Workers who returned to West Bengal go their homes in buses arranged by the administration.
Coronavirus India News Live Updates: The Health Ministry Tuesday said that at least 73 per cent of Covid-19 deaths in India are people with co-morbidities. In a press conference, Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said till now, 95,527 patients have recovered while the recovery rate has improved to 48.07 per cent.
India will get back its growth after the coronavirus lockdown and is already on that path with ‘Unlock phase-1’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today, addressing the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Annual Session 2020. Stressing on the need for self-reliance, PM Modi said, “World is looking for a trusted, reliable partner; India has potential, strength, ability. India now needs to manufacture products that are ‘made in India’ but ‘made for the world’.” He said that strengthening the economy is one of the top priorities alongside fighting coronavirus.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also launched a mobile app for information on the availability of beds and ventilators in the city’s COVID designated hospitals. Called ‘Delhi Corona’, the CM said, the app will help in reducing the ‘information gap’ in the capital.
Coronavirus infections neared the 2 lakh-mark on Tuesday. Of the 1,98,706 infections, 97,581 are active cases, while 5598 deaths have been reported. Over 95,000 patients have been discharged. India is currently on the 7th spot on the global list of countries worst-hit by Covid-19. Globally, over 6.2 million cases have been reported, while 3.75 lakh people have succumbed to the infection. The United States continues to be the worst-affected nation.
As relaxations under Unlock 1.0 were announced in Gujarat, state transport buses started their operations on Monday.
Delhi-Noida border saw huge traffic on Monday.
Guidelines for 'Unlock 1' in Gurgaon:
* Offices can work with full strength
* No restrictions on intrastate movement
* Interstate movement to be regulated
* RWAs can't prevent people from performing permitted duties/movement into or within societies
* Hotels, religious places to be closed
Tamil Nadu government asks salons, beauty parlours to collect details of customers including name, address, Aadhar card number as part of preventive measures against Covid-19. (PTI)
After 'Unlock 1.0', visitors enjoy at plaza of Sector 17 in Chandigarh on Tuesday. (Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
Vadodara Covid-19 tally rises to 1,118 with 32 new cases on Tuesday. Total death toll at 45.
Due to the proactive measures taken by the state government, coronavirus is under control in majority of the districts, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said Tuesday. He said the opposition leader is making false allegations, while the government is taking all measures to contain the spread of the virus.
Speaking to the reporters in Chennai, Edappadi, who was accompanied by Health Minister C Vijayabaskar and other higher officials, said, “Except, in areas like Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, and Chengalpet, the situation is under control in the state. In today’s meeting with higher authorities, we discussed the various measures to control the spread in Chennai. The spread of the disease is higher in slums in Chennai because of the cramped houses. More tests are done, close to 13,000 are done on a daily across the state and 4,000 in corporations. People even with slightest symptoms are tested and their contracts are traced in quick time,” he said.
Dr Nivedita Gupta, ICMR: Instead of using the word community transmission, it’s important to understand the spread of the disease for which ICMR Delhi is conducting a sero survey.
Lav Agarwal: Don’t create a rift between Centres and states. For the last four months, Centre, states and citizens have worked together on Covid-19.
We are very far away from peak, in much better position than other countries: Dr Nivedita Gupta, ICMR
Indian RNA extraction kits are now available in good number, RT-PCR kits by 11-12 indigenous vendors are now being used, we are now in a comfortable position as reg. testing, due to identification and hand-holding of domestic players: Nivedita Gupta, ICMR.
Asked about the Delhi government's decision to close its borders, Lav Agrawal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry said, "We have asked all states to analyse the trajectory of the cases in their respective states. If a state thinks that it needs to set up temporary Covid-19 care centres then it must do so."
Lav Agarwal: At least 1.20 lakh samples are being tested for Covid-19 on an average per day. At present, there are 476 government, 205 private labs testing for virus.
In a press briefing, Luv Agarwal, Joint Secretary of Union Health Ministry said:
* Till now, 95,527 Covid-19 patients have recovered. The recovery rate is now 48.07 per cent.
* At least 10 per cent of India's population accounts for 50 per cent of India's Covid-19 linked deaths.
* At least 73 per cent of Covid-19 deaths in India are people with co-morbidities.
* 14 countries with cumulative population almost equal to that of India have reported 55.2 times more COVID-19 deaths.
* India's Covid-19 case fatality rate per lakh population is 0.41 as against 4.9 per cent globally; amongst lowest in world
* One in every two Covid-19 deaths in India has been of senior citizens who constitutes 10 per cent of our total population.
Forty-one more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Uttarakhand on Tuesday, taking the total positive cases in the state to 999, news agency PTI reported.
The highest number of 26 cases were reported from Dehradun district, 11 from Tehri, three from Chamoli and one from Haridwar district, a state heath department bulletin here said.
There are 746 active cases in the hill state, while 243 people have recovered from the infection, it said.
Seven people have died due to coronavirus in Uttarakhand so far and three patients migrated to other states.
After a gap of three months, Delhi’s famous shopping place, Sarojini Nagar reopened in the ‘Unlock 1’ phase.
Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu violated social distancing norms by holding a grand procession in Chitradurga district. The minister was welcomed by his followers with a huge apple garland and flowers.
Nagaland reported six more Covid-19 positive cases on Tuesday, all from Dimapur district, the commercial hub of the state. The total number of positive and active cases in the state stands at 49.
S Pangnyu Phom, Nagaland Health Minister tweeted that all the six cases who have tested positive had returned from Chennai.
On May 22, the first special train carrying around 1477 stranded state natives arrived in Dimapur railway station from Chennai.
The app, ‘Delhi Corona’, can be downloaded from Google Play Store. It is currently available only for Android users. The app is not available for Apple users as of now. The information on the app has also been made available on the portal delhifightscorona.in/beds. The information will also be shared via SMS with those dialling the helpline number 1031, Kejriwal said. He also issued the WhatsApp number (8800007722) for this purpose. “If you are denied admission in any hospital despite the app saying beds are available, call up 1031 to lodge your grievance and the special secretary of the Health Department will ensure beds are made available to you,” the CM said.
The aggregate number of coronavirus cases touched 3,791 in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday as the upward spiral continued with 115 additions in the last 24 hours. The latest government health bulletin said no fresh deaths due to the virus were reported in the last 24 hours ending 9 am on Tuesday while 40 patients were discharged from hospitals upon recovery. The overall Covid-19 toll in the state so far is 64. Of the new cases, 82 were residents of the state and the remaining 33 came from other states, the bulletin said.
An 80-year-old who works as a porter at the Lucknow railway station is being widely praised on social media after a video report emerged of him helping workers who are headed home for free. After the government started Shramik Special trains to transport workers to their home states, Mujibullah Rehman has been helping travellers with their luggage for free at the Charbagh railway station. According to news agency ANI, Rehman works at the station for around 8-10 hours daily. Read here
Throughout January, the World Health Organisation publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus and thanked the Chinese government for sharing the genetic map of the virus “immediately.”
But in fact, Chinese officials sat on releasing the genetic map, or genome, of the deadly virus for over a week after multiple government labs had fully decoded it, not sharing details key to designing tests, drugs and vaccines. Strict controls on information and competition within the Chinese public health system were largely to blame, The Associated Press has found from internal documents, emails and dozens of interviews.
Health officials only released the genome after a Chinese lab published it ahead of authorities on a virology website on Jan 11. Even then, China stalled for at least two weeks more on giving WHO the details it needed, according to recordings of multiple internal meetings held by the U.N. health agency in January, all at a time when the outbreak arguably might have been dramatically slowed.