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‘Increase in mucormycosis cases led to a severe shortage of injections in city’
BJP Parliamentary District president Raveendra Medapati has appealed to the Centre to allocate more vials of the anti-fungal Liposomal Amphotericin B and Posaconazole injections to treat the growing number of black fungus cases in Visakhapatnam.
In a letter to Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan on Sunday, Mr. Raveendra while commending the Union government for controlling the second wave of COVID-19 in an effective manner, noted that the increase in mucormycosis cases led to a severe shortage of injections to treat the fungal infection. The city is a hub to meet the health needs of north Andhra and hence more number of the anti-fungal injections should be allocated, he said.
As of Saturday morning (May 22), a total of 19.73 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered across the country.
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in Chhattisgarh, intense transmission has been observed since March 2021. The state was observing a near positivity rate of 30% at the start of May. In Himachal Pradesh, there are more than 35,000 active cases, while the fatality rate (1.44%) is much higher than the national average.
Harsh Vardhan underlined the issues like complacency, marriages, super spreader events etc, for the steep rise in cases in Himachal Pradesh. He informed that Goa is witnessing a rising trend with 22,000 active cases. Daman and Diu has 366 active cases and a declining trend is being observed. Similarly, Ladakh is also showing a declining trend with 1,500 active cases at present.
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India recorded over 2.57 lakh new COVID-19 cases and 4,194 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The country now has 29,23,400 active cases.
New Delhi: India recorded over 2.57 lakh new COVID-19 cases and 4,194 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Union Health Ministry s data on Saturday (May 22, 2021).
The total number of coronavirus cases in the country has now increased to 2,62,89,290, of which, 2,95,525 people have succumbed to the virus, while 2,30,70,365 have recovered.
This was India s sixth day when the country observed less than 3 lakh cases, whereas, the daily recoveries outnumbered the daily new COVID-19 cases for the 9th consecutive day.
The country saw a decline in the number of new cases and coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours. Earlier on Friday, there were 2,59,591 infections alongside 4,209 fatalities.