A health worker collects a sample of a man for COVID-19 test at a centre, in New Delhi, Saturday, July 4, 2020. (Express Photo By Amit Mehra)
Delhi Coronavirus (Covid-19) India News Live Updates: Delhi reported 63 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry bulletin said on Monday. The national capital now has a death toll of 3,067. The national capital on Sunday reported 2,244 fresh infections, with the total number of novel coronavirus infections in the national capital rising to 99,444. The latest bulletin, issued on Sunday night, said 71,339 patients have recovered or have been discharged so far, while the number of active cases stood at 25,038. As many as 6,43,504 tests have been conducted so far.
Meanwhile, fewer Covid-19 patients in Delhi now require hospitalisation, and the capital has ample beds and more ICU capacity than is needed at the moment, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday. “Less and less people in Delhi are now requiring hospitalisation, more and more people are getting cured at home. Whereas there were around 2,300 new patients daily last week, the number of patients in hospitals has gone down from 6,200 to 5,300. Today, 9,900 corona beds are free,” Kejriwal posted on Twitter before the visit to the hospital in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, India recorded a single-day jump of 24,248 cases, pushing the country’s total tally to 6,97,413 on Monday. With 425 new fatalities, death toll stood at 19,693. India overtook Russia on Sunday evening to become the country with the third-largest caseload of novel coronavirus infection in the world.
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District authorities in South West Delhi have delinked three hotels from the hospitals they were attached to serve as COVID-19 care facilities due to low-occupancy, and some other districts may follow suit, news agency PTI reported.
Four hotels -- Piccadilly at Janakpuri District Centre, Taj Vivanta in Dwarka, Pride Plaza in Aerocity, and Welcome in Dwarka Sector 10 -- were attached to hospitals closest to them, in mid-June, to serve as facilities for coronavirus patients with moderate symptoms.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday appealed to hospitals to counsel their COVID-19 patients to donate plasma after 14 days of recovery from the disease. Addressing an online media briefing, the chief minister said that there has been a spike in demand for plasma over the past 4-5 days, after the opening of a plasma bank in Delhi.
But there are not many donors, he said, appealing to hospitals to encourage their recovered patients to donate. He also said that Delhi at present has 15,000 COVID-19 beds of which only 5,100 are occupied. (PTI)
Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Sunday recorded 118 more positive cases of COVID-19 taking its tally to 2,765, exactly four months since the first case of the novel virus was detected in the district, official data showed. The number of active cases in the district, however, stood at 978, according to the data released by UP Health Department for a 24-hour period.
Also, 113 patients were discharged during the period, taking the overall number of recoveries to 1,759 in the district so far, the data showed. The recovery rate improved to 63.61 per cent from 62.20 per cent on Saturday and 59.98 per cent on Friday, according to official statistics. The mortality rate here stands at 1.01 per cent, slightly lower than 1.05 per cent on Saturday, according to the statistics.
Gautam Buddh Nagar currently has the second highest active cases of COVID-19 after adjoining Ghaziabad district (1,203) in the state. They are followed by Lucknow (550), Kanpur Nagar (337), Meerut (287), Varanasi (269), Aligarh (215), Bulandshahr (190), Mathura (186), Hapur and Bareilly (both 153) and Allahabad (152), the data stated. (PTI)
The Delhi government on Sunday instructed all health care facilities to carry out compulsory rapid antigen detection testing of patients with ILI symptoms, patients admitted with SARI and other high-risk individuals who visit their facilities. An order issued by the Delhi Health department directed all medical directors, medical superintendent and directors of all Delhi government-run hospitals to ensure that "rapid antigen detection testing" of all individuals/patients falling in the categories listed, who visit their hospital, is mandatorily done.
All individuals with influenza-like illness (ILI) symptoms, all patients admitted with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) are to be mandatorily tested, it said. "All asymptomatic patients admitted or seeking admission of following high - risk group -- Patients undergoing Chemotherapy, Immunosuppressed patient including HIV+, Patients with Malignant disease, Transplant Patients, Elderly patients ( > 65 years of age ) with co-morbidities and all asymptomatic patients undergoing aerosol generating interventions," the order said. (PTI)