Active cases and deaths linked to Coronavirus complications in the country are on steady decline for more than a month now. (Picture: Reuters)Coronavirus Variants and Vaccinations, Coronavirus Active Cases in India Today’s News, November 16 Live Updates: As the Covid-19 situation improves in the country, India has allowed quarantine-free entry for foreign travellers from 99 countries almost 20 months after restrictions were imposed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. These countries have agreed to mutual recognition of Covid-19 vaccination certificates with India. According to the latest guidelines issued by the Union Health Ministry, travellers from these nations which have been listed under “Category A” need to submit a self-declaration form on the Air Suvidha portal —newdelhiairport.in — before the scheduled travel, apart from uploading a negative RT-PCR report. However, countries currently considered to be “at risk” by India, which means the travellers from where would need to follow additional measures on arrival including testing, are the UK, South Africa, Brazil, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Singapore.
Meanwhile, India reported 8,865 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the lowest in 287 days, taking its overall tally of Covid-19 cases to 3,44,56,401, while the number of active cases in the country declined to 1,30,793, the lowest in 525 days, according to data from the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday. With 197 fresh fatalities, the Covid-19 death toll surged to 4,63,852, the Health Ministry said. The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for the past 39 days and less than 50,000 for 142 consecutive days now. The active cases now comprise 0.38% of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate improved to 98.27%, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said. With the increasing pace of vaccination, the overall Covid-19 scenario in the country has improved. Even after the festivals, no major spike has been reported.
However, globally coronavirus is surging again, though in some countries. China is battling the Delta variant. It has locked down one university campus as Covid-19 cases spiked and imposed restrictions in several parts of the country. Australia has locked down unvaccinated people. Russia has been reporting a record number of fresh coronavirus infections for the past few days.
Here are the latest and verified Covid updates from India and around the globe:
Highlights
Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday recorded 144 new cases of coronavirus, taking the infection tally to 3,34,432 while two deaths due to the virus were reported in the last 24 hours, officials said. Of the fresh cases, 19 were from the Jammu division and 125 from the Kashmir division, they said. At 51, the maximum cases were recorded from Srinagar district followed by Baramulla (21). There are 1,544 active cases in the Union Territory, while the number of recovered patients was 3,28,433, they said. The death toll due to the pandemic rose to 4,455 as two more fresh deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. There are 49 confirmed cases of mucormycosis (black fungus) in the Union Territory as no fresh case was reported since Monday evening, they said. (PTI)
Andhra Pradesh reported 191 fresh COVID-19 cases, 416 recoveries and two deaths in 24 hours ending 9 am on Tuesday. The state's COVID-19 chart now showed 20,70,286 total positives, 20,53,134 recoveries and 14,418 deaths, a health department bulletin said. The active caseload decreased to 2,734, it said. Krishna district reported the highest 41 and Chittoor 37 fresh cases in 24 hours. The remaining 11 districts added less than 20 new cases each. Krishna and Prakasam districts reported one fresh fatality each in a day. (PTI)
Kerala recorded 5,516 fresh coronavirus infections and 210 deaths on Tuesday thereby raising the caseload to 50,71,135 and the toll of fatalities to 36,087. With 6,705 more people recovering from the virus since Monday, the total recoveries touched 49,71,080 and the active cases dropped to 63,338, an official press release said. Of the 210 deaths, 39 were reported over the last few days and 171 were designated as COVID-19 deaths after receiving appeals based on the new guidelines of the Centre and the Supreme Court directions, it said. As many as 70,576 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. Among the 14 districts, Thiruvananthapuram recorded the highest with 798 cases followed by Thrissur (732) and Kottayam (624). Of the new cases, 50 were health workers, 25 from outside the State and 5,105 infected through contact with the source of it not being clear in 336. There are currently 2,12,925 people under surveillance in various districts, of whom 2,07,664 are in home or institutional quarantine and 5,261 in hospitals. (PTI)
