Karnataka emerges as top contributor with 41,779 cases today

  • | Saturday | 15th May, 2021

Karnataka Saturday emerged as a top contributor with 41,779 cases, while Maharashtra reported 39,923 cases. Also, Maharashtra contributed 714 deaths, while 373 came from Karnataka. 311 from Uttar Pradesh.  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is chairing a high-level meeting on the Covid-19 related situation and vaccination in the country. The meeting began at around 11 am. On Friday, sounding a note of caution to farmers and rural areas, PM Modi said Covid-19 was spreading to villages at a “rapid” pace but said India will not lose courage and will fight the pandemic and win. Meanwhile, West Bengal announced a lockdown till May 30 with some relaxations.

With the lockdown in place for close to four weeks, Covid cases in Delhi have finally started to dip. Delhi reported 6,500 cases in the past 24 hours and the positivity rate has also dipped to 11 percent, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday. He also said that Oxygen concentrator banks are being set up in each Delhi district for those under home isolation. They can be delivered to the patient’s home in 2 hours.

India reported 3,26,098 new Covid-19 cases and 3,890 deaths in the last 24 hours ending 8 am on Saturday, as per Union Health Ministry. It also reported 3,53,299 recoveries during the same period. With today’s count, the total number of coronavirus cases in the country has reached 2,43,72,907 and the number of fatalities stands at 2,66,207. Active cases dropped by more than 31,000 cases to 36.73 lakh.

 

 


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