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Coronavirus outbreak updates: Samples from a deputy deputy inspector attached to the Vinoba Bhave Nagar police station in Mumbai who died on Friday tested positive for a new coronavirus.
Confirmed cases in Rajasthan rose to 3,708, including 106 deaths, as the state registered 129 new infections and three deaths in Satuday, the state health department said.
The Union health ministry has decided to deploy core teams in 10 states that have a high case load and are registering a large number of cases, in addition to the twenty teams deployed in districts with a large number of cases.
1,165 new cases, 48 deaths were reported in Maharashtra. The total number of positive cases in the state increases to 20,228, while the number reaches 779, according to the evening bulletin issued by the state health department.
In a series of tweets, the rail ministry said the West Bengal government today approved eight special trains to bring stranded migrant workers back to various states, however, no Maharashtra trains have been approved, he said.
The country’s largest paramilitary force, CRPF, reported on Saturday 62 of new Delhi-based single-unit coronavirus infections, authorities said. The total number of active cases in the 3.25 lakh-strong force is now 231, they said. Two people have recovered from the coronavirus while one succumbed to the infection.
According to reports, 23 deaths and 394 new cases were reported in Gujarat in the last 24 hours. The total number of cases in the state reached 7,797, including 472 deaths.
Tamil Nadu registered 526 new cases in the last 24 hours and Chennai registered 279 cases with four deaths, reports News18. The total number of coronaviruses has infections in the state has reached 6,535.
The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been expanded to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been performed so far in 332 government laboratories and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan .
The number of confirmed cases in Delhi increased to 6,542 as 224 new infections were reported between 4 p.m. Friday and midnight. According to data published by the Office of the Chief Minister, there were no new deaths and the number of victims is 68
Karnataka registered 41 new infections on Saturday, bringing the statewide total to 794, including 30 deaths and 386 recoveries, according to the 5 pm bulletin issued by the state health department.
Two people who were brought back to Kerala on an evacuation flight on May 7 tested positive, bringing the number of active cases in the state to 17, Prime Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.
The Tamil Nadu government announced major relaxations in the blockade guidelines in non-containment zones starting Monday. Essential stores can operate from 6 a.m. at 7 p.m., while independent and neighborhood stores open from 10 a.m. at 6 p.m. and from 10:30 a.m. at 6 p.m. in Chennai.
“The number of active cases of COVID-19 is 1800 in Uttar Pradesh and 1,399 patients have recovered. Our average recovery rate is around 43 percent compared to the national average of 30 percent.” AND ME He quotes Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad as saying.
In a fight over the transport of stranded migrants to West Bengal, railway officials said Saturday that so far there has been no recorded proposal with the national carrier to operate more ‘Shramik Special’ trains to the state.
The Indian Railways reaction came minutes after the TMC said they had already planned to operate eight trains to transport migrants from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Telangana. The railroad said they did not yet have the proposal for the train, which according to the TMC was scheduled from Hyderabad to Malda on Saturday at 3 p.m.
As the Center began operating special trains to send stranded migrant workers back to their states, about 1.09 lakh of migrant workers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh requested on a Haryana government website to come to the state, Indian express reported.
According to the report, around 79.29 percent of migrant workers have requested to come to Gurgaon, Faridabad, Panipat, Sonipat, Jhajjar, Yamunanagar and Rewari. Just over 50,000 of them want to come to the Gurgaon district.
Authorities believe the state’s low numbers of coronaviruses are a factor for workers seeking return. As of Friday, Haryana had 647 positive cases,
West Bengal is running 711 camps for migrants in the state, we are taking good care of them, said TMC leader Derek O’Brien, reacting sharply to the allegations made by the Center about the failure of the West Bengal government to implement standard operating procedures . in bringing back the stranded migrants.
TMC leader Derek O’Brien on Saturday accused Amit Shah of being biased with BJP-ruled states in stopping the migrant worker movement.
