भारत का COVID-19 गिनती 4.02 लाख लाख से अधिक मामलों के साथ 2,22,96,414 हो गई

 

India receives three oxygen generators, 1,000 ventilators from UK

A consignment of three oxygen generators and 1,000 ventilators has arrived in India from the UK, tweeted MEA spokesperson Arindam Baghchi.  Each generator has the capacity to produce 500 liters of oxygen per minute, enough to treat 50 people at a time, he said.

Arunachal Pradesh reports highest single-day spike of 244 new cases

 

Arunachal Pradesh reported 244  new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day spike, pushing the coronavirus tally in the state to 20,046, a health department

official said on Sunday. The Capital Complex region recorded the maximum number of fresh cases at 77, followed by Tawang (33), 20 each in Lower Dibang Valley and Lohit, Changlang (19), Lower Siang (13), East Siang (12) and Lower Subansiri (10), State Surveillance Officer Dr Lobsang Jampa said.

 

At least 135 people were cured of the disease on Saturday, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 17,984. The toll in the state remained at 60 as the state did not report any COVID-19 death in the last 24 hours, Dr Jampa said.

Variant accelerating India's COVID explosion, says Soumya Swaminathan

A COVID-19 variant spreading in India is more contagious and maybe dodging vaccine protections, contributing to the country's explosive outbreak, the World Health Organization's chief scientist said Saturday. In an interview with news agency AFP, Soumya Swaminathan warned that "the epidemiological features that we see in India today do indicate that it's an extremely rapidly spreading variant".

Swaminathan, an Indian paediatrician and clinical scientist, said the B.1.617 variant, which was first detected in India last October, was clearly a contributing factor to the catastrophe unfolding in the country. "There have been many accelerators that are fed into this," the 62-year-old said, stressing that "a more rapidly spreading virus is one of them".

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