Coronavirus India LIVE updates: A Medical staff in PPE kit helps a patient (non-Covid) outside the emergency ward at Sant Parmanand Hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Coronavirus India LIVE news updates: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discus the Covid-19 situation as the number of positive cases in the national capital crossed 32,000 mark. The chief minister said Shah has assured him of all cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus.
The number of recovered Covid-19 patients exceeded the total active cases in India by a margin of 1,573 for the first time on Wednesday, even as the country reported 9,985 coronavirus cases and 279 casualties in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The number of active cases in the country stands at 1,33,632, while 1,35,205 people have been treated and discharged. The total number of infections crossed the 2.7 lakh-mark to reach 2,76,583 on Wednesday, including 7,745 deaths.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday said that L-G Anil Baijal’s directives on hospitals will be implemented in letter and spirit as this is not the time for disagreements or arguments. Baijal had on Monday issued two orders that struck down key announcements made by the Delhi government in the past week — to reserve beds in private and Delhi government hospitals for residents of Delhi, and to limit the scope of Covid-19 testing.
Several states have shown upward deviations from their trendlines in the last few days, indicating a surge in future tally as well. Maharashtra’s Covid-19 case load has surpassed 90,000 with 120 deaths recorded across the state — the highest so far in a single day, on Tuesday. Mumbai recorded 1,015 new cases with the totally tally reaching 51,100. On the other hand, Delhi has projected an exponential growth in the city’s numbers to 5.5 lakh by July end. Despite the upward trend in total cases, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan assured that India is better positioned in the fight against COVID-19 compared to other nations, however, adding that there is no space for complacency.
Globally, as many as 7,244,108 people have been infected by the pandemic so far, and 4,11,217 have died. As the world struggles to flatten the curve of the virus, a Harvard study suggested that the coronavirus hit Wuhan far earlier than reported-a report China dismissed as “incredibly ridiculous”.
India’s Central Drug Authority on Tuesday permitted the Maharashtra government to undertake convalescent plasma therapy trials in severe Covid-19 patients at 21 government medical college hospitals (GMCHs).
Earlier, Dr Sushant Meshram, Dean, Government Medical College, Nagpur, and the trial’s principal investigator, had sought the drug authority’s permission for conducting multi-centric plasma trials in severe Covid-19 cases in a randomised control format. Read more here
As per the revised estimate that the AAP government is citing now, Delhi will have 5.5 lakh coronavirus patients by July end, and will need 1.5 lakh beds. As of now, the Capital has 9,179 beds — 4,929 occupied and 4,250 vacant — and 582 ICU beds set aside for treatment of Covid patients.
The gap is a factor of many things, including faultlines between the Delhi government and private hospitals, pending procurement of oxygen concentrators and ventilators, insufficient clarity on facilities where additional beds can be set up, and resistance from hotels meant to be attached to hospitals. Read more here
AS MUMBAI crosses the 50,000-patient mark, an estimated 40 per cent of the city’s population now stays in containment zones and sealed buildings as of June 9, shows data released by the BMC.
The data also shows that while close to 42 lakh people are living in 798 containment zones, more than eight lakh are residing in 4,538 sealed buildings as of June 9. This means, out of the city’s 1.25 crore population, more than 50 lakh people are in containment zones and sealed buildings. Read more here
At least seven persons died and 370 more tested positive in last 24 hours taking Haryana, taking the state’s total count to 5,579 and 52 deaths. While three persons died due to Covid-19 in Faridabad, two persons lost their lives in Gurgaon and one each in Sonipat and Charkhi Dadri.
Coronavirus continues to spread in NCR with Gurgaon getting 217 fresh cases along with Faridabad (41) and Sonipat (28) in the last 24 hours. Till Wednesday evening, Gurgaon had 1709 active Covid patients, Faridabad had 531 and Sonipat had 289 active cases. Read more here
THE STATE government has deferred the monsoon session of the state legislature to August 3 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It is difficult to hold the session from June 22 amid the outbreak. So, we have deferred the monsoon session, scheduled to start from June 22, and have now decided to hold it from August 3,” said Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray while addressing the media on Wednesday. Read more here
Eighty-six new cases were reported from Punjab on Wednesday, driving up the total tally of people reporting positive for novel coronavirus in the state to 2,805.
