The National Centre for Disease Control has detected a total of six cases of various strains in Uttarakhand. Three of them belong to the double mutant strain.
The active cases of coronavirus increased to 20,31,977, comprising 13.26% of the total infections, while the national recovery rate has dropped to 85.56%
The new variant, B.1.617, has features associated with higher infection rates and lower antibody resistance. It's turning up in more than half of viral samples taken in India.
Doctors say consuming medicines not meant to be taken outside hospital settings can affect natural course of Covid treatment & lead to patients reporting additional side-effects.
India's overall R value was a reassuring 1.31, compared to 1.30 last week. But it is the two poorest and most crowded states where infection rates have gone up alarmingly.
During a meeting chaired by PM Modi, vaccine manufacturers were also empowered to release up to 50% of their supply to state govts and in the open market at a pre-declared price.
A day before, the former PM and Congress leader had written to PM Narendra Modi suggesting ways to deal with Covid crisis in India. He had taken both the doses of Covid vaccine.
India now has the world’s fastest-growing Covid-19 caseload, adding 273,810 new infections and 1,619 deaths Monday, leaving it behind only the US in terms of total numbers.
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Move to bring down differences in commodity prices with neighbouring states, says government. Oppn, dealers blame it on welfare, Congress's guarantees.
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There seems to be some confusing information provided in this write up. The first shahi snan in the Kumbh mela was on 11 Mar. The kumbh mela was well underway by end of March when mutant Covid strains were found in Haridwar.
Why is media reacting with such news post-event? They could have been more proactive and reported before start of the event. Its very easy to do post-event analysis and blame the authorities. When Kumbh arrangements started in November 2020 there was no threat of second wave in India. Secondly the a bigger threat is looming over the capital that is of so called rich farmers and middlemen sitting in protest, what about them?
Why is there an old photo of kumbh when mentioning new strains of wuhan virus.
You don’t have the audacity to call it wuhan virus but implicitly make it about as due to kumbh.
There was no hue and cry during farmer protests or republic day rampage but all of a sudden I see flash of kumbh pictures on theprint and other news media intentionally maligning kumbh.
This paappe journalism must be stopped where reams are written and filled with fear stories and mongering instead of uplifting ones or if resilience.
There seems to be some confusing information provided in this write up. The first shahi snan in the Kumbh mela was on 11 Mar. The kumbh mela was well underway by end of March when mutant Covid strains were found in Haridwar.
Why is media reacting with such news post-event? They could have been more proactive and reported before start of the event. Its very easy to do post-event analysis and blame the authorities. When Kumbh arrangements started in November 2020 there was no threat of second wave in India. Secondly the a bigger threat is looming over the capital that is of so called rich farmers and middlemen sitting in protest, what about them?
Why is there an old photo of kumbh when mentioning new strains of wuhan virus.
You don’t have the audacity to call it wuhan virus but implicitly make it about as due to kumbh.
There was no hue and cry during farmer protests or republic day rampage but all of a sudden I see flash of kumbh pictures on theprint and other news media intentionally maligning kumbh.
This paappe journalism must be stopped where reams are written and filled with fear stories and mongering instead of uplifting ones or if resilience.