At 12,591, India reports 20% rise in new Covid cases
Darpan News Desk IANS, 20 Apr, 2023 11:20 AM
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) India recorded 12,591 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which is 20 per cent higher than the previous day.
On Wednesday, 10,542 new cases were recorded.
The active caseload currently is 65,286, said the Union Health Ministry on Thursday.
The recovery rate is at 98.67 per cent.
A total of 10,827 recoveries in the last 24 hours increased the total recoveries to 4,42,61,476.
The daily positivity rate is 5.46 per cent) and the weekly positivity rate stands at 5.32 per cent.
Under the nationwide vaccination drive, 220.66 crore total vaccine doses (95.21 crore second dose and 22.87 crore precaution dose) have been administered so far.
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, P.K. Mishra, on Wednesday undertook a review meeting to oversee the level of preparedness and public health response to it.
According to sources in the know of things, Mishra advised officials to ensure operational readiness of hospital infrastructure till the sub-district level.
He also highlighted the need to examine the Covid situation regularly and update advisories to guide the states.
Mishra also exhorted upon continuation of the ongoing time-tested strategy of Test-Track-Treat-Vaccination and adherence to Covid appropriate behaviour among the people.
A presentation was made by Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan during the meeting, where he provided an overview of the global Covid situation.
A Turkish Airlines flight took off from Delhi carrying material donated by the Indians on Monday. India has been running 'Operation Dost' in Turkey and Syria, ever since the countries were hit by the calamity.
At his weekly press briefing here, Gill said the police have recovered 529.53 kg heroin from the state after carrying out cordon and search operations in drug-affected areas. Additionally, 147.5 kg heroin was recovered by the police from seaports of Gujarat and Maharashtra, taking the total effective recovery of heroin to 677.03 kg in seven months, he said.
In a statement here, SAD General Secretary Parambans Singh Romana said the truth about the Delhi model of school education had been "exposed" yet again with the national survey on Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) showing that Delhi had the worst PTR next to only Bihar in the country.
The police said that a reward of Rs 25,000 was also declared for any information leading to his arrest. The accused has been identified as Salman alias Suleman, a resident of Jahangirpuri.
On February 7, the court took cognisance of the charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police against Poonawala and posted the matter for its scrutiny on February 21. On January 24, the police had filed the charge sheet in the case which contains over 6,000 pages and the court had extended Poonawala's custody for 14 days.
In a statement here, the Chief Minister apprised the Governor that he has came to know about his letter through the media, and all issues raised by Governor are the issues related to jurisdiction of the state. And for these issues, he is accountable to the 3 crore Punjabis who have elected him with a whopping mandate, Mann stressed.
