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US coronavirus cases surge past 1 million

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New Delhi (NVI): The total confirmed coronavirus cases in the US passed one million mark today, accounting for a third of cases worldwide, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The US death toll is now over 57,000 people.

Meanwhile, the total number of people confirmed to have coronavirus has gone up to 3.1 million and at least 2,15,000 people have died so far around the globe.

However, more than 9,20,000 people have recovered from the deadly virus worldwide.

In addition to this, the French PM Edouard Philippe presented plans to unwind a nationwide lockdown from May 11 conditional on the number of new cases dropping below 3,000 per day, accoding to media reports.

China’s National Health Commission said that 22 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the last 24 hours, all but one of them in people who had returned from overseas.

Covid-19 cases in India rise to 31,332; death toll at 1,007

New Delhi (NVI): The death toll due to coronavirus in India rose to 1,007 while the total number of positive cases increased to 31,332, the Union Health Ministry said this morning.

In the last 24 hours, 1,897 cases were reported in the country, it said.

At least 73 people lost their lives, resulting in the steepest rise in COVID-19 deaths in India in one day.

With 9,318 confirmed cases of COVID-19 so far, Maharashtra remains worst-affected state, followed by Gujarat with 3,744 cases and Delhi with 3,314 cases.

Meanwhile, the recovery rate of COVID-19 patients has as such improved to 23.3 percent of total cases, as per Health Ministry.

At least 7,696 people have been discharged or cured in the country.

Rs 50 L compensation for port employees in case of death due to Covid-19

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New Delhi (NVI): The government has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 50 lakh for port employees/workers in the event of loss of life due to COVID-19.

In a statement today, the Ministry of Shipping said that it has decided that all the “Major Ports may grant compensation/Ex-Gratia in the event of loss of life due to COVID-19 to the dependent members/legal heirs of the port employees.”

The amount of compensation applies to all Port employees including Contract Labourers employed directly by the port as well as Other Contractual Labourers.

the monetary compensation has been declared to cover the risk of life due to COVID-19 contamination while discharging the Port related duty, the ministry said.

“Port Chairman is the competent authority for the settling claims/disbursement of the compensation/Ex-Gratia and verifying authority for the cause of death from COVID-19. This compensation is applicable only for the pandemic of COVID-19 and shall be in force up to30.09.2020, subject to review thereafter,” it added.

No evidence to support plasma therapy as Covid-19 treatment yet: Centre

Joint Secretary, Health Ministry, Lav Aggarwal

New Delhi (NVI): There are no approved therapies for COVID-19 currently including plasma therapy, the Union Ministry of Health said today while making it clear that it is one of the many therapies which are being experimented with.

“There is no approved therapy for Covid-19 in the country including Plasma therapy. Plasma therapy is being experimented with and there is no evidence to support it as a treatment. It is only at an experimental stage. If not used properly, it can create life-threatening complications,” said Lav Aggarwal, Joint Secretary in Health Ministry, during the daily media briefing today.

So far there is no evidence to support it as a treatment, the ministry said in a statement today, adding that ICMR has also started a National Study to evaluate the efficacy of the therapy.

“However, it needs to be clarified that until ICMR concludes its study and robust scientific proof is available, it should not be used except for research and trial purposes. In fact, use of plasma therapy may have life threatening complications. ICMR has already issued detailed guidelines in this regard for the use of plasma therapy outside the study purposes,” the health ministry statement read.

The government’s clarification regarding the therapy comes amid media reports that it is helping in the recovery of virus-infected patients.

Apart from that, the Health Ministry said that as of today, there are 17 districts in the country where earlier cases had come, but now no new case has been reported for the last 28 days.

“The number of these districts has increased by 1 (two new districts have been added whereas one has been dropped from the previous list) since yesterday. The districts that got added to the list are Kalimpong (West Bengal) & Wayanad (Kerala). The district which was removed from this list is Lakhisarai (Bihar),” the ministry said in a statement.

