72 year old Shanti, rests outside the Covid area of the LNJP hospital in New Delhi on Thursday.
Coronavirus India News Live Updates: The Union Health Ministry on Thursday issued Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to contain the spread of COVID-19 in places of worship and religious gatherings. According to the guidlines, persons above 65 years of age, persons with comorbidities, pregnant women, children below the age of 10 years are advised to stay at home.
India saw a record single-day jump of 9,304 COVID-19 cases on Thursday pushing the nationwide tally to 2,16,919, while the death toll due to the disease climbed to 6,075 with 260 new fatalities. Of the total, 1,04,106 people have been cured and discharged.
For the first time in more than two months, Delhi reported more cases of novel Coronavirus infections than Mumbai. Delhi discovered 1,513 new cases, it highest single-day figure, while Mumbai, which is the city with the maximum number of cases, found 1,276. Delhi’s case count has been growing at the fastest rate among the top five states with maximum caseload.
Meanwhile, in latest developments, the Donald Trump administration has selected five companies as the most likely candidates to produce a vaccine for the coronavirus while Brazil has approved human clinical trials for the candidate being developed by Oxford University. Around 120 vaccines are in the works across the world, of which at least 10 are undergoing human trials. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said four out of the 14 vaccine candidates might enter the clinical trial stage in the next three-five months.
Globally, over 6,430,705 cases have been reported, 3,85,947 people have succumbed to the infection and 2,804,982 have recovered. The United States continues to be the worst-affected nation with 1,851,520 cases and 1,07,175 deaths.
Coronavirus India LIVE updates: Family members of Charan Singh at Delhi border, who came to Delhi by train from Gujarat's Palampur village and going to Kalyanpur village in Kasganj UP. (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)
Coronavirus India LIVE updates: Poaching of hares, among other small mammals, has shown an increase. (Source: WWF-India)
As 23 more people tested coronavirus positive, the tally of such cases in Dharavi, Mumbai's biggest slum sprawl, rose to 1,872 on Thursday, a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. However, as no COVID-19 fatality was reported in Dharavi in the last 24 hours, the death toll there remained unchanged at 71, the official said. Dharavi is located in G-North administrative ward of the BMC, which has so far registered the highest number of 2,820 COVID-19 cases among all the 24 wards. Of them, as many as 1,872 cases are from Dharavi alone, followed by 574 and 347 cases from Mahim and Dadar, respectively, from the same ward. Dharavi is one of the biggest slums in Asia where nearly 15 lakh people live in small shanties, making it one of the most congested areas of the metropolis.
The opening of border along Delhi is the “primary cause of spike in Covid-19 cases” in Haryana, its Home Minister Anil Vij said Thursday even as Supreme Court directed the two neighbouring governments and that of the Uttar Pradesh to devise a common platform enabling inter-state movement in the National Capital region (NCR) on a single-pass. Read more
*Thermal screening at enterance
*entry only with face masks.
*large gatherings prohibited
*seathing arrangements with social distancing
Under its unlock 1.0 plan, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday issued Standard Operating Procedure to contain the spread of COVID-19 in religious places/places of worship. According to the guidlines, persons above 65 years of age, persons with comorbidities, pregnant women, children below the age of 10 years are advised to stay at home.
In a bid to strengthen their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Meghalaya on Thursday announced that the state will consider everyone an asymptomatic carrier of the virus “by default.”
This was part of a new post-lockdown health protocol notified by the Health and Family Welfare Department, Meghalaya and described as a proactive measure adopted to “prevent the threat of community transmission by acting as though community transmission is already happening”. The order noted that “80% of the positive cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic and cannot be ascertained without testing. Therefore it would be apt to assume that everybody by default is an asymptomatic person.”
The state has so far recorded 33 cases of COVID-19, out of which 19 are active. Many of these cases have been reported from the people who have returned to the state post inter-state relaxations on May 4. “As the state is slowly easing the lockdown and essential economic activities are being opened in a phased manner and with people returning to the State from different zones, the State needs to gear up and prepare itself for the increased risk of transmission,” said the order, signed by Health Secretary Sampath Kumar. (Report byTora Agarwal)
DMK MLA J Anbazhagan (61) who is tested COVID-19 positive on Wednesday continues to be in ventilator support. As per the release from Dr. Reela Institute & Medical Centre, Chrompet, Anbazhagan is getting 80 per cent of oxygen through the ventilator. Anbazhagan, who was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from the Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni constituency in 2016 elections, was actively involved in DMK president MK Stalin’s ‘ondrinaivom vaa’ initiative which kick-started on April 20 to provides relief material to the people in distress.
The rising number of Covid-19 cases across the world, which has surpassed the 6.29 million mark, has paved the way for fast-tracking of clinical trials of vaccines, which are being seen as the only ray of hope in the battle against SARS-CoV-2 in the long run.
Coronavirus cases continued to surge in Tamil Nadu which recorded on Thursday the biggest single day spike of 1,384 cases and 12 deaths taking the infection tally to 27,256 and toll to 220. Of the new cases, Chennai alone accounted for 1,072 which is the highest single day increase for the state capital, pushing the case count to 18,693, a health department bulletin said. While 585 people were discharged from various hospitals, 14,901 have recovered till date and active cases stood at 12,132.
Kerala on Wednesday reported three more deaths and 94 new positive cases. There are 884 active cases in the state, Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala Chief Minister said in a press conference.
UK PM Johnson's spokesman said Indian-origin business minister Alok Sharma, who is being tested for covid-19, met in person with PM Johnson and finance minister Sunak for 45 minutes on Tuesday.
