India reported 43,733 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, as against Tuesday's 34,703. The health ministry website showed 930 related deaths were reported on the day. The cumulative tally now stands at 3,06,63,665 cases and 4,04,211 deaths in the country. During last 24 hours, 47,240 patients recovered, taking total recoveries across the country to 2,97,99,534. The active caseload has declined to 4,59,920.
Recovery rate has increased to 97.18%, the weekly positivity rate is currently at 2.39% and daily positivity rate at 2.29%. So far, 36.13 crore vaccine doses have been administered under the nationwide vaccination drive, said a health ministry release.
The government on Tuesday cautioned that people roaming in hill stations and markets without following COVID-19-appropriate behaviours can nullify the gains made in the management of the pandemic so far.
Stressing that the pandemic was not yet over, an official described the images of large numbers of people thronging popular hill stations as "frightening".
The government said violations of Covid protocols will lead to further increase in the infections as it stressed on wearing of masks and maintaining of physical distancing.
Here are the Highlights on coronavirus (COVID-19) cases:
More than four million people have now died of Covid-19 infections, the WHO said on Wednesday, as many richer nations prepared to loosen restrictions even as countries in Asia battle surging infections.
Indonesia has become a global hotspot, with hospitals having to turn away patients, authorities forced to import oxygen supplies and a record 1,040 deaths reported on Wednesday.
"The world is at a perilous point in this pandemic," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, calling the four-million figure an underestimate of the true toll.
Arthritis drugs tocilizumab and sarilumab reduce the risk of death and the need for ventilators among hospitalized Covid-19 patients, according to an analysis of nearly 11,000 patients published Tuesday.
The study appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association and prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to recommend the use of the medicines, known as IL-6 inhibitors, in addition to corticosteroids among patients with severe or critical Covid.
Manu Shankar-Hari, a professor at King's College London and lead author of the paper, told AFP that the research represented a "definitive piece of evidence" in favor of the drugs after earlier studies produced mixed results.
With a surge in COVID-19 cases in Kerala, a team deputed by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday visited Kollam to evaluate the prevention activities and health measures taken for COVID management in the district.
The central team met District Collector B. Abdul Nasar at the Collectorate and assessed the COVID management plan. The Collector informed the members of the activities being carried out in the district.
The visit comes at a time when other states are showing a declining trend in the number of COVID-19, but in Kerala, cases remained high with the state recording 14,373 new cases on Tuesday, the highest in 26 days.
Fiji Police Deliver Groceries, Urge People To Stay Home As Delta Cases Rise
COVID-19: The grocery deliveries in Fiji were mostly being made in poorer neighbourhoods.
Fiji on Wednesday began distributing groceries to some households as it urges people to stay at home amid rising infections of the highly transmissible Delta variant of the novel coronavirus.
Authorities posted pictures on social media of bags of supermarket supplies - including packaged food and toilet paper - being delivered to homes around the capital, Suva, as they reinforced calls for people to obey social distancing rules and get vaccinated.
With a surge in COVID-19 cases in Kerala, a team deputed by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday visited Kollam to evaluate the COVID prevention activities and health measures taken for COVID management in the district. The central team met District Collector B. Abdul Nasar at the Collectorate and assessed the COVID management plan. The visit comes at a time when other states are showing a declining trend in the number of COVID-19, but in Kerala, cases remained high with the state recording 14,373 new cases on Tuesday, the highest in 26 days. The active cases crossed one lakh mark with 1,04,105 people under treatment, while the state recorded 142 deaths taking the total death count to 13,960.
Odisha on Wednesday reported the highest single-day COVID-19 fatality as 59 people died, taking the death count to 4,358, a Health Department official said, according to news agency PTI. The state also registered 2,602 new cases, pushing the tally to 9,29,788, he said. There are 28,015 active cases in the state at present. In the last 24 hours, 3,258 patients recovered. So far, 8,97,362 have been cured of COVID-19 in the state.
Kerala: A team led by Union Health Ministry visited Kollam to assess the COVID prevention activities & health measures taken for COVID management in the district pic.twitter.com/Y6zFalF9zD
- ANI (@ANI) July 7, 2021
The Disaster Management Department (COVID-19) of the Government of Kerala has issued an order for the re-categorization of the state's Local Self Government Institutions (LSGIs) on the basis of average weekly Test Positivity rates (TPR). "As part of the COVID-19 containment activities, the LSGIs in the state were categorized based on the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) and certain relaxations on lockdown were extended to the areas where the Test Positivity Rate is less and special intensified stringent restrictions were implemented in areas where TPR is high," states the order.
