Coronavirus Live Updates: As many as 92,596 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday. This marks a slight uptick in the new reported cases after falling to a 63-day low of 86,498 on Tuesday. The positivity rate now stands at 4.67%. India has recorded a positivity rate below 10% for 16 consecutive days now. The cumulative caseload has reached 2,90,89,069. The new fatalities saw a slight increase in the last 24 hours too, with 2,219 more people succumbing to the disease. The number stood at 2,123 on Tuesday. With this, the death toll due to Covid-19 in the country has climbed to 3,53,528. On the brighter side, India has outnumbered newly reported cases once again with 1,62,664 people getting discharged between Tuesday and Wednesday. This has taken the total number of discharges to 2,75,04,126.
A Delhi government team lauded the work done by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, and announced that the 'Mumbai model' of curbing the infection cases will be implemented in the national capital soon. The BMC said this in a statement issued on Wednesday.
COVID-19 death toll in Bihar was on Wednesday revised drastically upwards by the state healthdepartment which put the total number of fatalities caused by the pandemic at 9,429. (PTI)
Chhattisgarh's COVID-19 tally mounted to 9,83,916 on Wednesday as 954 people tested positive for the infection, while 14 fresh fatalities took the toll to 13,271, a health official said. The number of recoveries reached 9,52,532 after 412 people were discharged from various hospitals, while 1,486 others completed their home isolation during the day.
Over 24 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in country so far: Union Health Ministry
Nagaland on Wednesday recorded the highest single-day recovery of 965 COVID-19 patients while 186 fresh cases were detected, health department officials said.
This is also the fourth consecutive day that the state recorded more recoveries than fresh infections.
The previous highest single-day recovery was on May 21 when 225 patients were cured of the disease.
A Delhi government team lauded the work done by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, and announced that the ''Mumbai model'' of curbing the infection cases will be implemented in the national capital soon.
The BMC said this in a statement issued on Wednesday.
The Delhi government team comprising senior officials of the Delhi government's health department, Dr Sanjay Agarwal and Dr Dharmendra Kumar, paid a visit to Mumbai recently to study the steps taken by the BMC. During the visit, the team discussed various issues, including decentralisation achieved through Ward War Rooms, successful management of oxygen supply and jumbo hospitals set up in a short span of time, the BMC said in the release. (PTI)
|Rajasthan reports 520 new COVID-19 cases, 2282 recoveries and 30 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Total cases 9,48,024
Total recoveries 9,27,443
Death toll 8749
Active cases 11,832
as per state records.
Jammu and Kashmir reports 1098 new #COVID19 cases, 3046 recoveries and 17 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Total cases 3,03,749
Total recoveries 2,79,779
Death toll 4118
Active cases 19,852
as per state records.
|Tamil Nadu reports 17,321 new COVID19 cases, 405 deaths, and 31,253 discharges today; active cases at 2,04,258
|West Bengal reports 5,384 new COVID cases, 10,512 recoveries, and 95 deaths in the past 24 hours
Active cases: 14,702
Total recoveries: 14,11,573
Death toll: 16,555
as per state records.
Karnataka on Wednesday logged 10,959 new cases of COVID-19
|Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday said all pending board examinations for Classes 11 and 12 in the union territory have been cancelled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. "In view of safety and well-being of students due to Covid pandemic, all pending JKBOSE Examinations session 2020-21 (Regular/Private) for final exams of class XI and XII across JKUT for which examination/results are awaited, are cancelled," Sinha tweeted.
|Governmenthas allocated additional 1.7 lakh vials of Amphotericin-B drug, used to treat Black Fungus infection, to states and UTs: Union Minister Sadananda Gowda (PTI)