“The Home Secretary is writing many letters to Bengal, but nothing was done in Karnataka when the CM stopped the migrant workers movement. He later had to revoke the decision. The Uttar Pradesh government has waived all labor laws , but there were no letters written for them, “O’Brien said.
He further alleged that the Center was responsible for the railway accident in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
In response to Amit Shah’s letter to West Bengal Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that migrants were not allowed to enter the state on trains, Derek O’brien of TMC was quoted by News18 as saying: “The Minister of the Inland India finally woke up from a deep sleep. We wonder if it has helped any migrant. “
A letter from the Home Minister first arrived in Delhi before reaching the Government of West Bengal. You sent doctors to Gujarat but an IMCT to Bengal, why are you playing?
The current doubling rate of COVID-19 cases in India improved to 11 days compared to 9.9 days in the last week, while the death rate has been recorded at 3.3 percent, Health Minister said on Saturday of the Union, Harsh Vardhan.
The Maharashtra Department of Education said that a fee increase cannot be imposed on schools for the 2020-21 academic year. “Parents should not be required to pay the remaining fee for the 2019-20 academic year and the 2020-21 fee at one time, they should be given monthly / quarterly payment options,” said the state Department of Education.
Since the migrant worker problem is the last critical point between the Center and the government of West Bengal, Interior Minister Amit Shah criticized Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for not obtaining “expected support” to help migrant workers to get home.
“The West Bengal government is not allowing trains with migrants arriving in the state. This is an injustice to West Bengal migrant workers. This will create more difficulties for them,” Shah said in his letter to Mamata.
In addition, he noted that the Center has facilitated the return of more than 200,000 migrant workers to reach their homes and that West Bengal workers are also eager to return.
According to the latest notice from the Ministry of Health on the discharge policy for patients with COVID-19, for mild and pre-symptomatic cases, patients can be discharged after 10 days of symptom onset and without fever for three days.
For moderate cases, patients will be discharged only after resolution of clinical symptoms and the ability to maintain oxygen saturation above 95 percent for three consecutive days without support.
For severe cases, patients will be discharged after negative by RT-PCR.
Rajasthan recorded a total of 3,636 positive cases of COVID-19 after 57 more individuals tested positive for the infectious disease on Saturday. According to the state health department, the number remained at 103 with no new deaths recorded in the past 24 hours.
With 3,320 more people testing positive in the past 24 hours across the country, the total number of confirmed cases rose to 59,662 on Saturday. Of the total, there were 39,834 active cases.
The Karnataka government has allowed liquor to be sold in independent clubs, hotels and bars, where the existing alcohol stock in MRP can be sold, reported News18.
Alcohol can only be purchased to go from 9 a.m. at 7 p.m. from Saturday to May 17.
Karnataka has been one of the few states that has wanted to restart economic activities and obtain income for the state.
The National Human Rights Commission issued notices on Friday to the Maharashtra chief secretary and the Aurangabad district magistrate to more than 16 migrant workers who were hit by a freight train. The incident occurred between Badnapur and Karmad stations in the Nanded Division.
The NHRC has learned of media reports of the dismantling of 16 migrant workers by the freight train in the early hours of Friday, it said in a statement.
Officers have been instructed to file a detailed report within four weeks. “It should also include details of the steps taken by state and district authorities to provide food, shelter and other basic services to poor people, especially migrant workers, who face extreme hardship from all angles during the closure caused by the coronavirus, “it said.
The national COVID-19 case count reached 56,342 on Friday with more people testing positive for deadly virus infection in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, among other states.
India recorded an increase of 103 deaths and 3,390 infections in the past 24 hours, while the number of people who recovered from the infection exceeded the 16,000 mark and the number approached 1,900.
Meanwhile, the situation in Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra remained worrying, as both cities reported 748 and 111 cases, respectively. The massive increase in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region was reported along with the news that the head of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation was replaced by the Maharashtra government on Friday.
