Unlocking India and antibody test plans: Covid-19 news from the country
Health authorities may begin a rapid antibody testing on Thursday, with people in high-risk areas expected to undergo first this test that checks the presence of antibodies created by the body to stop the Sars-CoV-2 virus.
Curbs on movement and commercial activities could be relaxed first in districts with no Covid-19 cases, state officials say, offering some pointers about how a staggered return to normal activity could work after April 14 in India, where over 100 people have died due to the disease. Health authorities, meanwhile, may begin a rapid antibody testing on Thursday, with people in high-risk areas expected to undergo first this test that checks the presence of antibodies created by the body to stop the Sars-CoV-2 virus.
India’s Covid-19 toll hits 100; Delhi infection tally 503
The number of deaths from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) topped 100 on Sunday as the total infections crossed 4,000 – 503 of them in Delhi – with the central government pegging the doubling rate of the pathogen’s spread at 4.1 days, a figure it said would have stood at 7.4 in the absence of the Nizamuddin cluster. Read more
Covid-19: What you need to know today
Let’s look at some numbers. The number of Covid-19 cases in the world was 1.25 million on Sunday night, and the number of deaths stood at 68,000. That works out to a fatality rate of around 5%. But, like all aggregates, this number is not representative. Read more
Will districts with no Covid-19 cases be first to be unlocked?
Curbs on movement and commercial activity could be relaxed first in districts with no coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases, officials in multiple states have said, offering some pointers about how a staggered return to normal activity could work after April 15, when the nationwide lockdown is scheduled to end. Read more
Modi calls former Presidents, PMs, Sonia Gandhi to discuss Covid crisis
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called former presidents Pranab Mukherjee and Pratibha Patil, two former PMs Manmohan Singh and HD Deve Gowda apart from heads of different parties, including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, to discuss the situation in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and the steps taken by the Centre to contain the pandemic. Read more
Coronavirus Update: PM Modi’s lights off call gets ‘huge response’, sharp dip in power demand
The Centre said on Sunday that the national response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to switch off lights for nine minutes at 9pm was huge and power demand dropped by 32 GW, more than double of what officials had anticipated. Read more
Shortage of safety equipment crippling states’ Covid-19 containment efforts
In India’s two biggest states -- Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra that have nearly a thousand cases between them -- health officials admitted to a shortage of PPE, saying that private companies had expressed their inability to provide the kits early because of an increase in demand. Read more
Cases doubling in 4.1 days, up since Jamaat event: Govt
The government on Sunday said that the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) doubling rate in India is currently at 4.1 days and attributed the rapid increase to Tablighi Jamaat congregation that took place in Delhi between March 10 and 15. Read more
US and UK set to evacuate their nationals from India
The UK and the US are set to join a list of countries that have been evacuating their stranded nationals from India, with the Boris Johnson government on Sunday announcing the first wave of seven charter flights for some 20,000 Britons in different states. Read more
Vigilant Jaipur Police monitors lockdown from coronavirus war room
A large hall on the first floor of the Jaipur Police Commissioner’s office, near the government press, is buzzing despite the 21-day national lockdown. On the left, it has three rows of eight workstations, each with three computer screens. About 30 other screens are mounted on a wall in front. Read more
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