Coronavirus LIVE | Delhi Reports 3,674 New COVID-19 Cases & 30 Deaths
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Jammu, Jan 30 (PTI) The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Sunday announced a seven-hour relaxation in the restriction on non-essential movement amid concerns raised by traders over the 64-hour long weekend Covid lockdown hampering their businesses.
A fortnight ago, the administration had imposed complete a restriction on non-essential movement from Fridays 2 pm to Mondays 6 am to rein in the surge in COVID-19 cases.
Traders of Jammu and Srinagar had sought a review of the weekend restrictions, stating they have already suffered huge economic losses owing to the outbreak of the pandemic.
The new lockdown restrictions on non-essential movement would be from every Friday 9 pm to Monday 6 am, said the State Executive Committee (SEC) which met under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary A K Mehta to review the overall Covid situation.
This will come into effect from next weekend, the SEC said.
Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday recorded 4,615 fresh coronavirus cases that took its infection tally to 4,32,875, while seven more fatalities pushed the death toll to 4,659.
Kerala reports 51,570 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking infection count to 59,83,515, death toll mounts to 53,666 with 14 new fatalities; number of active cases now 3,54,595: State health department
Mumbai reports 1,160 new COVID-19 cases, 2,530 recoveries, and 10 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Active cases 10,797
Uttar Pradesh on Saturday reported 25 COVID deaths and 8,338 fresh COVID cases, an official statement said.
With the latest addition, the till date death toll rose to 23,164 in the state.
Active cases in UP stood at 59,601, while the overall tally of infection rose to 20,05,245, it said.
Lucknow recorded a maximum of 1,705 fresh cases, followed by Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ghaziabad, and Jhansi, with their 620, 388, and 330 cases, respectively.
Kanpur, Meerut, and Varanasi reported 189, 321, and 316 COVID cases, respectively.
Three deaths each were reported from Gautam Buddh Nagar, Kushinagar, and Jhansi districts. Two each succumbed in Kanpur, Gorakhpur, and Chandauli.
A total of 13,910 COVID patients have recuperated from the viral infection, taking the total number of recoveries to 19,22,480 in the state, the statement said.
In the past 24 hours, over 2.02 lakh COVID tests were done in the state.
Till date more than 9.90 crore samples have been tested for the infection, it said.
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In an interaction with five eastern states on Saturday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that there is still a need to be vigilant and not lower the guard even though the active cases of COVID-19 in most of the states and the positivity rate have shown a fall in the last two weeks.
He urged them to monitor the case positivity rate on a daily basis and increase the RT-PCR testing rate as most of the states exhibited a lower share of such tests.
While the active cases in most of the states and the positivity rate have shown a fall in the last two weeks, we still need to be vigilant and not lower our guard, he stated.
The states were also advised to keep a close watch on the number of hospitalisations and deaths.
It is important to analyse at the state level the proportion of vaccinated and unvaccinated of the hospitalised cases, the deaths and those on ventilators and oxygen support, the Union Health Minister advised.
Meanwhile, Delhi on Saturday reported 4,483 fresh COVID-19 cases, a positivity rate of 7.41 per cent and 28 deaths. With this, the national capital's case count increased to 18,23,815 and the death toll to 25,797. The Saturday tally was slightly higher as compared to Friday when Delhi recorded 4,044 cases with a positivity rate of 8.60 per cent and 25 deaths.
The day before, on Thursday, it recorded 4,291 cases with a positivity rate of 9.56 per cent and 34 deaths. On Wednesday, it had logged 7,498 cases with a positivity rate of 10.59 per cent and 29 deaths.
The number of daily cases in Delhi has been on the decline after the record high of 28,867 on January 13.
Mumbai on Saturday reported 1,411 fresh COVID-19 cases and 11 fatalities due to the coronavirus infection, taking the tally to 10,44,470 and the toll to 16,602.
With 3,547 patients being discharged, the total number of recoveries in Mumbai rose to 10,12,921, leaving the metropolis with 12,187 active cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) stated.
Mumbai's case recovery rate now stands at 97 per cent while the case doubling rate increased to 322 days.
Notably, Kerala's daily surge remained above the 50,000 mark as state reported 50,812 new COVID cases on Saturday.
Kerala logged 50,812 new infections and eight COVID-19-related deaths on Saturday, taking the infection count to 59,31,945 and the death toll to 53,191.
According to the health department, 47,649 persons recuperated from the disease, pushing the number of total cured to 55,41,834.
On Friday, the state reported 54,537 COVID-19 cases whereas it was 51,739 on Thursday. On January 25, Kerala had registered 55,475 cases, the highest ever single-day spike in the infection since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020.
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