Read more about Coronavirus: Nagpur records 3,720 new Covid-19 cases; 47 fatalities on Business Standard. 47 died of the infection in Maharashtra s Nagpur district
Concerned over the steep increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the national capital, BJP leaders, including Rajya Sabha MP Dr Anil Jain and Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta, on Saturday visited several corporation-run vaccination centres to assess the situation. The BJP leaders, during their visit to COVID centres in UPHC Tughlaqabad, UPHC Mehrauli and UPHC Daryaganj, interacted with the health workers and people who had come for the vaccination to know if there were any shortcomings in the process. Here, they also urged their party workers to help register more and more people for the ongoing vaccination drive against COVID-19.
An appeal was on Saturday made by the Director of Health and Family Welfare Services S Mohan Kumar to the people to adhere to safety protocols as, he said, the second wave of coronavirus is spreading fast here. In his video address, Kumar said the virus was spreading at an alarmingly large-scale and people should not lower their guard. Basic measures such as wearing of masks, washing hands and maintaining social distance should be followed. Kumar said a free COVID-19 vaccination camp was inaugurated earlier in the day by Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan at the Venkateswarar Medical College at Ariyur on the Puducherry-Villupuram route.
Industry body FICCI has urged the government to ramp up COVID testing across the states and open up the vaccination for the age group 18-45 years, while assuring it of the complete support of the industry in fighting the pandemic. We are currently testing about 11 lakh samples a day, while we had reached the level of testing 15 lakh samples a day in January. Further, there is capacity of performing much more tests with 2,440 labs in the country operational for COVID testing, including more than 1,200 from the private sector, FICCI President Uday Shankar said in a letter to the Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan.
Read more about Maha may divert all oxygen supply for medical use: CM Thackeray on Business Standard. Maharashtra is recording over half of the daily coronavirus cases in India