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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Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Over 2 crore vaccine doses given, as per provisional report
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
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Maharashtra reports 9,927 new COVID- 19 cases, 12,182 discharges and 56 deaths in the last 24 hours
Total cases 22,38,398
Total recoveries 20,89,294
Death toll 52,556
Active cases 95,322
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Delhi reports 320 new COVID-19 cases, 234 recoveries, and four deaths in the last 24 hours
Total cases: 6,41,660
Total recoveries: 6,28,920
Death toll: 10,928
Active cases: 1,812
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Andhra Pradesh reports 118 new COVID-19 cases and 89 recoveries in the last 24 hours
Total cases 8,90,884
Total recoveries 8,82,670
Death toll 7176
Active cases 1,038
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Free Covid vaccine scheme at state-run hospitals; special women mohalla clinics
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.
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | 57 new cases push Odisha's COVID-19 tally to 3,37,860
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.
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | MP doctor dies of COVID-19-related complications in Chennai
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.
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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
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Maha MLCs claim discrepancy in COVID-19 tests, seek probe
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)
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Over 20 lakh vaccine doses administered in a day: Health Ministry
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...
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China launches COVID-19 vaccination certificates for cross-border travelChina 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...
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | 26 fresh COVID-19 cases, no fatalities in Puducherry
Twenty-six fresh COVID-19 casesin the Union Territory of Puducherry on Tuesday took the tally to 39,908, while the fatalities remained at 670 with no deathsbeing reported, the health department said.
A total of 1,704 samples were tested during the last 24 hours ending 10 AM and the cumulative number of specimensexamined so far stood at 6.40 lakh, Health and Family Welfare Services Director S Mohan Kumar said in a release.
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Delhi govt allocates Rs 50 crore in budget for free COVID vaccine
The Delhi government on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to people free-of-cost at its hospitals in future phases of the inoculation drive too and a provision of Rs 50 crore has been made in its annual budget for this scheme.Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the finance portfolio, while presenting a Rs 69,000-crore budget, said Rs 9,934 crore has been allocated to the healthcare sector.
"For people to get 'freedom from COVID-19', a person can go to a private hospital and pay Rs 250 and get a vaccine shot. But, there are many who everyday have to think, whether they should spend money to get ration for the family or arrange vaccine. And, in the 75th year of Independence, this question should not arise in the minds of citizens. So, we have decided that vaccines at our hospitals will continue to be given for free to people," he said.
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Delhi’s per capita earnings fell by Rs 20,000 in a year
The shrinking of Delhi’s economy by 5.6 percent 2020-21, mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic and its financial impact, lead to a fall in per capita earnings of around Rs 20,000 a year, according to the National Capital Territory’s economic survey released on March 8.The survey was released a day before Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also handles the finance portfolio, unveiled aRs 69,000-crore Budgetfor the national capital for 2021-22.
“The year 2020 witnessed unrivalled turmoil with the novel COVID-19 virus (sic) and the resultant pandemic emerging as the biggest threat to economic growth in a century. The pandemic has been unique in its wide-ranging effects on almost every section of the economy and society. The pandemic impacts both supply and demand in the economy,” thesurvey documentstated. Click here to read more..
Coronavirus Daily Update: COVID-19 cases explained in charts
As many as 15,388 new cases of novel coronavirus were reported, with India’s total COVID-19 cases above 1.12 crore, as per health ministry’s March 9, 2021 update. India reported 77 new deaths and 16,596 new recoveries in the last 24 hours, the latest release shows. As many as 2,30,08,733 beneficiaries have been vaccinated across India according to March 9, update.
Active cases dropped to 1,87,462 with a fall of 1,285 cases on March 9. Maharashtra now reports the most (98,859 or 53 percent) active cases in the country, followed by Kerala (39,532) and Punjab (8,020). Click here for the full story..
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Recoveries continue to outnumber fresh cases in Telangana
Recoveries continued to outnumberthe number of new COVID-19 cases in Telangana as the tally of positive cases rose to just above three lakh, while two deaths took the toll to 1,644, the state government said on Tuesday.As many as 178 people were cured of the virus against 142 fresh cases as of 8 PM on Sunday.
A maximum of 31 cases were reported by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), followed by Rangareddy and Medchal Malkajgiri districts with 12 and 10 cases respectively, a government bulletin said.The total number of cases in the state stood at 3,00,153, while recoveries were 2,96,740 and 1,769 patients were under treatment at different hospitals.
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Thane records 610 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths
With the addition of 610 new casesof coronavirus, the infection count in Maharashtra's Thane district has gone up to 2,70,455,an official said on Tuesday.These new cases were reported on Monday, he said. Four more persons also died of the viral infection, pushing the toll in the district to 6,306, he said, adding that the COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane is 2.33 per cent.
So far, 2,56,869 patients have recuperated from the infection in the district, which reflects a recovery rate of 94.97 per cent. There are 7,280 active COVID-19 cases in the district at present, the official said.
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After registering an increase for six consecutive days, the number of active COVID-19 cases has gone down to 1,87,462, accounting for only 1.67 percent of the country's total caseload, while the case fatality rate has dropped to 1.40 percent. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has gone up to 1,08,99,394, which translates to a national COVID-19 recovery rate of 96.93 percent.
