Coronavirus LIVE: Delhi's Vaccine Stock To Last Four Days
Coronavirus LIVE Thursday, July 29: COVID cases in Kerala as on Wednesday crossed the 20,000-mark for the second successive day.
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Coronavirus LIVE Thursday, July 29: Maharashtra reported 6,857 new coronavirus infections and 286 fresh fatalities on Wednesday, taking the tally of cases to 62,82,914 and the death toll to 1,32,145, a state health department official said.
The state witnessed a rise in new COVID-19 cases and fatalities as compared to Tuesday, when it had reported 6,258 infections and 254 deaths.
With 6,105 patients getting discharged from hospitals during the day, the count of recoveries in Maharashtra went up to 60,64,856, leaving the state with 82,545 active cases, the official said.
According to the official, the state has 4,88,537 people in home quarantine and 3,364 in institutional quarantine.
Maharashtra's coronavirus recovery rate now stands at 96.53 per cent, while the fatality rate is 2.01 per cent.
The national capital on Wednesday reported 67 fresh COVID-19 cases and three deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Delhi Health Department.
With this, the total COVID-19 cases in the national capital mounted to 14,36,093 including 573 active cases.
The cumulative recoveries in the city due to this virus escalated to 14,10,471 including 61 fresh recoveries. In the last 24 hours, 52,533 tests were conducted and a positivity rate of 0.09 per cent was reported.
The death toll in the capital touched 25,049 including the new death. The case fatality rate now stands at 1.74 per cent.
On the other hand, there seems to be no reduction in the number of daily COVID cases in Kerala as on Wednesday, the figure crossed 20,000 for the second successive day.
A statement issued here by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said 22,056 people turned positive after 1,96,902 samples were sent for testing in the past 24 hours.
On Tuesday, 22,129 people had turned positive
The only solace on Wednesday was that the test positivity rate fell from 12.35 per cent on Tuesday to 11.20 per cent.
Presently, there were 1,49,534 active cases, after 17,761 more recovered, taking the total cured in the state to 31,60,804.
Another 131 COVID deaths were reported, taking the death toll to 16,457.
Following the number of samples going for testing suddenly going up, there was a spurt in cases in every Kerala district with Malappuram district leading with 3,931 cases, followed by Trissur with 3,005.
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Delhi's Vaccine Stock To Last Four Days, Says Bulletin
The national capital's stock of anti-coronavirus vaccine will last for four days, according to a COVID Vaccination Bulletin issued by the Delhi government on Thursday.
As of Thursday morning, the balance stock of Covaxin and Covishield were 2,17,030 and 6,09,610 doses respectively. The bulletin noted that only 20 per cent of Covaxin stock could be used for the first dose since it was limited and had irregular delivery cycles.
Covishield could only be used for the second dose till July 31, since the stock was limited and many in the 18-44 year age group would be qualifying for the second dose of vaccine in the coming weeks, it said.
In all, the Delhi government has received 97,36,740 doses of vaccine to date, out of which 24,18,670 doses were of Covaxin, and the remaining Covishield. According to the bulletin, 1,60,070 doses of Covishield were added to the stock on Wednesday.
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