A school in Delhi, now a Covid centre, with 100-odd churches pooling in resources. (Express photo by Amit Mehra)Coronavirus India Live Updates: India recorded 3,29,942 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours ending 8 am Tuesday. The country’s total infections stand at over 2.29 crore. Out of these, over 37.15 lakh cases are active while 1.90 crore people have recovered after testing positive. Active cases have declined for the first time in 2 months. With 3,876 new deaths, the toll is now at over 2.49 lakh.
As Covid-19 continues to spread across India, the number of vaccines administered to the adult population is falling at an alarming rate. The dip in doses is particularly acute in rural areas where the curve is rising and where there are glaring gaps in medical infrastructure, data obtained by The Indian Express revealed. According to an analysis, as many as 37 surge districts across the country reported over 50 per cent drop in jabs.
In terms of fatalities, the worrying sign is the rapid uptick in deaths in smaller states like Jharkhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Punjab and now Uttarakhand. Maharashtra continues to report the maximum number of deaths every day.
BJP President JP Nadda has expressed his anguish over Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s criticism of Centre’s handling of covid-19 crisis in the country. In a letter to Gandhi, Nadda said that India is fighting covid with “utmost courage” and that he wishes that Congress “ stops misleading people, creating false panic” amid these times. Nadda said that he was “pained” by the criticism and asked Gandhi to see if actions of Congress was “weakening the fight against Covid”
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said Delhi should prepare for the third wave of the virus and expressed confidence that given the scale at which the city is creating infrastructure, it will be able to handle even 30,000 cases each day.
BJP President JP Nadda has expressed his anguish over Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s criticism of Centre’s handling of covid-19 crisis in the country. In a letter to Gandhi, Nadda said that India is fighting covid with “utmost courage” and that he wishes that Congress “ stops misleading people, creating false panic” amid these times. Nadda said that he was “pained” by the criticism and asked Gandhi to see if actions of Congress was “weakening the fight against Covid”
With at least 18 deaths in the past 10 days, Titoli village in Rohtak district of Haryana is on the edge. While six of these deaths, confirm health officials, are related to Covid, villagers claim the count is much more. According to them, around 40 people have died of a “mystery fever” in the past two weeks.
The deaths have prompted the district administration to begin setting up a Covid centre in the village, around 60 km from Delhi, the first such centre in rural Haryana.
“Last week, I prepared a list of 32 persons who died recently. After that, the village has been witnessing an average of two deaths a day due to high temperature,’’ says Suresh Kumar, who was speaking on behalf of his sister-in-law Pramila, the village sarpanch. ‘‘People from all age groups have fallen victim to this fever. As many as six persons who died after a bout with fever were below the age of 35.” (Read more here)
India recorded 3,29,942 fresh Covid-19 cases and 3,876 deaths in the last 24 hours ending 8 am Tuesday. The country’s total infections stand at over 2.29 crore. Out of these, over 37.15 lakh cases are active while 1.90 crore people have recovered after testing positive.
Eleven Covid-19 patients in the ICU of Sri Venkateswara Ramnarain Ruia Government General Hospital at Tirupati, the largest in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, died on Monday evening due to lack of oxygen after a tanker with the gas got late by minutes.
District Collector M Hari Narayana said while the 11 people who were on oxygen support died, they were able to save several others. Nearly 1,000 Covid patients are being treated at the hospital, from Tirupati, Chittoor, Nellore and Kadapa.
Officials said the oxygen pressure started dropping after 8:30 pm and the patients died within a few minutes, before the supply could be restored. Angry relatives broke into the Covid ICU, damaged some equipment and overturned tables with injections and medicines.
SINCE April, the daily count of new cases has increased five times, from about 80,000 to more than four lakh a day now. During this same time, however, the number of deaths being reported every day has increased almost 10 times, from about 400 a day to over 4,000 a day now.
While Maharashtra continues to report the maximum number of deaths every day, the worrying sign is the rapid rise in deaths in other states, even relatively smaller ones like Jharkhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Punjab and now Uttarakhand. At the end of March, Maharashtra was contributing roughly one-third of all the deaths in the country. Now, that share is just about one-fifth.
States such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Punjab have seen a large number of coronavirus-related deaths in the last 40 days. Karnataka has now been routinely reporting more than 400 deaths a day, while the death toll in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh has been around 300 each.