An eight-year-old girl from Ludhiana who was a contact of a positive case, a jail inmate lodged in Ludhiana jail and hailing from Fatehgarh Sahib, a shopkeeper from Sangrur, a pregnant woman and a police official, both from Pathankot, were among the new cases.
The maximum cases on the day were reported from Pathankot (19 cases). Amritsar, Faridkot and Gurdaspur reported 13 cases each. Ludhiana reported 11 new cases.
The district has 884 cumulative tally of positive cases till date with 265 still under treatment. Death-wise, Amravati district is the second biggest hotspot in the region with 17 deaths followed by Nagpur, which has 15 deaths from 862 cases. Amravati has a cumulative tally of 287 with 100 being under treatment.
The Amravati division consisting Amravati, Akola, Buldana, Yavatmal and Washim districts has death tally of 67 from a total patient of 1,450 cases with a death rate of approximately 4.8. The recovery rate of the division comes to about 67%.
Nagpur saw its biggest single-day jump in positive cases on the day with 86 new cases being reported from the city. The district's cumulative tally stands at 863.
Nagpur division comprising Nagpur, Chandrapur, Bhandara, Gondia, Gadchiroli and Wardha had a cumulative tally of 1092 cases with 17 deaths and 669 discharges. The division had an impressive recovery rate of 66 pc and death rate of 1.6%.
Vivek Deshpande reports from Nagpur
Taking cognisance of complaints from residents of housing societies regarding arbitrary restrictions on their movements as well as those on domestic helps and other service providers, Pune District Collector Naval Kishore Ram has issued directives to housing societies asking them to desist from making own rules and follow guidelines issued by the state government and district administration. Read more here
Stepping in to help stranded migrants reach their villages, Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday arranged for four special flights to send about 700 people to their homes in Uttar Pradesh. Two more flights with migrant workers will take off on Thursday, said sources close to Bachchan, adding he wanted to book a train for the migrants but the logistics did not work out.
The flights were ?organised? on Bachchan's directive by his close aide Rajesh Yadav, managing director of his home production company AB Corp Ltd. The flights took off from Mumbai for Allahabad, Gorakhpur and Varanasi on Wednesday morning with 180 passengers in each, the sources said. Yadav, on Bachchan's behalf, had also recently flagged off 10 buses for 300 migrants to reach their villages in Lucknow, Allahabad, Bhadohi and other places in Uttar Pradesh. This was done in partnership with the dargahs in Mahim and the Haji Ali, a statement said.
Bachchan's magnanimity evoked a wave of gratitude from the poor migrant workers reaching home free of cost in flights. After landing at Allahabad airport from Mumbai in a special IndiGo flight, an overwhelmed Korawan village native Ghulam Hassan profusely thanked Bachchan for helping him reach his home, that too in a flight free of cost.
Thirty one COVID-19 patients were detected afresh on Wednesday in Tripura, raising the state's gtotal corona tally to 898. Among these, 660 are active patients while 238 others earlier 'recovered' and were discharged from hospital In a late evening Tweet today, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb wrote, "Out of 1375 samples tested for COVID19, 31 people found POSITIVE. All of them have travel history. The count includes: West Dist: 17 Sepahijala Dist: 8 Dhalai Dist: 1 Unokoti Dist: 2 Gomti District: 3 #TripuraCOVID19Count" The state government has tested 38573 persons for coronavirus till date.
IndiGo on Wednesday said it repatriated 666 Indians from the middle-eastern countries of Qatar and the UAE through four chartered flights.