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow other manufacturers to make its experimental VOID-19 pill, a move that could make the treatment available to more than half of the world's population. In a statement issued Tuesday, Pfizer said it would grant a license for the antiviral pill to the Geneva-based Medicines Patent Pool, which would let generic drug companies produce the pill for use in 95 countries, making up about 53% of the world's population. The deal excludes some large countries that have suffered devastating coronavirus outbreaks. For example, while a Brazilian drug company could get a license to make the pill for export to other countries, the medicine could not be made generically for use in Brazil. Doctors Without Borders said it was “disheartened” that the Pfizer deal does not make the drug available to the entire world, noting that the agreement announced Tuesday also excludes countries including China, Argentina and Thailand. Fewer than 1% of Pfizer's COVID-19 shots have gone to poorer countries. (AP)
Ukraine reported record daily COVID-19 deaths Tuesday as authorities struggle to boost the country's vaccination rate amid rising coronavirus infections. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised Monday to pay 1,000 hryvnias ($38) to each Ukrainian who gets vaccinated. Ukrainians can receive their payments starting Dec. 19, authorities said. “With this money, it will be possible to purchase a gym or fitness club membership, visit a cinema, theatre, museum, concert hall or exhibition centre, or buy tickets for domestic travel,” Zelenskyy said in a video message posted on Facebook. The government plans to allocate 3 billion hryvnias ($113.8 million) to the incentive programme this year and the same amount in 2022. Ukraine reported 838 more deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the pandemic death toll in the country of about 41 million residents to 77,985. Although Ukraine has four coronavirus vaccines available -- Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Sinovac -- only 19.8 per cent of the population has been vaccinated so far, one of the lowest rates in Europe. Authorities have blamed the recent surge in new cases on widespread public reluctance to get vaccinated. (AP)
Two more persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday, pushing the tally to 55,222, a senior health department official said here. The COVID-19 death toll remained unchanged at 280 as no fresh fatality was registered in the last 24 hours, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said. The northeastern state now has 45 active COVID-19 cases, while 54,897 people have recovered from the disease so far, including one on Monday. The COVID-19 recovery rate in the state now is 99.41 per cent. West Kameng district has the highest number of active cases at 11, followed by Tawang (8), the Capital Complex region (7), Shi-Yomi and East Siang recorded five cases each. (PTI)
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday suggested that stickers for houses to notify completion of both doses of COVID-19 vaccines should be given to fully vaccinated families to encourage uptake of vaccine among the population. The minister made the suggestion during a meeting on Tuesday with non-government organisations, civil society outfits and development partners to take the "Har Ghar Dastak" Covid vaccination campaign across the length and breadth of the country, according to a Union Health Ministry statement. Mandaviya noted that 'Jan-Bhagidari' (people's participation) is essential for such a mammoth exercise like India's vaccination programme. "India stood tall in COVID-19 crisis because of the initiative of non-government organisations and civil society organisations which supplemented the efforts of the government to ensure that nobody went to sleep on an empty stomach during the Covid lockdown," he stated. (PTI)
The union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands did not record any new COVID-19 case in the last 24 hours, a health department official said on Tuesday. The COVID-19 tally in the archipelago remained at 7,674, he said. The archipelago had recorded four COVID-19 cases on Sunday, zero cases on Saturday, two on Friday and three on Thursday. The archipelago now has 11 active COVID-19 cases and all the patients are in the South Andaman district while the other two districts - North and Middle Andaman and Nicobar - are coronavirus free, he said. A total of 7,534 people have recovered from COVID-19 so far. The COVID-19 death toll remained at 129 as no fresh fatality was reported in the last 24 hours. (PTI)
Russia will lift its COVID-19 ban on flights to countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Mongolia, Costa Rica and Argentina from Dec. 1, the government coronavirus task force said on Tuesday. The government stopped normal commercial flights abroad when the pandemic struck last year, but it has since been gradually relaxing the restrictions. The flight bans dealt a heavy blow to Russia's airlines. (Reuters)
