VA-SenaSeptember 29, 2020
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Ever since the senior BJP leader tweeted about her testing positive for the infection late on Saturday night, the AIIMS management had made arrangements, in-charge of COVID cases at the AIIMS, Madhur Uniyal, said.

Uma Bharti, COVID-19 Positive, Admitted To AIIMS

 

Rishikesh: Former Union minister and senior BJP leader Uma Bharti, who tested positive for COVID-19 recently, was on Monday admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rishikesh.

 


VA-SenaSeptember 18, 2020
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The health ministry’s Covid-19 dashboard showed there were 1,017,754 active cases and the country’s death toll has gone up to 84,372.

96,424 new Covid-19

India’s coronavirus disease (Covid-19) tally surged to 5,214,677 after 96,424 new cases and 1,174 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours from across the country, according to the Union health ministry on Friday.

The health ministry’s Covid-19 dashboard showed there were 1,017,754 active cases and the country’s death toll has gone up to 84,372.

Close to half or 48.45% of the active cases of Covid-19 are concentrated in three states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, the ministry said on Thursday. Along with Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, these states contribute nearly 60% of the total active cases in the country, it added.

According to the health ministry’s dashboard at 8am, 87,472 Covid-19 patients recovered between Thursday and Friday morning. With this, the number of recoveries in India has climbed to 4,112,551 and the recovery rate to 78.86%.

India has recorded more than 82,000 recoveries for three days in a row now and the recovered cases exceed active ones by more than 3 million, according to the ministry’s data.

“These high levels of recovery have resulted in a 100% increase in the number of recovered cases in the past 30 days. Maharashtra (17,559) contributed more than one-fifth of the new recoveries (21.22%) while the States of Andhra Pradesh (10,845), Karnataka (6,580), Uttar Pradesh (6,476) and Tamil Nadu (5,768) contributed 35.87% of the new recoveries,” the health ministry said on Thursday.

It added that these states together account for 57.1% of total new recoveries.

Maharashtra accounted for more than 40% of the new deaths related to the coronavirus disease. The following four States of Uttar Pradesh (86), Punjab (78), Andhra Pradesh (64), West Bengal (61) contributed 25.5% of the fatalities in the last 24 hours, the ministry had said on Thursday.

There are more than 30 million coronavirus disease cases worldwide and 944,887 people have succumbed to the viral disease, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Covid-19 data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


VA-SenaJuly 22, 2020
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1 In 4 Infected By Coronavirus In Delhi; Monthly Sero-Surveys In City Now

Corona-Covid19-News

Surveys to check the prevalence of coronavirus among the general population of Delhi will now be held every month, the state’s health minister Satyendar Jain said today, announcing the beginning of the first of this series of surveys from August 1 to 5.  The decision of the Delhi government came as the numbers of infected people dropped way below the last few weeks’ average of 2,000, but a sero-survey indicated that at least one in five persons in Delhi had contracted the disease. The survey also indicated also indicated that a large number of infected persons remained asymptomatic, increasing the chances of the spread.

“The government has decided to conduct sero-survey every month to understand the spread of virus in the national capital,” said Dr  Satyendar Jain.

A sero-survey is where doctors test the blood of a section of the general population to check the presence of anti-bodies to any disease. Antibodies develop only when the person had contracted the disease in the past. It not only indicates how far among the general population the disease has spread, but whether the people are moving towards herd immunity.

The results of the last sero-survey held in Delhi indicated that six months into the pandemic, 23.48 per cent people had contracted coronavirus in the city, which has recorded more than 1.2 lakh cases so far. Both the government and experts cautioned that 77 per cent people are still vulnerable to the disease and all preventive measures still need to continue.

“More than 75 per cent of the people do not have antibodies. So we cannot be laid back in our approach,” Dr Richa Sareen, a consultant at the Pulmonogy and Critical Care Medicine at Fortis Hospital

“All measures of hygiene and social distancing need to continue. Everybody should still wear masks all the time and sanitise themselves. It has been observed in western countries that when cases decrease, people become lax and it leads to a second surge of cases. We have to prevent that kind of a situation in Delhi,” she added.

Dr Jain, however, reminded that the survey gave the status of the city gave a status of the city till 15  June, since anti-bodies take 15 days to develop. This means there is a possibility that more people contracted the virus and recovered by now, he added.

Delhi has a population of nearly 2 crore. Eight out of Delhi’s 11 districts have more than 20 per cent of sero prevalence, Dr Sujeet Kumar Singh of the National Centre for Disease Control Director said yesterday.

The study, which was conducted from June 27 to July 10 by the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) in collaboration with the Delhi government, was one of the biggest, with a total of A total of 21,387 samples being tested. In the coming surveys, the researchers will take a bigger sample size, the health minister said.

On Tuesday evening, records showed Delhi had 1,349 new cases of coronavirus against Monday’s 954. It took the total number of cases in the national capital to 1,25,096. With 27 deaths, the total number of fatalities stands at 3,690.