[ad_1]
Aug 21, 2020, 20.48PM
India’s COVID-19 tally surpassed the 29 lakh-mark on Friday morning while the daily testing scaled a new peak with over 9 lakh tests in a single day. With nearly 69,000 new cases, the total count of coronavirus cases has crossed 29 lakh mark. Maharashtra cases continue to notch a new high with each passing day. The state reported the highest single-day spike of 14,492 coronavirus cases, taking the overall count to 6.43 lakh. The death of 326 patients increased the toll to 21,359. Of the total cases, 3,659 were in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), including 1,275 in Mumbai city alone. In an exclusive interview with Mirror, Health Minister Rajesh Tope said that early response to the pandemic was hampered due to a shortage of human resources.
FILTER UPDATES
Ganesh Chaturthi 2020: Social distancing went for a toss in Dadar
Oops! Looking at these visuals it looks like social distancing has the left the Dadar Market. Looks like an old video right? But we aren’t kidding. Mumbaikars violated social distancing norms and were seen shopping for Ganesh Chaturthi.
CM Uddhav Thackeray launches ICU enabled dedicated COVID Hospital in Dombivli
From 2 labs in March, Maharashtra now has over 150 testing labs, asserted CM Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray while inaug… https://t.co/eAWN6G8g1H
— CMO Maharashtra (@CMOMaharashtra) 1598007391000
New guidelines for COVID-19 patients: Containment zone will be restricted to patient’s residence, hand stamping will be removed
With a rapid surge in covid cases, a large number of cases are being reported in houses and apartments which are closely located. As per the revised guidelines, only the floor where the covid-positive person resides, will be treated as a containment zone (earlier it used to be the floor above and below). In case of an independent house or villa, it will just be a house (earlier, it used to be the 100-metre radius). For a slum, it will be the street which has the residence of the covid-positive person. For individual cases, the authorities should paste a notice on houses; inform the neighbours/RWA/apartment association. Authorities should also identify contacts, advise strict home quarantine, ensure testing of contacts etc.
Researchers at Birla Institute of Technology developing aptamer-based diagnostic kit
Researchers at Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi are developing an aptamer-based diagnostic kit for detection o… https://t.co/6Vy5xQPWdl
— ANI (@ANI) 1598000375000
Uday Shankar Banerjee passes away
Extremely saddened to share the news of untimely demise of an outstanding Officer ACP (Central Div) UdayShankar Ban… https://t.co/C6KmbE59J6
— CP Kolkata Anuj (@CPKolkata) 1597985675000
[ad_2]
Source link