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Business News›News›Newsblogs›Covid News LIVE Updates: Assam imposes more restrictions, all offices shut in urban areas for 15 days
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Economic Times | 12 May, 2021 | 01.51PM IST
Covid News LIVE Updates: Assam imposes more restrictions, all offices shut in urban areas for 15 days
- COVID-19: Record 4,205 fatalities in single day in India, 3.48 lakh new cases
- Bharat Biotech gets nod for phase 2/3 clinical trials of Covaxin on 2 to 18-year-olds
- US working closely with India on COVID-19 crisis, says White House
- Karnataka to get 2 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses through global tender
- Indian Covid-19 variant found in 44 countries, all regions: WHO
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K'taka lockdown: Migrants returning to hometowns
Migrant workers gather at Bengaluru Cantt railway station to board a train back to their home town as the state is under 14-day lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19
Rajasthan | It's true that there’s more infection in rural areas, nearly 70% positive cases are from villages. About 2,000 people are infected with COVID-19. Medical teams are identifying positive cases, collecting samples and home isolating them: Dr BL Vishnoi, CMHO Barmer
All districts in India with 10% plus Covid-19 rates need to remain locked down for 6-8 weeks -ICMR chief
500-bed ICU Centre at Delhi's Ramlila Ground to become operational from today
500-bed ICU Centre for COVID19 patients at Delhi's Ramlila Ground to become operational from today https://t.co/6Ovf9kE3Yw
— ANI (@ANI) 1620806388000COVID-19: DU's Hansraj College sets up RT-PCR testing centre on premises
Operational licence can be given to 150-bed closed hospital: Delhi govt to HC
- The Delhi government has told the Delhi High Court that an operational licence can be given for the 150-bed multi-speciality hospital which was closed down due to insolvency resolution process against its parent company, if it has all the requisite infrastructure in place.
- The Delhi government said however that it cannot bear the expenditure or provide logistical support for running the hospital as a COVID-19 centre as its resources -- manpower, medicines and equipment -- were already "stretched thin" in operating its own hospitals.
Nursing staff at forefront of fighting COVID-19: PM Modi
Goa: Task force to look into problem of oxygen shortage
A Special Task Force be appointed by the High Court and headed by a retired High Court Judge along with medical professionals to look into the problem of oxygen supply and life-saving medicines at hospitals in Goa: South Goa Advocates' Association
Request Centre to understand severity of situation, stop export of vaccine, and share vaccine formula with other manufacturers
- Delhi Dy CM Sisodia
Urge Centre to approve vaccines available in international market for use in India, direct states to vaccinate everyone in 3 months
- Manish Sisodia
Centre should act as the government of a country and stop all exports: Delhi Deputy CM
- We had demanded 1.34 cr doses, 67 lakhs each of Covaxin & Covishield. Covaxin (Bharat Biotech) wrote to us y'day that they can't provide. They wrote 'we're making dispatches as per directives of concerned govt officials'. Obvious that these are central govt officials: Delhi Dy CM Manish Sisodia
- Our reserve stock is exhausted. The centres administering Covishield vaccines are functioning but we have had to close the centres administering Covaxin. So, we have had to close down more than 100 centres across 17 schools.
- Centre should act as the governemnt of a country. They should carry out their responsibility and stop all exports
Stricter curbs in Assam from 5 am tomorrow
In view of rising COVID-19 cases, stricter restrictions to come into force w.e.f. 5 am on May 13 till further order… https://t.co/eDrtvmAzDi
— ANI (@ANI) 1620801320000Chhattisgarh | Complete lockdown to be imposed in Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district from midnight today till midnight of 15th May
SC should form a parallel national govt for COVID management: Maha Cong chief
Supreme Court should not only form a task force for COVID management but also form a parallel National Government as the Modi-led BJP govt has failed to protect the country from the pandemic. There is a provision in Constitution for this: Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole
Puducherry reports 2,007 new positive cases, 1,247 recoveries and 27 deaths in the last 24 hours
Active cases at 15,562 and total cases at 77,031
Haryana: Panchkula depot converts 5 minibuses into ambulances
Each mini bus will have 4 beds with 2 oxygen cylinders. These ambulances will be operated by our drivers along with paramedical and nursing staff: Panchkula depot general manager, Vinay Kumar
India opened up prematurely, Dr Fauci on COVID-19 crisis
"The reason that India is in such dire straits now is that they had an original surge and made the incorrect assumption that they were finished with it, and what happened, they opened up prematurely and wind up having a surge right now that we're all very well aware of is extremely devastating,” America's top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci told the Senate Health, Education, Labour and Pensions Committee during a hearing on Tuesday on the COVID-19 response.
