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Coronavirus News Highlights: Today is the 349th day since India implemented a nationwide lockdown to help curb the novel coronavirus pandemic. So far, India has recorded 1,12,44,786 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 1,57,930 deaths. A total of 1,08,99,394 people have recuperated from COVID-19 so far. There are 1,87,462 active cases in the country as of date, which comprises 1.67 percent of the total caseload, the data stated. India's recovery rate continues to rise and now stands at 96.93 percent. Globally, more than 11.69 crore people have been infected by the coronavirus and 27.21 lakh have died so far. India has begun the second phase of the vaccination drive in which everyone above 60 years of age and those over 45 years with comorbidities will be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine. India's regulator has granted restricted emergency use approval for two vaccines -- Covishield and Covaxin. The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in India has crossed 2.26 crore, according to the Union Health Ministry.
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Total 10,28,911 vaccine doses were given till 7 pm today, the 53rd day of nationwide COVID19 vaccination. A total of 2,40,37,644 vaccine doses have been given, as per the provisional report till 7 pm today: Government of India
Total cases 22,38,398
Total recoveries 20,89,294
Death toll 52,556
Active cases 95,322
Total cases: 6,41,660
Total recoveries: 6,28,920
Death toll: 10,928
Active cases: 1,812
Total cases 8,90,884
Total recoveries 8,82,670
Death toll 7176
Active cases 1,038
The Delhi government on Tuesday announced in its annual budget that the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to people free-of-cost at its hospitals in future phases of the inoculation drive too, and special women mohalla clinics will be opened across the city, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of Independence Day.
Odisha's COVID-19 tallymounted to 3,37,860 on Tuesday as 57 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said. Thirty-four new cases were reported in quarantine centres, while 23 infections were detected during contacttracing.
Khurda district registered the highest number of new cases at 12, followed by Cuttack (eight) and Sundergarh (seven). The state's coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 1,917 as no fresh fatality was reported. Fifty-three coronavirus patients have died due to comorbidities so far. Odisha now has 722 active cases, while 3,35,168 people have recovered from the disease to date.The state has so far tested over 85.12 lakh samples for COVID-19, including 20,081 on Monday.
A 55-year-old government doctorfrom Madhya Pradesh has died of COVID-19-related complications at a hospital in Chennai, health officials said on Tuesday.Dr Mukesh Jain, who was a pathologist at the Agar Malwa district hospital, tested positive for coronavirus last month following which he was admitted to a hospital in Indore.
He was airlifted to a private medical facility in Chennai on February 12 in a serious condition due to severe infection in his lungs, officials said. He later tested negative for the coronavirus, but because of complications associated with the infection, some of his vital organs stopped functioning, they said.
Bollywood filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has tested positive for COVID-19. The ace director was shooting Alia Bhatt starrer Gangubai Kathiawadi in Mumbai’s Goregaon Film City, reports Indian Express.According to a report in the daily, a source close to the film revealed that Bhansali has tested positive for COVID-19 and he is under self quarantine. Click here to read more
Two Maharashtra legislators onTuesday claimed there were variations in the results of COVID-19 tests conducted by different labs and sought a probe into it.
Speaking in the state Legislative Council, BJP MLC Gopichand Padalkar said two days back, his swab sample test conducted by a private laboratory in Pune came out positive for coronavirus.
"I informed my party leaders and went back to Pune to get isolated. As a precautionary measure, I gave my another swab sample on Monday to a different lab and also underwent other tests. I was surprised when the test report came out negative for coronavirus," he said.This should be thoroughly probed as two private laboratories in the same city have come out with "contradictory" reports, he said. (PTI)
More than 20 lakh people were inoculated against coronavirus on March 8, the highest in a day so far, taking the total number of vaccine doses administered in the country to over 2.3 crore, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.As on day-52 of the COVID-19 vaccination drive (March 8), 20,19,723 vaccine doses were given.
Out of which, 17,15,380 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 28,884 sessions for 1st dose and 3,04,343 healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) received 2nd dose of anti-coronavirus vaccine.The 17,15,380 beneficiaries include 12,22,351 aged over 60 years and 2,21,148 aged 45 to 60 with specified comorbidities. Read more here...
China has launched a digital COVID-19 vaccination certificate for its citizens planning cross-border travels, joining other countries issuing similar documents as they seek ways to reopen their economies.
As vaccines are globally being rolled out, a few countries including Bahrain have already introduced certificates identifying vaccinated people, and the European Union agreed to develop vaccine passports under pressure from tourism-dependent southern countries.
The certificate issued by China will have details about the holder's COVID-19 vaccination information and coronavirus test results, the Department of Consular Affairs under China's foreign ministry said on its website. Read more here...
