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Coronavirus outbreak LATEST updates: Tamil Nadu Prime Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami announced a full closure in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai on Friday from 6 am on April 26 to 9 pm on April 29.
In addition to these three municipalities, the curfew in Salem and Tirupur will also be implemented from 6 am on April 26 to 9 pm on April 28.
“The existing restrictions / permits will continue to exist in addition to those mentioned above,” Palaniswami said.
During this time, containment areas will be strictly controlled and disinfectants will be sprayed twice a day.
A health worker at AIIMS, Delhi, tested positive for the new coronavirus on Friday, reported News18. He is a resident of a residential colony in Chhatarpur. Approximately 80 percent of AIIMS employees stay in the same building.
The district administration has asked the hospital authorities to examine all staff members in the particular department and advised everyone to quarantine to stop community transmission of COVID-19.
Between 100 and 225 health workers reside in the densely populated building.
With two more COVID-19 deaths reported in Andhra Pradesh in the past 24 hours, the number of victims in the state rose to 29 on Friday, the state’s COVID-19 Nodal Officer said.
The total number of confirmed positive cases in the state was 955 after 62 more individuals tested positive for nove coronavirus.
Up to 5.5 lakh tests of COVID-19 samples have been carried out across the country so far, the Union’s Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan said on Friday. He also said that the growth rate of coronavirus in the country is “linear and not exponential.”
With 18 more people testing positive for the new coronavirus in Karnataka, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state reached 463 on Friday.
Of the new cases, 11 were reported in Bengaluru, two in Belagavi and Bagalkote, while one in Tumkur, Chikkaballapura and Vijayapura as of 12pm on Friday.
The four COVID-19 patients previously admitted to the ICU with serious conditions have now been transferred to private wards after being treated with plasma therapy, Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday during a press conference. .
His conditions are stable now, Kejriwal said.
With 778 more people testing positive for the new coronavirus in Maharashtra, the total number of confirmed cases in the state rose to 6,427 on Friday. The state health department said 14 more deaths were reported, bringing the number to 283.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday while interacting with sarpanches said that the coronavirus pandemic has given the world a new message: ‘Coronavirus’ most important message is to make people learn the path of self-reliance. We cannot fight such epidemics without being self-sufficient. Villages should, at their level, become self-sufficient, as should zillas.
After projections by the Union Health Ministry that Mumbai would have 6.50 lakh, COVID-19 patients, by May 15, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) own estimates say that the positive cases could reach 60,000 to 70,000 in mid-May.
Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal will address the media at 12pm regarding the initial positive results of using plasma therapy to treat patients with coronavirus, ANI reported.
Plasma therapy has been applied in the treatment of a COVID-19 positive patient admitted to a Delhi hospital on Tuesday for the first time in India.
With 10 additional cases of COVID-19 reported on Thursday, the total number of positive cases in Kerala was 447, Prime Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. The state has reported three coronavirus-related deaths so far.
While the recovery rate in the state was 70.48% with 324 COVID-19 patients cured.
A four-month-old boy died of the new coronavirus in the Malappuram city of Kerala after he tested positive for the infectious disease on Thursday. The baby succumbed to the virus on Friday morning at Kozhikode Medical School.
“The boy was in treatment for heart-related problems for the past three months and had pneumonia,” said the Malappuram District Medical Officer.
India’s coronavirus cases rose to 23,077 with 1,684 new cases, and the total number reached 718 with 37 new deaths on Thursday, according to recent data from the Union Ministry of Health.
The number of active COVID-19 cases was 17,610, as 4,749 people were cured and discharged, and one patient migrated, the ministry said. Thus, about 20.58 percent of cases have so far recovered.
Tripura Prime Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said Thursday the state was free of coronavirus after its second COVID-19 patient tested negative for the virus.
“UPDATE! The second Tripura coronavirus patient has tested negative after consecutive tests. Therefore, our state has broken free from COVID. I ask everyone to maintain social distancing and follow government guidelines. Stay home, stay safe, “the chief minister tweeted.
