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India’s count of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) crossed the bleak 70,000 mark on Tuesday morning as more than 3,600 new infections were reported in the past 24 hours, data from the Health Ministry showed. the Union.
There were 46,008 active cases and 22,455 recoveries or migrations along with 2,293 deaths across the country, according to the health ministry’s Covid-19 dashboard at 8 a.m., which has brought the number of cases to 70,756 so far.
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The dashboard showed 3,604 new cases and 87 deaths were recorded in the last day.
Most of the new cases come from Maharastra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Delhi. In Maharashtra, there were 23,401 Covid-19 patients and 868 deaths. Gujarat has become a cause for concern, as the state reported that 8,541 cases of Covid-19 and 513 people died from respiratory disease.
Tamil Nadu has the third highest number of cases with 8,002, followed by Delhi with 7,233, according to the Union ministry of health.
The growing number of cases of coronavirus disease was also highlighted during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with top ministers of states and Union territories on Monday
PM Modi stressed that reducing the rates of transmission of the coronavirus disease and gradually resuming public activity are the two challenges facing India.
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He also suggested that the blockade may not be lifted entirely and that states have more voice to determine the extent of the restrictions and relaxations after May 17, when the third phase ends.
In his fifth interaction with the chief ministers on the pandemic, according to the participants in the meeting, Prime Minister Modi said that the new beginning of life would be “jan se lekar jag tak” (from one individual to all humanity).
The Union’s ministry of health has established a comprehensive community surveillance strategy that experts have long said was crucial to managing the outbreak. In the new guidelines released Monday, 200 people will be screened at health centers in each of India’s 733 districts each week to verify if they have or have had Covid-19.
The guidelines have been sent to all districts, which will now need to select 10 health centers, of which six must be administered by the state, where certain groups of people will undergo a swab and blood tests.
Hyssop tests identify a concurrent infection, while blood tests can detect whether a person has had the infection previously and is now fighting or has fought it.
“It is necessary to establish a systematic surveillance of Sars-CoV-2 infection in all the districts of the country. This surveillance will be in addition to routine testing under current testing guidelines, “said the document titled” District-Level Facility-Based Surveillance for Covid-19. “
The ministry did not specify when the protocol will be implemented.
According to Johns Hopkins University’s Covid-19 tracker, more than four million people contracted the coronavirus disease and 286,330 people died worldwide.
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