Russia has granted approval for Pfizer Inc to conduct clinical trials in Russia of its experimental antiviral pill to treat COVID-19, a state registry of medicines showed on Tuesday. The trials conducted on 90 people located in home-like conditions with someone who has symptomatic COVID-19 began on Nov. 12 and will continue until March 2023, the registry's website said.Pfizer said earlier this month the experimental antiviral pill cut by 89% the chance of hospitalisation or death for adults at risk of severe disease. It hopes to make the pill available globally as quickly as possible. The pill has the brand name Paxlovid. (Reuters)
Mizoram's COVID-19 tally surged to 1,29,386 as 611 more people tested positive for the infection while one new fatality pushed the death toll to 463, a statement issued by the Information and Public Relations department said on Tuesday. The single-day positivity rate dipped to 11.30 per cent from 15.90 per cent the previous day, as the 611 new cases were detected from 5,411 samples tested, it said. The new cases were reported from 11 districts including Aizawl (310), Lunglei (74), and Serchhip (55). A 78-year-old man in Aizawl district succumbed to the COVID-19 infection, the statement said. The state now has 5,185 active COVID-19 cases, while 1,23,738 people have recovered from the disease, including 849 in the last 24 hours, it said. (PTI)
"Assam crosses 1 cr+ 2nd dose inoculation today. Total vaccination figure has crossed 3.05 cr, covering 50% of all eligible population," tweets CM Himanta Biswa Sarma (ANI)
Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 10,45,862 on Tuesday as 206 more people tested positive for the infection, 21 more than the previous day, while two fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 8,381, a health official said. The new cases were registered in 15 of the 30 districts of the state. Khurda registered the highest number of new cases at 120, followed by Cuttack (15) and Jajpur (12). The fresh fatalities were recorded in Cuttack and Khurda districts. Fifty-three other patients have died due to comorbidities so far. Thirty-two children are among the new patients. The rate of infection among the 0-18 age group dipped to 15.53 per cent from 18.91 per cent on the previous day. The state had reported 185 fresh infections on Monday, 262 on Sunday, 247 on Saturday, 263 on Friday, 271 on Thursday and 387 on Wednesday. The daily test positivity rate slightly increased to 0.41 per cent from 0.32 per cent on Monday. The state now has 2,669 active cases, while 10,34,759 people have recovered from the disease so far, including 254 in the last 24 hours. (PTI)
Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Tuesday said the Puducherry administration has declared media persons in the union territory as front-line workers and arranged for vaccination of the scribes against COVID-19. Extending her greetings and wishes to the media persons on the National Press Day, she said the territorial government was the first to declare the media persons as front-line workers so that they would get vaccination against the pandemic. "Our government is keenly interested in taking care of the health of the press persons who had put in sustained efforts unmindful of the risk during the prevalence of pandemic in the Union Territory," the Lt Governor said. Media is an effective wing in a democracy as it propagates the principles of democracy through their coverage, she noted. (PTI)
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday chaired a meeting with non-governmental organisations, civil society groups and development partners to discuss ways to take the Covid vaccination campaign across the length and breadth of the country. The government recently launched a month-long "Har Ghar Dastak" campaign for house-to-house COVID-19 vaccination of those who are yet to take a dose and those whose second dose is overdue. "Interacted with NGOs & CSOs of the country.Discussed how an enhanced partnership between Govt & these organisations will strengthen our #HarGharDastak vaccination campaign. Our Govt seeks support of the organisations to take our campaign to every nook and corner of the country," Mandaviya tweeted after the meeting. He recently stated that more than 12 crore beneficiaries are due for their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine and had urged state health ministers to ensure that the adult population is covered with the first dose during the campaign, while those who are due for the second dose are also motivated to take it. (PTI)
Ladakh recorded 29 fresh Covid cases, taking the tally to 21,205 on Tuesday, while the active cases in the Union Territory have gone up to 200, officials said. Ladakh has registered 211 Covid-related deaths -- 153 in Leh and 58 in Kargil -- since the outbreak of the pandemic last year. Two more patients recuperated from the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 20,794, the officials said. All the fresh cases were reported from Leh, they said. A total of 316 samples tested negative for Covid in Ladakh. (PTI)