The Maharashtra government on Thursday allowed inter-district movement of people within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. With 56,794 COVID-19 cases and 1,742 deaths so far, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), which includes Mumbai city, Mumbai suburban, Thane, Palghar and part of Raigad district, is the worst affected by COVID-19 in the state. In revised guidelines issued on Thursday, the state government said inter-district movement of people in MMR shall be allowed. It also said that the inter-district movement elsewhere in the state as well as inter-state movement will continue to be regulated.
In phase two from June 5, all shops on one side of the road, lane or passage will open for full working hours on one day,while all shops on the other side of the road will remain open the nextday and so on, the order said. Municipal commissioners along with police commissioners should actively involvemarket and shop owner associations for effectively implementing the arrangement and for enforcement of social distancing and traffic management.
In phase three from June 8, private offices can operate with up to 10 per cent staff or 10 people, whichever is more, with remaining employees working from home. From June 7, home delivery of newspaperswill be done with the knowledge of the receiver (customer) and the delivery personnel will wear masks, use hand sanitiser and follow social distancing guidelines. Offices and staff of educational institutions can operate for non-teaching purpose, including for developing e-content, evaluation of answer sheetsand declaration of results, the order said.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister on Thursday said that Dehradun will remain closed for two days in a week now- Saturday and Sunday. Only essential goods and services will allowed to be function.
The Uttarakhand government also announced a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to the next of kin of those who die of COVID-19 in the state.
Police in PPE kit patroll near Art Faculty after a protest called by some students against arrest of Anti-CAA activists, at Delhi University
*With 9,304 cases and 260 deaths in the last 24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 infections in India reached 2,16,919
*Delhi, for the first time on Wednesday, reported more cases of covid-19 infections than Mumbai...
*Delhi discovered 1,513 new cases, it highest single-day figure, while Mumbai, which is the city with the maximum number of cases, found 1,276.
*At least 30 police personnel, including an officer, have died in Maharashtra so far due to COVID-19, while over 2,500 have tested positive for the disease.
*The Supreme Court has given a week’s time to Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to decide on a consistent policy for inter-state movement in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR).
*India-origin minister Alok Sharma tests positive for coronavirus in UK.
*Globally, over 6,430,705 cases have been reported, 3,85,947 people have succumbed to the infection.
*Brazil registered a record number of daily deaths from the novel coronavirus for a second consecutive day, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday, even as city and state authorities move aggressively to open commerce back up.
*The World Health Organisation (WHO) has decided to resume the hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) part of its Solidarity Trial
*Pakistan surpasses China in COVID-19 cases as infection cases surge to 85,246.
In a first, Delhi Police ordered suspention to an assisant Sub-Inspector for not wearing mask and maintaining social distancing at the office premises.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said that the hospital doesn't give test reports on time. over 70 per cent of people are dying within 24 hours of reaching the hospital as their test reports come in 5-7 days.
"Recently, RML Hospital tested 94% samples as positive in a day, on retesting we found 45% of these to be negative. I have asked the Union Health Minister to fix this casual approach," he added.
*Two more UP police personnel deployed in Gautam Buddh Nagar have tested positive for COVID-19, officials say.
*Haryana's nodal officer for COVID-19 and his daughter test positive for coronavirus.
*Mizoram decides to test samples of returnees from containment zones using RT-PCR machines.
*PM Narendra Modi holds virtual summit with Australian counterpart Scott Morrison.
*As many as 68 new coronavirus cases reported in Rajasthan as state's tally reaches 9,720.
*A 3-year-old COVID patient was discharged from hospital after recovery.
*Swiggy expands alcohol delivery to West Bengal after Jharkhand and Odisha.
*Chhattisgarh COVID-19 cases tally rises to 680.
*As many as 90 test positive for COVID-19 in Odisha as state's total count rises to 2,478.
*Pakistan surpasses China in COVID-19 cases as infection cases surge to 85,246.
*Maruti introduces accessories to protect customers from coronavirus.
*A Chinese city close to the Russian border has ordered the COVID-19 tests for all 2.8 million residents.
*India's COVID-19 tally reaches 2,16,919 with record spike of 9,304 cases and death toll rising to 6,075.
*Doctor helps poor patients with chronic ailments get medicines.
*George Floyd, the African-American, who died in police custody last month, had tested positive for the coronavirus in April, according to the medical examiner's report.
*India-origin minister Alok Sharma tests positive for coronavirus in UK.
*US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to foreign ministers of Australia, Brazil, India, Israel, and S Korea on COVID-19 situation.
At least 30 police personnel, including an officer, have died in Maharashtra so far due to COVID-19, while over 2,500 have tested positive for the disease. -- PTI
The rising number of Covid-19 cases across the world, which has surpassed the 6.29 million mark, has paved the way for fast-tracking of clinical trials of vaccines, which are being seen as the only ray of hope in the battle against SARS-CoV-2 in the long run.
In latest developments, the Donald Trump administration has selected five companies as the most likely candidates to produce a vaccine for the coronavirus while Brazil has approved human clinical trials for the candidate being jointly developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca Plc. Read More
The Supreme Court Thursday sought finance ministry's reply on waiver of interest on loans during the moratorium period after the RBI said it would not be prudent to go for a "forced waiver of interest" risking financial viability of the banks. The top court said there are two aspects under consideration in this matter no interest payment on loans during the moratorium period and no interest to be charged on interest. A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M R Shah said that these are challenging times and it is a serious issue as on one hand moratorium is granted and on other hand interest is charged on loans. The bench was hearing a plea, filed by Gajendra Sharma, in which he has sought a direction to declare the portion of RBI's March 27 notification "as ultra vires to the extent it charges interest on the loan amount during the moratorium period, which create hardship to the petitioner being borrower and creates hindrance and obstruction in 'right to life' guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of India". -- PTI