New Delhi: India saw much relief on covid front as after a week, the country finally saw downward trend in daily number of cases. The number of daily infection came down by at least 3,600 cases as the country reported 10,584 new cases in the last 24 hours on Tuesday. The new development took the overall number of cases to 1,10,16,434, the Health Ministry officials said. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that there were 78 more deaths, taking the overall toll to 1,56,463.
There are 1,47,306 active cases at present after 13,255 patients were discharged in a day. Till now, 1,07,12,665 persons have been discharged so far. The recovery rate has remained to 97.24 per cent, while the fatality rate is 1.42 per cent, the ministry data added.
For the past few months, India has managed to report below 15,000 cases in a single day. Meanwhile, the daily death toll has also not breached 200 mark in past few days.
The increase in new cases can be credited to newly found mutations and strains that have been reported in the past few weeks.
At least 86.3 per cent of the new cases are from five states — Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Punjab. Five states account for 78.31 per cent of the new deaths including Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
On Monday, 6,78,685 samples were tested for the novel virus. The cumulative tests done by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) so far stands at 21,22,30,431
More than 1,17,45,550 doses of corona vaccine have been administered in the country since the drive began on January 16 after approval for ‘Covishield’ and ‘Covaxin’.
Here’s some more updates:
*Mexican health authorities began to vaccinate older adults with a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac, after a shipment of doses arrived on February 20.
*Travelers from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala, MP, and Chhattisgarh to undergo testing on arrival in Uttarakhand.
*Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh will be reviewing the Covid-19 situation in the state with health experts and senior officers today.
*Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray to review the covid situation in MMR region today.He will hold a meeting with Municipal Commissioners of MMR region at 4.30 PM today at Varsha.
“Mumbai Police has joined hands with us. People are more scared of Police than marshals. Request all to wear masks, sanitize and maintain social distancing,” Kishori Pednekar says.