If someone loses their livelihood due to the vaccine administered by the State, is the government not duty bound to redress his grievance? the Kerala High Court asked the Centre on Tuesday. The poser came during the hearing of a man's plea for a third jab of an internationally recognised vaccine so that he can go back to Saudi Arabia, where he was working as a welder prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. He has moved the high court for a third jab of an internationally recognised vaccine as the two doses of COVAXIN he received is not recognised or approved in the Gulf nation and therefore, he is unable to travel there. Justice P V Kunhikrishnan on Tuesday said that the court was not blaming the Centre, but when a citizen stands to lose his employment or his movement is restricted due to the vaccine administered to him by the State, then "does the government not have a duty to redress his grievance"? The court directed the Assistant Solicitor General (Asst SG) Manu S, appearing for the Centre, to take instructions on why Saudi Arabia was not recognising COVAXIN when the vaccine has been approved for international emergency use by WHO. The Asst SG said that the vaccines were administered to save lives which was the focus during the pandemic and therefore, the Centre could not wait for international acceptance of the same. He also said that the government has its limitations with regard to imposing something on a foreign nation. The court, however, said that restriction of movement or loss of employment of a citizen due to a vaccine administered by the State was 'infringement of his Fundamental Rights". (PTI)
People taking a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) were significantly less likely to die of COVID-19 than those who did not use the medicine, a large analysis of health records from 87 health care centers across the US has found. The findings, published in the journal JAMA Network Open on Monday, add to a body of evidence indicating that SSRIs may have beneficial effects against the worst symptoms of COVID-19, although large randomised clinical trials are needed to prove this. "We can't tell if the drugs are causing these effects, but the statistical analysis is showing significant association," said Marina Sirota, an associate professor at University of California (UC) San Francisco, US. The team, including researchers from Stanford University in the US, analysed electronic health records from the Cerner Real World COVID-19 de-identified database, which had information from almost 500,000 patients across the US. This included 83,584 adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between January and September, 2020. Of those, 3,401 patients were prescribed SSRIs. The large size of the dataset enabled researchers to compare the outcomes of patients with COVID-19 on SSRIs to a matched set of patients with disease who were not taking them. (PTI)
Ukraine registered a record 838 coronavirus-related deaths over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The previous high of 833 deaths was on Nov. 9. The ministry's data showed 16,308 new infections were reported over the past 24 hours. Ukraine has reported a total of 3.24 million coronavirus cases and 77,985 deaths. (Reuters)
Puducherry added 33 new cases to its COVID-19 tally, which touched 1,28,495 on Tuesday. The new cases identified at the end of examination of 2,364 samples were spread over Puducherry 16, Karaikal five, Yanam eight and Mahe four. The active cases were 320 and they comprised 91 in hospitals and remaining 229 in home isolation, Director of the health department G. Sriramulu said. Eighteen patients recovered and were discharged during last 24 hours and total recoveries were 1,26,309. No fresh fatality was reported from any of the four regions of Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam today and the total toll remained 1866. The Department of Health has examined so far 19.55 lakh samples and found 16.52 lakh out of them to be negative. (PTI)
Brazil registered 63 COVID-19 deaths on Monday and 2,799 additional cases, according to data released by the nation's Health Ministry. The South American country's coronavirus death toll is second in the world only to the United States, but the pandemic has abated significantly in recent months, as it has in much of Latin America. Brazil has now registered a total of 611,346 COVID-19 deaths and 21,960,766 total confirmed cases. (Reuters)
Mexico's health ministry reported 775 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 57 more fatalities on Monday, bringing the country's overall death toll from the pandemic to 291,204 and the total number of cases to 3,846,508. Officials have said the ministry's figures likely represent a significant undercount of both COVID-19 cases and deaths. (Reuters)
