Coronavirus Latest News Updates: Jaishankar discussed the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and underlined the need for the importance of finding urgent and effective global vaccine solution
Latest News LIVE Updates: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday held a comprehensive in-person meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and discussed the challenges posed by the pandemic and underlined the need for the importance of finding urgent and effective global vaccine solutions.
Maharashtra recorded 24,136 new cases on Tuesday, taking the state's infection tally to 56,26,155, while 601 fatalities pushed the death toll to 90,349, the state health department said.
Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday reported 2,422 fresh positive cases and 68 fatalities, taking the tally to 7,69,696 and the toll to 7,686 while 7,373 patients were discharged, the state Health Department said.
With 163 fresh deaths, the toll in Uttar Pradesh mounted to 19,519, while 3,957 new cases pushed the tally to 16,77,508 in the state on Tuesday, according to an official statement.
The Assam government on Tuesday advanced the night curfew in rural areas to 2 pm from the current 6 pm to contain the surge of cases.
Bharat Biotech on Tuesday said it expects approval for its vaccine Covaxin from the World Health Organisation for Emergency Use Authorisation by July-September. The company said regulatory approvals for Covaxin are in process in more than 60 countries including the USA, Brazil and Hungary among others.
Kerala on Tuesday reported 29,803 new cases, taking the total count to 23,65,565, while recoveries mounted to 21,32,071 with 33,397 recovering from the infection. The toll rose to 7,731 with 177 more deaths. Those who tested positive for the virus today included 94 health workers. Active cases stood at 2,55,406.
Moderna said on Tuesday its vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12,reports news agency AP.
The company studied more than 3,700 12- to 17-year-olds. Preliminary findings showed the vaccine triggered the same signs of immune protection in kids as it does in adults, and the same kind of temporary side effects such as sore arms, headache and fatigue.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday alleged that "countless" lives have been lost during the second wave due to the Centre's "negligence", and asserted the government must be held accountable so that those in power understand their responsibility towards the country.
Delhi records 1,568 new cases and 156 deaths, taking total cases reported so far to 14,19,986 and toll to 23,565. With 4,251 persons recuperating from the disease, the total number of recoveries surged to 13,74,682 and the National Capital has 21,739 active cases, according to the state government's health bulletin.
As the vaccine mismanagement and the resultant shortage continue, the daily vaccination has come down to 980 per million people as of May 23, down from 1,455 per million a week earlier and against the world average of 3,564 per million, according to a report.
The only saving grace is the continuing decline in the pandemic caseload, which has been trending downward for the second week in a row as daily cases declined 22 per cent sequentially in the week ended May 23, which is faster than the 15 per cent fall the week before, Crisil said in the report.
More than 1.77 crore vaccine doses (1,77,67,850) are still available with the states and UTs to be administered, the Union health ministry said, adding that seven lakh vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by them within the next three days.
The Maharashtra government has decided to stop home isolation for patients of 18 districts where the positivity rate is high, reports news agency ANI quoting state health minister Rajesh Tope. "The patients from these districts will have to go to a quarantine center, won't be allowed home isolation," the news agency quotes Tope as saying.
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court noted that of the 150 ventilators supplied to Marathwada, through the PM-CARES Fund, 113 are defective and 37 were not unboxed, reports LiveLaw.
Twenty-sixth May marks six months since the farmers agitation began against the Central government's controversial farm laws. In view of this, the Bharatiya Kisan Union had given a call to the farmers to march to the capital.
"Tomorrow, 26 May will mark six months of farmer protests. Harvest season is over. BKU and farmer unions are coming to Delhi," said advocate Dhananajay Grover.
The Delhi High Court Bench hearing matters related to the situation in the National Capital on Tuesday refused to go into a plea regarding the proposed march by Punjab farmers into Delhi on 26 May in protest against the farm laws.
The court said that issues concerning farmers protests is being handled by the Supreme Court and the High Court will not examine the same.
The single-day rise in cases fell below 2 lakh taking the overall count to 2.69 crore, while the toll rose to 3,07,231, according to health ministry data updated on Tuesday.
The number of people who have recuperated from the novel increased over 2.40 crore on Tuesday, taking the national recovery rate to 89.26 percent, said the health ministry.
The active cases in India further reduced to 25.86 lakh on Tuesday, comprising 9.6 percent of the total infected by the novel .
India recorded over 1.96 lakh fresh infections in the past 24 hours, taking the country's tally over 2.69 crore.
With the death of 3,511 more patients in the past 24 hours, the toll in the country climbed above 3.07 lakh, said the Union health ministry on Tuesday.
This takes the national fatality rate to 1.14 percent.
The health ministry said 12.52 lakh beneficiaries in the 18-44 age group received their first dose of vaccine on Monday and cumulatively 1.18 crore people across 37 states and UTs have received it since the start of Phase-3 of the vaccination drive on 1 May.
The cumulative number of vaccine doses administered in the country has exceeded 19.84 crore, the Union health ministry said on Monday.
West Bengal on Monday reported 17,883 new cases and 153 more deaths, as per a bulletin issued by the Health Department. The new cases were detected after testing 66,288 samples in the last 24 hours.
There are 1,28,585 active cases in the state at present, while 19,670 patients recovered during the day. The state has so far reported 12,84,973 cases and 14,517 deaths.
North 24 Parganas accounted for 47 deaths, while there were 35 deaths in Kolkata. Of the latest deaths, 56 were caused by comorbidities where was incidental.
North 24 Parganas registered a maximum of 3,793 cases, while Kolkata accounted for 3,121 fresh cases.
So far, 11,41,871 people have recovered from the disease in the state.
Mira Bhattacharjee, the wife of former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, was discharged from a private hospital after recovering from .
"She is fine but will have to be in home isolation for the time being. She will have to be on several medicines as well," an official of the hospital said.
The state inoculated 1,80,616 people on Monday and no adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) were reported from anywhere, an official of the Health Department said.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated a treating unit in Bhowanipur which was earlier the Kolkata Police Hospital.
