With 90,633 new cases, the infections in India crossed the 41 lakh mark. Of the 41,13,812 cases, 8,62,320 are active infections, while 31,80,866 patients have already been discharged. As many as 1065 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours, taking the casualties in the country to 70,626. India is closing in on Brazil for the second-highest caseload in the world. Brazil has 41.23 lakh cases. The United States, which has the highest infections globally, has reported over 6 million cases. This is the first time that India has reported over 90,000 new cases.
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Amid the surge in Pune, NCP leader Sharad Pawar has been camping in Pune, meeting district and health officials, corporators and his own party workers, to discuss ways to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the city. While cases have been rising across Maharashtra, which accounts for more than one-fifth of all the coronavirus cases in the country, the situation in Pune is being blamed directly on the NCP.
Lucknow witnessed its highest one-day surge of Covid-19 cases with 1,006 cases reported from the Uttar Pradesh capital. Lucknow also saw 18 deaths on Saturday. Uttar Pradesh also recorded the highest single-day surge in the number of fresh cases with 6,692 people testing positive for Covid-19. The previous single-day highest spike in Covid cases was registered on August 30 with 6,233 persons testing positive.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday asked his ministers and several MLAs to liaise with villages to combat the negative campaign against testing for coronavirus infection. The move came after several rumour, including those of alleged organ harvesting of COVID-19 patients, have posed a new challenge to the Punjab Health department as people in some villages are preventing medical teams from collecting samples.
Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday recorded 1,251 COVID-19 cases, its highest single-day spike in infections, pushing the tally to 42,241, while 15 fatalities in the past 24 hours raised the death toll to 770, officials said. This is for the third time in as many days that the number of fresh cases has crossed the 1000-mark in a 24-hour period, the officials said.
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka account for about 46 per cent of active cases reported nationally in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra alone accounts for 22 per cent of all active cases reported in a day, it said. 'These three states also account for 52 per cent of all COVID-19 deaths reported across the country in a day. Maharashtra alone accounted for 35 per cent of all deaths registered in 24 hours,' the ministry highlighted.
Telangana Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Saturday said he tested positive for COVID-19 and was “fine”. In a tweet, the minister said, “On displaying initial symptoms of coronavirus, I got tested and the report came back positive. My health is fine. I request all those who have come in contact with me in the last few days, to please isolate yourself and get the Covid test done.”
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People from Delhi who recently visited the two popular eateries in Murthal whose large number of staff have been found to be COVID-19 positive, should immediately self-isolate and get themselves tested after a couple of days, officials said on Friday.
Sixty-five workers at Amrik-Sukhdev Dhaba and 10 at Garam Dharam dhaba on the highway had tested positive for novel coronavirus infection, following which both the eateries were sealed on Thursday till further orders, Sonipat’s Deputy Commissioner Shyam Lal Punia said.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday said that the Covid-19 situation in the national capital was under control, attributing the recent spike in cases to increased testing. Kejriwal pointed out that the death rate in the city was below the national average.