BMC Commissioner Pravin Pardeshi will exchange offices with Iqbal S Chahal, currently additional chief secretary (urban development).
Delhi, Chennai and Ahmedabad emerged as other major points in the country, with the National Capital reporting 338 new cases, while the other two cities registered 399 and 269 cases, respectively.
Peak in cases continues despite prolonged blockage
A large number of new cases were reported during the day in various cities in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, while Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha also reported an increase in their accounts.
The number of active cases of COVID-19 was 37,916. While 16,539 people have recovered, one patient has migrated, he said. “Therefore, about 29.35 percent of patients have recovered so far,” said a senior health ministry official.
The total number of cases includes 111 foreign citizens.
The total of 103 deaths reported since Thursday morning include 43 in Maharashtra; 29 in Gujarat; eight in Madhya Pradesh; seven in West Bengal; five in Rajasthan; two each in Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh; and one in Bihar, Delhi, Karnataka, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
Of the 1,886 deaths, Maharashtra tops the count with 694 patients dying from COVID-19, Gujarat ranks second with 425 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh in 193, West Bengal at 151, Rajasthan at 97, Delhi at 66, Uttar Pradesh at 62 and Andhra Pradesh at 38.
The death toll reached 37 in Tamil Nadu, 30 in Karnataka, while Telangana has reported 29 deaths. Punjab has recorded 28 deaths from COVID-19, Jammu and Kashmir nine, Haryana seven, Bihar five and Kerala four.
Jharkhand has recorded three deaths from COVID-19. Odisha and Himachal Pradesh have reported two deaths each.
Meghalaya, Chandigarh, Assam and Uttarakhand have each reported one death, according to ministry data.
According to data from the Ministry of Health updated in the morning, the largest number of confirmed cases in the country is Maharashtra with 17,974 followed by Gujarat with 7,012, Delhi with 5,980, Tamil Nadu with 5,409, Rajasthan with 3,427, Madhya Pradesh with 3,252 and Uttar Pradesh at 3,071.
The number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 1,847 in Andhra Pradesh and 1,644 in Punjab.
The count has increased to 1,548 in West Bengal, 1,123 in Telangana, 793 in Jammu and Kashmir, 705 in Karnataka, 625 in Haryana and 550 in Bihar.
Kerala has so far reported 503 cases of coronavirus, while Odisha has 219. A total of 135 people have been infected with the virus in Chandigarh and 132 in Jharkhand.
Tripura has reported 65 cases, Uttarakhand is 61, Chhattisgarh is 59, Assam is 54, Himachal Pradesh is 46, and Ladakh is 42.
33 cases of COVID-19 have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Meghalaya has recorded 12 cases, Puducherry has nine, while Goa has seven. Manipur has two cases. Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadar and Nagar Haveli have each reported one case.
“Our figures are reconciled with the ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research),” the ministry said on its website.
Distribution at the state level is subject to further verification and reconciliation, he said.
MHA says ‘learn to live with viruses’
During a press conference on the situation of COVID-19, the joint secretary of the Ministry of Health, Lav Agarwal, said: “As we speak of relaxations in the confinement and of migrant workers returning to their respective homes, we have before us a great challenge. You also have to learn to live with the virus. “
“And when we talk about learning to live with the virus, it is very important that the guidelines that exist to save from the virus are adopted in the community as a behavior change,” he added.
It is a big challenge and the government needs the support of the community for it, added Agarwal.
The ministry also had several data sets, including those showing an increasing number of infection-free districts and an increasing recovery rate, to suggest the success of the government’s strategy in the COVID-19 fight, even when seeking “a behavior change “and everyone’s support in this massive challenge.
However, Maharashtra Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray admitted that he has not yet succeeded in breaking the chain of viruses, saying that his government can seek the deployment of central forces, if necessary, to allow personnel from the Police rest in stages. The state leads the national count of confirmed cases and deaths.
