Coronavirus: The number of COVID-19 cases in India has increased
New Delhi:
India has reported 37,724 coronavirus cases and 648 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to government data. The total number of cases in the country is now 11 92,915. At least 7,53,050 people have recovered and the total number of deaths is 28,732. The recovery rate is 63.12% and the positivity rate is by 10.99%. The total of samples tested through Tuesday 21 is 1.47 crore, while 3.43,243 samples were tested yesterday. Maharashtra is the worst affected state in the country and has a death rate of 3.8%, well above the national average of 2.5%.
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Maharashtra has placed orders for the purchase of life-saving experimental COVID-19 drugs, including Remdesivir and Tocilizumab, in order to stop the black marketing of the drugs in a context of constantly increasing cases of coronavirus.
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Eighteen of the approximately 100 coronavirus-positive children admitted to Wadia Hospital in Mumbai showed symptoms of multisystem pediatric inflammatory syndrome, a disease like Kawasaki disease, in a major cause of concern for doctors.
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Human trials of the locally developed coronavirus vaccine, COVAXIN, began on Monday, AIIMS-Delhi director Dr Randeep Guleria said, adding that it would take researchers at least three months to reach the first set of data.
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“This (starting trials) is encouraging because it is an indigenous vaccine; making a new vaccine is successful. Even if a vaccine is first developed elsewhere in the world, India will mass produce it. We are good at it, ”said Mr. Dit Guleria.
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There is no coronavirus lockdown, outside of containment zones, in Bengaluru as of today, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said on Tuesday, stressing his government was working “day and night. To contain the virus.
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Karnataka’s COVID-19 task force ruled on Tuesday that the state government would regulate the supply of Remdesivir to private hospitals to verify black marketing and hoarding.
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After falling to less than a thousand cases in one day on Monday, Delhi recorded 1,349 cases of coronavirus on Tuesday against 954 on Monday. Tuesday’s cases bring the total number of cases in the nation’s capital to 1,25,096. With 27 deaths in the past 24 hours through Tuesday, the total number of deaths now stands at 3,690.
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Delhi is the third most affected state in India behind Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Delhi has 689 containment zones. After a large number of cases were detected in these areas, they were sealed and the residents were tested. Many of the city’s neighborhoods are in “red zones” which are places with more than 10 cases of COVID-19.
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Scientists have known for several months that the novel coronavirus can be suspended in microdroplets expelled by patients when they speak and breathe, but so far there has been no evidence that these tiny particles are infectious. A new study by scientists at the University of Nebraska has shown for the first time that SARS-CoV-2 collected from microdroplets, defined as smaller than five microns, can replicate under laboratory conditions, reported the AFP news agency.
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All passengers arriving on international flights at Delhi airport will be required to undergo seven days of institutional quarantine at their own expense, followed by a week of home quarantine.
