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NEW DELHI: Covid-19 count crossed 40,000 cases across the country with new infections hitting another new record on Sunday, the third in as many days.
According to the latest report from the Ministry of Health, on Monday morning there were 42,533 new cases in the country with 1,373 deaths.
It is worrying that the number of cases has increased significantly in the last three days of the second phase of the blockade, just before restrictions in many parts of the country are eased. New cases on Sunday rose to 2,667, breaking Saturday’s record of 2,564, even as the hardest hit state, Maharashtra, continued to report a drop in cases. The state recorded 678 new cases, down from 790 the previous day, and significantly less than the peak of 1,008 on Friday.
Here’s a look at the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak in India and around the world:
Delayed peak lock by one month in late June: study
Covid-19 infection may peak in late June nationwide, a study by the Calcutta-based Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science showed. He also says the peak itself could be cut in half with more testing and tight locks in specific areas. The study also suggests that the blockage has successfully delayed the spike by one month, giving us more time to deal with the logistics of treatment.
Time to reopen Delhi, I have to live with coronavirus: Arvind Kejriwal
Wrinkling that Delhi’s economy was in crisis, raising revenue in the fund and there was almost no money to pay salaries to government officials, CM Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday that it was time to relax the closure in the city. He appealed to the Center so that the containment zones remain sealed and make the rest of the city, now totally a “red zone”, a “green zone” and allow markets to reopen from Monday. “When all economic activities are closed and income generation has stopped, how do we give wages? How do we manage the government? Kejriwal said at a digital press conference.
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13 urban expansions account for 2/3 of India’s cases, deaths
Almost three-quarters of all reported Covid-19 cases and deaths in India have been in the 35 largest urban agglomerations in the country, with two-thirds of cases and deaths in just 13 of them, according to a TOI analysis of the data.
As of Sunday morning, the number of cases reported in these 35 largest urban centers totaled 28,761, which was 72% of the 39,980 cases reported in the country. Similarly, 981 of the 1,301 deaths, or about 75%, occurred in these urban agglomerations. These AUs span 16 states and the territory of the national capital of Delhi.
Testing 1 lakh a day by the end of May: Government
As the third phase of the national blockade begins on Monday with relaxations, the government plans to increase its Covid-19 testing capacity to perform one lakh per day tests for rapid antibodies (blood-based tests) and RT-PCR. most definitive in late May. Providing new rapid test kits would mean the government’s plan to use them, particularly in red zones, as well as low-prevalence areas to track trends, will work again after an initial batch of Chinese kits did not work properly. The kits have been embroiled in controversy because ICMR finds them unreliable.
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According to the latest report from the Ministry of Health, on Monday morning there were 42,533 new cases in the country with 1,373 deaths.
It is worrying that the number of cases has increased significantly in the last three days of the second phase of the blockade, just before restrictions in many parts of the country are eased. New cases on Sunday rose to 2,667, breaking Saturday’s record of 2,564, even as the hardest hit state, Maharashtra, continued to report a drop in cases. The state recorded 678 new cases, down from 790 the previous day, and significantly less than the peak of 1,008 on Friday.
Here’s a look at the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak in India and around the world:
Delayed peak lock by one month in late June: study
Covid-19 infection may peak in late June nationwide, a study by the Calcutta-based Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science showed. He also says the peak itself could be cut in half with more testing and tight locks in specific areas. The study also suggests that the blockage has successfully delayed the spike by one month, giving us more time to deal with the logistics of treatment.
Time to reopen Delhi, I have to live with coronavirus: Arvind Kejriwal
Wrinkling that Delhi’s economy was in crisis, raising revenue in the fund and there was almost no money to pay salaries to government officials, CM Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday that it was time to relax the closure in the city. He appealed to the Center so that the containment zones remain sealed and make the rest of the city, now totally a “red zone”, a “green zone” and allow markets to reopen from Monday. “When all economic activities are closed and income generation has stopped, how do we give wages? How do we manage the government? Kejriwal said at a digital press conference.
Coronavirus outbreak: full coverage
Read our coronavirus blog live for the latest news and updates
13 urban expansions account for 2/3 of India’s cases, deaths
Almost three-quarters of all reported Covid-19 cases and deaths in India have been in the 35 largest urban agglomerations in the country, with two-thirds of cases and deaths in just 13 of them, according to a TOI analysis of the data.
As of Sunday morning, the number of cases reported in these 35 largest urban centers totaled 28,761, which was 72% of the 39,980 cases reported in the country. Similarly, 981 of the 1,301 deaths, or about 75%, occurred in these urban agglomerations. These AUs span 16 states and the territory of the national capital of Delhi.
Testing 1 lakh a day by the end of May: Government
As the third phase of the national blockade begins on Monday with relaxations, the government plans to increase its Covid-19 testing capacity to perform one lakh per day tests for rapid antibodies (blood-based tests) and RT-PCR. most definitive in late May. Providing new rapid test kits would mean the government’s plan to use them, particularly in red zones, as well as low-prevalence areas to track trends, will work again after an initial batch of Chinese kits did not work properly. The kits have been embroiled in controversy because ICMR finds them unreliable.
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Donald Trump says the US USA Will have the coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year
President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States will have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year. “We are very confident that we will have a vaccine by the end of the year, by the end of the year,” Trump said on a Fox Town “Town Hall” program broadcast from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
China concealed the severity of the coronavirus to accumulate supplies: US report
The report also says that China stopped reporting to the World Health Organization that the coronavirus “was contagious” for much of January in order to order medical supplies from abroad, and that its imports of face masks, surgical gowns and gloves increased. drastically.