Parts of a small city in southwest China that shares a border with Myanmar went into a full lockdown on Wednesday as local authorities wrestled with the city's fourth outbreak of the new coronavirus since the pandemic began, reported news agency Reuters. Residents in the main areas of Ruili, a city in Yunnan province with a population of about 270,000, were told to quarantine themselves at home as schools and businesses shut Some markets, hospitals and pharmacies remained open. Yunnan reported 15 new confirmed locally transmitted coronavirus cases for July 6, with all cases in Ruili. That compares with three cases per day in the city reported for July 4 and July 5.
Mizoram's COVID-19 tally rose to 22,155 as 301 more people, including 66 children, tested positive for the virus, a health department official said on Wednesday, according to news agency PTI. The new COVID-19 cases were reported from various districts with Aizawl reporting the highest at 205, followed by Lunglei at 41 Mamit at 31, he said. The single-day positivity rate is at 8.48 per cent as the 301 fresh cases were detected from 3,549 sample tests, he said. The COVID-19 death count in the state is 98. Mizoram now has 3,674 active COVID-19 cases while 18,383 people have recovered from the infection so far. The northeastern state has tested 5,10,467 samples for COVID-19 till date.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and State Covid Task Force head CN Ashwathanarayan on Tuesday dedicated the expanded Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of 100 beds set up under Corporate Social Resposibility (CSR) funding to support COVID-19 treatment at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH) in Bengaluru, according to news agency ANI. Mr Ashwathanarayan, while speaking at the occasion, said that the PICU facility, expanded at a cost of Rs 1.32 crores, facilitates lifesaving care to infants and children affected by COVID-19.
Arunachal Pradesh's COVID-19 tally rose to 37,879 as 348 more people tested positive for the infection, while two more fatalities pushed the death count to 181, a senior health official said on Wednesday, according to news agency PTI. A 28-year-old woman died at the Dedicated Covid Hospital (DCH) at Chimpu on Tuesday and a 70-year-old man of Changlang district died at Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH) in Dibrugarh district of the neighbouring state on Sunday, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said. The Capital Complex Region reported the highest number of new cases at 102, followed by East Siang (30), West Kameng (26), Changlang (23), Upper Subansiri (20), Lohit (19), Papumpare (17), Lower Dibang Valley (1 4), Anjaw (13) and Siang(12), Dr Jampa said.
The Union health ministry on Wednesday said that over 1.67 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with states, union territories, and private hospitals to be administered, according to news agency ANI. "More than 1.67 Crore (1,67,26,613) balance and unutilised COVID vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs and private hospitals to be administered," the health ministry said. It further said that 37,43,25,560 vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through all sources, and an additional 48,65,110 doses are in the transit.
Maharashtra | People turn out in large numbers to get inoculated as COVID19 vaccination resumes after three days in Nagpur
- ANI (@ANI) July 7, 2021
"If there was regular availability of vaccines then the crowd might not have built up here today. Social distancing is not being followed," says a local pic.twitter.com/DYOAbAQrm2
Uttarakhand Health Secretary, speaking on Kumbh fake test scam, said action will be taken on the basis of the report of the Haridwar District Magistrate, according to news agency ANI. The decision to select the lab to conduct Rapid Antigen Test during Haridwar Mahakumbh was taken on the instructions of the Health Secretary, said the officer appointed as the Mela Officer Health in Kumbh, in his reply to the Health Directorate, according to the report.
A total of 42,33,32,097 samples were tested for #COVID19 up to July 6. Of which, 19,07,216 samples were tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) pic.twitter.com/JBEuIMet9y
- ANI (@ANI) July 7, 2021
Gujarat: Vadodara municipal schools teachers are reaching to poor students, who are facing difficulty in taking online classes, to educate them
- ANI (@ANI) July 6, 2021
"We're abiding COVID guidelines & 6500 students are getting benefit from this," says Principal, MG Primary School, Nagarwada (06.07) pic.twitter.com/Sffvd9YYkr
Himachal Pradesh: Horsemen elated with a heavy influx of tourists in Shimla after COVID-hit year
- ANI (@ANI) July 7, 2021
"From last 2 weeks, tourists are coming in large numbers & we're getting good business. I'm earning sufficient to feed our horse & our family. I'm very happy,"says a horsemen(06.07) pic.twitter.com/9euW7dqI5f
