Daily Covid-19 cases jump by 13,956

A health worker inoculates an elderly woman at a temporary camp, in Siliguri, on Wednesday. Pic/AFP

The number of daily Covid-19 cases across the country rose significantly from below 30,000 to over 43,000, according to the data updated by the Union health ministry at 8 am. The government added 43,645 new infections, 13,956 more than the day before, and 640 fatalities in a span of 24 hours.

On Tuesday morning, 29,689 new cases and 415 deaths were recorded nationwide.

The number of active cases increased by 1,336 to 3,99,436 in 24 hours, as per Wednesday's data. The national Covid-19 recovery rate has improved to 97.39 per cent.

The daily positivity rate increased to 2.51 per cent from 1.73 per cent on Tuesday. The weekly positivity rate stood at 2.36 per cent. The case fatality rate stands at 1.34 per cent.

Free vax across TN

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday formally launched the free vaccination drive at private hospitals, by utilising the corporate social responsibility funds provided by companies.

The programme has been rolled out with the CSR funds of CII, which had contributed Rs 2.20 crore along with the Rs 7 lakh contribution of noted hospitality service provider Adyar Anand Bhavan, an official release said.

‘Stimulus aid inadequate'

A Parliamentary panel report has stated that the Centre's stimulus package for the revival of the pandemic-hit economy has been found to be "inadequate".

"The measures adopted [by the government] were more of loan offering and long-term measures instead of improving the cash flow to generate demand as immediate relief," stated the report of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector.

It has recommended that the government should immediately come out with a larger economic package aimed at bolstering demand, investment, exports and employment generation to help the economy, including MSMEs to recover from the pandemic fall-out.

"It is estimated that almost 25 per cent of MSME loans could slip into default as several MSMEs are finding it tough to draw working capital from banks," the associations told the committee, as per the report.

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Total no. of Coronavirus cases in india so far

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Total no. of deaths due to the virus in India so far

3,99,436
Total no. of active cases in India

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