'The IndiGo flight 6E 9076 transferred 210 passengers from Doha to Mumbai, flight 6E 9431 transported 168 passengers from Doha to Mumbai, flight 6E 9438 transferred 168 passengers from Doha to Kolkata and flight 6E 9245 carried 120 passengers from Dubai to Lucknow on Tuesday,' the airline said.
Scheduled international passenger flights continue to remain suspended in the country since March 23 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. However, after a gap of two months, domestic passenger flights began in India from May 25.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discus the Covid-19 situation as the number of positive cases in the national capital crossed 32,000 mark. The chief minister said Shah has assured him of all cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus.
28 CRPF personnel deployed in Kashmir test positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday. (PTI)
Delhi records 1,501 fresh coronavirus cases, taking tally to over 32,000. Meanwhile, the death toll had climbed to 984.
Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja ordered an investigation after two patients committed suicide within a span of eight hours inside the dedicated Covid-19 ward at the Medical College Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram Wednesday. The Principal Secretary (Health) has been directed to carry out a probe and submit a report at the earliest.
Around 11:30 am, nurses found a resident of Anadu in Thiruvananthapuram district hanging by a rope inside the Covid-19 isolation ward. Though hospital staff brought him down and admitted him to the intensive care unit, he lost his life.
The 33-year-old, who was detected with the virus on May 31, had recovered and was due for discharge. On Tuesday, he had escaped unnoticed from the isolation ward, boarded a state transport bus and headed home. The locals, upon discovering him, informed the police and health officials who brought him back to the hospital. Subsequently, a team of mental health professionals had provided him counselling and guidance. On Wednesday morning, he reportedly committed suicide when the nurses were busy preparing medicines for him upon discharge. The suicide victim is believed to have had alcohol withdrawal symptoms. (input by Vishnu Varma)
The request of the Ministry of External Affairs to operate special flights from the US to Kerala to bring back stranded Indians has been accepted, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said on Wednesday.
He further said the Ministry of External Affairs in cooperation with the Aviation ministry will add more flights and destinations for speedy evacuation of Indian citizens under the Vande Bharat Mission.
"Heartfelt thanks to @HardeepSPuri Ji for accepting MEA's request to operate special flights from #US to #Kerala. With @MoCA_GoI's cooperation @MEAIndia will try to add more flights & destinations for speedy evacuation of our citizens under #VandeBharatMission" Muraleedharan tweeted. (PTI)
Manipur Health department Wednesday said the Covid-19 positivity rate of the state as per million is 1.56 per cent. The department also said the state has so far tested 19,854 samples, improving the rate of test per million population to 6,966.
Till Tuesday, as many as 868 samples were tested at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences and all samples were found negative for Covid-19.
A total of 7 persons were confirmed positive for Covid-19 till Wednesday evening. All are returnees from other states. The total number of positive cases has increased to 311 and active cases to 248. (input by Jimmy Leivon)
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issues notice to Delhi Government and Union Health Ministry over serious allegations about Covid mismanagement including non-availability of beds, inadequate number of tests, increasing deaths, delay in last rites of the deceased.
The Punjab government is mulling procurement of Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers for keeping a check on those flouting COVID-19 home quarantine guidelines.
The trackers fitted with a SIM card can be integrated with the state government's COVA app for tracking those home quarantined people who defy guidelines, putting the lives of others in danger, an official said on Wednesday.
The COVA Punjab (Corona Virus Alert) App has been developed by the state government to provide people with preventive care information and other government advisories.
"This is a lockable GPS based tracker put on wrists. It will send an alert if a home quarantined person violates the guidelines by going outside," Punjab Special Secretary cum Chief Executive Officer, E-Governance, Ravi Bhagat said on Wednesday.
"It is reusable after the completion of 14 days of quarantined period," he further said. (PTI)
BBMP marshals collect Rs 69,400 as fine from citizens for not wearing masks today (June 10) from 347 violators. Most violations were recorded in BBMP West (116 cases) and South (115 cases) zones.