100,000 (doses administered). But we must remember that, to date, we have had more than 400,000 people who have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca,” Quebec health minister Christian Dube added.
One dose of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines reduces the chances of someone infected with coronavirus from spreading it to other household members by up to 50 percent, according to a English study published Wednesday. The Public Health England (PHE) research found that those who became infected three weeks after receiving their first jab were between 38 and 49 percent less likely to pass the virus on to their household contacts than those who were unvaccinated.
“This is terrific news — we already know vaccines save lives and this study is the most comprehensive real-world data showing they also cut transmission of this deadly virus,” said British Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
