16 May,2021 06:45 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
A net decline of 31,091 cases was recorded in India’s active case load in the last 24 hours. Pic/IANS
India's total active case load has decreased to 36,73,802 on Saturday, that comprises 15.07 per cent of the country's total positive cases. A net decline of 31,091 cases was recorded in the active case load in the last 24 hours. The report comes when India on Saturday cumulatively registered 2,43,72,907 Covid-19 cases across the country, including 36,73,802 active cases and 2,66,207 deaths.
Union Health Ministry's latest report reveals that 11 states cumulatively account for 77.26 per cent of India's total active cases with maximum report coming from Karnataka (5,98,625), Maharashtra (5,21,683), Kerala (4,42,550), Rajasthan (2,12,753) and Andhra Pradesh (2,03,787).
Delhi reported 6,500 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the lowest since April 7, the day when the city reported 5,506 cases in a day. The positivity rate - the proportion of samples tested that return positive for Covid-19 - continued its sharp decline to 11 per cent, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday. The Capital has been witnessing a sharp decline in daily positive cases and positivity rates for around two weeks.
During the peak of the second wave of the pandemic, on April 20, Delhi's daily positive cases were reported at 28,395, while the highest daily positivity rate was 36 per cent on April 22. On Friday, the city reported 8,506 cases in a day, which was the first time Delhi's daily positive case fell below 10, 000 since April 10. The daily positivity rate has declined in the city.
Covid-19 patients in home isolation will be provided oxygen concentrators at their homes with recommendation of doctors in the national capital. To ensure each patient in home isolation gets oxygen cylinders delivered at home, the Delhi government has set up an âoxygen concentrator bank' (OCB). Each of the 11 districts in the national capital will have an OCB which will ensure that patients are getting oxygen concentrators within two hours. "However, oxygen cylinders will be provided on the recommendation of the doctors only. People in home isolation will be regularly monitored by medical
experts and if they need oxygen at home the Delhi government will provide it within two hours. Covid-19 patients, those discharged from the hospitals will also be given oxygen concentrators if they need," Kejriwal said in a press conference on Saturday.
Dungarpur, a small Rajasthan town, has scripted a success story by bringing down the Covid-19 death toll by 50 per cent with the proactive approach of panchs, sarpanchs, ward councillors, ANM, village committees and senior officials. These custodians of administration worked as a team and ensured each household was visited and everyone with symptoms was identified and medicinal kits were distributed to them.
Considering the stiff rise in Covid-19 cases, the Mamata Banerjee government imposed near-complete-lockdown norms in the state starting from Sunday at 6 am for the next 15 days, allowing movement of people and vehicles only for emergency, and market places operating for three hours a day.
Amid a raging global pandemic, a large number of people in Gaya organised an occult ceremony on Saturday to expedite an end to the Coronavirus. The rituals were held at the Ma Kali temple in Gaya district. Acharya Hanumant, one of the main priests at the temple, said: "It is an old practice started in 1951 to organise âtantric puja' by sacrificing a goat. We strongly believe that tantric puja would help to end any pandemic. We also did the same last year."
Several Indian states continue to see a worrying number of cases, hospitalisations and deaths, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General said in a briefing that WHO has shipped thousands of oxygen concentrators, tents for mobile field hospitals, masks and other medical supplies. "And we thank all the stakeholders who are supporting India," he said.
2,43,72,907
Total number of cases in the country as of Saturday
2,66,207
Total no. of deaths due to the virus in India
2,04,32,898
Patients recovered and discharged in India by Saturday
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