Coronavirus India News Highlights: India is witnessing a second wave of COVID-19 cases. The country has reported more than three lakh new daily infections, caused by the novel coronavirus, for three consecutive days. Over 1.66 crore COVID-19 cases have been reported in the country so far since the pandemic started in early 2020. The total death toll stood at 1.89 lakh on April 24. While 1.38 crore patients have recovered, 25.52 lakh cases remain active across the country. Maharashtra remains the worst-affected state, followed by Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. As many as 13.83 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in India as of April 24. Earlier, priority was given to healthcare and frontline workers for inoculation. Then, senior citizens and people above the age of 45 with or without comorbidities were made eligible to get vaccinated. All adults will be able to get the vaccine starting from May 1. Registration on the CoWIN application for this phase is to begin on April 28. There have been 14.50 crore confirmed COVID-19 cases across the world so far. Of these, 32.16 lakh have died.
Gujarat on Saturday recorded 14,097 COVID-19 cases, its highest one-day rise so far, which took the caseload to 4,81,737.
The state also reported highest one-day death count of152, which pushed the overall death toll to 6,171, a healthdepartment official said.
At least 6,479 patients were discharged from hospitalsduring the day, raising the count of recoveries to 3,67,972,he added. With this, the state's recovery rate stands at 76.38per cent.
West Bengal registered the highest single-day spike of 14,281 COVID-19 cases pushing the tally to 7,28,061, the bulletin released by the state health department said.
The death toll rose to 10,884 as 59 more people succumbed to the disease.
As many as 1,540 persons tested positive for COVID-19, while 17 succumbed to the infection in Goa on Saturday, an official from the health department said.
With the addition of latest cases and casualties, thecoastal state's tally rose to 75,184 and the toll reached 993,the official said.
At least 485 patients were discharged during the day,taking the count of recoveries to 62,113, leaving the statewith 12,078 active cases, he said.
Tamil Nadu to observe total lockdown on April 25 with few exceptions, to curb the spread of coronavirus in the state.
The state has been seeing a rapid spike in the number of COVIDinfections ever since the Assembly polls got over on April 6.
The State saw 95,048 active infections while recoveriesmounted to 9,43,044 today with 8,078 patients beingdischarged.
For the second day in a row, Andhra Pradesh reported over 11,000 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday as the state's cumulative tally rose to 10.20 lakh.
The state also reported 4,421 recoveries and 37 COVID-19deaths in 24 hours ending 9 am on Saturday, a healthdepartment bulletin said.
So far, more than 1.59 crore tests have been completedthat turned out 10,20,926 total positives.
Maharashtra's Nagpur district on April 24 saw its highest ever single-day spike of 7,999 COVID-19 cases that raised the tally of infections to 3,66,417, an official said.
The district also reported 82 casualties that took thetoll to 6,849, the official said.
The Delhi High Court ordered the Delhi Government to take systematic steps for securing cryogenic tanks for Oxygen supply and make adequate security arrangements for their movement to various Covid-19 hospitals in the city, reports LiveLaw.
The direction was made by a Division Bench comprising of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rekha Palli while hearing a petition filed by Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, citing oxygen shortage
Noting that the oxygen supply has primarily been affected due to non-arrangement of cryogenic tanks by the Delhi Government, the Bench asked the Centre to consider assisting the State in arranging the same for seamless supply of Oxygen within the city.
