The lockdown currently underway in Indore which was initially scheduled to end on Monday, i.e. April 12, has now been extended till 6 Lalwani said this was decided in a meeting of the Indore District Crisis Management Committee chaired by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday. He further said that vegetable and milk shops in the city will remain open from 7:00 am to 10:00 pm, adding that grocery and medical stores will also continue to remain open during the lockdown. Lalwani said that the situation of Indore is worrisome as compared to other cities and districts. Home isolation has been encouraged because last time when we did home isolation then around 3,000 people were able to avail facilities. We will issue a protocol for who should be home isolated and who should be hospitalised, he said.
Read more about Coronavirus vaccination drive halted at 178 centres in Uttarakhand on Business Standard. Covid-19 vaccination drive was halted at 178 vaccination centres in four districts of Uttarakhand oas stocks of vaccines ran out and were resumed on Sunday after officials went and sourced more doses
Hitting another record daily high of1,52,879new coronavirus infections, India s COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 1,33,58,805, while the active cases breached the 11-lakh mark for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll increased to 1,69,275 with 839 daily new fatalities, the highest since October 18, 2020,the data updated at 8 am showed. Registering a steady increase for the 32nd day in row, the active cases increased to 11,08,087 comprising 8.29per cent of the total infections, while the recovery rate further dropped to 90.44 per cent, the ministry said. The active caseload was at its lowest at1,35,926 on February 12 and at its highest at 10,17,754 on September 18, 2020.
With the addition of5,754 new cases of coronavirus, the infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra has reached 3,73,364, an official said on Sunday. These new cases were reported on Saturday. Twenty four more people have also succumbed to the viral infection, raising the death toll in the district to 6,688, the official said. The COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane stood at 1.79 per cent, he said. So far, 3,13,113 patients have recuperated from the infection in the district, which reflects a recovery rate of 83.86 per cent. As of now, there are 53,563 active COVID-19 cases in the district, the official said. In neighbouring Palghar district, the COVID-19 case count stood at 57,742 and the death toll at 1,255, another official said.
Read more about DATA STORY: India reports over 150,000 Covid cases in a day, the most ever on Business Standard. India has so far vaccinated 1,015,95,147 people. That is 760.51 per cent of its total caseload, and 7.3064 per cent of its population