Madhya Pradesh House’s winter session was postponed after five MLAs tested positive for Covid.
New Delhi:
India’s daily number of COVID-19 cases rose 6.88% today from yesterday to touch 20,021. The number of recent deaths, 279, remained the same as yesterday, according to data published by the Central Health Ministry. The overall death toll since the January outbreak is now 1.47,901, while the country’s total number of active cases stood at 2.77,301 of the 1,02,07,871 positives recorded so far. The number of recoveries increased today by 21,131, to touch 97.82,669.
Here are the top 10 developments on this front over the past 24 hours.
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India’s number of active COVID-19 cases remained below 3 lakh for the seventh day in a row. Its 2,77,301 active coronavirus infections comprise 2.72 percent of the total number of cases, the data showed.
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, who tested positive for COVID-19 recently, was transferred to Government Doon Medical College in Dehradun after developing a fever, an official said Monday.
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Today begins a two-day trial for the coronavirus vaccination program in Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat and Assam. Focus on the management of possible adverse events after immunization. The states will report their observations to the Center. The government plans to cover 30 million people in the first phase when it launches the Covid vaccine.
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The winter session of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, scheduled to begin today, was postponed hours after the protem speaker revealed that 61 Assembly secretariat employees and officials and five MLAs had tested positive for coronavirus. The decision to postpone the three-day session was made at an all-party meeting held in the evening, he said.
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Hyderabad is poised to emerge as a “savior” from the coronavirus, with up to five vaccine makers – Bharat Biotech, Biological E and Aurobindo Pharma, Dr Reddy’s and Hetero – based in the city competing to come up with an antidote. Some of these companies have also developed plans to expand their vaccine manufacturing capabilities.
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Hundreds of British tourists forced to self-quarantine at the Swiss ski resort of Verbier fled at night instead of watching their holidays go downhill, the local municipality said on Sunday. About 200 of the 420 or more resigned under cover of darkness, the SonntagsZeitung newspaper reported.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will receive the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, a Kremlin spokesman told a television channel on Sunday. Russia launched a voluntary vaccination program in December, starting with the most vulnerable groups in Moscow.
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New York state health officials said Saturday they are investigating a Brooklyn-based healthcare provider on suspicion of violating state guidelines for the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. ParCare Community Health Network “may have fraudulently obtained the COVID-19 vaccine, transferred it to facilities in other parts of the state in violation of state guidelines …,” the New York State Health Commissioner said in a statement.
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Top US government scientist Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that the worst of the pandemic could be yet to come, bringing the country to a “tipping point” as vacation travel spreads the coronavirus. President-elect Joe Biden had warned Wednesday that “the nation’s darkest days are ahead of us, not behind us.”
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After delaying it for nearly a week and under pressure from all sides, US President Donald Trump finally signed a massive $ 900 billion stimulus bill on Sunday, in a much-sought boost for millions of people. Americans and companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The package “providing emergency response and relief from coronavirus” is part of a broader spending bill that, with Trump’s signature, will prevent a government shutdown on Tuesday.
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