Covid-19 4th Wave in India Live Updates: India’s coronavirus graph recorded a slight increase on Saturday as the country registered 2,858 new Covid-19 infections, the official data says. The health ministry’s bulletin says that 11 Covid death were recorded in the last 24 hours. In the National Capital, the data suggests that the cases have come down below the 1,000-mark. While the cases may have come down in Delhi, the fatalities have seen an uptick. With four people dying due to Covid-related complications on Friday, the National Capital witnessed highest death count since March 4. In terms of active case count, there was a dip of 508 cases. Now, India has 18,096 active Covid-19 cases, the government data says.
In other news, ever since North Korea officially declared the presence of novel coronavirus in the country, the number of new infections is witnessing a surge. North Korea ruler Kim Jong Un has termed the pandemic a ‘great turmoil’ as the nation reported 21 new Covid-19 fatalities.
Here are the latest Covid related news from India and around the world.
Coronavirus (Covid-19) 4th Wave India Live Updates
Chhattisgarh on Saturday recorded one COVID-19 case, taking the tally to 11,52,334, while the death toll remained unchanged at 14,034, an official said. The one case, at a positivity rate of 0.04 per cent, was reported in Raipur, while19 districts have no coronavirus case as on Saturday, he said. The recovery count increased by one to touch 11,38,272, leaving the state with 28 active cases, the official said. (PTI)
Delhi records 673 fresh Covid cases, 4 more deaths; positivity rate at 2.77 per cent: Authorities. PTI
The COVID-19 tally in Madhya Pradesh reached 10,41,903 on Saturday after the detection of 36 cases, while the death toll remained unchanged at 10,735, an official said. The positivity rate remained at 0.4 per cent for the second consecutive day, while the recovery count increased by 24 to touch 10,30,924, leaving the state with 244 active cases, the official informed. With 8,014 samples examined during the day, the number of tests in MP went up to 2,91,85,478, he added. (PTI)
Tamil Nadu on Saturday added 35 more COVID-19 infections, including two returnees from the United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom, pushing the statewide tally to 34,54,591, the health department said. The overall death toll remained unchanged at 38,025 with zero fatalities recorded in the last 24 hours, a medical bulletin said here. As many as 51 people recovered aggregating to 34,16,158 leaving 408 active infections. (PTI)
Gujarat on Saturday recorded 31 new cases of COVID-19 that raised the tally of infections to 12,24,688, an official from the state health department said. While the toll remained steady at 10,944 with no fresh casualties, the count of recoveries reached 12,13,526 after 24 patients were discharged from hospitals during the day, the official said. With this, the number of active cases has reached 218, of which two patients are on ventilator support, he said. (PTI)
Nashik on Saturday reported a single COVID-19 case, taking the tally here to 4,76,076, while the death toll remained unchanged at 8,899, an official said. The recovery count stood at 4,67,162 and the active caseload was 15, he added. (PTI)
Over 32 crore Covid vaccine doses have been administered in Uttar Pradesh, making it the first state to achieve the fete, a spokesperson claimed on Saturday. Uttar Pradesh is followed by Maharashtra with 16.60 crore Covid vaccine doses administered so far. According to data on the CoWin portal updated till 12 pm on Saturday, around 32.01 crore of the total 189 crore vaccine doses administered in the country are from Uttar Pradesh, he said. (PTI)
Mumbai on Saturday reported 131 COVID-19 cases and one death, taking the tally to 10,61,463 and the toll to 19,565, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said. The recovery count increased by 171 during the day to touch 10,41,041, leaving the metropolis with an active caseload of 857, he said. So far, 1,70,03,650 samples have been examined in Mumbai, including 8,934 in the last 24 hours, the official added. (PTI)
Maharashtra on Saturday reported 248 new coronavirus infections and one pandemic-related death, the state health department said. The lone death was reported in Mumbai. The caseload in the state rose to 78,80,585 and death toll reached 1,47,854. On Friday, Maharashtra had reported 263 cases and one fatality. (PTI)
South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. For about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalisations, but not increases in severe cases and deaths, said Professor Marta Nunes, a researcher at Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. “We're still very early in this increase period, so I don't want to really call it a wave,” Nunes said. “We are seeing a slight, a small increase in hospitalisations and really very few deaths.” South Africa's new cases have gone from an average of 300 per day in early April to about 8,000 per day this week. Nunes says the actual number of new cases is probably much higher because the symptoms are mild and many who get sick are not getting tested. South Africa's new surge is from two variations of omicron, BA.4 and BA.5, which appear to be very much like the original strain of omicron that was first identified in South Africa and Botswana late last year and swept around the globe. (AP)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Saturday the spread of COVID-19 had thrust his country into “great turmoil” and called for an all-out battle to overcome the outbreak, as 21 daily deaths were reported among people with fever. North Korea this week acknowledged for the first time a COVID outbreak, imposing a nationwide lockdown. But there was no sign of a rigorous testing or treatment campaign in the isolated country's rudimentary healthcare system. “The spread of the malignant epidemic is a great turmoil to fall on our country since the founding,” Kim told an emergency meeting of the ruling Workers' Party, according to state news agency KCNA. (Reuters)
South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. For about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalisations, but not increases in severe cases and deaths, said Professor Marta Nunes, a researcher at Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. AP
Ladakh's COVID-19 caseload increased to 28,256 on Saturday as three more people tested positive for the viral disease, officials said. Of the fresh cases, two were detected in Leh and one in Kargil, they said. The death toll remained unchanged at 228. Of these, 168 deaths were reported from Leh and 60 from Kargil. The number of active cases in Ladakh stands at nine. So far, 28,019 COVID-19 patients have recovered, according to the officials. PTI
Odisha recorded 18 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the Health Department said. The toll remained at 9,126 as no new fatality was recorded for the 11th successive day, it said. There are 131 active cases, while eight more patients have recovered from the disease, it added. The new cases were detected after testing 15,049 samples, recording a positivity rate of 0.13 per cent. The state had logged 19 cases on Friday. Odisha has so far reported 12,88,290 cases. PTI
Puducherry logged three fresh coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours ending 10 a.m. on Saturday, taking the total number of those affected by the disease to 1,65,809. There was no fresh fatality and the toll remained 1,962. The active cases shot up to 14. Three patients recovered during last twenty-four hours and overall recoveries were 1,63,835. The Department of Health has examined so far 22,37,576 and found 18,82,349 out of them to be negative, Director of Health G Sriramulu said in a release. – PTI
Shanghai was tightening its COVID-19 lockdown for what it hoped would be the final week of its battle with the virus before it could gradually begin to ease restrictions, while Beijing kept fighting its much smaller but persistent outbreak. China's commercial hub of 25 million hoped to come out of its painful six-week-old lockdown later this month.
Four cadets at the Air Force Academy may not graduate or be commissioned as military officers this month because they have refused the COVID-19 vaccine, and they may be required to pay back thousands of dollars in tuition costs, according to Air Force officials. It's the only military academy, so far, where cadets may face such penalties. The Army and Navy said that as of now, none of their seniors are being prevented from graduating at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., or the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, due to vaccine refusals. The graduations are in about two weeks. AP
North Korea on Saturday reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population. The new deaths and cases since Friday increased total numbers to 27 deaths and 524,440 illnesses amid a rapid spread of fever since late April. North Korea said 243,630 people had recovered and 280,810 remained in quarantine. State media didn't specify how many of the fever cases and deaths were confirmed as COVID-19 infections. – AP
The official data says that India's active case count has dipped to 18, 096.
