Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS: Total Delta Plus Cases In Maharashtra Reach 45-Mark, State Health Minister Reveals
Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS, 8 August, Sunday: A case of Eta variant of SARS-COV-2 was confirmed in Karnataka’s Mangaluru on Thursday in a sample taken four months ago.
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Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS, 8 August, Sunday: Coronavirus cases in Karanataka continue to rise rapidly ahead of the third wave warning. Bengaluru logged 357 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours, while five persons succumbed to the virus in the same time period, the daily health bulletin issued by the Karataka government said on Saturday.
In the last 24 hours, the state reported 1610 new cases and 32 deaths with a test positivity rate of 1.08 per cent.
The number of micro containment zones in Bengaluru stood at 158 in 8 zones with the Mahadevapura zone topping the list with the most number of containment zones (42).
Recovery rate in the tech city stood at 98.01 per cent, while its case fatality rate stood at 1.46 per cent.
The case of Eta variant of SARS-COV-2 was confirmed in Karnataka’s Mangaluru on Thursday in a sample taken four months ago. The Eta variant (B.1.525) was detected in a Mangaluru man who had travelled to Qatar, according to the state bulletin on Thursday.
This is not the first case of Eta variant in the state, the Times of India quoted Dr V Ravi, state nodal officer and chairman of Committee for Covid-19 Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS). It was first reported in April 2020 when the variant was detected in two samples at Nimhans’ virology lab through genomic sequencing in April 2020 and belonged to patients from Mangaluru, he said.
Kerala on Saturday reported 20,367 new Covid cases and 139 deaths, taking the active caseload in the state to 1,78,166, while the toll reached 17,654. In the last 24 hours, 1,52,521 samples were tested and the test positivity rate (TPR) was found to be 13.35 per cent.
Additionally, a COVID-19 vaccination drive will be held in Kerala from August 9 to 31 informed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday.
Delta Plus cases in Maharashtra increase to 45, State Health Minister says 'no cause for concern'
The number of Delta Plus cases in Maharashtra has increased from 21 to 45, including 27 men and 18 women. We're collecting info from patients on vaccinations, illnesses and tracking, tracing operations are in progress. There's no cause for concern: Rajesh Tope, State Health Minister informed.
Since the last 1-1.5 months, COVID cases (in Maharashtra) have increased from 6,000 to 7,000-8,000 per day. There is neither a big increase nor a decline in fresh cases, we are seeing a plateau, he added as reported by ANI.
Beijing bans people travelling from high risk COVID-19 Chinese provinces
Beijing: China's capital city on Sunday stepped up measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus cases by virtually banning people from travelling to Beijing from provinces with the high COVID-19 transmission rates.
To further reinforce the shield against the COVID-19 pandemic, Beijing has rolled out a range of measures to strengthen the management of personnel returning from regions with relatively high virus transmission rates, including imposing restrictions on their purchase of railway tickets and air services, state-run Global Times reported.
People from medium- or high-risk regions or planning to return to Beijing but have a travel history related to these regions will be prevented from buying tickets for air and railway services. In addition, if they choose to drive into the Chinese capital, they will also be persuaded to make a U-turn and leave, the paper said.
Several Chinese cities, including Wuhan where the coronavirus first surfaced in December 2019, have reported resurgence of COVID-19 cases, stated to be the Delta variant.
The Global Times report said health codes for people who are still in medium- and high-risk regions will be adjusted to the yellow colour, and anyone with a health code that is not green will not be allowed to board planes or trains bound for Beijing.
Presenting a green health code will be a must.
Only when medium- and high-risk regions are downgraded to low-risk or when travellers don't have a travel history in designated risk regions within 14 days, can their yellow codes return to the normal green colour.
After gaining a green health code, passengers would also have to present a negative nucleic acid test result within 48 hours of boarding transport to return to Beijing.
Travellers should inform their workplace or residence before their trip, undergo a 14-day health monitoring period and take a nucleic acid test on their day of arrival and another on their seventh day in Beijing, the daily reported.
Also, as part of efforts to shield the capital from the virus, Beijing Daxing International Airport has announced to suspend flight routes from 15 cities including hotspots of outbreaks such as Nanjing, Yangzhou and Zhangjiajie, Wen Wu, the airport's deputy general manager, told the daily on Saturday.
The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported about 150 positive and asymptomatic cases from several provinces including Jiangsu, Henan, Yunnan, Hubei and Hunan, according to the country's National Health Commission.
Beijing, where the country's top leadership resides, also registered some cases during July last week though there were no reports of fresh cases in the past few days.
State-run Xinhua news agency reported that the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports has urged all sports and fitness facilities to exercise stricter epidemic prevention and control measures as the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads.
A notice released by the bureau said that the number of people in sports facilities in Beijing is increasing with great and frequent personnel exchanges, which leads to severe challenges in epidemic prevention and control, especially in areas such as swimming spots, confined gyms and sports training facilities.
China has reported a total of 93,701 infections since the COVID-19 outbreak in late 2019. (PTI)
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