Ugly side of the immigration crisis
Sixteen migrant workers who slept on the train tracks while returning to Madhya Pradesh were crushed by a freight train in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. The migrant workers, unemployed due to the forced closure by the coronavirus and desperate to go to their places of origin, were walking on the train tracks apparently to escape the attention of the police.
Those killed and the four other migrant workers who survived were all men, authorities said. A viral video clip of the tragedy scene shows the bodies of migrant workers lying on the tracks and nearby with their scant personal belongings scattered.
Aurangabad SP Mokshada Patil said PTI that three of the four survivors had tried in vain to wake up their colleagues who had slept on the runway after a night walk from Jalna, some 40 kilometers from the crash site. The workers were walking to Bhusawal from Jalna along the train tracks as they returned to their home state of Madhya Pradesh, an official at the Karmad police station said.
The governments of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh announced financial aid of Rs 10 lakh to Rs 5 lakh each for the families of the deceased.
Separately in Karnataka, hundreds of migrant workers gathered at the Mangaluru station in protest. They told local police that they were trapped in the city without work, money and adequate food and that they were even willing to walk to their home states if the special trains were not operated immediately.
Meanwhile, a statement was filed Friday with the Supreme Court seeking an address to the Center to ask all district magistrates in the country to identify stranded migrant workers and provide them with shelter and food before guaranteeing their free transportation to native places in view of The Aurangabad Tragedy.
The economic costs of confinement cause concern
With the pandemic and blockade underway severely hitting the economy, Punjab Prime Minister Amarinder Singh urged the Prime Minister to explain the way forward for the country’s economic renaissance and an exit strategy for the third phase of the blockade .
A national blockade has been in place since March 25, which was first imposed for 21 days, but was extended first for another 14 days until May 3 and then for another 14 days in the third phase, with considerable relaxation, until May 17.
The economic cost of the COVID-19 fight and the ongoing national blockade also appeared to be on the rise, as Moody’s Investors Service projects India’s economic growth at zero percent for the current prosecutor. He also said that high public debt, weak social and physical infrastructure and a fragile financial sector are facing new pressures due to the coronavirus outbreak.
According to experts, industrial establishments and other businesses may also face a severe labor shortage once they resume operations after the close, which has been in effect since March 25 and is scheduled to continue until May 17. Lakhs of migrant workers have either gone to their places of origin or are in the process of doing so, including on trains and buses organized by state governments.
There are also concerns that the spread of the virus may further grow in newer areas after these movements, while large numbers of Indians stranded abroad have also begun to return home on special flights.
Since its outbreak in China last December, it was discovered that more than 38.6 lakh people are infected with this virus, while more than 2.7 lakh people have been killed. So far, nearly 13 lakh people have recovered, including around 2 lakh in the United States.
Separately, a panel of experts, formed to suggest ways to revive the Maharashtra economy, hit by the COVID-19 crisis and the resulting shutdown, presented its report to the government later in the day.
Several states have been taking steps to shore up their resources, including by imposing higher taxes on fuel and liquor.
After Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and several others, the Himachal Pradesh government has decided to impose a ‘coronation’ on liquor sales, while Puducherry Prime Minister V Narayanasamy also said that the territorial administration was reflecting on the imposition. of the special tax COVID-19 on liquor. out of the current fiscal crisis.
However, the Madras High Court ordered the liquor stores in Tamil Nadu to be closed a day after it reopened, but allowed liquor to be sold over the Internet and delivered to the door until the end of the closure.
The Supreme Court also asked states to consider non-direct contact or online sales and home delivery of liquor during the closing period to prevent the spread of the coronavirus due to overcrowding in stores.
The opening of liquor stores was allowed in the third phase of the closure, which began on May 4, subject to compliance with social distancing and other guidelines issued by the government.
With PTI tickets
Update date: 10 May 2020 07:10:32 IST
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