Covid-19 cases in India cross 2 lakh, deaths 4,000 again

Volunteers distribute food to the people in need and to daily wagers out of jobs due to the lockdown, in Chennai, on Wednesday. Pic/AFP

India has reported 2,08,921 Covid-19 cases and 4,157 deaths in a 24-hour period, according to health ministry's Wednesday morning data.

The daily test positivity rate declined to 9.42 per cent, the ministry said. This is the second day in a row that the case positivity rate has remained below 10 per cent, the ministry said. The weekly positivity rate has also declined to 11.45 per cent.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the manufacturers of Sputnik V have agreed to supply the Russian anti-COVID vaccine to Delhi but its quantity is yet to be decided.

"Talks with the makers of Sputnik V are on. They will give us vaccine, but the quantity is yet to be decided. Our officials and the representatives of the vaccine manufacturers met on Tuesday, too," he said. He added that there were around 620 cases of black fungus or mucormycosis in the city, but there is a shortage of Amphotericin-B injections used in its treatment.

‘Book Ramdev for sedition'

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that yoga guru Ramdev be booked immediately under sedition charges for alleged misinformation campaign on vaccination and challenging government protocols for treatment of Covid-19.

It has also served a defamation notice on Ramdev for his alleged disparaging remarks against allopathy and allopathic doctors, demanding an apology from him within 15 days, failing which it said it will demand a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore from him. On Sunday, Ramdev was forced to withdraw a statement made in the viral video clip in which he questions some of the medicines being used to treat the Coronavirus infection and saying that "lakhs have died from taking allopathic medicines for Covid-19".

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