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 four consecutive days. Over 1.69 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 1.92 lakh on April 25. While 1.40 crore patients have recovered, 26.82 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 14.09 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in India as of April 25. 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 14.56 crore confirmed COVID-19 cases across the world so far. Of these, 32.25 lakh have died.
Andhra Pradesh continued to see an upward trend in coronavirus cases with 12,634 new infections on April 25, taking the gross to over 10.33 lakh while 69 related deaths pushed the toll to 7685.
As many as 4,304 people recovered from the disease inthe last 24 hours, a health bulletin said.
The total positives stood at 10,33,560 while the totalrecoveries were at 9.36 lakh as 4,304 people were cured.
The Central Government under Disaster Management Act, 2005 has reviewed the oxygen supply situation and has decided that with immediate effect, the use of liquid oxygen, including the existing stocks, will be allowed for medical purposes only. The measure was taken to ensure an uninterrupted supply of medical oxygen across the country and restricted industrial usage of oxygen.
The 'corona curfew' imposed in Bhopal of Madhya Pradesh to tackle the surge in COVID-19 cases has been extended till May 3, an official said on Sunday.
The curfew in the state capital was set to end at 6 amon April 26.
It has been extended in Bhopal and Berasia town of thedistrict till 6 am on May 3, an order by Collector AvinashLavaniya said.
The COVID-19 death toll in Himachal Pradesh rose to 1,307 on April 25 with 16 more fatalities, while 422 new cases pushed the infection tally to 86,580, according to an official data.
Special Health Secretary Nipun Jindal said the number of active COVID-19 cases in the state stands at 12,833.
