Coronavirus LIVE Updates: Surpassing Russia, India today became the third worst-hit nation with 6,90,396 Covid-19 cases, according to covid19india.org.
Delhi recorded 2,505 fresh coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking the tally close to the one lakh mark, while the death toll from the disease mounted to 3,067, authorities said. The national capital recorded 63 new fatalities on Sunday, a Delhi health department bulletin said. The bulletin said the death toll from coronavirus infection has risen to 3,067, and the total number of cases mounted to 99,444.
Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said that the government is preparing SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for opening of hotels in the state. He said that a decision on dates will be taken soon. The announcement came after Thackeray held a meeting with hotel owners today.
Meanwhile, Air India said it will operate 36 flights between India and USA from July 11 to July 19 under Vande Bharat Mission.
The Ministry of Science and Technology today said that none of the Covid-19 vaccines may be ready for mass use before 2021. The statement is in contrast to ICMR’s claim that said it “envisages to launch the vaccine for public health use latest by August 15, 2020 after completion of all clinical trials”.
“With the primary scientific inputs coming from institutions like Pune based ICMR institution National Institute of Virology and Hyderabad based CSIR institution Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, six Indian companies are working on a vaccine for COVID-19. Along with the two Indian vaccines, COVAXIN and ZyCov-D, the world over, 11 out of 140 vaccine candidates have entered the human trials. None of these vaccines is unlikely to be ready for mass use before 2021,” the ministry said.
Mahender Yadav, 1984 anti-Sikh riots convict and former MLA, passed away at a hospital. He had tested positive for Covid-19. Yadav was earlier lodged in Mandoli jail and serving a sentence of 10 years, Sandeep Goel, Delhi Director General (Prisons) said.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Police has claimed that two terrorists, who were killed in an encounter at Arreh village in Kulgam on Saturday, have been tested positive for Covid-19. Their samples were collected while carrying out the medico-legal formalities, they said.
Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has called for 3T strategy of testing, tracing and treating to fight Covid-19, even as he asked other states to emulate Delhi’s high tests per million to tackle the pandemic. Kant’s advice came as India’s Covid-19 tally neared 6.5 lakh cases on Saturday with a record single-day spike of 22,771 new infections even as the recovery rate improved to 60.81%. While the nationwide tally climbed to 6,48,315, the death toll rose to 18,655 with 442 new fatalities, according to Union Health Ministry data. The numbers were led by Maharashtra, which crossed the two lakh-mark on Saturday after 7,074 new cases were reported from in 24 hours. The number of fatalities reported was 295 — of this 124 deaths occurred in the last 48 hours and the remaining 171 were from the previous period.
The central government said several people-centric measures taken as part of the “test, trace, treat” strategy and that facilitation of widespread testing by states has spurred the number of samples tested daily. During the last 24 hours, 2,42,383 samples have been tested, pushing the cumulative number of tests to 95,40,132, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. This was the second consecutive day when cases increased by more than 20,000. There has been a surge of 4,57,780 COVID-19 cases from June 1 till date. Of the 442 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 198 are from Maharashtra, 64 from Tamil Nadu, 59 from Delhi, 21 from Karnataka, 18 each from Gujarat and West Bengal, 14 from Uttar Pradesh, 10 from Rajasthan, eight each from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, five from Punjab, four each from Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, three from Bihar, and two each from Assam and Odisha.
Of the total 18,655 deaths reported so far, Maharashtra accounted for the highest 8,376 fatalities, followed by Delhi with 2,923 deaths, Gujarat with 1,904, Tamil Nadu with 1,385, Uttar Pradesh with 749, West Bengal with 717, Madhya Pradesh with 593, Rajasthan with 440 and Karnataka with 293 deaths.
The death toll reached 283 in Telangana, 255 in Haryana, 206 in Andhra Pradesh, 157 in Punjab, 119 in Jammu and Kashmir, 80 in Bihar, 42 in Uttarakhand, 29 in Odisha and 25 in Kerala.
Jharkhand has registered 15 deaths, Chhattisgarh and Assam 14 each, Puducherry 12, Himachal Pradesh 10, Chandigarh six, Goa four and Meghalaya, Tripura, Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh have reported one fatality each, according to the Health Ministry. More than 70% of the deaths took place due to co-morbidities, it said.
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