COVID-19 Recoveries in the country cross 19 lakh mark

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Covid-19 situation across India for last 24 hours

The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country has risen to 26,47664. The Health Ministry said there has been a spike of 57982 cases and 941 deaths were reported in India in the last 24 hours. The number of active cases stand at 6,76900. India has reported the highest single day recoveries of 57,584. The overall recovery rate from Covid-19 has crossed 72 per cent. The recoveries surged to 1919842. The death toll due to coronavirus infection climbed to 50921. The case fatality rate has declined to 1.92 per cent.

India has set a new landmark of conducting three crore Covid tests. The Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said, expanded diagnostic lab network and facilitation for easy testing across the country have given a substantial boost.During the last 24 hours, more than 731000 tests have been conducted. The Ministry said, India is on its resolved drive to increase its testing.

Across the states Covid situations were as written below 

Haryana: The Haryana Chief Minister said that the state government has started ‘MeriFasalMeraByora Portal’ to make agriculture in Haryana risk-free and simplify the sale of produce. He said that during COVID-19 pandemic, each and every grain of Rabi crop of farmers have been purchased through this portal. To ensure transparency, payment to the farmer of their crops has been made directly into their bank accounts. He further said that effective steps have been taken to further improve the health services in the state. Arrangement of adequate number of COVID hospitals, testing labs, isolation wards, plasma banks and medical equipment has been made to effectively deal with COVID-19 Pandemic. As a result of this, more than 83 per cent of COVID patients have been cured in the state.
Arunachal Pradesh: 43 new COVID-19 cases have been detected in Arunachal Pradesh in the last 24 hours, 37 persons have recovered. There are presently 888 active cases in the state.
Assam: Government of Assam issued guidelines for implementation of 'Orunodoi', an initiative on poverty eradication. Over 19 lakh poor households shall get DBT of Rs 830 each, per month - 15,000 families from each Assembly Constituency.
Manipur: 179 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Manipur; out of these, 111 are of Central Security force personnel. There are 1,921 active cases in Manipur with a recovery rate of 57%.
Mizoram: Twelve more COVID-19 cases confirmed in Mizoram yesterday. Total cases 789, active cases 418.
Nagaland: Nagaland Health Minister PangnyuPhom says total of 261 quarantine centers having capacity of 15,843 persons set up in state. Of these, 206 are govt quarantines and 55 paid ones. Shops reopen under strict SOPs in Dimapur.
Sikkim: In Sikkim, 19 new cases were reported taking the number of active cases in Sikkim to 493. The state’s overall tally of confirmed cases now stands at 1,167, of which 673 patients have made full recoveries and discharged from hospital.
Kerala:Nine Covid-19 deaths have been reported in the state till noon, taking the death toll to 165. The local spread of the virus in the Central jail in the capital continues unabated with 110 more prisoners and four officials tested positive today. This brings the tally in the prison to 477. Covid cases are also on the rise in the outskirts of the capital. Around 25 people including policemen have been tested positive in various clusters. State Election Commissioner has said that local body polls will not be postponed in view of Covid pandemic.Devotees have been permitted entry abiding Covid protocols, in temples under Devaswom Board from today, the Malayalam New Year. As many as 1,530 positive cases were reported in the state yesterday. The number of patients under treatment has crossed the 15,000 mark. 1,62,217 people are under observation in various districts.
Tamil Nadu:More Covid-19 patients in home isolation than in hospitals as cases cross 8000 in Puducherry. While 1596 Covid-19 patients are admitted in hospitals, 1692 are in home isolation. CB-CID office in Coimbatore shut for fumigation as two contracts Covid-19. E-passes for travel within TN to be auto-generated, public urged to apply for genuine reasons. 5950 new cases, 6019 recoveries & 125 deaths yesterday in TN. Total cases: 3,38,055; Active cases: 54,109; Deaths: 5766; Discharges: 2,78,270; Active cases in Chennai: 11,498.
Karnataka:Data from the State Covid-19 war room shows that the positivity rate among the symptomatic is 34.8%, while it is 13.4% among asymptomatic carriers of the virus. As many as 124 new deaths by Covid-19 were reported in Karnataka on Sunday, taking the total number of deaths to 3,947. In addition, 7,040 new cases were reported, taking the total number of cases to 2,26,966. Of the 7,040 cases reported on Sunday, as many as 2,131 positive cases were from Bengaluru Urban.
Andhra Pradesh: Pending approval of the state for the SOPs to be adopted, tourism sites remain closed to the public due to the spike in coronavirus cases according to Managing Director, AP Tourism Development Corporation. Earlier in July, the Minister for Tourism had said that the tourism destinations would be open in the first week of August. The Covid19 cases in Kadapa district are increasing rapidly with the number of deaths racing to 187 so far of which 72 people have succumbed to the virus in the last two weeks. The number of coronavirus positive cases has crossed 16 thousand in the district. Total number of recoveries cross 2,01,234 in the state. 8012 new cases and 88 deaths were reported yesterday in the State. Total cases: 2,89,829; Active cases: 85,945; Deaths: 2650.
Telangana:With a lot of innovation around ventilators happening in Hyderabad, the city might soon be exporting ventilators as against scrambling to import ventilators at the beginning of the pandemic, said JayeshRanjan, Principal Secretary, IT and Industries Department. 894 new cases, 2006 recoveries & 10 deaths reported in the last 24 hours; out of 894 cases, 147 cases reported from GHMC. Total cases: 92,255; Active cases: 21,420; Deaths: 703; Discharges:70,132.
Maharashtra: As the interior districts of Maharashtra are reporting increased Covid cases, the State Government has decided to establish a 1,000-bedded jumbo hospital at Mankapur for treating patients. The facility would cater to patients from entire Vidarbha as current beds in Government hospital are falling short. Out of 5.95 lakh total reported cases, 4.17 lakh people have recovered and the state has an active case load of 1.58 lakh patients.
Rajasthan: The Rajasthan High Court has suspended all work for three days till Wednesday. The suspension comes in the wake of Chief Justice IndrajitMahanty's first COVID-19 test returning positive. Rajasthan has 14,451 active Covid cases.
Madhya Pradesh: While the state registered 1,022 new cases on Sunday, a total of 685 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery. The number of active cases in Madhya Pradesh is 10,312.
Chhattisgarh: Chhattisgarh reported 576 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday taking the total number of cases in the state to 15,621. As many as eight patients succumbed to the infection on Sunday taking the death toll to 142.

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