As of now, 6,868 people have been cured with a recovery rate of 23.3%. A total of 29,435 people have been confirmed positive as of now for COVID-19 in India, according to the ministry.

State-wise details of total Covid-19 cases in India

New Delhi (NVI): As the country remains in lockdown for over a month, COVID-19 cases keep on increasing, with total confirmed cases at 29,435 and 934 deaths so far, according to the Union Health Ministry.

After the first confirmed coronavirus case in India, which was reported in the state of Kerala on January 30, the virus has tightened its grip across the nation.

Total positive cases in different states/UTs:

Andaman and Nicobar Islands-  33

Andhra Pradesh- 1,183

Arunachal Pradesh- 1

Assam- 36

Bihar- 345

Chandigarh- 40

Chhattisgarh- 37

Delhi- 3,108

Gujarat- 3,548

Haryana – 296

Himachal Pradesh- 40

Jammu and Kashmir- 546

Jharkhand- 82

Karnataka- 512

Kerala- 481

Ladakh- 20

Madhya Pradesh-  2,168

Maharashtra- 8,590

Meghalaya- 12

Mizoram- 1

Odisha- 118

Puducherry- 8

Punjab- 313

Rajasthan- 2,262

Tamil Nadu- 1,937

Telengana- 1,004

Uttarakhand- 51

Uttar Pradesh- 1,955

West Bengal – 697

State/UT wise total death toll in the country:

Andhra Pradesh- 31

Assam- 1

Bihar- 2

Delhi- 54

Gujarat- 162

Haryana- 3

Himachal Pradesh- 1

Jammu and Kashmir- 7

Jharkhand- 3

Karnataka- 20

Kerala- 4

Madhya Pradesh- 110

Maharashtra- 369

Meghalaya- 1

Odisha- 1

Punjab- 18

Rajasthan- 46

Tamil Nadu- 24

Telangana- 26

Uttar Pradesh- 31

West Bengal- 20

A total of 6,869 people have been cured or discharged from hospitals in India. There are around 21,632 active cases currently.

J&K’s Covid tally climbs to 566 after 20 more test positive

J&K Govt bans private practice by all SKIMS medical professionals
SKIMS, Srinagar (File)

Abid Bashir

Srinagar (NVI): Twenty more people have been tested positive for the deadly coronavirus virus in Jammu and Kashmir, pushing the total tally to 566.

Officials said that ten cases were tested positive at SKIMS Laboratory while ten more were tested positive at CD hospital, Srinagar. Among them, eight are from Anantnag, five are from Baramulla, four from Shopian, two from Pulwama and one from Kupwara.

Dr GH Yatoo, Nodal officer for COVID-19 at SKIMS said that out of 630 samples tested today, 10 were found positive for the Covid.

Dr Salim Khan, Nodal officer for COVID-19 at GMC Srinagar said that out of 377 samples tested, 10 were tested positive. Among them, 8 are from Anantnag while as 2 are from Pulwama, he added.

He further said that 689 samples were received today while the results of 180 samples are awaited.

As per the daily COVID bulletin, Bandipora is topping the list of positive cases in Kashmir with 127 cases. “Srinagar has 86, Shopian 71, Baramulla 72, Anantnag 62, Kupwara 49, Ganderbal 14, Budgam 15, Kulgam 6, and Pulwama 5,” the bulletin read.

In the Jammu region, the bulletin stated that Jammu has 26 cases, Udhampur 20,  Samba 4, Rajouri 4, Kathua 1, Kishtwar 1 and Ramban 1.

“The total number of positive cases in J&K is 565 of which 381 are active cases. 167 people have recovered and eight people have died so far,” the bulletin read.

It stated that 66,977 people have been enlisted for observation while as 6,364 have been kept under home quarantine. “381 people are in hospital isolation and 255 are under hospital quarantine. Surveillance of 52,172 people has been completed. 9,082 persons are under home surveillance,” the bulletin read.

2 militants killed, soldier injured in encounter at Shopian in south Kashmir

July 18 Shopian encounter: Army completes summary of evidence
An encounter site in Kashmir (File Pic)

Srinagar (NVI): Two militants were killed while a soldier was injured in an encounter in Mehloora village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district, a police official said.

