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Health Ministry said that India’s COVID recovery rate is increasing day by day. (Representational)
New Delhi:
India recorded 37,148 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday taking the total count of cases to 11,55,191, including 28,084 deaths, according to the government data. A total of 587 people died due to COVID-19-related symptoms in the last 24 hours.
Maharashtra remains the worst affected state with a total of 3,27,031 cases. The second worst-hit state, Tamil Nadu reported a total of 1,75,678 COVID-19 cases while Delhi reported cumulative 1,25,096 cases.
The Union Health Ministry said that the country’s COVID-19 recovery rate is increasing day by day and on Tuesday it was 62.72 per cent.
The country’s fatality rate also dropped significantly to 2.43 per cent from 3.36 per cent on June 17 due to effective clinical management of coronavirus cases, the Centre said, asserting the country has handled the pandemic “relatively well”.
In India, the COVID-19 deaths per million population stand at 20.4 per million which is amongst lowest in the world, Rajesh Bhushan, officer on special duty in the Union health ministry, said.
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In view of the ongoing COVID-19 scenario, all passengers arriving by international flights at the Delhi Airport will have to undergo seven days of institutional quarantine at their own cost, followed by one-week of home quarantine, reports ANI.
Congress leader Marri Shashidhar Reddy on Tuesday alleged that there is a lack of transparency by Telangana government with regard to releasing the COVID-19 bulletin.
“We have been saying from the beginning that there is lack of transparency. The bulletins that are been put by the Telangana Government do not follow any standard proforma and the information is put out very selectively. Nowhere in the country and world have there this kind of lack of transparency,” the Congress leader told ANI.
“I do not know who the state government is trying to fool. The data that is available is not complete for any meaningful decisions to be taken,” he added.
Mr Reddy said that he was “happy” that the High Court is “taking an interest in making things right”.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that green shoots were visible in the economy and the stimulus package provided by the government has made a big difference to companies coping up with effects of lockdown enforced to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Addressing the India Ideas Summit organised by the US-India Business Council through video conferencing, she said that Finance Ministry and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) were working together and 3.9 per cent of GDP has been infused as liquidity in the Indian economy.
“Indicators show green shoots in the economy. Power consumption has gone up, businesses have got more traction. The stimulus has made a big difference for companies coping with the effects of the lockdown,” she said.
The minister said agriculture and infrastructure were among the sectors included in the stimulus package.
A day after Telangana High Court expressed displeasure over non-implementation of its earlier orders on COVID-19 related issues, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday directed officials to file an affidavit with all facts on tests and treatment and other relevant information.
The court had on July 20 directed senior officials, including the Chief Secretary, to appear before it on July 28 in connection with the matter.
The court had expressed unhappiness over the lesser number of COVID-19 tests being done, as compared to other states, pulled up the government and asked why it was not providing all details in the COVID-19 cases daily bulletin.
A coronavirus vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca should be available globally “at cost price” by year end, the firm’s director general said Tuesday.
“Our objective is to bring the vaccine to everybody, (and) equally to do so on a not-for-profit basis so we shall be providing the vaccine at cost price,” Pascal Soriot told RTL radio.
“At cost price that will be about 2.5 euros ($2.8) per unit.
“We hope to be able to produce a vaccine by the end of the year… perhaps a little earlier if all goes well” on the back of phase three results expected in the autumn, Soriot added in an interview.
Early results of a closely watched Phase 1/2 trial published this week in The Lancet suggest the vaccine candidate is safe and induces an immune response.
US group Johnson & Johnson has also vowed to deliver a vaccine at “non-profit” pricing.
Karnataka’s COVID-19 task force on Tuesday decided that the state government will regulate the supply of Remdesivir, the drug used in the treatment of coronavirus infected patients, to private hospitals to check black marketing and hoarding.
“Remdesivir which is currently available in the government hospitals will be supplied to private hospitals through the government. This will help curb black marketing of this drug,” Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar’s office said in a release.
Along with Sudhakar, other task force members, including Health Minister Sriramulu, Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwath Narayan and Chief Secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar attended the meeting.However Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai was not part of it as he was out of Bengaluru.
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