Tripura now has 111 suspected cases of coronavirus under surveillance and another 227 have been placed in house quarantine.
India’s coronavirus cases rose to 21,700 with 1,229 new cases, and the total number approached 700 with 34 new deaths on Thursday. The Union’s health ministry, meanwhile, said it has been able to “reduce coronavirus transmission,” minimize its spread and increase the doubling time of cases over the duration of the national blockade.
The number of active COVID-19 cases was 16,689, as 4,324 people were cured and discharged, and one patient migrated, the ministry said. Thus, about 19.93 percent of cases have so far recovered. The total number of cases includes 77 foreign citizens.
AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria said Thursday it was “important to communicate with patients who are not receiving treatment due to stigma and panic,” adding: “It is important to encourage more and more people to get tested and receive treatment. ” “
“… (the stigma) is actually causing an increase in morbidity and mortality. Due to the stigma that is occurring, many patients who have COVID-19 or flu-like symptoms do not go to health care facilities” he added.
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He also said that at several centers, “we started using convalescent plasma that is the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients. A large number of recovered patients have come forward and volunteered to donate their blood.” .
The Center says there is no exponential growth in COVID-19 cases so far
At its press conference on Thursday, the Union health ministry stated that the growth of coronavirus cases in the country has been more or less linear and not exponential, adding that the tests have been constantly increasing.
CK Mishra, President of Empowered Group Two, said: “A crucial weapon that we employ during the 30-day lockout period is the RT-PCR test to determine whether one has contracted the disease or not.”
Like on March 23, almost 15,000 tests were conducted across the country and by April 22 more than 5 lakh tests were performed, which is approximately “33 times in 30 days,” he said, adding: “But we are aware of the fact that this is not enough and we have to continually increase testing in the country and we will. “
Of the empowered groups formed to suggest measures to increase health care, get the economy back on track and reduce people’s misery once the shutdown is lifted, Mishra is the chairman of Empowered Group Two tasked with coordinating hospital availability, isolation and quarantine facilities, disease surveillance, testing and critical care training.
“The growth of COVID-19 cases has been more or less linear, not exponential; this indicates that the strategies we adopted have managed to contain the infection at a particular level. After the imposition of the blockade, while the number of new positive cases has increased by 16 times, the tests increased by 24 times, “Mishra said in his presentation.
Mishra also said that in the past month, the number of hospitals dedicated to treating coronavirus patients increased 3.5-fold and the number of isolation beds increased 3.6-fold.
“Despite a 24-fold increase in testing, the percentage of positive cases does not increase. The percentage of positive cases as a proportion of tests is more or less the same as a month ago,” he said.
Mishra also stated that India has fared better than most developed countries in terms of the percentage of test cases that yield positive results.
Maharashtra, Gujarat, the most affected states
Coronavirus cases have increased in Gujarat, and the growing infections in the state have become a new cause of great concern. Just five days ago, Gujarat was at number six, with Delhi, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh, apart from Maharashtra, with more confirmed cases.
As of Thursday night, 217 more cases were reported in Gujarat, with a total number of 2,624 in the state, and Maharashtra reported a jump of 778 new cases, for a total of 6,427.
A total of 34 deaths were reported since Wednesday night, of which 18 deaths were reported from Maharashtra, eight from Gujarat, three from Andhra Pradesh, two from Rajasthan and one from Delhi, Telengana and Madhya Pradesh.
Of the 686 deaths, Maharashtra tops the list with 269 deaths, followed by Gujarat with 103, Madhya Pradesh with 81, Delhi with 48, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh with 27 each, and Telengana with 24.
The death toll reached 21 in Uttar Pradesh, 18 in Tamil Nadu, while Karantaka has reported 17 cases. Punjab has recorded 16 deaths, while West Bengal has reported 15 deaths. The disease has claimed five lives in Jammu and Kashmir, while Kerala, Jharkhand and Haryana have reported three deaths from COVID-19 each.
