Covid-19: India’s active caseload drops, cases dip in Delhi

Indiarsquos total active case load has decreased to 3673802 on Saturday that comprises 1507 per cent of the countryrsquos total positive cases A net decline of 31091 cases was recorded in the active case load in the last 24 hours The report comes when India on Saturday cumulatively registered 24372907 Covid19 cases across the country including 3673802 active cases and 266207 deathsUnion Health Ministryrsquos latest report reveals that 11 states cumulatively account for 7726 per cent of Indiarsquos total active cases with maximum report coming from Karnataka 598625 Maharashtra 521683 Kerala 442550 Rajasthan 212753 and Andhra Pradesh 203787Delhi gets a breatherDelhi reported 6500 new Covid19 cases in the last 24 hours the lowest since April 7 the day when the city reported 5506 cases in a day The positivity ratemdashthe proportion of samples tested that return positive for Covid19mdashcontinued its sharp decline to 11 per cent Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday The Capital has been witnessing a sharp decline in daily positive cases and positivity rates for around two weeksDuring the peak of the second wave of the pandemic on April 20 Delhirsquos daily positive cases were reported at 28395 while the highest daily positivity rate was 36 per cent on April 22 On Friday the city reported 8506 cases in a day which was the first time Delhirsquos daily positive case fell below 10 000 since April 10 The daily positivity rate has declined in the cityDial 1031 for O2 says CMCovid19 patients in home isolation will be provided oxygen concentrators at their homes with recommendation of doctors in the national capital To ensure each patient in home isolation gets oxygen cylinders delivered at home the Delhi government has set up an lsquooxygen concentrator bankrsquo OCB Each of the 11 districts in the national capital will have an OCB which will ensure that patients are getting oxygen concentrators within two hours ldquoHowever oxygen cylinders will be provided on the recommendation of the doctors only People in home isolation will be regularly monitored by medicalexperts and if they need oxygen at home the Delhi government will provide it within two hours Covid19 patients those discharged from the hospitals will also be given oxygen concentrators if they needrdquo Kejriwal said in a press conference on SaturdayRaj town cuts down deathsDungarpur a small Rajasthan town has scripted a success story by bringing down the Covid19 death toll by 50 per cent with the proactive approach of panchs sarpanchs ward councillors ANM village committees and senior officials These custodians of administration worked as a team and ensured each household was visited and everyone with symptoms was identified and medicinal kits were distributed to themWB in near complete lockdownConsidering the stiff rise in Covid19 cases the Mamata Banerjee government imposed nearcompletelockdown norms in the state starting from Sunday at 6 am for the next 15 days allowing movement of people and vehicles only for emergency and market places operating for three hours a daylsquoTantric pujarsquo organised in Gaya to end CovidAmid a raging global pandemic a large number of people in Gaya organised an occult ceremony on Saturday to expedite an end to the Coronavirus The rituals were held at the Ma Kali temple in Gaya district Acharya Hanumant one of the main priests at the temple said ldquoIt is an old practice started in 1951 to organise lsquotantric pujarsquo by sacrificing a goat We strongly believe that tantric puja would help to end any pandemic We also did the same last yearrdquoIndia remains of huge concern warns WHOSeveral Indian states continue to see a worrying number of cases hospitalisations and deaths the World Health Organisation WHO has said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO Director General said in a briefing that WHO has shipped thousands of oxygen concentrators tents for mobile field hospitals masks and other medical supplies ldquoAnd we thank all the stakeholders who are supporting Indiardquo he said24372907Total number of cases in the country as of Saturday266207Total no of deaths due to the virus in India20432898Patients recovered and discharged in India by SaturdayThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever