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Mumbai, Feb 1 (PTI) Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 14,372 new COVID-19 cases, down from 15,410 the previous day, but deaths linked to the infection rose sharply to 94 from 39 the day ago, the state health department said.
With this, the state's COVID-19 caseload reached 77,35,481, while the death toll increased to 1,42,705, the department said in a bulletin.
On Monday, the state had reported 15,410 cases on the back of 1,26,761 coronavirus tests and 39 fatalities.
No new case of the highly contagious Omicron variant of coronavirus was reported in the state and its tally remained unchanged at 3,221, the health department added.
Mumbai reported 803 cases and seven fatalities, while Pune city recorded 2,091 new patients and one fatality. Of the eight administrative circles (each consisting of multiple districts), Pune reported 4,710 cases, Nashik (2,960), Nagpur (2,230), Mumbai (1,961), Aurangabad (823), Kolhapur (628), Akola (571) and the Latur circle (489), the bulletin said.
The Mumbai circle recorded 31 fatalities, Pune (12), Nagpur (11), Nashik (eight), Kolhapur, Akola and Latur (ten each) and the Aurangabad circle (two), the department said.
It said 30,093 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the number of recovered cases to 73,97,352.
With this, the tally of active cases dropped below the 2-lakh mark to stand at 1,91,524 in the state, where the coronavirus recovery rate is 95.63 per cent.
The department said 1,52,942 coronavirus tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count in Maharashtra to 7,47,82,391.
The bulletin added that currently 10,69,596 people are in home isolation and another 2,731 in institutional quarantine.
Coronavirus figures of Maharashtra are as follows: Positive cases: 77,35,481, new cases: 14,372, death toll 1,42,705; active cases: 1,91,524; total tests: 7,47,82,391.
Andhra Pradesh extends the night curfew between 11pm to 5am till February 14, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, ANI reported.
Kolkata, Feb 1 (PTI) Trinamool Congress will hold its organisational election on Wednesday after a gap of five years and Mamata Banerjee, who is the party's founding chairperson, will be re-elected to the post, party sources said.
After the election Banerjee will spell out the road map of the party regarding its expanding footprint nationally, they said.
The TMC organisational poll will be held amid the simmering differences between its generation next leaders and a section of old guards, which forced Banerjee to instruct all its MPs and leaders not to embarrass the party by airing their views and differences in public.
According to party sources, Banerjee had told the TMC parliamentary party meeting, held virtually last week, that she will henceforth look after the party organisation despite her busy schedule.
"TMC will hold its organisational polls in Netaji Indoor Stadium in the city tomorrow. We have invited other political parties to come and witness the organisational polls, except the BJP," its secretary general Partha Chatterjee said on Tuesday.
The BJP state unit declined to attach much importance to it and said the party is "least bothered about getting an invitation for TMC's organisational polls".
A TMC leader said that after her election as TMC chairperson, Banerjee will be authorised to appoint the other office bearers of the party.
The details and modalities of the organisational election, including the issuing of the notification for it, were decided a few days ago. The list of voters and observers was compiled last week.
Born out of the womb of Congress in 1998, the TMC after two unsuccessful attempts in 2001 and 2006, came to power by defeating the 34-year-old Left Front regime in 2011 and riding the crest of massive public outrage against the communists.
It stormed to power for the third consecutive term in May last year after bagging 213 out of the 294 seats in the state assembly.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will initiate the discussion from the opposition side on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address, ANI reported.
Delhi reports 2,683 new cases, 27 deaths and 4,837 recoveries. Positivity rate 6.20%
Active cases 16,548
Amarinder Singh's media advisor reported the former chief minister as revealing that PM Modi will visit Punjab soon to campaign for the upcoming election.
Congress releases a list of 4 candidates for the upcoming UP Elections including 2 female Candidates
Punjab Congress leader and Punjab Medium Industry Development Board Chairman, Amarjeet Singh Tikka tenders his resignation from the party & all party posts.
Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi files nomination from Sri Chamkaur Sahib constituency for the upcoming Punjab Elections2022. He filed a nomination from Bhadaur Assembly Constituency yesterday.
Supreme Court sets aside two earlier orders of the Delhi High Court passed in Future-Amazon dispute and remands the matters back to the High Court asking it to decide all issues on merits afresh.
National Oil Marketing companies have slashed the prices of 19 kg commercial LPG cylinder cost by Rs 91.50 effective from February 1. The 19 kg commercial cylinder will cost Rs 1907 in Delhi from today, sources told ANI. It will provide some relief to restaurants, eateries, tea stalls and others which constitute the largest user segment of the 19 kg cylinders.
Last month on January 1, the price of 19 kg commercial LPG cylinders was reduced by Rs 102.50 bringing the price of cylinders to Rs 1998.50 in Delhi However, there are no decrease in prices of other domestic cylinders weighing 14.2 kg, 5 kg, 10 kg composite or 5 kg composite cylinders and their prices remain the same. LPG Cylinder rate is revised monthly for all the states and union territories in India.
Northeast Delhi violence: Delhi HC grants bail to 2 accused & denies bail to one in a murder case of an elderly woman, Akbari Begum. Akbari was a resident of Bhajanpura area. She was inside her home when a mob allegedly set it on fire which led to her death, according to Police.
With the addition of 628 new cases of coronavirus, the infection count in Maharashtra's Thane district has gone up to 7,02,567, an official said on Tuesday.
These new cases were reported on Monday, he said.
The virus also claimed the lives of seven more people, raising the death toll in the district to 11,785, he said, adding that the COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane stood at 1.67 per cent.
In neighbouring Palghar district, the COVID-19 case count has gone up to 1,62,081, while the death toll stands at 3,372, another official said.
The air quality in the national capital on Tuesday remained in the 'very poor' category, the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) informed. The overall air quality index in the national capital stood at 321 at 7 AM today morning. In Noida, air quality stood in the 'very poor' category with an overall AQI of 354. In Gurugram, the air quality stood in the 'poor' category with an overall AQI of 232. On Monday, the overall AQI was recorded at 302. As per the government data, an AQI between zero and 50 is considered 'good', 51 and 100 'satisfactory', 101 and 200 'moderate', 201 and 300 'poor', 301 and 400 'very poor', and 401 and 500 'severe'.
India's daily cases drop below 2 lakh; the country reports 1,67,059 new COVID19 cases, 1192 deaths and 2,54,076 recoveries in the last 24 hours
Active case: 17,43,059 (4.20%)
Daily positivity rate: 11.69%
Total Vaccination : 1,66,68,48,204
Many rebels from both Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress withdrew their nomination on Monday as party veterans managed to persuade them to withdraw in support of the party's official candidates ahead of Uttarakhand polls, said sources. As per Joint Chief Electoral Officer Pratap Singh Shah, around 95 candidates from 70 assembly seats withdrew their names on the last date for withdrawal of nomination which was Monday. "Now a total of 632 candidates on 70 assembly seats in Uttarakhand will contest the election," Shah said. A maximum number of 117 candidates are contesting elections from Dehradun district while the lowest number is from Champawat and Bageshwar seat where 14 candidates each will be contesting elections.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present Union Budget for the year 2022-23 in parliament today at 11 am. The budget session of Parliament began on Monday with the address by President Ram Nath Kovind to both Houses in the Central Hall. The Finance Minister tabled this year's Economic Survey, which was centred around the theme of "Agile approach." "The session is scheduled to conclude on April 8 wherein the first part of the session will extend up to February 11," said the Lok Sabha Secretariat on Sunday. "There will be a break from February 12 to March 13 during which the Standing Committees will examine Demands-for-Grants of Ministries/Departments and prepare reports thereon. In all, there will be 29 sittings; ten in the first part and 19 in the second part," the Lok Sabha Secretariat's press release stated.
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Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will deliver her fourth budget speech after she tables the Union Budget in Parliament. This year's Union Budget comes at a time when the country is battling a third wave of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), and all citizens of the country will look forward to the same.
The Budget session began on January 31 with President Ram Nath Kovind addressing both Houses of Parliament. Following that, Sitharaman tabled the economic survey. Presented every year prior to the Budget session, the survey focuses on the economy of the country in the last year, the primary challenges it is likely to face, and their probable solutions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India is fighting the new wave of COVID with "great success" and asserted that the people's trust on indigenous vaccines was "our strength".
In his monthly 'Mann Ki Baat' radio broadcast, Modi said, "Now the cases of corona infection have also started decreasing, this is a very positive sign."
It is a matter of pride that till now about four-and-a-half crore children have been administered the first dose of coronavirus vaccine, he said.
"This means that about 60 per cent of youth in the age group of 15 to 18 years have got their vaccines within three to four weeks. This will not only protect our youth but will also help them to continue with their studies," he said.
Another good thing is that within 20 days, one crore people have taken the precaution dose as well, Modi said.
The national capital Delhi on Sunday logged 3,674 cases with a positivity rate of 6.37 per cent and 30 additional fatalities, according to data released by the city's health department.
The number of cases in the national capital has risen to 18,27,489, with a death toll of 25,827.
After reaching a new high of 28,867 on January 13, the number of daily cases in Delhi has started declining. On January 14, the city reported a positive rate of 30.6 per cent, the highest during the pandemic's current wave.
It only took ten days for daily instances to fall below 10,000.
Meanwhile, Mumbai recorded 1,160 new coronavirus positive cases on Sunday, bringing the total to 10,45,630, with the death of 10 such patients bringing the total to 16,612, according to the civic authority.
During the day after recovery, a total of 2,530 patients were discharged. The health department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation stated in a statement that 10,15,451 individuals had recovered from the virus in the city so far.
In the city, there are 10,797 current COVID-19 cases.
On Sunday, 46,307 tests were done, bringing the total number of tests to 1,52,43,823.
One hundred and nine of the 1,160 new cases are asymptomatic, while 160 require hospitalisation. 29 of them are on life support. Only 2,268 of the 37,573 beds are occupied. The case doubling rate in Mumbai is 375 days, and the recovery rate is 97 per cent.
IS Chahal, Mumbai's civic commissioner, said the city's positivity rate had dropped to 2.5 per cent.
Notably, Kerala continued to report over 50,000 daily COVID cases with the state logging 51,570 fresh infections taking the tally to 59,83,515 on Sunday.
The southern state also reported 14 COVID-related fatalities over the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 53,666, according to the state health bulletin.
Among the districts, Ernakulam topped the COVID chart with 9,704 cases, followed by Thrissur with 7,289 and Thiruvananthapuram with 5,746 cases.
"Currently, there are 3,54,595 active COVID-19 cases in the state out of which only 3.4 per cent are admitted to hospitals," the health department said in a release, as quoted by news agency PTI.
Meanwhile, 32,701 patients recuperated from the disease on Sunday taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 55,74,535.
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