The encounter took place after joint teams of Army, Police and CRPF launched a massive search operation on receiving a tip-off about the presence of militants in village Mehloora, Zainpora, in Shopian district, police sources said earlier.

“As the security forces zeroed in on the suspected house where militants were believed to be hiding, the militants fired indiscriminately triggering off an encounter. Heavy exchange of fire is going on from both sides,” a police official said.

“One militant has been killed. The operation is underway,” defence spokesperson in Srinagar, Rajesh Kalia told NVI earlier.

J&K Covid deaths at 8 as Srinagar woman dies day after testing positive

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Abid Bashir

Srinagar (NVI): A 70-year-old woman from Rainawari area of Srinagar, who was tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, breathed her last at a hospital this afternoon, officials said.

With this, the total number of people who have died of Covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir UT has jumped to eight.

A doctor at Chest Diseases hospital Srinagar, told NVI that being elderly, the woman had multiple ailments that included hypertension and diabetes. “She was tested positive on Monday and her condition deteriorated today afternoon after which she died,” he said.

Medical Superintendent, Chest Disease hospital, Srinagar Dr Saleem Tak said: “She was having a series of medical conditions. We tried our best to save her but she couldn’t fight the Covid,” he said.

The elderly woman’s death comes close on the heels of the death of a pregnant lady in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, who was tested positive for the virus, a day after she succumbed at a hospital after giving birth to stillborn twins.

Earlier, J&K had recorded six deaths including that of a woman from the Jammu region, who also had a series of underlined medical conditions.

COVID-19 cases climb to 14,504 in Pakistan; 312 dead so far

New Delhi (NVI): The number of confirmed cases due to coronavirus in Pakistan rose to 14,504 today while the total number of fatalities have gone up to 312.

Looking at the breakdown of cases, Punjab province has reported 5,730 coronavirus cases, highest among all the provinces, while Sindh has 5,291 positive cases.

On the other hand, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has recorded 1,984 cases, Balochistan is at 853, Gilgit-Baltistan at 320, Islamabad at 261 and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is at 65 cases so far, according to Geo News.

In the last 24 hours, 204 recoveries have been recorded in the country to take the number 3,233.

In addition to this, implementing the lockdown is proving to be a challenge for Islamabad.

India signs $1.5 billion loan with ADB to combat Covid-19

New Delhi (NVI): In a big boost to the country’s Covid-19 response, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) today approved a $1.5 billion loan, that will help focus on immediate priorities such as disease containment and prevention, the Ministry of Finance said.

The loan will also support the Government’s action plan of social protection for the poor and economically vulnerable sections of the society, especially women and disadvantaged groups, the ministry said in a statement.

The signatories to the loan agreement for the ADB’s COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Programme (CARES Programme) were Sameer Kumar Khare, Additional Secretary (Fund Bank and ADB), in the Department of Economic Affairs in Ministry of Finance, and Kenichi Yokoyama, Country Director, ADB, in India.

“We thank ADB’s timely assistance for the government’s immediate response measures to the coronavirus pandemic to implement (i) COVID-19 containment plan to rapidly ramp up test-track-treatment capacity, and (ii) social protection for the poor, vulnerable, women, and disadvantaged groups to protect more than 800 million people over the next three months,” Khare was quoted as saying by the finance ministry.

“ADB’s financial and technical support will contribute to the sound implementation of the government’s far reaching emergency response programs launched in March 2020,” he added.

Earlier, the ADB’s Board of Directors approved the loan to provide budget support to the government to counter and mitigate the adverse health and socio-economic impact of the pandemic.

On April 9, ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa had conveyed the bank’s commitment to support India’s emergency needs for the health sector while alleviating the economic impact of the pandemic, as well as short- to medium-term measures to restore the dynamic economic growth of the country by exploring all available financing options, the Finance Ministry said.

The CARES Programme is provided as the first support to meet the immediate requirements of the government.

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