Delhi adds 24,331 new COVID-19 cases, 348 deaths in past 24 hours
Coronavirus India Highlights: As many as 3,32,730 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative caseload to 16,263,695, the Union health ministry said on Friday morning. The graph of daily new cases has gone up again, with India clocking in over 3 lakh for the second day in a row. Maharashtra continues to be the biggest contributor to the daily tally. The state reported 67,468 new infections on Thursday. It is followed by Uttar Pradesh with 33,106 while Delhi reported 24,638 new cases. The virus seems to be spreading faster across the country than in the first wave. There were 317 districts—or 44% of all districts—that reported more than 1,000 new cases in the past seven days. Further, there are 70 districts, across 16 states, where the number of new weekly cases exceeded 5,000 in the past week. A month ago, the number of such districts was just nine, all in Maharashtra. On the death toll front, 2,263 more people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours. The cumulative fatalities in the country now stand at 1,86,920. There are 27 states where the number of Covid-19 deaths has increased for two weeks running. India's regulator has granted restricted emergency use approval for three vaccines — Covishield, Covaxin and Sputnik V. All persons above the age of 45 are eligible to get vaccinated. Globally, more than 14.04 crore people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 30.08 lakh have died so far, as per the John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre.
Delhi adds 24,331 new COVID-19 cases, 348 deaths in past 24 hours
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla writes to all states and UTs to provide adequate security to oxygen-transporting vehicles, and to make provisions for exclusive corridors for such transportation, treating these vehicles like ambulances.
A case has been registered under IPC Sec 304, 337, 338, and 34 at Arnala Police Station, against staff, management, and a doctor in the Virar hospital fire incident, says DCP Sanjay Patil
Sixty-five healthcare personnel, including doctors, deployed on Kumbh duty have tested positive for COVID-19. All of them have been kept in isolation: Officials
Air passengers travelling from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Chhattisgarh to West Bengal from April 26 onwards, will have to present negative COVID-19 reports, no older than 72 hours: West Bengal government informs the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA)
nox has refused to give LMO supply beyond 1.7 tons they supplied at 2 pm. We may run out of oxygen by 8-8:30 pm for 275 COVID-19patients. Need at least 6 tons till we get supply tomorrow at noon.
The EU's drug watchdog said Friday that a review of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine found its benefits increase with age and still outweigh the risks for adults despite links to blood clots. "It showed that the benefits of vaccination increase with increasing age and infection rates," the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in statement. (AFP)
The current wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Delhi could have been fuelled by the UK variant as its prevalence in genomes sequenced nearly doubled from the second to the last week of March, Sujeet Singh, director of the National Centre for Disease Control, said on Friday.Speaking at a webinar, ‘Genome Sequencing of SARS-CoV-19’, Singh said the UK variant of coronavirus is also dominant in Punjab.
Total cases: 3,58,418
Total recoveries: 2,78,302
Death toll: 6767
Active cases: 73,349
Total cases 10,51,487
Total recoveries 9,43,044
Death toll 13,395
Active cases 95,048
Japan announced a new virus state of emergency in Tokyo and three other regions on Friday, as the country battles surging infections just three months before the Olympic opening ceremony.The nation's virus outbreak remains much smaller than in many countries, but a recent uptick in cases has officials and medical professionals worried, even as the government and Olympic organisers insist this summer's Games will go ahead."Today we decided to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Hyogo prefectures," Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced, citing the rise in infections involving new virus variants. The measure will run from April 25 to May 11."We have accumulated knowledge... we have weapons called vaccines. I'm certain there will be an end to this difficult battle," Suga said.
New mutant seems to be undetectable by RTPCR test. I believe there are double & triple mutant varieties that have been discovered & due to change in structure, RTPCR tests unable to detect. New varieties seem to cause new symptoms.We're seeing patients with diarrhoea, abdominal pain, rashes, conjunctivitis, confusion state, brain fog, bluish discolouration of fingers & toes, bleeding through nose & throat apart from usual symptoms -sore throat, body ache, fever, loss of smell & taste.