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China reported 22 new confirmed coronavirus cases for Nov. 15 compared with 52 a day earlier, its health authority said on Tuesday. Of the new infections, 11 were locally transmitted cases, according to a statement by the National Health Commission, compared with 32 a day earlier. China reported 13 new asymptomatic patients, which it classifies separately from confirmed cases, compared with 14 a day earlier. There were no new deaths, leaving the death toll unchanged at 4,636.As of Nov. 15, mainland China had 98,337 confirmed coronavirus cases. (Reuters)
Two more persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday, pushing the tally to 55,222, a senior health department official said here. The COVID-19 death toll remained unchanged at 280 as no fresh fatality was registered in the last 24 hours, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said. The northeastern state now has 45 active COVID-19 cases, while 54,897 people have recovered from the disease so far, including one on Monday. The COVID-19 recovery rate in the state now is 99.41 per cent. West Kameng district has the highest number of active cases at 11, followed by Tawang (8), the Capital Complex region (7), Shi-Yomi and East Siang recorded five cases each. The state has thus far tested over 11,93,673 samples for COVID-19, including 705 on Monday, the SSO said, adding that the positivity rate stood at 0.28 per cent. (PTI)
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#COVID19 | Of the 8,865 new cases, 11,971 recoveries & 197 deaths reported in the last 24 hrs, Kerala reported 4547 new cases, 6866 recoveries and 57 deaths. (ANI)
India's daily Covid-19 deaths rise by 197, total death toll at 463,852 - Health Ministry (Reuters)
The union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands did not record any new COVID-19 case in the last 24 hours, a health department official said on Tuesday. The COVID-19 tally in the archipelago remained at 7,674, he said. The archipelago had recorded four COVID-19 cases on Sunday, zero cases on Saturday, two on Friday and three on Thursday. The archipelago now has 11 active COVID-19 cases and all the patients are in the South Andaman district while the other two districts - North and Middle Andaman and Nicobar - are coronavirus free, he said. A total of 7,534 people have recovered from COVID-19 so far. The COVID-19 death toll remained at 129 as no fresh fatality was reported in the last 24 hours. The administration has so far tested 6,18,103 samples for COVID-19 and the cumulative test positivity rate is 1.24 per cent. (PTI)
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Two billion doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine have been supplied worldwide, the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker and its partner said on Tuesday, in just under a year since its first approval. The shot, which is the biggest contributor to the COVAX vaccine sharing scheme backed by the World Health Organization, is being made in 15 countries for supply to more than 170 countries, London-listed AstraZeneca and Oxford University said in a joint statement.AstraZeneca in June last year signed on India's Serum Institute, the world's biggest manufacturer of vaccines by volume, to help double the vaccine's manufacturing capacity to two billion doses. The ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 shot, sold under the brand names Vaxzevria and Covishield, has faced challenges around efficacy data, supplies and links to rare blood clots. AstraZeneca last week said as the world learns to live with the coronavirus which causes COVID-19, it would begin to earn a modest profit from the shot after having made a commitment to sell it at cost during the pandemic.The company's chief executive officer, Pascal Soriot, however, reassured that low-income countries would continue to receive vaccines on a non-profit basis. (Reuters)
With the addition of 103 new cases of coronavirus, the infection count in Maharashtra's Thane district has reached 5,67,786, an official said on Tuesday. Besides these new cases reported on Monday, three people also succumbed to the viral infection, which raised the death toll in the district to 11,558, he said, adding that the COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane is 2.03 per cent. In neighbouring Palghar district, the COVID-19 case count has gone up to 1,38,341 and the death toll stands at 3,289, another official said. (PTI)