Bihar has reported two deaths, while Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Assam have each reported one death, according to ministry data.
However, a PTI The count of the figures reported by various states on Thursday showed 21,673 cases and 689 deaths in the country.
There has been a delay in the Union Ministry of Health figures, compared to the number of deaths announced by different states, which officials attribute to procedural delays in assigning cases to individual states.
According to the 5pm update on the official website of the health ministry, Delhi recorded 2,248 cases, Rajasthan at 1,890, Madhya Pradesh at 1,695 and Tamil Nadu at 1,629.
The number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 1,509 in Uttar Pradesh, 960 in Telangana and 895 in Andhra Pradesh. The number of cases increased to 456 in West Bengal, 443 in Karnataka, 438 in Kerala, 407 in Jammu and Kashmir, 277 in Punjab and 262 in Haryana.
Bihar has reported 148 cases of coronavirus, while Odisha has 83 cases. Forty-nine people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhand and 46 in Uttarakhand. Himachal Pradesh has 40 cases, Chhattisgarh has 36, while Assam has registered 35 infections so far.
Chandigarh has 27 COVID-19 cases, Ladakh 18, while 17 cases have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Meghalaya has reported 12 cases, and Goa and Puducherry have seven COVID-19 cases each. Manipur and Tripura each have two cases, while Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have each reported one case.
“Our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR,” the ministry said on its website. The smart distribution of states is subject to additional verification and reconciliation, he said.
Uddhav Thackeray says the government’s focus is to reduce the death rate
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Thursday that his government’s focus was to reduce the death rate of COVID-19 patients and increase the period during which the number of positive cases doubles.
He made the comments during the video conference interaction with members of two core teams that toured the cities of Mumbai and Pune, the two coronavirus hot spots in the state.
The teams carried out a review of the medical machinery, the implementation of closure and social distancing measures, the safety of health workers and the situation of workers in the reception camps, the supply of essential goods, among other things. .
A statement issued by the Office of the Chief Minister (CMO) said Thackeray told the teams that reducing the death rate of COVID-19 patients and increasing the doubling period of positive cases was his government’s focus.
Currently, the state’s patient doubling period is seven days, which should be increased to more than 10 days, Thackeray told the teams. He asked the state administration to take into account all the suggestions made by the core teams.
United States sees record levels of unemployment
Unemployment in the US USA It rose to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with one in six American workers fired from a job due to the coronavirus.
More than 4.4 million laid off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, the United States government said Thursday.
In total, approximately 26 million people, more than the population of the six largest cities in the US. USA Combined, they have now applied for unemployment aid in five weeks, an epic collapse that has increased the stakes in the debate over how and when to lift the state. He ordered restrictions on staying at home that have closed factories and other businesses from coast to coast.
Meanwhile, some countries, including Greece, Bangladesh, and Malaysia, announced extensions of their blockades. Vietnam, New Zealand and Croatia were among those moving to end or facilitate such measures.
In Africa, COVID-19 cases rose 43 percent in the past week, from 16,000 to 26,000 cases, according to John Nkengasong, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Africa. The figures underscored a recent warning from the World Health Organization that the virus could kill more than 3,00,000 people in Africa and push 30 million into desperate poverty.
Huge lines have formed at food banks from El Paso, Texas, to the suburbs of Paris, and food shortages are especially affecting Africa.
The European Union has promised € 20 billion to help vulnerable communities globally. EU leaders scheduled a virtual summit on Thursday to assess the damage the crisis has inflicted on the bloc’s own citizens and draw up an economic rescue plan.
The coronavirus has killed more than 1.84,000 people worldwide, including some 47,000 in the United States, according to a count compiled by John Hopkins University from official government figures. The true numbers are almost certainly much higher.
With contributions from agencies
Update date: April 24, 2020 15:16:20 IST
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