India on Saturday reported 62,714 new cases of COVID-19. (Express Photo by Amit Mehra)Coronavirus India Live Updates: The Health Ministry on Sunday said that more than 24 crore tests for coronavirus have been conducted across India. The cumulative Positivity Rate remained below 5 per cent, the Health Ministry added. Concerns for the state of Maharashtra increased as it recorded the highest positivity rate among all the states. Maharashtra recorded a 22.78 per cent positivity rate, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
India reported 62,714 new cases of coronavirus infections on Saturday. This is the highest single day rise in India this year. In the total number of cases that India recorded on Saturday, Maharashtra alone reported 35,726 new cases. With 3,162 cases, Chhattisgarh reported more Coronavirus cases than Punjab. The active cases in India rise to more than 4.86 lakh. In India, 312 people succumbed to the virus on Saturday, it is the highest since December 25.
Maharashtra on Saturday reported 166 deaths due to COVID-19, it was the highest since October 2020. The state also reported 35,726 new cases of coronavirus. Amid the surge in cases, the Maharashtra government has banned all types of social gatherings in the state, including religious and political, effective from Mar 27 onwards. Malls, restaurants and gardens will remain shut in the state from 8 pm to 7 am, a government statement said. However, home delivery of food at night has been exempted.
In Delhi, over 37,000 people were vaccinated. A total of 37,734 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 across the city. As per the health officials 6,034 people were between the age group of 45-59, while 22,932 were senior citizens. The second dose of the vaccine was administered to 4,163 people.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he will not attend any public Holi programme due to the increasing number of coronavirus cases and appealed to the people to celebrate the festival with their families and avoid crowds.
The national capital recorded 1,558 cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, the highest since since December 15 when 1,617 people tested positive for the virus, according to official data. (PTI)
Eight states and UTs have a weekly positivity rate of coronavirus infection higher than the national average of 5.04 per cent, with Maharashtra recording the highest rate at 22.78 per cent, the Union Health ministry said on Sunday.
Apart from Maharashtra, the other seven states and UTs with higher positivity rate than national average are Chandigarh (11.85 per cent positivity rate), Punjab (8.45 per cent), Goa (7.03 per cent), Puducherry (6.85 per cent), Chhattisgarh (6.79 per cent), Madhya Pradesh (6.65 per cent) and Haryana (5.41 per cent). (PTI)
“The rate at which the numbers are increasing is quite alarming and it also suggests that this wave has a more infectious strain. The huge surge in UT cases along with Tricity may also be a fallout of the same characteristics. For such a surge in number of cases, the variant must be established in the community and cannot be explained with travellers alone,” said Dr Zafar Ahmed, Senior Consultant, Critical Care, Pulmonology and Chest and Sleep Medicine, Fortis Hospital.
With Chandigarh reporting a high of 294 cases on Saturday and 81 per cent of the 401 samples sent by the Punjab government for genome sequencing having tested positive for the UK variant of COVID-19, doctors are apprehending that the surge in cases here could be because of the variant. Read More
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Puducherry added 137 new coronavirus cases during last 24 hours taking overall tally in the union territory to 41,101, a senior official of Department of Health and Family Welfare Services said on Sunday.
The 137 new cases were identified at the end of the examination of 2,020 samples, Director of the Department S Mohan Kumar said in a release. (PTI)
The Delhi Prisons Department has set up a COVID-19 vaccination centre inside Tihar Jail to vaccinate eligible inmates, officials said on Sunday.
A total of 326 inmates in the Delhi's prisons are above 60 years, and over 300 are in the 45-59 age bracket with comorbidities. These two categories are eligible for vaccination in the ongoing nationwide drive. (PTI)
While Pimpri-Chinchwad saw a dip in positive cases on Saturday—100 less than Friday's count, active cases have recorded a four-fold rise in the last 30 days.
PCMC's additional health chief Dr Pavan Salve said by February 26, Pimpri-Chinchwad had as many as 3,331 active cases. "And by March 27, we recorded 15,415 active cases. The active cases have jumped four times in one month period. Everyday we are registering more than 1,800 cases. This figure was less than 1000 at the end of February," he said. Read More
The daily count of new coronavirus infections in Pune climbed down marginally from Friday’s peak, with the city reporting 6,563 cases on Saturday. On Friday, 7,147 cases were detected in Pune, which was a new high.
With Saturday’s addition, Pune has so far seen more than 5.08 confirmed infections, the second highest for any city in the country after Delhi, which has recorded over 6.55 lakh cases so far. Read More
All educational institutions of Punjab have been closed till March 31. The exams of non-board classes of schools affiliated to Punjab School Education Board have also been postponed for the time being.
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The daily death toll of 312 is the highest since December 25, 2020 when 336 new deaths were reported. The 312 new fatalities include 166 from Maharashtra, 45 from Punjab, 14 from Kerala, 13 from Chhattisgarh, and 10 from Delhi.
A total of 1,61,552 deaths have been reported so far in the country including 54073 from Maharashtra, 12659 from Tamil Nadu, 12492 from Karnataka, 10997 from Delhi, 10322 from West Bengal, 8783 from Uttar Pradesh and 7203 from Andhra Pradesh and 6621 from Punjab.
The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities. (PTI)
In barely 10 days, the number of active Covid-19 patients in Haryana has doubled with the daily count of new cases beginning to rise rapidly.
The number of active patients in the state on March 18 was 3,957, which touched 8,410 Saturday as the state reported 1,383 new cases and seven deaths in the last 24 hours. Read More
Ludhiana administration has started its special doorstep vaccination drive four days ahead of schedule with vaccination camps in mohallas amid rising inquiries from people. The drive was to start from April 1 earlier, but it began on March 26 with a mobile vaccination camp in Partap Nagar, in the ward of Congress councillor Mamta Ashu.
On Friday at the camp, 106 persons were inoculated with their first dose. Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Saturday launched Covid vaccination camps at Housing Board colony and another at Gurdwara Shaheed Baba Deep Singh Ji in Model Town Extension locality of the city. Mamta inaugurated the free vaccination camp at Housing Board colony where 128 people got the dose on Saturday. 100 persons got themselves vaccinated at Gurdwara Baba Deep Singh ji. Read More
With the addition of 3,225 new cases of coronavirus, the tally in Maharashtra's Thane district has reached 3,05,784,an official said on Sunday.
Besides these new cases reported on Saturday, the virus also claimed the lives of eight more people, pushing the death toll in the district to 6,432, he said. (PTI)
62,714 new cases of coronavirus infections detected on Saturday. Maharashtra reported 35,726 of these cases. With 3,162 cases, Chhattisgarh reported more than Punjab.
Active cases rise to more than 4.86 lakh. 312 deaths reported on Saturday, the highest since December 24.
The total number of samples tested up to 27th March is 24,09,50,842 including 11,81,289 samples tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research.
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