Tea estate shut in Assam after 198 test positive
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Lockdown in Meghalaya, including Shillong, till May 10
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Lockdown in Meghalaya, including Shillong, till May 10
Local authorities have closed a tea estate in eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh district after 198 workers and members of their families tested positive for COVID-19.
The Zaloni Tea Estate was declared a containment zone on Wednesday. District Surveillance Officer of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Nabajyoti Gogoi said the cases were reported over the past 48 hours. “The patients have been kept at the tea garden hospital and in some empty houses within the estate. Health officials have been vaccinating other workers of the garden and their family members who tested negative,” he said. About 60 other cases were also reported from two adjoining tea estates. An average of 4,596 people tested positive in the last three days in Assam. The number of cases on May 3 was 4,489 twice th
Nagpur: Rural parts of the district have seen 38 people under 30 years age group die of Covid-19 in March and April this year. This number, though higher than 23 of this age group who died in August-September last year, which was peak of the first wave, is substantially lower in percentage terms.
As per data from Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), 3.46% of total 1,098 deceased were below 30 years in March and April (second wave). The comparable figure forthis age group in peak of first wave was 5.21% of total 441 who died then. However, it was just one (1.22%) of 82 deaths in January and February that can be considered typical months of first wave. Of total fatalities, 59.26% deaths were recorded in last two months alone.
Coronavirus | Puducherry reports UK and South Africa variants of the virus
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Of the results from 27 samples, 10 of the UK strain and 2 of the South African strain of the virus were found, an official said
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A health worker vaccinating a frontline worker at the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute in Puducherry on Saturday. Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: KUMAR SS
Of the results from 27 samples, 10 of the UK strain and 2 of the South African strain of the virus were found, an official said
The Union Territory too, has reported mutant variants of the novel coronavirus since the second wave of COVID-19 struck the country.
Mizoram has not reported any case of new COVID-19 variants till date, an official said on Friday. The Mizoram government has sent 326 samples of COVID- 19 infected positive patients to National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) in West Bengal for genome sequencing, state spokesperson for COVID-19 Dr Pachuau Lalmalsawma. The samples were sent between December, 2020 and April this year, he said. Of the 326 samples, results of 69 samples have been received and all of them tested negative for new variants of COVID-19, Pachuau told PTI. He said that the results of the remaining samples are awaited.
Mizoram has so far reported 5,220 COVID-19 cases of which 4,600 patients have recovered from the disease.
At corporate India’s behest, Modi government lets pandemic run rampant
The COVID-19 pandemic is now spreading across India like wildfire, threatening a human catastrophe of biblical or, to be more precise, 21st century capitalist proportions.
Yesterday, Indian health authorities reported 259,170 new infections, only marginally lower than Saturday’s record tally of 273,802. India’s daily count of new COVID-19 cases has exceeded 200,000 every day since April 15. That is for six straight days.
Daily COVID-19 fatalities have been increasing by more than 1,000 a day since April 14 although numerous reports suggest that this is a gross undercount. Yesterday’s daily COVID-19 death toll set a new record: 1,761 deaths were officially attributed to the virus, bringing the total to more than 182,000.