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Coronavirus India News Highlights: As many as 4,12,262 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative caseload in the country to 2,10,77,410, said the Union health ministry on Thursday morning. This is the biggest spike in daily new cases India has seen so far. The country had last reported over 4 lakh new cases on Saturday. The daily fatality due to the disease is seeing an upward spike too with 3,980 more people succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours. With this, the cumulative death toll in the country has crossed the 2.3 lakh mark to reach 2,30,168. Some research models recently predicted that the death toll in India could more than double from current levels.
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Describing the surge of COVID-19 infections and deaths in India as "nothing short of heartbreaking, Vice President Kamala Harris said on Friday that India's welfare is critically important to the United States. Pledging that the Biden administration is determined to help India in its hour of need, Harris said that the entire government machinery has been galvanised to help the country in this hour of crisis.
India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 4,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds. "At the beginning of the pandemic, when our hospital beds were stretched, India sent assistance. And today, we are determined to help India in its hour of need, Harris said in her remarks at the State Department's Diaspora outreach event on US COVID Relief for India.
As COVID19 cases are surging in the state, corona curfew was not successful. So, a complete lockdown will be imposed from 10th May 6 am to 24th May 6 am. All hotels, pubs and bars will remain closed. Eateries, meat shops & vegetable shops can operate from 6-10 am.It's a temporary decision of lockdown, I request migrant labourers to not leave. Not even a single person will be allowed after 10 am in the lockdown, I have suggested police officers to take stringent action. We have decided this after looking at the death toll and increasing number of cases: Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa: Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa
Total cases: 7,20,799
Total recoveries: 5,16,306
Active cases: 1,99,147
Death toll: 5,346
For tourists entering Goa, RT-PCR negative test report or vaccination (both doses) certificate mandatory: Goa CM Pramod Sawant
CM Capt Amarinder Singh asks officials to prepare to start vaccinating priority groups in 18-45 yrs category at govt hospitals from Monday. State govt had ordered 30 lakh vaccine doses from SII & GoI has allocated 3.30 lakh against this order to Punjab for this month: Punjab CMO
State-level curfew to be imposed in Goa from May 9 till May 23;essential services including medical supplies allowed. Grocery shops allowed to remain open from 7am-1pm, restaurant takeaway orders allowed from 7am- 7pm. A detailed order will be released tomorrow.The positivity rate and death rate are increasing in the state. There is no shortage of oxygen and medicines in the state. A detailed order regarding the state-level curfew will be released by 4pm tomorrow:Goa CM
Government of Karnataka fixes the prices for High-Resolution CT/CT and Digital X-Ray/X - Ray done at private diagnostic centers, private medical establishments, scanning centers.
We have less number of vaccines for the 18-44 yr olds. Second dose of vaccine is also pending for those 45 yrs and above. We want to give priority to second dose vaccination of those above 45 years of age: Maharashtra DeputyCM Ajit Pawar
Indian Naval Ship Kolkata carrying 40 MT medical oxygen will return to India from Kuwait on May 9. In total, 215 MT Liquid medical Oxygen & 2600 Oxygen cylinders have been sent from Kuwait to India: Kuwait's Ambassador to India
So far, Indian Railways has delivered more than 2960 MT of Liquid Medical Oxygen(LMO) in 185 tankers to various states across the country. 47 Oxygen Expresses have already completed their journey so far.Till the time of this release, 174 MT has been offloaded in Maharashtra, 729 MT in UP, 249 MT in MP, 305 MT in Haryana, 123 MT in Telangana and 1334 MT in Delhi.Presently 18 tankers are on the run with over 260 tonnes of LMO which are expected to arrive in Maharashtra, Haryana & Delhi. More loaded Oxygen Expresses are expected to start their journeys later in the night: Ministry of Railways
Total cases 12,92,867
Total recoveries 11,83,093
Death toll 18,739
Active cases 91,035
n Delhi, 1.84 lakh youth have got the first dose of vaccine, in first four days of 18-45 years age group opening. In total, 38.88 lakh people have got the vaccine in all age groups till yesterday evening: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia
