COVID-19 Updates: India Records Highest Daily Spike Ever With 1.15 Lakh Cases
COVID-19 Updates: India Records Highest Daily Spike Ever With 1.15 Lakh Cases
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COVID-19 Updates: India Records Highest Daily Spike Ever With 1.15 Lakh Cases

April 7, 2021

People queue up as they wait for their turn to undergo a mandatory COVID-19 test before entering the Gateway of India, in Mumbai, Sunday, April 04, 2021. Photo: PTI

On Wednesday morning, India recorded the highest number of infections in one day with 1,15,736 new COVID-19 cases. The single-day rise in coronavirus cases breached the 1-lakh mark for the second time in three days. The country’s tally of confirmed cases stands at 1,28,01,785. The death toll increased to 1,66,177, with 630 new fatalities.

The active caseload registered an increase for the 28th day in a row and was recorded at 8,43,473, comprising 6.59% of the total infections.

Across the world, there have now been over 132 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. According to Johns Hopkins University, the global death toll due to COVID-19 stands at 2,871,786.

The US has recorded 30,846,396 confirmed cases of COVID-19 while Brazil is in second place with 13,100,580 cases, followed by India (12,686,049). The US has also recorded the highest death toll, with 556,509 fatalities so far. The death toll has also been high in Brazil (336,947), Mexico (204,985), and India (165,547).

India kicked off the “world’s largest” vaccination program on January 16, to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. Public health authorities hope to inoculate 300 million high-risk people over the next six to eight months. The first to get the vaccine will be 30 million health and other frontline workers, followed by about 270 million people aged over 50 or deemed high-risk.

Two vaccine candidates ‒ the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine candidate known as Covishield in India and Covaxin, indigenously developed by Hyderabad-based company Bharat Biotech together with the Indian Council of Medical Research – are being given to beneficiaries.

The second phase of the vaccine rollout began On March 1, allowing people above the age of 60 and those above 45 with comorbidities to receive shots of the vaccine candidates. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the first dose of Covaxin shot on March 1, and encouraged others to take the vaccine.

In total, more than 8.70 crore doses have been administered as of Wednesday morning, according to the Union health ministry.

Maharashtra Sees 55,469 New Cases; 297 Die

Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 55,469 fresh coronavirus positive cases, the second-highest spike in the last two days, taking the tally of infections to 31,13,354while 297 deaths pushed the toll to 56,330, the state health department said.

Maharashtra is now left with 4,72,283 active cases.

Mumbai recorded 10,040 new cases and 32 deaths.

At the same time, 34,256 people were discharged on Tuesday, taking the count of the recoveries in the state to 25,83,331, the department said in a release.

The state’srecovery rate now stands at 82.98% and the fatality rate is 1.81%.

Maharashtra had reported the highest spike in daily cases on Sunday, when it added over 57,000 infections.

With 2,01,693 new tests, the number of samples tested so far in Maharashtra has gone up to 2,09,17,486, it said.

(PTI)

3 minutes ago
Delhi Sees Highest Single-Day Spike of 5,100 Cases This Year

The national capital recorded 5,100 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the highest since November 27 last year when the city reported 5,482 cases in a day.

Seventeen more fatalities due to the infection took the death toll to 11,113, according to the Delhi health department.

The case positivity rate stands at 4.93% amid a massive surge in coronavirus cases in the last few weeks.

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said the AAP government is alert on the pandemic situation and keeping a “close watch” on it.

Interacting with reporters, he said over 12 lakh people have been vaccinated against the disease in Delhi till date.

The number of cumulative cases on Tuesday stood at 6,85,062, while over 6.56 lakh patients have recovered from the disease.

Delhi had reported 3,548 cases and 15 deaths on Monday, and 4,033 cases and 21 deaths on Sunday. The city had recorded 3,567 coronavirus cases on Saturday and 3,594 cases on Friday. On December 8 last year, the city had recorded 3,188 cases and 2,706 cases on December 6.