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | More than 100,000 have died of COVID-19 in Italy
Italy surpassed 100,000 dead in the pandemic, a year after it became the first country in Europe to go on lockdown in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19.The Italian Health Ministry on Monday said 318 people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 100,103, the second highest in Europe after Britain.
Italy recorded its first virus death on February 21, 2020, when 78-year-old retired roofer Antonio Trevisan from a winemaking town west of Venice who had been hospitalised with heart issues died. (AP)
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Union Health Ministry:
Total vaccination coverage has crossed 2.3 crores, 20 lakh people received COVID-19 vaccine in a single day.
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India reported 15,388 new COVID-19 cases, 16, 596 recoveriesand 77 deaths in the last 24 hours. India's tally has mounted to 1,12,44,786, whilerecoveries surged to 1,08,99,394. India has1,87,462 active cases. The death toll has surged to1,57,930.
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Widows of Vrindavan vaccinated against COVID-19 on Women's Day
Two dozen widows at Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district got vaccinated against COVID-19 on International Women's Day on Monday, according to a non-government organisation (NGO). The widows, most of them aged over 80 years, participated in the vaccination drive at a state-run public health facility in the temple town, NGO Sulabh Hope Foundation said.
"We have followed all restrictions and remained inside our ashram for the last one year and now we are feeling happy after taking the vaccine along with two dozen other sisters," said 86-year-old Kamla Adhikari, according to a statement. The foundation's vice president Veenita Verma expressed gratitude to the government authorities for their support. The NGO, which supports hundreds of widows living in ashrams here since 2012, said many other widows would be inoculated in the coming days. (PTI)
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Indian Council of Medical Research:
Over 7.4 lakh samples were tested for COVID-19 on March 8,taking the number of total samples tested so far to over 22 crore.
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | West Bengal reports 215 new COVID-19 cases, 2 fresh deaths
West Bengal's COVID-19 tally roseto 5,76,838 as 215 more people tested positive for the virus while two fresh fatalities pushed the coronavirus death toll to 10,280, a health department bulletin said on Monday. The two new deaths were reported from North 24 Parganas and Howrah district, it said.
The state now has 3,155 active COVID-19 cases, while 5,63,403 people have recovered from the disease. The COVID-19 recovery rate in the state is 97.66 per cent, the bulletin said. A total of 87,13,265 samples have been tested for COVID-19, including 14,412 samples in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, on Monday, over one lakh people were inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine in West Bengal, an official of the health department said.
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Thane: Lockdown imposed in COVID-19 hotspots till March 31
Thane Municipal Commissioner has imposed a complete lockdown till March 31 in COVID-19 hotspot areas in Thane city. So far 16 areas have been marked as a hotspot in the city.
The order, issued by Thane Municipal Commissioner Vipin Sharma, said the decision was taken due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in these areas in the past few days. The order said that all restrictions that were in place during the nationwide lockdown declared earlier would be in force during this time as well. Click here to read the full story
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Pakistan to review relaxation in COVID-19 restrictions
Pakistan on Monday announced to review relaxation in COVID-19 restrictions to reopen schools and businesses like cinemas and dine-in restaurants, as the country is witnessing a surge in the number of coronavirus cases. The decision was taken after a meeting of Minister for Planning Asad Umar with the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the key anti-coronavirus body.
Officials said that the NCOC discussed the rising COVID-19 positivity rate, progress in the vaccination campaign as well as the national vaccine strategy. It also discussed deferring the opening up of cinemas, indoor weddings and dine-in restaurants, which were expected to be allowed to open from March 15. (PTI)
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | WHO advises against mandating vaccine to travel
A senior World Health Organisation official said that so-called vaccine passports for COVID-19 should not be used for international travel because of numerous concerns, including ethical considerations that coronavirus vaccines are not easily available globally.
At a press briefing on Monday, WHO emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan said there are real practical and ethical considerations for countries considering using vaccine certification as a condition for travel, adding the U.N. health agency advises against it for now. Vaccination is just not available enough around the world and is not available certainly on an equitable basis, Ryan said. (PTI)
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Ex-Rajasthan Governor Anshuman Singh dies due to COVID
Former Rajasthan Governor Anshuman Singh died at a Lucknow hospital on Monday, a month after he was admitted there with coronavirus-related pneumonia. He was 86.The Rajasthan government declared one-day state holiday on Monday following the death of Singh.According to an official statement, Singh was admitted to Lucknow's Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences due to severe COVID pneumonia on February 8. After 10 days, he was admitted to a non-COVID ICU.
"Subsequently, his condition worsened and led to a multi-organ failure requiring life support system," the hospital said in the statement, adding that he died at 4.30 am. Anshuman Singh had taken charge as the Governor of Rajasthan on January 16, 1999 and remained in office till May 2003. (PTI)
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | 59 new COVID-19 cases push Odisha's tally to 3,37,803
Odisha's COVID-19 caseloadsurged to 3,37,803 on Monday as 59 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said. The state during the day registered recovery of 88 patients taking the number of cured persons to 3,35,168 whichis 99.21 percent of the caseload.
Odisha's case fatality ratio (CFR) stands at 0.56 percent while its positivity rate is 3.98 percent. Of the new cases, 35 were reported from quarantine centres, while 24 fresh infections were detected during contract tracing, he said.
Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Global daily statistics
COVID-19 infections are still rising in 67 countries. There have been at least 116,969,000 reported infections and 2,721,000 reported deaths caused by the new coronavirus so far, as per a Reuters tracker.
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