Coronavirus LIVE: Washington DC Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate For Both Vaccinated, Unvaccinated Citizens
Coronavirus LIVE Friday, July 30: Kerala has 1,54,820 active cases, the highest in any state in the country.
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Coronavirus LIVE Friday, July 30: Maharashtra reported 7,242 new coronavirus infections and 190 fatalities on Thursday which pushed the caseload to 62,90,156 and death toll to 1,32,335, a health department official said.
On Wednesday the state had reported 6,857 new cases and 286 fatalities.
The number of active cases fell to 78,562 from 82,545 on Wednesday as 11,124 patients were discharged from hospitals during the day.
So far 60,75,888 patients have recovered in the state. There are 4,87,704 people in home quarantine and 3,245 in institutional quarantine.
Maharashtra's case recovery rate is 96.59 per cent while the fatality rate is 2.01 per cent.
Meanwhile, Delhi reported 51 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. According to the Delhi government health bulletin, the cumulative COVID-19 cases in the national capital have gone up to 14,36,144. It said 70 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 14,10,541.
The city did not report any death due to the disease in the last 24 hours and the death toll is 25,049. The bulletin said that the city has 554 active cases. The positivity rate is 0.08 per and 67,368 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours
On the other hand, the Covid pandemic is running rampant in Kerala, with over 20,000 cases seen on Thursday for the third successive day, an official statement said.
The day's figure came a day before a special team of health experts from the Centre is all set to arrive in the state capital on Friday.
As many as 22,064 people tested positive on Thursday, against 22,056 on Wednesday and 22,129 on Tuesday.
In the statement, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that 1,63,098 samples were tested in the past 24 hours and the day's test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 13.53 per cent up from 11.20 per cent on Wednesday.
The state has 1,54,820 active cases, the highest in any state in the country.
Another 128 Covid deaths were reported, taking the death toll to 16,585.
Delhi records 63 fresh COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths
Delhi reports 63 new COVID19 cases, 34 recoveries, and 3 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Active cases: 580
Total recoveries: 14,10,575
Death toll: 25,052
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Washington DC Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate For Both Vaccinated, Unvaccinated Citizens
Washington: People in Washington, D.C. will again have to wear masks indoors no matter whether they have been vaccinated against Covid-19 or not, the US capital city's Mayor Muriel Bowser announced as cases were surging across the country.
Starting at 5 a.m. on Saturday, all D.C. residents over the age of two, regardless of their vaccination status, will be required to wear masks while in indoor public spaces, according to the new mandate.
"Things have changed throughout the course of (the pandemic), and we have to adapt, too," Xinhua news agency quoted Bowser as saying at a news conference on Thursday.
"I think it won't be a big lift for a lot of folks," she added, noting some people in the District, which had one of the most strict mask mandates during the pandemic, had never stopped wearing a mask indoors.
Additionally, officials are working to create a vaccination requirement for D.C. government employees.
Providing an update to the District's virus data at the news conference, D.C. Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt cited a five-fold increase in July thus far in D.C.'s daily case rate.
Virus rates have particularly increased for children aged five to 14 and young adults age 20 to 34, according to the director, who added that many new cases have been linked to travel, dining out and social activities in large groups.
The new mask requirement came a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classified the nation's capital into the category of "substantial" Covid-19 transmission localities, up from the "medium" category.
For areas with "substantial" transmission possibilities, the CDC recommends the indoor mask mandate regardless of vaccination status.
As per the CDC metrics, "substantial" transmission occurs in any locality that reported 50 to 100 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past week, or is reporting a test positivity rate between 8 per cent and 10 per cent.
According to the CDC, D.C.'s seven-day case rate per 100,000 residents was 58.09, and the seven-day test positivity rate was 2.59 per cent. (IANS)
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New COVID Cases Rise Over 44K Mark As India Reports 44,230 Fresh Infections Along With 555 Fatalities
New COVID Cases Rise Over 44K Mark As India Reports 44,230 Fresh Infections, 555 Fatalities
Kerala has recently been contributing nearly 50 percent of the daily Coronavirus cases being reported in India.
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