Corona recap: Another record jump, B’luru reinfection case and more | India News


NEW DELHI: India’s Covid-19 case count surpassed 41 lakh with a record 90,632 people infected in one day, while 31.80,865 people have recovered so far, bringing the national recovery rate to 77.32 percent on Sunday, according to the Union. data from the ministry of health.
The total number of coronavirus cases amounted to 41,13,811, while the death toll rose to 70,626 and the new coronavirus virus claimed 1,065 lives in a 24-hour period in the country.

Here are the main developments:
India

  • The Center has asked 5 states and a UT from where 35 districts have been reporting a high number of active Covid-19 cases and a mortality rate to strengthen containment measures and expand testing to reduce the positivity rate below five percent. District collectors and other officials were advised to prepare and update specific district plans to continue their efforts to manage the pandemic.

  • The Center has asked all states and territories of the Union to ensure the necessary follow-up to its updated notice on the Covid-19 testing strategy, allowing ‘tests on demand’, to achieve a greater number of examinations with greater flexibility and simplicity.

  • With a record 73,642 patients having recovered in one day, India’s Covid-19 recoveries have risen to nearly 32 lakh, bringing the recovery rate to 77.32 percent, while the rate of fatality, one of the lowest in the world, has fallen further to 1.72 percent. as on the date, the Union’s health ministry said on Sunday.

  • South Western Railways has said it will run 40 pairs of special train services beginning Sept. 12 on specific routes. According to a statement issued by SWR on Saturday, these services will be in addition to the Shramik specials and special trains, which are already in operation.
  • Actor Arjun Kapoor said Sunday that he has tested positive for Covid-19 and is asymptomatic. The 35-year-old actor said he “feels fine” and will be in home quarantine.

state

  • Karnataka: A 27-year-old Bengaluru woman is suspected of being reinfected by SARS-CoV2. The Covid-positive woman who was discharged from a private hospital in July after testing negative, came back with similar symptoms of cough, fever, sore throat a month later, and tested positive again.

  • Delhi: After being closed for more than five months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Delhi Metro he is all set to resume services in three stages starting Monday, even as he appealed to people to use express transport only if they need it urgently.
  • Maharashtra: A mathematical projection on the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic prepared by the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research and submitted to the BMC has said that by December this year or January next year, nearly 75% of people living in neighborhoods slums in the city and in the 50% of pockets that are not slums would have antibodies.

  • Bihar: 1,797 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Bihar in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of active cases in the state to 16,603. 1,30,300 patients have recovered so far and the death toll is 754.
  • Gujarat: Deaths due to Covid-19 in Rajkot spiked suddenly in August, sounding alarms in the state’s electrical corridors, forcing Chief Health Secretary Jayanti Ravi to camp in the city for the past few days along with the commissioner of industries and former Rajkot gatherer, Rahul Gupta. .
  • ABOVE: Uttar Pradesh reported its highest peak in a single day of 6,777 Covid-19 cases and 77 deaths. With this, the state’s infection count has reached 2,66,283 and the death toll rose to 3,920.
  • Andhra Pradesh: Positive for coronavirus rose to the new normal level of over 10,000, but the number of active cases fell below the one lakh mark in Andhra Pradesh. With the addition of 10,794 in 24 hours, the aggregated Covid-19 cases now reached 4.98 lakh.

  • Goa: Even when students are away from their schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Teacher’s Day on Saturday saw students, parents, and schools across the state improvise to give their teachers a day they wouldn’t forget.

  • Jharkhand: Jharkhand’s Covid-19 count slowly advanced towards the 50,000 mark with 1,774 new cases detected, while seven new deaths brought the number of coronavirus deaths in the state to 462. New infections have brought the number up cases in the state to 49,817.
  • Tripura: At least 604 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Tripura, raising the count in the state to 15,130, a health department official said. The death toll rose to 144 after eight more people succumbed to the infection.
  • Odisha: Covid infection in slums has been reduced by 7.54%. Until the first week of August, slums reported around 20% of all cases. But as cases in other areas continued to rise, they saw a decline in slum pockets.

  • Chhattsigarh: The Chhattisgarh government has set the cost of treating Covid-19 in private hospitals in the wake of an increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the state. Patients will have to bear the cost of treatment in private hospitals, which have been classified in categories A, B and C in various districts.
  • J&K: Jammu and Kashmir recorded the highest peak in a single day of 1,316 new cases of Covid-19, raising the count to 43,557, while 14 more deaths brought the death toll to 784, authorities said. There are currently 10,446 active coronavirus cases in the UT, while 32,327 patients have recovered.
  • Telangana: Telangana boasts of Covid-19 recoveries of more than one lakh, but the state cannot afford to breathe easy, health experts warn. Among the top 10 states in the country with a high number of Covid-19 cases, Telangana has the highest number of people currently infected.

  • Rajasthan: Rajasthan recorded eight recent deaths due to Covid-19 and 726 new cases of the virus. With this, the cumulative number of deaths and cases of Covid-19 in the state has increased to 1,130 and 90,089, respectively.
  • Puducherry: A total of 478 new cases of Covid-19 and 16 deaths brought the infection count to 17,032 and the number of victims to 314 in the territory of the Union. The total number of Covid-19 cases in the territory of the Union amounted to 17,032.
  • West Bengal: In an indication that the rampant spread of the new coronavirus could, at least for the moment, be stopped to some extent, the Kolkata municipal corporation has designated only one area of ​​the city as a containment zone.

  • Uttarakhand: Four of the Uttarakhand districts have reported 77 percent of the total Covid-19 cases in the state. These four districts are Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar, and Nainital, comprising a total of 17,580 Covid-19 cases.

World

  • The new coronavirus has killed at least 880,396 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December. At least 26,947,550 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these, at least 17,709,800 are now considered recovered.
  • Mexico is working to produce its own Covid-19 vaccines and could have a list by next spring, according to a researcher coordinating local efforts amid a global race to control a disease that has infected more than 26.75 million people. people all over the world.

  • The United States is the most affected country with 188,540 deaths out of 6,246,162 cases. At least 2,302,187 people have been declared recovered.
  • Mainland China reported 10 newly imported Covid-19 cases on Saturday, Xinhua reported citing the National Health Commission. With this, the total number of imported cases has risen to 2,573.
  • Movie theaters and multiplex cinemas will reopen in Pakistan on September 11 after being closed for almost six months as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that claimed 6,382 lives in the country. Pakistan’s Covid-19 count reached 298,509 after 484 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours.

  • Nepal reported 980 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the infection count nationwide to 46,257, the Health Ministry said. Nine more people died due to complications related to Covid-19, bringing the death toll to 289.
  • Singapore reported 40 new coronavirus infections, including 13 imported and four community cases, bringing the national tally to 57,022, the Health Ministry said. Meanwhile, the ministry has removed 41 Covid-19 cases from the total count of confirmed infections, as they were added to the count due to “clerical errors.”
  • Russia has recorded 5,195 cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total to 1,025,505, the country’s coronavirus response center said. Moscow registered 620 cases, St. Petersburg registered 192 cases, the Moscow region confirmed 167 new cases.
  • Ukraine has recorded 2,107 new coronavirus cases, up from a record 2,836 on Saturday, and 35 related deaths in the past 24 hours. The updated data brings the cumulative count to 135,894 cases and 2,846 deaths.
  • South Korea confirmed 167 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, marking the fourth consecutive day of fewer than 200 new cases recorded per day, and the overall count reached 21,177, the Centers for Control and Law said. Korea Disease Prevention. At the same time, the death toll related to the coronavirus rose from 1 to 334.

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