India records 13,993 new COVID-19 cases, highest in almost 22 days

Daily COVID19 cases in the country climbed to about 14000 after nearly 22 days taking Indiarsquos tally to 10977387 while the recoveries surged to 10678048 according to Union Health Ministry on SaturdayA total of 13993 new cases were registered in a span of 24 hours The death toll increased to 101 daily new fatalities On January 29 18855 daily cases were recordedThe number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 10678048 which translates to a national recovery rate of 9727 per cent and the case fatality rate stands at 142 per centThe COVID19 active caseload remained below 15 lakhUpsurge in five statesKerala Maharashtra Punjab Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh have recorded an ldquoupsurgerdquo in daily new cases of COVID19In a statement the ministry said in the last seven days Chhattisgarh has also seen a rise in daily active new cases In the last 24 hours 259 daily new cases have been reported it said Kerala continues to report a high number of daily new cases and in the past week Maharashtra has exhibited a spike in the number of daily new cases accounting for the highest number of daily new cases in the country on Saturday the ministry said in the statementSimilar to Maharashtra the ministry said Punjab has also shown a sudden spike in the number of daily new cases reported in the last seven days with 383 fresh cases recorded in the last 24 hoursldquoSince February 13 Madhya Pradesh has also also witnessing a rise in the number of daily new cases In the last 24 hours 297 daily new cases have been registered in the staterdquo it saidWoman dies after taking jabA 48yearold Anganwadi worker in Manipur died a week after receiving her first dose of COVID19 vaccine officials said on SaturdayW Sundari Devi of Kumbi Terakha area in Bishunpur district had received her first shot of the COVID19 vaccine on February 12 at Kumbhi primary health centre PHC they saidShe was taken to the Moirang community health centre CHC on February 18 as she had breathing problems and died at the CHC on Friday Health Department officials said that a special team will conduct the postmortem of the deceased to ascertain the true cause of the deathlsquoLargescale rollout of vaxrsquoTerming the recent drop in COVID19 cases in the country as a ldquosmall window of opportunityrdquo AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria on Saturday called for a publicprivate partnership PPP for rollout of the COVID19 vaccination programme at a large scaleGuleria said the vaccine is the only weapon available to gain immunity and help reduce mortality rate due to the infectious diseaseHe noted that there was a need to put healthcare at the centrestage and not consider it only as a service sectorldquoAs far as vaccination is concerned there is still a lot to do and I think there has to be more private public partnershiprdquo the All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS director saidThere is a need to gradually start opening up in order to cover large number of people he notedldquoVaccinating health care workers and front line workers is probably the easy part as far as Phase 1 is concerned as you know who needs to be vaccinated The number is not that large ldquoOnce you start the process to vaccinate 27 crore individuals in that scenario we must have a robust programme in place where you have the list of people to be vaccinatedrdquo Guleria said10977387Total number of cases in the country as of Saturday156212Total no of deaths due to the virus in India10678048Patients Recovered and discharged in india as of 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