Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Kumar Jain during IndiaTV's Swasthya Sammelan said that this new strain of Covid19 is spreading more among young people. Cases are increasing steadily but the number of people getting hospitalized in Delhi is coming down.
A total of 90,584 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, taking the number of recoveries to 1,20,81,443 with a recovery rate of 90.80 per cent.
Of these 1.45 lakh new infections, Maharashtra reporting 58,993 cases, Chhattisgarh 10,662 cases, Uttar Pradesh 9,695, Delhi 8,521 cases and Karnataka 7,955 within a span of 24 hours.
A political fight between the Union government and opposition over an alleged shortage of vaccines is intensifies. Rahul Gandhi In his letter to PM Modi, urged to “open up vaccination to everyone who needs it", and added that vaccine exports must be stopped immediately.
PM Narendra Modi held meeting with Chief Ministers on the current COVID1-9 situation and said COVID-19 tracing and tracking is the way to curb the spread of COVID19 infection.
Covid infections scaled another peak with 131,968 infections on Friday, another single-day highest. 780 deaths were also reported in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile shortage of vaccines are being felt in several states.
Traders had formed a human chain on Laxmi Road in Pune on Thursday, demanding that govt allow shops selling non-essential commodities and services to operate.
Experts say that night curfew will have a little role in controlling the rising number of COVID-19 cases. They said that night curfew won’t help in breaking Covid-19 transmission chain but it might slow down transmission.
Gandhi said vaccine shortage is a very serious problem during times of coronavirus and it is not a celebration. He also called upon the central govt to help states without any bias and provide them with more vaccines.
Out of this, Maharashtra added 56,286 new cases to its tally and the total number of cases has now reached 3,229,547, according to health department. While Delhi logged 7,437 coronavirus cases in its highest single day spike this year.
India on Friday recorded a massive surge of 1,31,968 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to Union Health Ministry. With this, India's tally now stands at 13,060,542. India is now the 4th-worst hit country in terms of active cases. As many as 780 people succumbed to the infection, taking the death toll to 1,67,642.
Restrictions on the movement of people—weekend lockdowns to night curfews—have been brought back in several parts of the country as states scramble to stem the rising tide of COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm the health infrastructure.
Taking to his verified Instagram account, Govinda shared a Boomerang video in which he can be seen opening a door and walking into a room.
State Health Minister Rajesh Tope claimed that Gujarat, which has less population than Maharashtra, has been provided a much larger stock of vaccine by the Centre.
Active cases have crossed the 900,000-mark and now stand at 910,319 and 1,18,51,393 people have recovered from the virus.
Delhi recorded as many as 5,506 fresh coronavirus cases on Thursday. With this, the tally of COVID-19 cases in the national capital has reached 6.9 lakh, while the death toll mounted to over 11.5k.
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern temporarily suspends entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, following a high number of positive COVID-19 cases arriving from there. The suspension starts on April 11 and will be in place until April 28: Reuters
The curfew will come into effect on April 8 and will remain effective till April 16. The night curfew will be enforced from 10.p.m to 6.a.m.
PM Narendra Modi’s last interaction with CMs was on March 17. He had expressed concern over rise in COVID cases in parts of India.
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