India Coronavirus case Live updates: India is the ninth most affected country. (File)
Coronavirus Live Updates: the number of coronavirus cases in India crossed 1.6 lakh on Thursday, making it the ninth country most affected by the deadly virus infection, while the number of deaths exceeded the official count from China, data from state governments and Johns Hopkins University of America shown.
With 1,65,386 cases, India reported almost double the number of cases in China, at 84,106, according to a real-time online count from Johns Hopkins University. India also overtook China with no less than 4,711 deaths, compared to 4,638 on Thursday evening, according to the data.
The first case of the new coronavirus appeared in China last December and has since spread to almost all regions of the world, infecting more than 59 lakh people worldwide. More than 3.5 lakh have also died worldwide, but very few new cases have been reported in China in recent days.
Haryana’s government has ordered to “completely seal” all borders with Delhi except essential services, Interior Minister Anil Vij said on Thursday about concerns over the spread of the coronavirus with people from the national capital.
Coronavirus cases have increased in districts bordering the national capital, said Anil Vij in an order. “The main reason behind the outbreak is the entry of people from Delhi into the areas of Haryana that share its border with Delhi,” he said.
Here are live updates on the coronavirus outbreak:
Residents of Mominpura, a COVID-19 red zone, organized a demonstration here Thursday to demand the reopening of roads in the region.
With hundreds of people on the streets, standards of social distancing have been overtly flouted.
According to the latest update from the Maharashtra health department, a total of 59,546 people tested positive for the coronavirus and 1,982 died from the disease, the ANI news agency reported.
Jammu and Kashmir: more than 250 migrant workers left Poonch district for their home district in Uttar Pradesh yesterday in the midst of the lockdown caused by COVID-19. An official said: “They are sent by bus to Katra where they will board tomorrow in special trains for their neighborhood of origin in the UP”. pic.twitter.com/RK5nkd1EzM
– ANI (@ANI) May 29, 2020
Three other staff from the office of the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Anil Baijal, tested positive for COVID-19, one day after a junior assistant was found infected with the new coronavirus.
Sources indicate that entire staff may be tested for COVID-19 in the coming days, as four cases of coronavirus infection have so far emerged at the GL secretariat.
“Two junior assistants and a sanitation worker tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday,” a source told PTI.
The number of coronavirus cases in India crossed 1.6 lakh on Thursday, making it the ninth country most affected by the fatal virus infection, while the number of deaths has exceeded the official count of China, according to data from state governments and the Johns Hopkins American University.
With 1,65,386 cases, India reported almost double the number of cases in China, at 84,106, according to a real-time online count from Johns Hopkins University. India also overtook China with no less than 4,711 deaths, compared to 4,638 on Thursday evening, according to the data.
West Bengal has taken an important step towards starting plasma therapy to treat COVID-19 patients after a state-run hospital collected and stored the blood component of a woman who recovered from illness in March, a senior official of the health department
said Thursday.
The therapy involves taking antibodies from the plasma of a person who has recovered from COVID-19 and transfusing these antibodies to an active coronavirus patient to help the immune system fight infection.
Plasma collection and storage were done Wednesday at the department of immuno-hematology and blood transfusion at Kolkata Medical College and Hospital after Monami Biswas donated blood for the purpose, the official said, the agency reported. press release.
