Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS: India Administered Nearly 46 Lakh Vaccine Doses On Saturday
Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS, July 24: Union Health Ministry reported that India administered 45,74,298 Covid-19 vaccine doses on Saturday, taking cumulative vaccination coverage 43 crore (43,26,05,567).
Assam on Saturday reported 23 more COVID-19 deaths, which took the toll to 5,114, pushing the total number of infections to 5,57,437, according to a bulletin issued by the National Health Mission (NHM). As many as 1,595 more people tested positive for the infection while currently, the state has 14,379 active COVID-19 cases.
Three fresh fatalities were reported from Lakhimpur while Jorhat, Kamrup Metro, Kamrup Rural, and Sivasagar each reported two deaths. Barpeta, Charaideo, Chirang, Darrang, Dibrugarh, Goalpara, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong, Morigaon, Nalbari, Tinsukia, and Udalguri reported one death each. The current death rate is 0.92 percent and the number of COVID-19 positive patients dying due to other causes is 1,347.
Of the new cases, the Kamrup Metropolitan district recorded the highest at 179, followed by Golaghat (164), Lakhimpur (119), and Dibrugarh (84). The new cases were detected out of 1,18,889 tests conducted during the day with the daily positivity rate at 1.34 per cent while 1,77,74,829 samples have been tested for COVID-19 to date.
As many as 1,788 people were cured of the disease in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 5,36,597. The bulletin said, altogether 96,52,149 people have been inoculated in Assam, of whom 17,09, 974 have received both doses of the vaccine.
Mumbai on Saturday reported 413 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths, taking the city's case tally to 7,33,757 and death toll to 15,766, a civic official said. With 611 people discharged from hospitals during the day, the recovery count rose to 7,09,809, he added. The metropolis now has 5,799 active cases.
With 35,021 samples being examined in the last 24 hours, the number of coronavirus tests carried out in the country's financial capital went up to 79,33,729, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's data showed.
The city's recovery rate is 97 per cent and the caseload doubling time stood at 1,241 days, as per BMC data. There are 62 sealed buildings and three containment zones in the city currently, civic officials said.
The Union Health Ministry on Saturday announced that India administered nearly 46 lakh (45,74,298) vaccine doses today, taking cumulative vaccination coverage 43 crore (43,26,05,567), as per the 7 pm provisional report today.
Delhi reports zero death, 66 new Covid cases, and 52 recoveries in the last 24 hours.
Active cases: 587
Total recoveries: 14,10,216
Death toll: 25,041
Andhra Pradesh reports 2,174 fresh Covid cases, 2,737 recoveries, and 18 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Active cases: 22,358
Total recoveries: 19,16,914
Death toll: 13,241
A leading private health facility in Delhi on Saturday said it is reporting a rise in neurological issues among post-Covid patients, including emergency cases of brain haemorrhage.
Also, in the out-patient department (OPD), up to 60 per cent of patients are presenting increasing mental health issues like anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, feeling of loneliness, and majority of these are post-Covid cases, the Moolchand Hospital said in a statement. Doctors at the private facility said the neurological issues among post-Covid patients have seen a "troubling rise" here.
The Moolchand Hospital has been "recording increasing cases of intracerebral (brain) haemorrhage, and 50 per cent of the neuroscience department is filled with such cases," it said. The doctors also said that people who have survived the pandemic and those who were infected with COVID-19 are increasingly coming to the hospital many weeks later with symptoms such as headache, giddiness, fatigue, cognitive difficulties, memory problems, anxiety, depression, stroke, pain and sleep disorders.
In the OPD, up to 60 per cent of patients are coming with mental health issues like headache, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, feeling of loneliness etc, they said.
We developed a vaccine manufacturing capacity indigenously, administered 42 crore vaccines & people are coming to walk-in centers or are registering online. We have administered more vaccination doses than any country in the world: Hardeep Singh Puri, Housing & Urban Affairs Minister.
New Delhi: Karnataka Government on Saturday permitted the reopening of places of worship and amusement parks from July 25 with COVID-19 guidelines.
"Temples, Mosque, Churches, Gurudwaras and other religious places are allowed to open and its related activities pertaining to these places from July 25, 2021, with strictly adhering to the COVID-19 behaviour and SOP issued by the concerned department, However, jathres, temple festivals, processions, congregations not allowed," read a state government order.
The state also permits amusements parks and similar places to re-open with COVID-19 restriction.
"Amusement Parks and similar places permitted to re-open strictly adhering to CO VID appropriate behaviour and following guidelines issued vide circular dated 12.11.2020 by the Health and Family Welfare Department, However, water sports/water-related adventure activities not allowed," it added. (ANI)
New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday said that 2,98,35,847 balance and unutilized COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states, Union Territories and private hospitals to be administered.
The ministry said that it has so far provided 44,53,86,390 vaccine doses to States and UTs, through all sources and a further 85,58,360 doses are in the pipeline.
