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The Center also weighed the pros and cons of further easing the restrictions for a gradual exit from the twice-extended blockade that will end on May 17, but sources said the restrictions still in place are unlikely to be removed from once.
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said Sunday that the video conference will begin at 3 p.m. This will be Modi’s fifth interaction with the chief ministers since the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
Meanwhile, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said that no cases of Covid-19 have been reported in 10 states and Union territories in the past 24 hours and that the recovery rate has increased to more than 30 percent, stating that India was “moving rapidly on the path of success” in the fight against the pandemic.
According to data from the health ministry, 1,511 Covid-19 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, the highest number of recoveries recorded in one day.
Announcing the gradual resumption of passenger services that was suspended from the first day of closure on March 25, the Railways said in a statement that air-conditioned services will initially begin with 15 pairs of trains (30 return trips) in Rajdhani routes and fare would be equivalent to that of the super fast train.
Special trains will run from New Delhi to Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Central Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Jammu Tawi. Passengers have been asked to arrive at the railway stations at least one hour before the train departs.
Authorities said that unlike the “Shramik Specials” for transporting migrant workers, in which only 54 passengers were allowed instead of the regular 72, these trains will run at full capacity, but no fares are likely to be allowed. A total of 366 trains have transported nearly four lakh of migrant workers since the first special train was launched on May 1.
The reservation to book on these trains will start at 4 p.m. Today and will be available only on the IRCTC website.
Sources in the union government said the focus of the prime minister’s meeting would be to boost economic activities and drive efforts to convert COVID-19 high-load “red” areas into “orange” or “green” areas. .
On May 1, the Union Ministry of Health classified 733 districts as 130 in the red zone, 284 in the orange zone and 319 in the green zone, taking into account the incidence of cases, the duplication rate, the scope of evidence and surveillance comments.
In some good news on efforts to increase testing, Vardhan said the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune has successfully developed the first indigenous test kit that will play a critical role in monitoring the proportion of the population exposed. to coronavirus infection.
The test kit has the advantage of analyzing 90 samples together in a single 2.5-hour run, so healthcare professionals can quickly proceed with the necessary next steps on their patients’ selection pathways, Vardhan said.
“The National Institute of Virology, Pune has successfully developed the first indigenous anti-SARS-CoV-2 human IgG ELISA test kit for the detection of COVID-19 antibodies,” the minister said in a series of tweets.
Vardhan said India performed 86,000 tests for COVID-19 on Saturday and its testing capacity is now 95,000 samples per day. As of Saturday, 16,09,777 tests were conducted for COVID-19 in India, he noted.
India started from a laboratory and now there are 472 laboratories that test for COVID-19, he said after inspecting a COVID-19 call center in the Mandoli area of the national capital.
There are 4,362 coronavirus care centers across the country where 3.46,856 patients with mild or very mild symptoms can be maintained, he added.
“We are moving rapidly on the path of success in the fight against COVID-19. The doubling rate for the last three days is 12 (days). The recovery rate has crossed 30 percent. Of about 60,000 COVID-19 patients, about 20,000 have recovered and gone home.
“Our death rate is still 3.3% … In the past 24 hours, there have been no cases in 10 states and Union territories. There are four states or Union territories where there has not been a single case so far, “said Vardhan. India has 36 states and Union territories.
At a meeting on Sunday, the state’s top secretaries told Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba that while protection from COVID-19 is required, economic activities must also be intensified in a calibrated manner.
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