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Telangana To Increase Hospital Beds Over COVID Spike Apr 15, 2021, 13:25 IST
Chief Secretary, Sri Somesh Kumar, IAS held a high-level meeting with senior officials at BRKR Bhavan today and took stock of the prevailing Covid-19 situation in the state. He directed the officials to further increase the bed strength for Covid patients in Government hospitals and Private Medical colleges, etc so as to be prepared for any eventuality in case of an increase in cases in the state.
Kumar directed the district collectors to ramp up testing, intensify vaccination and focus on enforcing the Government Orders on covid appropriate behaviour, including mandatory wearing of masks. Similarly, Covid care centres should be doubled in all the districts. The private hospitals should also be sensitized on the judicious usage of oxygen, he added.
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No question of lockdown in Karnataka: CM Yediyurappa.
Ruling out the possibility of a lockdown in Karnataka to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic, state Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Tuesday said he has convened an all-party meeting on April 18 to decide the future course of action. There is no question of lockdown, Yediyurappa told PTI reporters in Karnataka s Bidar.
The CM clarified that the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has not recommended any lockdown. I am in the TAC. No one has recommended a lockdown, Yediyurappa said.
Besides former chief ministers Siddaramaiah and HD Kumaraswamy and Congress state chief DK Shivakumar, the members of Technical Advisory Committee members will attend the meeting on April 18.
India records 89,129 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours
The country has administered over 7 crore coronavirus vaccines with 12,76,191 doses given till 8 pm on Friday, the Health Ministry said.
| 3 April 2021 6:11 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: India reported 89,129 new cases of Covid-19 in a span of 24 hours, the biggest single-day rise in six months, taking the country s total caseload to 12,392,260, as per the Union Health Ministry data.
Active cases stand at 6,58,909. The country also witnessed a grim record of most fatalities due to covid-19 in a single day in 2021, which stood at 714. The death toll from the virus stands at 164,110, while at least 1,15,69,241 have recovered from the disease.
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DIAL rolled out its modified online facility for international arriving passengers, following new government norms in view of the emergence of COVID-19 variants.
The revamped Air Suvidha portal includes a new RT-PCR testing package and provision for declaring domestic connection.
The Centre has announced new guidelines for India-bound international passengers effective from Monday midnight, due to the emergence of new variants of the coronavirus, which have shown increased transmissibility.
Under the new norms, submission of a self-declaration form (SDF) online for all arriving international passengers prior to their scheduled travel and uploading a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR report have been made mandatory. This test should have been conducted within 72 hours prior to undertaking the journey, as per the norms.