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India Covid Latest News LIVE Updates: India Records 2.81 Lakh Fresh COVID-19 Cases, 4,106 Deaths
The death count increased to 2,74,390 with 4,106 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
New Delhi:
India’s COVID-19 tally mounted to 2,49,65,463 on Monday with 2,81,386 fresh cases, the lowest in 27 days, while the death count climbed to 2,74,390 as 4,106 more people succumbed to the disease, according to Union health ministry data.
The number of active cases stands at 35,16,997, accounting for 14.09 per cent of the total infections. The national recovery rate has improved to 84.81 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 2,11,74,076, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.10 per cent, it stated.
India’s COVID-19 tally crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. India”s caseload crossed the grim milestone of 2 crore on May 4.
Meanwhile, senior virologist Shahid Jameel has resigned from a forum of scientific advisers set up by the government to detect variants of the coronavirus, he told NDTV on Sunday, days after questioning the authorities’ handling of the pandemic.
“It’s correct and I shall have nothing more to say,” Dr Jameel, chair of the scientific advisory group of the forum known as INSACOG, said.
“I am not obliged to give a reason,” he said in a text message to news agency Reuters, adding that he quit on Friday.
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday released the first batch of Anti-COVID drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The drug has been developed by DRDO”s Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) in collaboration with Dr Reddy’s Laboratories.
Jammu and Kashmir government is reaching out to COVID-19 patients in home isolation at their doorsteps and providing them special Covid care kits free of cost. The medical health and revenue team have been delivering the special COVID-19 Care kits contain an Oximeter, medicine kit, vitamins, cough syrup, and also pamphlets of dos and don’ts during the isolation period to COVID-19 positive patients at their places of residence.
The Uttarakhand health department has given strict instructions to hospitals to provide data of COVID-19 deaths to the State Control Room on the same day. State Health Secretary Amit Negi said that the case will be registered against the hospital superintendent if death figures of COVID-19 infected people who were treated at the COVID hospital are not provided on the same day.
The Uttarakhand health department has given strict instructions to hospitals to provide data of COVID-19 deaths to the State Control Room on the same day. State Health Secretary Amit Negi said that the case will be registered against the hospital superintendent if death figures of COVID-19 infected people who were treated at the COVID hospital are not provided on the same day.
India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases surged to 2,49,65,463 with 2,81,386 new infections, while the recoveries have surged to 2,11,74,076, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death count increased to 2,74,390 with 4,106 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
Delhi: COVID19 patients at Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre, Radha Soami Beas, Chhatarpur participate in morning yoga and meditation sessions. It was followed by a round of wards by Stress Counsellors of ITBP. pic.twitter.com/TKFtGdHf5j
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Senior virologist Shahid Jameel has resigned from a forum of scientific advisers set up by the government to detect variants of the coronavirus, he told NDTV on Sunday, days after questioning the authorities’ handling of the pandemic. “It’s correct and I shall have nothing more to say,” Dr Jameel, chair of the scientific advisory group of the forum known as INSACOG, said.
The Centre today clarified that bookings already done online or onsite for the second dose of Covishield vaccine won’t be cancelled despite the gap after the first recently being extended by the government. While beneficiaries are advised to reschedule the appointments for their next round to some date beyond the 84-day gap now required, they will not be turned back if they choose to go by the slots already allotted to them. Read Here
Meghalaya on Sunday reported 569 new COVID-19 cases, which took the tally in the state to
23,332, a health department official said. The death toll count to 320 as 19 more people died due
to the disease, PTI reported.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday announced that nine medical oxygen plants have been approved for Ghaziabad and three for adjoining Gautam Buddh Nagar district.
The chief minister said this while on a one-day tour of Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ghaziabad and Meerut to review the pandemic situation in these three districts of western UP, PTI reported.