Of this, the total consumption including wastages is 41,55,50,543 doses as per data available at 8 am today.
The new phase of universalization of COVID-19 vaccination commenced from June 21, 2021.
The vaccination drive has been ramped up through the availability of more vaccines, advanced visibility of vaccine availability to States and UTs for enabling better planning by them and streamlining the vaccine supply chain.
As part of the nationwide vaccination drive, the Government of India has been supporting the States and UTs by providing them COVID Vaccines free of cost. (ANI)
Bharat Biotech's Covaxin trials for children are presently underway and the results are expected to be released by September: Dr Randeep Guleria, AIIMS Director said.
Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo has accused the Centre of misleading the country. Singh Deo said that the Centre never asked the state for details of deaths due to lack of oxygen and there is no record of such deaths in Chhattisgarh so far.
The Chhattisgarh government will re-audit the deaths during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the state to find out whether any of them were due to lack of oxygen. Singh Deo said, "we are already auditing the deaths related to COVID-19. If there is any death due to lack of oxygen, then we will audit again keeping this in mind".
Singh Deo said that the audit is being expanded to get information about the deaths due to lack of oxygen in or outside hospitals during the second wave of COVID in the state. "Transparency is the core of a democratically elected government and we will follow transparency. The Centre is saying in the Parliament that the states have told them (there have been no deaths due to lack of oxygen). If they never asked us about it, how would we tell them?" he questioned.
The central government had said in the Rajya Sabha on the 20th of this month that during the second wave of COVID 9, no death occurred due to lack of oxygen in the states and union territories. The opposition parties criticised the central government over the same.
Tokyo: The Olympics organisers announced 17 new Games-related COVID-19 cases on Saturday, including one athlete and an event-related personnel staying at the Games village, taking the total number of infections to 123.
As per the official count, the total number of infected athletes now stands at 12. The Olympics officially began on Friday with an opening ceremony here.
The athlete, who has tested positive most recently was not staying at the Games village.
So far, 65 Games-related contractors have tested positive for the virus after the addition of 14 new cases to the tally on Saturday.
Thirteen of the overall 123 cases have been found to be among Games Village residents.
The Czech team has been among the worst hit by the virus, reporting six positive cases.
Their Olympic committee has launched an inquiry into possible health safety protocol violations during their flight to Tokyo. (PTI)
Background
Maharashtra reported 6,753 new COVID-19 cases and 167 fresh fatalities on Friday, taking the infection tally to 62,51,810 and the death toll to 1,31,205, a health department official said.
On Thursday, the state had recorded 7,302 new COVID-19 cases and 120 fatalities.
The official said as many as 5,979 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, pushing the number of recovered cases to 60,22,485.
The state now has 94,769 COVID-19 patients under treatment.
There are 5,52,702 people in home quarantine while 3,653 in institutional quarantine across the state, he said.
Maharashtra's COVID-19 recovery rate is 96.33 per cent, while the fatality rate is 2.09 per cent, the official said.
The national capital reported 58 new COVID cases and one death in the last 24 hours, as per the daily health bulletin released by the Delhi government on Friday.
The national capital's daily test positivity rate stood at 0.9 per cent, the bulletin said.
On a positive note, 69 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the national capital's total number of recoveries to 14,10,164.
With one death getting reported on Friday, Delhi's overall COVID death toll rose to 25,041.
A total of 67,817 COVID samples were tested in the last 24 hours, including 43,213 through RT-PCR and 24,601 through the Rapid Antigen method.
At present, Delhi has 573 active cases, of which 167 are under home isolation.
On the other hand, with the daily test positivity rate crossing 13 per cent on Friday as 17,518 people turning COVID positive from 1,28,489 samples tested in the past 24 hours, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said lockdown norms will have to be strengthened.
"The average TPR in the past three days has been 12.1 per cent and in 11 out of the 14 districts in the state, the TPR is above 10 per cent. Hence those local bodies (408) in A and B category (TPR up to 10 per cent), offices will have to work with 50 per cent capacity and those in C category (355 local bodies with TPR between 10 to 15 per cent), will have 25 per cent staff, and in D category places (271 local bodies with TPR above 15 per cent), only essential services will be operational," he said.
He said all those government staff in these local bodies who are not working will be redeployed for COVID work.
There were 1,35,198 active cases on Friday as 11,067 people turned negative, taking the total cured in the state to 30,83,962.
A total of 132 COVID fresh deaths were reported, taking the death toll to 15,871.
Vijayan said with the third wave predicted, Kerala is on high alert and more emphasis will be given to contact tracing and vaccination.
"So far 1.24 crore people have been given one dose while 0.52 crore have got both the doses. We are sure that if there is adequate proper supply of vaccines by the Centre, then in a matter of three months we will be able to vaccinate 60 per cent of our people," he said.
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