A Houston hospital has temporarily suspended a doctor for spreading false information about COVID-19 to her patients and on social media. Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, an ear, nose and throat specialist who runs a private practice in River Oaks, had been granted provisional privileges at Houston Methodist Hospital within the last year. The hospital revoked Bowden's hospital privileges on Friday citing "unprofessional behavior," including vulgar language on social media, as the main reason for suspension, the Houston Chronicle reported. On her Twitter account, Bowden repeatedly decried vaccine mandates and promoted the unproven benefits of ivermectin, the anti-parasitic drug that federal health officials advise against using to treat the virus. In emails obtained by the Chronicle, Bowden was urging against vaccinations for children and telling her patients that data she has collected "suggests that the vaccine is not working." "Dr. Mary Bowden, who recently joined the medical staff at Houston Methodist Hospital, is using her social media accounts to express her personal and political opinions about the COVID-19 vaccine and treatments," Houston Methodist said in a statement. (AP)
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a 'Level One' COVID-19 notice for Americans travelling to India, saying the risk of contracting the infection and developing severe symptoms may be lower if one is fully vaccinated. The travel health notice has also been issued for Pakistan. However, the US State Department issued level two and three travel advisories for India and Pakistan, saying while citizens are urged to reconsider travel to Pakistan due to terrorism and sectarian violence, those going to India must exercise increased caution due to crime and terrorism. The CDC in its health travel notice 'Level One' said, "Your risk of contracting COVID-19 and developing severe symptoms may be lower if you are fully vaccinated with an FDA (Food and Drug Administration) authorised vaccine." In its advisory for India, the State Department urged US citizens not to travel to Jammu and Kashmir due to terrorism and civil unrest, and also within 10 kilometres of the India-Pakistan border due to the potential for armed conflict. "Indian authorities report rape is one of the fastest growing crimes in India. Violent crimes, such as sexual assault, has occurred at tourist sites and in other locations," it said. (PTI)
Punjab reported 33 COVID-19 cases and one fatality due to the disease on Monday, pushing the state's infection tally to 6,02,825 and the death toll to 16,573. Among the new cases, Ferozepur reported 11, followed by Pathankot with eight and Jalandhar with three. The number of active cases now stands at 321, according to a medical bulletin. Thirty-one more people have recuperated from the disease, taking the number of recoveries so far to 5,85,931, it showed. The Union Territory of Chandigarh reported five new COVID-19 cases, taking its total count of infections to 65,389. No fresh death due to the disease was reported in Chandigarh and the toll stands at 820, the bulletin showed. The number of active cases in the city is 30, while the number of recoveries is 64,539. (PTI)
One fresh fatality pushed Sikkim's COVID-19 death toll to 401 on Monday, while the Himalayan state's caseload remained unchanged at 32,101 as no case was recorded, a health bulletin said. A 79-year-old man succumbed to the infection at a hospital in Tadong near Gangtok. Sikkim now has 115 active cases, while 31,251 people have recovered from the disease, and 334 patients have migrated to other states so far. The Himalayan state has thus far tested over 2.65 lakh samples for COVID-19. The state's daily positivity rate stood at zero for the first time since the outbreak of the second wave of the pandemic. (PTI)
Assam on Monday reported three COVID-19 fatalities, while 253 new cases, an increase of 124 from the day before, pushed the tally in the state to 6,14,166, a bulletin issued by the National Health Mission (NHM) said. With the detection of 253 new cases against the testing of 43,156 samples on Monday, Assam has reported a positivity rate of 0.59 per cent for the day, the bulletin said. Dibrugarh, Jorhat, and Kamrup Metropolitan districts reported one death each, taking the total deaths due to the virus in the state to 6,052. The bulletin said 1,347 more COVID-19 patients have died till now, but the government's Death Audit Board has not included them in the tally of deaths caused by the virus as they had other ailments too. The state had logged 129 new infections on Sunday against the testing of 20,318 samples. Assam currently has 1,807 active coronavirus cases. (PTI)
Chhattisgarh's COVID-19 tally rose to 10,06,386 on Monday with an addition of 28 new cases, while no fresh death due to the infection was reported in the state, a health department official said. The COVID-19 death toll remained unchanged at 13,588, he said. The number of recoveries rose to 9,92,543 after 4 people were discharged from hospitals, while 6 others completed their home isolation during the day, the official said. The state now has 255 active cases. With 23,874 swab samples examined during the day, the number of coronavirus tests conducted so far went up to 13,934,653, he said. Chhattisgarh's coronavirus figures are as follows: Positive cases 10,06,386, new cases 28, death toll 13,588, recovered 9,92,543, active cases 255, total tests 13,934,653. PTI