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Coronavirus Latest News LIVE Updates: 4,14,188 Fresh Coronavirus Cases In India In Biggest-Ever One-Day Spike
Coronavirus Cases: The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,76,12,351.
New Delhi:
With a record 4,14,188 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases climbed to 2,14,91,598, while the active cases crossed the 36-lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.
The death count has increased to 2,34,083 with 3,915 fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
Registering a steady increase, the active cases have increased to 36,45,164 comprising 16.96 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has dropped to 81.95 per cent.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,76,12,351, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.09 per cent, the data stated.
Meanwhile, doctors at a leading private facility here are seeing a rise in the number of COVID-triggered mucormycisis cases, according to a statement from the hospital.
Mucormycisis is a fungal infection triggered by COVID-19. Black fungus or mucormycosis has been a cause of disease and death of patients in transplants, ICUs and immunodeficient patients since long.
According to Dr Manish Munjal, senior ENT surgeon at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, “We are seeing a rise again in this dangerous fungal infection triggered by COVID-19. In the last two days, we have admitted six cases of mucormycisis. Last year, this deadly infection caused a high mortality with many patients suffering from the loss of eyesight and the removal of the nose and the jaw bone.”
Dr Ajay Swaroop, the chairman of the ENT department at the hospital, said the use of steroids in the treatment of COVID-19 coupled with the fact that many coronavirus patients have diabetes could be one of the reasons for this rise in the number of black fungus cases again.
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Delhi: People form queues outside vaccination center at a government school in Badarpur. pic.twitter.com/IFwZ9u0jYA
– ANI (@ANI) May 7, 2021
COVID-19: Oxygen Express From Hapa Reaches Kota
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday informed that the first Oxygen Express from Hapa has reached Kota to supply oxygen for corona patients in Rajasthan. “Oxygen Express from Hapa to Kota has reached its destination, to supply oxygen for corona patients in Rajasthan,” Piyush Goyal tweeted.
With 2,301 new coronavirus cases, the infection count in the Thane district of Maharashtra mounted to 4,82,495, an official said on Friday. These cases were reported on Thursday, he said. As the virus claimed the lives of 50persons, the death toll in the district rose to 7,883. Its COVID-19 mortality rate is 1.63 per cent, he added.
India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases surged to 2,14,91,598 with 4,14,188 new infections, while the recoveries have surged to 1,76,12,351, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death count increased to 2,34,083 with 3,915 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
Jammu and Kashmir: A new 1000 litres per minute (LPM) oxygen concentrator plant has been commissioned at Government Medical College in Rajouri, yesterday. pic.twitter.com/P0V9d9ZUxH
– ANI (@ANI) May 7, 2021
Doctors at a leading private facility in Delhi are witnessing a rise in the number of Covid-triggered mucormycisis cases, according to a statement from the hospital. Mucormycisis is a fungal infection triggered by COVID-19. Black fungus or mucormycosis has been a cause of disease and death of patients in transplants, ICUs and immunodeficient patients since long.
As India’s health infrastructure crumbles amid the massive spike of coronavirus cases, 24 COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Karnataka’s Chickmagalur were asked to be ready to shift due to an oxygen shortage on Thursday. According to Vijay Kumar, MD of Ashraya hospital, two patients have already shifted to another hospital.
People arriving in the national capital from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana through any mode of transport will have to undergo 14 days of mandatory institutional quarantine, said an order issued by the Delhi government on Thursday. However, those who have been administered both doses of any COVID vaccine or carry a negative RT-PCR test report not older than 72 hours prior to undertaking the journey, will be required to be home quarantined for seven days, it said.
The second wave of COVID-19 in India is a tragedy, US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy has said, underlining the need for countries to help each other during the crisis. “If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s that we need each other to get through this pandemic. As a world, we need each other in terms of countries to step up to help make sure that the world has an adequate supply of vaccine, to ensure people have treatments available, supply of PPE because the threat of COVID in any part of the world is ultimately a threat to every country,” Indian-American Murthy told a news channel in an interview.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday sent an SOS to the Centre seeking enhanced supply of medical oxygen as the demand is expected to touch 1,000 tonnes by May 15, officials said.
While the central government has now allotted 480 tonnes of medical oxygen to the state from various sources, the maximum consumption per day touched 550 tonnes (including government and private hospitals).
The state currently has a storage capacity of 515 tonnes.
There are about 25,000 Covid-19 patients on oxygen and ventilator support in hospitals across the state now.
