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COVID-19 India Updates: India has tested a total of 1,93,58,659 samples so far. (File)
Coronavirus Live Updates: India reported a new record surge on Saturday morning in coronavirus cases with 57,118 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 16,95,988. The country also witnessed 764 COVID-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said.
The total fatalities due to the virus now stand at 36,511. The country’s Covid tally had crossed the 16 lakh-mark on Friday, just three days after crossing the 15 lakh infections. More than 10.94 lakh patients have recovered; the recovery rate stood at 64.52 per cent on Saturday.
India has tested a total of 1,93,58,659 samples so far. The positivity rate – percentage of patients who have tested positive for coronavirus – stood at 8.57 per cent.
Meanwhile, India cannot count on herd immunity to stop the coronavirus pandemic given its demography and scale, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, adding that the country will have to rely on a vaccine to fully beat COVID-19. Israel and India are conducting trials on a large sample of patients for four different kinds of technologies that have the potential to detect COVID-19 in about 30 seconds, including a breath analyser and a voice test, according to the Israeli government.
Here are the Live Updates on Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases:
The number of COVID-19 containment zones has come down to 496 in Delhi after an extensive review by the AAP government, providing relief to thousands of people living in such restricted areas.
A review meeting was held by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday on the status of the containment zones in the national capital.
“The number of containment zones in Delhi scaled down from 715 on July 27 to 496 on July 31.
“This move will bring significant relief to residents of some red zones in the city that have been contained for months,” a statement from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said.
Mr Kejriwal directed the health department and district officials to analyse the situation at regular intervals, it said.
The number of containment zones was 715 in Delhi by the end of July, affecting nearly 3.5 lakh people.
In a bid to augment the testing facilities, Odisha government on Saturday allowed private hospitals, nursing homes and laboratories to conduct COVID-19 tests through Rapid Antigen and RT-PCR methods, a notification issued by the health and family welfare department said.
The department issued a separate set of guidelines for conducting sample tests both under Rapid Antigen and RT-PCR.
The private health establishments have to abide by the ICMR norms.
The sample test results should first be informed to the state authorities before being released to the person whose test was conducted, the notification said.
For Rapid Antigen tests, the private bodies can charge a maximum of Rs 450 while the price for RT-PCR tests is fixed at Rs 2,200 per test. The nursing homes, hospitals and laboratories should be mandatorily registered under the Odisha Clinical Establishment (control & regulation) Act, 1990.
As many as 25 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday, taking state’s COVID-19 tally to 2,634, said State Health Department.
The total number of COVID-19 cases include 1,103 active cases, the State Health Department informed.
Shimla has reported 168 COVID-19 positive cases so far while Solan has reported 663 cases.
India reported 57,117 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday taking the country’s coronavirus case count to 16,95,988.
Manipur’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 2,756 on Saturday as 55 more people tested positive for the infection, while one more fatality pushed the death count due to the coronavirus to six in the state, officials said.
A 77-year-old COVID-19 patient, who was also suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), diabetes and hypertension, died at a hospital in Imphal East district, they said, adding he hailed from Chakpikarong area in Chandel district.
Twelve women are among the 55 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the officials said.
The fresh infections have pushed the number of active cases in the state to 1,051, they said.
Ten more people have been cured of COVID-19, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,699, the officials added.
Guwahati: Assam Police in collaboration with State Health Dept & National Health Mission organised a plasma donation camp at Guwahati Medical College&Hospital, Auditorium, yesterday. 43 police personnel who recovered from #COVID19 donated their blood plasma at the camp. pic.twitter.com/F7vA0MCtRW
– ANI (@ANI) August 1, 2020
West Bengal reported its highest single-day COVID-19 fatality of 48 on Saturday, even as the daily rise in cases crossed the 2,500-mark for the first time, as per a bulletin issued by the state Health Department.
The state detected 2,589 fresh cases, taking the tally to 72,777, it said.
The count rose to 1,629 with the new deaths, it added.
Of the fresh fatalities, the city accounted for the highest 19 deaths followed by 13 in North 24 Parganas, six in Howrah, two each in South 24 Parganas, Purba Medinipur and Uttar Dinajpur, and one each in Hooghly, Nadia, Murshidabad and Jalpaiguri districts.
Out of the 48 dead, 45 died due to comorbidities where COVID-19 was incidental, news agency PTI reported.
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