At the Covid Care Center in Radha Soami Satsang Baes, Chhatarpur, in New Delhi on Sunday, April 18, 2021. (Express photo by Abhinav Saha)Coronavirus India Live Updates: The Delhi government announced a curfew from tonight till next Monday in view of the rising Covid-19 cases in the city, officials from the LG’s office said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair an important meeting on the Covid-19 situation at 11:30 am on Monday.
India reported 2,73,810 new Covid-19 cases and 1,619 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Union Health Ministry. The total cases in the country now stand at 1,50,61,919. There are 19,29,329 active cases in the country at present while 1,29,53,821 people have recovered from the disease. The death toll is at 1,78, 769. As many as 12,38,52,566 people have been vaccinated so far.
Meanwhile, with shortage in supplies being flagged across the country, Delhi Sunday joined the growing list of states that are scrambling to ensure adequate availability of oxygen for Covid patients as the country continued to witness a rise in coronavirus cases.
The Centre, however, placed the onus of tackling the situation on state governments, with Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal saying that they “should keep demand under control”.
Earlier, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal pointed out that Delhi is facing an “acute shortage of oxygen”. “In view of sharply increasing cases, Delhi needs much more than normal supply. Rather than increasing supply, our normal supply has been sharply reduced and Delhi’s quota has been diverted to other states,” he tweeted.
Covid-19 testing at Civil Hospital in Ludhiana on Sunday. (Express Photo by Gurmeet Singh)
The Delhi government has set up two control rooms to monitor and manage the supply of "Covid-19 management drugs" amid a massive rise in coronavirus cases in the national capital, reported PTI.
Delhi on Sunday recorded the biggest jump in its daily Covid-19 tally with 25,462 fresh cases, while the positivity rate shot up to 29.74 per cent -- meaning almost every third sample being tested in the city is turning out to be positive.
In an order, the government's Drugs Control Department said that the step has been taken to address reports of "acute shortage of COVID-19 management drugs due to a sudden rise in COVID-19 cases in Delhi".
The steep hike in Covid-19 cases continued in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday in what was the state’s worst day since the pandemic began last year. The state reported a record 30,596 infections and 129 deaths in 24 hours.
With this active cases jumped to 1,91,457 while the toll rose to 9,830. The four worst-hit districts – Lucknow, Prayagraj, Varanasi, and Kanpur Nagar – have reported 1,13,152 cases this month, which is more than 46 per cent of the 2.23 lakh caseload recorded in UP in the last 18 days. At present, Lucknow has 47,700 active cases, Prayagraj 15,761, Varanasi 14,915, and Kanpur Nagar 11,446. These districts have also reported more than 35 per cent of the deaths.
The steep hike in Covid-19 cases continued in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday in what was the state’s worst day since the pandemic began last year. The state reported a record 30,596 infections and 129 deaths in 24 hours.
With this active cases jumped to 1,91,457 while the toll rose to 9,830. The four worst-hit districts – Lucknow, Prayagraj, Varanasi, and Kanpur Nagar – have reported 1,13,152 cases this month, which is more than 46 per cent of the 2.23 lakh caseload recorded in UP in the last 18 days. At present, Lucknow has 47,700 active cases, Prayagraj 15,761, Varanasi 14,915, and Kanpur Nagar 11,446. These districts have also reported more than 35 per cent of the deaths.
Chittoor and East Godavari have emerged as the worst Covid-19 affected districts in Andhra Pradesh, with a combined total of nearly two lakh thirty thousand positive cases, according to officials. While Chittoor logged 1,00,254 cases and 918 deaths, East Godavari recorded 1,29,312 cases and 638 deaths.
The second wave has seen the number of cases rise quickly, and from December to April, the positivity rate was 7.77 per cent. The rate of infections and positivity is higher in Chittoor followed by Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, Krishna, Guntur and Nellore districts.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair an important meeting on the Covid-19 situation at 11:30 am on Monday.
From helping people get through lockdowns to saving lives of Covid-19 patients, cops have always risen to the occasion when it comes to the country fighting the novel coronavirus.
The latest example of this was seen in Delhi on Monday. Hours after the daughter of an 80-year-old man suffering from Covid-19 called the cops to help her take her father to a hospital, Delhi Police got him admitted to RML Hospital.
The man had put up a note outside his house in Rajinder Nagar saying his body should be handed over to the police after his death.
The Delhi government Monday directed all Drug Inspectors to personally monitor the entire procurement process of Remdesivir injection, starting from placement of order and its receipt by the distributor/dealer from the Company depot/CFA, news agency ANI reported.
It doesn’t need a galaxy of experts to list what’s needed: boosting Covid vaccination, augmenting oxygen and beds, expanding genome sequencing, ramping up testing and tracing, bringing down the infection level — all of this double quick.
But as the second wave climbs higher each day, both in cases and deaths and the Centre and states scramble to respond, there’s a growing — and grudging — acceptance that one obvious fact eluded many. That, in a population of a billion plus, a pandemic doesn’t vanish as it seemed to do barely a couple of months ago. That a second wave was going to come.
A 'Corona Curfew' was imposed in Bhopal Municipal Corporation and Berasia municipality areas from 6 am on Monday to 6 am on April 26, in the wake of the current Covid-19 situation. Below are some visuals from Bhopal.
Delhi Government Monday deputed officers at Oxygen filling plants, medical oxygen cylinders and Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) suppliers to oversee the entire procurement process of medical oxygen by the filler agency, news agency ANI reported.
India Monday reported 2,73,810 new Covid-19 cases and 1,619 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Union Health Ministry.
The total cases in the country now stand at 1,50,61,919. There are 19,29,329 active cases in the country at present while 1,29,53,821 people have recovered from the disease. The death toll is at 1,78, 769. As many as 12,38,52,566 people have been vaccinated so far.