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India’s COVID-19 infection tally crosses 42 lakh

1,016 fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours
The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.70 per cent.
There are 8,82,542 active cases of the infection in the country which comprises 20.99 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 4,95,51,507 samples have been tested up to September 6 with 7,20,362 samples being tested on Sunday.

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Kolkata doctors provide free online consultation to patients of generic ailments

“Due to COVID-19, we are reluctant to visit doctors for generic illnesses & through this initiative, citizens can get hassle-free consultation by the city’s best doctors from safety of their homes via video call https://t.co/DUiH8XmaJE.

Visit our website  https://t.co/yafzENa4ai to book your appointment now,” KMC Mayor and Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Firhad Hakim said

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SC asks Centre why no ban on disinfectant tunnels despite saying chemicals harmfuL

In the meeting it was recommended, “spraying of disinfectants on humans is not recommended under any circumstances. Spraying any chemical disinfectant is physically and psychologically harmful. Further, chemicals are harmful to human skin and the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, if needed”, it said.

External spraying of any chemical disinfectant does not kill a virus that has already entered the body of a person, who has earlier been exposed to the virus, the Centre said.

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The costs of India’s Covid crisis are too high

It’s now likely that the pandemic has, as feared, moved out of urban areas into India’s vast, and crowded, rural hinterland. Here, health services will be far less equipped for a surge in cases — and a distant state machinery itself may not know of localized outbreaks till it is too late.The government,faced with a crashing economy and with its cupboards completely bare, has no real way to directly improve the welfare of those most affected. Programs like Britain’s furlough scheme or the U.S.’s $600 per week unemployment aid are a distant dream in India.

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