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Over 54,000 COVID-19 cases in India in single day,total tally crosses 17 lakh
The recoveries have mounted to 11,45,629, while there are 5,67,730 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country presently
The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients has risen to 65.44 per cent while the fatality rate has further dropped to 2.13 pc, the data stated
Death toll climbed to 37,364 with 853 people succumbing to the disease in a day,
WHO suggests Ahmedabad Covid-19 measures as case study:Gujarat govt
The WHO has suggested to take up initiatives in Ahmedabad like ‘Dhanvantari Rath’, 104 fever helpline, Sanjivani Van; and active participation of private hospitals in control and treatment as a case study for other cities in India and abroad, it said.
Covid-19 impact: Rise in number of first-time buyers, additional purchase,says Maruti Suzuki
“First-time car buying is up and replacement buying is down, which means exchange is down. However, additional car buying is also up because of the functionality requirement,” Maruti Suzuki India Ltd Executive Director (Sales and Marketing) Shashank Srivastava told PTI.
Moral challenges ahead of developing & distributing a COVID-19 vaccine
The newly published “Ethics and Pandemics,” an anthology edited by philosophy professor Meredith Schwartz of Ryerson University in Toronto, presents contrasting views of academics, doctors and commentators along with a series of impossibly difficult case studies. The scientific, economic and political choices involve moral issues that have divided ethicists for centuries.
Australia’s Victoria declares disaster, sets curfew to curb COVID-19
“The current rules have avoided thousands and thousands of cases each day, and then thousands of people in hospital and many more tragedies than we have seen. But it is not working fast enough,” Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews told a televised briefing.
A curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. every day will be implemented from Sunday evening in Melbourne, barring the nearly five million people in the city from leaving their houses except for work or to receive or give care.
Latin America coronavirus death toll surges past 200,000
Apart from the United States, Brazil and Mexico have racked up more fatalities from the virus than any other country, and together they account for around 70% of the regional death toll.Both have struggled to balance the need to curb the spread of the virus with restrictive safety measures while trying to reopen their economies, which have been battered by the crisis.
ICMR plans to set up registry of hospitalised Covid-19 patients
“The aim is to collect data of the hospitalised COVID-19 patients like clinical and laboratory features, their demographics, comorbidities, treatment outcomes, complications in all age groups among others,” officials said.
The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 and the illness it is causing has so many unknown parameters that are a barrier to the proper understanding and management of the disease, they said.
Health ministry issues revised guidelines for international arrivals
“Only for compelling reasons/cases of human distress such as pregnancy, death in family, serious illness and parent(s) with children of the age of 10 years or below, home quarantine may be permitted for 14 days,” the ministry said
Not everyone in coronavirus-hit family susceptible to disease:Study
“Different people have different immunity to the virus. Within a household, we do not follow social distancing rules or use masks. Between the appearance of the symptom and diagnosis, there is a gap of three to five days, which means all the family members are exposed to the virus. But still, not all get it,” Dileep Mavalankar,director, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar said.
He suggested that a “large percentage of population may not be susceptible to the virus,” and said the sero-surveillance study to measure antibodies against Covid-19 in the population would be helpful to find out exactly how many persons have already been infected.
Bihar flood situation worsens, 53.67 lakh people across 14 districts affected
With 16.89 lakh flood-affected people, Muzaffarpur is the worst-hit district, followed by 12.40 lakh people in Darbhanga and 8.09 lakh in East Champaran.
More than half of the affected populace live in Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga districts.
Of the 13 deaths in flood-related incidents, Darbhanga registered the highest seven casualties, followed by four in West Champaran and two in Muzaffarpur.