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Coronavirus India News Highlights: With 2,76,110 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases climbed to 2,57,72,440, while the daily deaths were recorded below 4,000 after four days, taking the toll to 2,87,122, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. A total 3,874 fatalities due to COVID-19 were registered in a span of 24 hours. The active cases have further reduced to 31,29,878, comprising 12.14 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 86.74 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 2,23,55,440, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.11 per cent, the data stated.
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Around 90 per cent of the armed forces personnel have been given both the doses of COVID-19 vaccine so far, sources said on Thursday. They added that 97 per cent of approximately total 16 lakh armed forces personnel have got a single dose of the vaccine.
On March 22, the Centre informed the Parliament that 119 armed force personnel had died of COVID-19 while 44,766 had contracted the infection in the three services.
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Wholesale andretail grocery stores of Indore district to remain closed till 28th May, as per the guidelines issued by the administration, reported news agency ANI.Sale of fruits andvegetables would also remain barred, buthome delivery agencies like Big Bazaar, BigBasket etc are permitted to operate, the report said.Door to door delivery of milk/distribution from dairies permitted till 9am and5 pm-7 pm, it further added.
Maharashtra on May 20 reported29,911 new COVID19 cases, 47,371 recoveries and 738 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Total cases 54,97,448
Total recoveries 50,26,308
Death toll 85,355
Active cases 3,83,253
Vaccine maker Bharat Biotech announced todaythe quick ramp up of additional manufacturing capacities for Covaxinat Chiron BehringVaccines, a wholly owned subsidiary of the company based in Ankleshwar, Gujarat. "The company plans to produce 200 million doses of Covaxinper annum in the GMP facilities that are already operational for the production of vaccines based on Inactivated Vero Cell Platform Technology, under stringent levels of GMP and biosafety," saidan official statement.
"For effectively ending the pandemic, more COVID vaccines need to be developed, and once proven to be both safe and efficacious against the virus, must be deployed rapidly across the world,"Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said at 33rd Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting.
"Black Fungus (Mucormycosis) curing drug Amphotericin B's shortage will be resolved soon. Within 3 days, 5 more Pharma companies have got New Drug Approval for producing it in India, in addition to the existing 6 pharma companies,"Union MoS Chemicals andFertilizers Mansukh Mandaviya said.
"The existing pharma companies have already started ramping up the production. Indian Companies have also placed orders for importing 6 lakh vials of Amphotericin B," he added.
"Beginning July 1, 2021, the Punjab government will provide Rs 1500 per month as social security pension, along with free education up to graduation, for all those children orphaned in theCOVID-19 pandemic, as well as families that have lost their breadwinning member,"the Punjab CMO said.
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights writes to Union Health Secretary, requesting him to issue necessary directions for emergency transport services/ambulance suitable for children & neonatals, 'in view of high risk for infants andchildren in upcoming third wave.'
Andhra Pradesh has reported22,610 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, along with 23,098 recoveries and 114 deaths. The active caseload stands at over 2.09 lakh.
Total cases 15,21,142
Total recoveries 13,02,208
Death toll 9,800
Active cases 2,09,134.
"I want to appeal to all hospitals and doctors to use steroids in controlled amount. Patients need to control their sugar levels. Mixture of steroids and sugar is causing black fungus. We have made special arrangements in 3 govt hospitals,"news agency ANI quoted Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal as saying.
"We hope Centre will provide us sufficient number of injections (for black fungus). We've made a team of doctors that'll give injections to affected patients as per SOP. Yesterday, they received 84 applications from different hospitals regarding injections," he added.
"DRDO's 2 DG drug is a repurposed medicine, not a new medicine. It was earlier used for cancer treatment. Its trial results have been given to DCGI,"Dr Balram Bhargava, DG, ICMR, said.
"Our target is to do 25 lakh tests by the end of this month and 45 lakh tests by the end of June,"Dr Balram Bhargava, DG, ICMR said. His statement comes a day after India conducted over 20.5 lakh daily coronavirus tests, the highest since the onset of pandemic so far.