According to the latest health bulletin, 17 more people died due to the disease, taking the toll to 11,113.

(PTI)

  • a day ago
    US: COVID-19 cases rise for third straight week, hospitalizations also up

    New cases of COVID-19 in the United States rose 5% to more than 450,000 last week, the third week in a row that infections have increased, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county data.

    The average number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals rose 4% to more than 37,000 in the week ended April 4, breaking a streak of 11 weeks of falling admissions.

    Health officials have expressed concerns about the increase in travel around the Easter holiday and school spring breaks, at a time when more infectious variants of the coronavirus are circulating.

    While flu viruses tend to be seasonal, with cases falling as the weather warms, health officials said they have not seen similar trends with the novel coronavirus, pointing to a surge in COVID-19 cases in some regions last summer.

    “I don’t think we should even think about relying on the weather to bail us out of anything we’re in right now,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said at a news briefing on Monday.

    Twenty-seven out of 50 states reported increases in new cases last week compared with the previous seven days, according to the Reuters analysis.

    • Delhi imposes night curfew

      The Delhi government on Tuesday imposed a night curfew in the national capital from 10 pm to 5 am till April 30 in view of rising COVID-19 cases.The city recorded 3,548 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Monday, while 15 more people succumbed to the infection taking the death toll to 11,096, according to the Delhi health department.

      The case positivity rate in Delhi has also risen to 5.54% amid a massive surge in cases in the last few weeks.

      Traffic movement won’t be stopped completely doing night curfew hours, NDTV reported. Those going for vaccinations during those hours (some vaccination centers are open 24×7) will be allowed to travel with an e-pass.

      Those in essential services and retailers who need to travel after hours for ration, grocery stocks, vegetables, milk, and medicines will also be allowed with similar passes. So will journalists of the print and electronic media, NDTV said.

      Healthcare workers – doctors, nurses, and other medical workers – may travel freely with their ID cards.

      Single-Day Cases Breach One-Lakh Mark for Second Time in Three Days

      The number of new coronavirus cases in India hit a record daily high since the outbreak of the pandemic with over 1.15 lakh new infections being reported in a span of 24 hours, pushing the nationwide COVID-19 tally to 1,28,01,785, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday.

      The single-day rise in coronavirus cases breached the 1-lakh mark for the second time in three days.

      A total of 1,15,736 infections were reported in a day, while the death toll increased to 1,66,177 with 630 daily new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.

      Registering a steady increase for the 28th day in a row, the active cases have increased to 8,43,473 comprising 6.59% of the total infections, while the recovery rate has further dropped to 92.11%, the data stated.

      The active caseload was at its lowest at 1, 35,926 on February 12 comprising 1.25% of the total infections.

      (PTI)

      2 hours ago
      Telangana Clocks 1,914 COVID-19 Cases, 5 Deaths

      Telangana added 1914 fresh cases to its coronavirus tally, the highest single-day spike this year, pushing the aggregate to over 3.16 lakh, while the toll rose to 1,734 with five more fatalities.

      Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the most number of cases with 393, followed by Medchal Malkajgiri 205 and Nizamabad 179, a government bulletin said on Wednesday providing details as of 8 pm on April 6.

      The total number of cases stood at 3,16,649 while with 285 patients being cured, the total recoveries were at 3,03,298.

      The state has 11,617 active cases and74,274 samples were tested on Tuesday.

      Cumulatively, over 1.05 crore samples have been tested. The samples tested per million population was over 2.84 lakh, the bulletin said.

      The case fatality rate in the state was 0.54%, while it was 1.3% at the national level.

      The recovery rate in Telangana was 95.78%, while it was 92.1% in the country.

      According to a separate release, over 13.37 lakh people in the statehave received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine while over 2.70 lakh got their second shot also as of April 6.

      (PTI)

      2 hours ago
      Maharashtra: 5,957 New COVID-19 Cases in Thane, 18 More Deaths

      Thane has added5,957 new cases of coronavirus, taking the infection count in the Maharashtra district to 3,49,987, an official said on Wednesday.

      These new cases were reported on Tuesday, he said.

      The virus also claimed the lives of 18 more people, raising the death toll in the district rose to 6,599, the official said, adding that the COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane is 1.88%.

      So far, 2,99,165 patients have recuperated from the infection in the district, which reflects a recovery rate of 85.48%.

      As of now, there are 44,223 active COVID-19 cases in the district, the official said.

      In neighboring Palghar district, the COVID-19 case count stood at 53,625 and the death toll at 1,241, another official said.

      (PTI)

    a day ago
    India records over 90,000 cases again

    The daily rise in new coronavirus infections in India remained above 90,000 for the third consecutive day taking the nationwide COVID-19 tally of cases to 1,26,86,049, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.

    A total of 96,982 cases have been reported in a span of 24 hours, while the death toll increased to 1,65,547 with 446 daily new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.

    India on Monday recorded an all-time high of 1,03,558 single-day new coronavirus infections in a span of 24 hours.

    Registering a steady increase for the 27th day in a row, the active cases have increased to 7,88,223, comprising 6% percent of the total infections. The recovery rate stands at 92.48%.

    The active caseload was at its lowest at 1,35,926 on February 12, comprising 1.25%, of the total infections.

    The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,17,32,279, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.30%, the data stated.

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Hooghly: In the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections, several parties have fielded film personalities as candidates. But one candidate shines brighter than all the rest. Manoranjan Byapari, the 70-year-old Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from Balagarh in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, has nothing to do with the world of glamour and glitz. He has no swanky cars. He doesn’t wear designer clothes. He doesn’t own even a piece of land. He never went to school. He spent nights in jail. He pulled rickshaws, worked in a tea stall, cooked food for school children and even worked in a crematorium, all to make a living. Yet he is the biggest star in this election. Byapari is a former refugee from East Bengal (now Bangladesh), who lives in the fringes of South Kolkata in a small suburb called Khudirabad. His home is a single-storey brick house with an asbestos ceiling. Since March 8, however, Byapari and his wife have been living in a worn out house in a town called Mogra in the Hooghly district because of the elections. As I knocked on the door at 6:35 in the morning, Byapari peeped from the netted window and came running to open the door, wearing a khadi kurta and loose white pajama with a gamchha (a traditional thin, cotton towel) around his neck. “All my life I was a vagabond. I have nothing except her,” said Byapari as he looks back to his wife. Also read: Bengal: How the Sangh Parivar Created a Hindutva Wave in East Midnapore District ‘We must resist’ On the afternoon of February 28, six days before the TMC announced its candidates for the assembly election, Byapari received a call from West Bengal’s chief minister, Mamata Banerjee. “Manoranjan da, you will have to contest this election,” Didi (Banerjee) told Byapari. “When someone as important as our chief minister, who I believe is the most important politician in the country, requests something, there is only one answer,” Byapari told me. Manoranjan Byapari campaigning for the West Bengal state assembly elections. Photo: Himadri Ghosh In normal circumstances, he never would have joined politics, he said. “The system is rotten,” he explained. But now, when a bohiragoto (outsider) force threatens Bengal’s language, culture, tradition and legacy, he had no option. “My conscience said I should stand up to these divisive forces,” said Byapari. “Every right-minded Bengali should stand against it. This election is not a regular election. With this election, they want to dokhol (take control of) Bengal. So we must resist.” On the surface, Byapari’s life makes a fascinating story. It is the life of a real working-class hero. But when you dig deeper, you find only deprivation, ruthlessness, neglect, rejection, poverty, despair, hunger and nothingness. In the 1970s, at the height of the Naxal movement in Bengal, Byapari spent about 26 months in jail. His father had been a coolie and had died early due to an ulcer. For years, he slept on the platform of Jadavpur railway station. As a Dalit (commonly referred to in Bengal as namashudra and refugee), he was a nobody in the vast ‘cosmopolitan’ city of Calcutta as it was then called. 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