There is a shortage of oxygen in the country that's why Supreme Court has created National Task Force (NTF). People are dying due to the shortage of oxygen. Maharashtra also faced a shortage of oxygen but our govt controlled it well. NTF has to work hard
- Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut
Arunachal Pradesh reports 205 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths
Gift from France
The second shipment of 40 tons of oxygen, donated by France's Air Liquide Group and filled in Qatar reaches Mumbai… https://t.co/bpgXgHNeIQ
— ANI (@ANI) 1620796320000Karnataka to get 2 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses through global tender: Deputy Chief Minister and state COVID task force head Dr CN Ashwath Narayan
Vaccination drive halted at some centers in Nagpur
Maharashtra | Vaccination drive halted at some centers of Nagpur due to the shortage of COVID-19 vaccines. "I ca… https://t.co/dTrwQVibj0
— ANI (@ANI) 1620795610000Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan will have a meeting with the Health Ministers of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Telangana on Covid vaccination
1,428 new Covid cases reported from Maharashtra's Thane, toll jumps to 8,173 with 65 more deaths
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories enters into voluntary licensing agreement with Eli Lilly to expand access to Covid-19 treatment in India
- Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd has entered into a royalty-free, non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreement with Eli Lilly and Company for the manufacture and commercialization of the drug, baricitinib, in India: Dr Reddy's
- It received restricted emergency use approval from Central Drugs Std Control Org, Health Ministry, for use in combination with Remdesivir to treat suspected/laboratory-confirmed COVID in hospitalized adults requiring supplemental oxygen, invasive mechanical ventilation
Mizoram reports highest single-day spike of 240 COVID-19 cases
- Tally- 8,035
- Toll- 23
- Active cases: 2,010
India reports 3,48,421 new COVID19 cases, 3,55,338 discharges and 4205 deaths
- Total cases: 2,33,40,938
- Total discharges: 1,93,82,642
- Death toll: 2,54,197
- Active cases: 37,04,099
- Total vaccination: 17,52,35,991
Over 94 pc of Thane cops receive 1st dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Gujarat: Fire at Covid care centre; 61 patients shifted
- A fire broke out at a hote turned-Covid care centre in Gujarat's Bhavnagar town in the wee hours Wednesday, officials said, adding nobody was hurt.
- Altogether 61 coronavirus patients were shifted from the facility to other hospitals after the "minor fire and smoke", an official said.
- There were 68 patients at the facility when the fire broke out. The remaining seven will be shifted soon, he said.
30,75,83,991 samples tested up to 11th May 2021, for COVID19. Of these, 19,83,804 samples were tested yesterday: ICMR
Bharat Biotech's Covaxin recommended by expert panel for phase 2/3 trials on 2-18 year-olds
The trial will take place in 525 subjects at various sites, including AIIMS, Delhi, AIIMS, Patna and Meditrina Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur.
Uttarakhand: CM Tirath Singh Rawat dispatched 80 MT of oxygen, sent by the central government, through the Oxygen Express at various stations in the state at the railway station at Harrawala
He said that this oxygen will be sent to Garhwal Division & Kumaon Division.
Thailand reports new daily record of 34 coronavirus deaths
Thailand's COVID-19 taskforce also reported 1,983 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of infections to 88,907 since the pandemic began last year. The total number of fatalities now stands at 486.
This is the biggest crisis India has ever seen: Eminent Indian-American philanthropist on COVID-19
“This is the biggest crisis India's ever seen. So, what I urge them to do is two things: One is make sure you support your family and friends in India. But this is the one time that everybody should do more,” Indiaspora founder M R Rangaswami, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who lost his sister in Chennai due to COVID-19 said.
Delhi: A flight from South Korea carrying medical aid lands at the Airport
Delhi: A flight from South Korea carrying medical aid landed at the Airport #COVID19 https://t.co/3IT5jr4bdk
— ANI (@ANI) 1620776509000Haryana: 56 prisoners in Karnal Jail test Covid positive
As many as 56 prisoners in Karnal Jail tested positive for COVID19 in last few days. “After prisoners tested positive, we made isolation zone in jail. As it is a matter of concern, all precautionary measures being taken to tackle situation,” said Civil Surgeon.
Medical aid from Netherlands reaches India
Delhi: Flight carrying medical aid from the Netherlands arrived at Delhi Airport https://t.co/SwfOscoLE8
— ANI (@ANI) 1620762570000US working closely with India on COVID-19 crisis: White House
While the assistance from the US government has been worth USD 100 million, the private sector has donated an additional USD 400 million, totalling half a billion dollars to India, State Department Spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at his daily news conference on Tuesday.
Jharkhand reports 4,365 new cases, 7,531 recoveries and 103 deaths
- Active cases: 54,533
- Total recoveries: 2,38,277
- Death toll: 4,085
China reports 16 new mainland COVID-19 cases vs 14 a day earlier
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Mainland China now stands at 90,799, while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,636.
