Delhi govt to issue SOP for passengers arriving in flights
The Delhi government will issue a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for people coming to the national capital from other states in flights, in line with the Union Health Ministry's guidelines, a senior official said on Sunday.
Domestic air passenger services are resuming Monday after a two-month gap due to the coronavirus lockdown.
The Union Health Ministry Sunday issued guidelines for domestic travel, advising passengers to download the Aarogya Setu application on their mobile devices and asking states to ensure thermal screening at departure point of airports, railway stations and bus terminals.
According to a senior Delhi government official, the city health department will bring its own SOP for arriving passengers in line with the Union Health Ministry's guidelines.
The Union Health Ministry said that states can also develop their own protocol with regards to quarantine and isolation as per their assessment.
RML hospital dean tests positive
The dean of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi has tested positive for coronavirus infection.
Dr Rajeev Sood, who is looking after the management of Coovid-19 manpower at the hospital, tested positive for the infection on Saturday.
He is now under home isolation and contact tracing has been initiated by hospital authorities.
'I have fever and mild upper respiratory infection and got myself tested for Covid-19...it came out positive. I am under home isolation now,' Dr Sood, who is also the head of the department of urology, told PTI over phone.
Mumbai returnee tests positive in HP's Mandi, district tally now 11
A 19-year-old woman, who recently returned to Mandi from Mumbai, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a district official said on Sunday.
The fresh case has pushed the number of Covid-19 cases to 11 in the district. One person has so far recovered from the infection while a coronavirus patient died, leaving nine active cases in the district.
The woman, who has tested positive for the infection, is asymptotic and belonged to Dharampur in Sarkaghat tehsil, the official said.
She recently returned from Mumbai with her parents and was institutionally quarantined in Dharampur with them, he said.
Her parents tested negative, the official said.
She is being shifted to the dedicated coronavirus centre at Dhangshidar near Mandi in the training centre of the Jal Shakti department, he added.
Covid-19 cases in India saw the biggest spike for the third consecutive day on Sunday with 6,767 new infections reported in the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 1,31,868, while the death toll due to the disease rose to 3,867 after 147 more fatalities, according to the Union health ministry.
The active cases of the coronavirus disease rose to 73,560. While 54,440 people have recovered, one patient has migrated to another country, according to the ministry bulletin.
'Thus, around 41.28 per cent patients have recovered so far,' a health ministry official said.
The total number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus pandemic includes foreigners.
Of the 147 deaths reported since Saturday morning, 60 were in Maharashtra, 27 in Gujarat, 23 in Delhi, nine in Madhya Pradesh, seven in Rajasthan, five in Tamil Nadu, four each in West Bengal and Telangana, three in Uttar Pradesh, and one each in Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand.
Of the total death toll of 3,867, Maharashtra tops the tally with 1,577 deaths, followed by Gujarat at 829, Madhya Pradesh at 281, West Bengal at 269 and Delhi at 231.
The number of deaths due to the contagion in Rajasthan is 160, while 155 people died in Uttar Pradesh, 103 in Tamil Nadu and 56 in Andhra Pradesh.
The Covid-19 death toll reached 49 in Telangana, 42 in Karnataka and 39 in Punjab. There are 21 fatalities in Jammu and Kashmir, 16 in Haryana and 11 in Bihar.
Seven people have succumbed to the disease in Odisha, and four each in Kerala, Jharkhand and Assam so far.
Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh have recorded three deaths each, while Uttarakhand has recorded two deaths due to the virus. One fatality has been recorded in Meghalaya, the ministry said.
More than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities, according to the ministry's website.
The highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 47,190 followed by Tamil Nadu at 15,512, Gujarat at 13,664 and Delhi at 12,910.
There are 6,742 coronavirus cases in Rajasthan, 6,371 in Madhya Pradesh and 6,017 in Uttar Pradesh. The number of infections has gone up to 3,459 in West Bengal, 2,757 in Andhra Pradesh and 2,380 in Bihar.
As many as 2,045 people have been infected with the virus in Punjab, 1,959 in Karnataka, 1,813 in Telangana, 1,569 in Jammu and Kashmir and 1,269 in Odisha.
In Haryana, 1,132 people are afflicted with the deadly disease, while Kerala has 795 cases, followed by Jharkhand with 350 and 329 in Assam. As many as 244 cases have been reported in Uttarakhand, Chandigarh has reported 225 cases, while 214 people have tested positive for the virus in Chhattisgarh.
A total of 189 people have tested positive in Tripura, while there are 185 cases of the pathogen in Himachal Pradesh, and 55 in Goa. Ladakh has reported 49 Covid-19 cases, while Andaman and Nicobar Islands has registered 33 infections.
Manipur has registered 29 cases and Puducherry has recorded 26 cases. Meghalaya has 14 cases. Dadar and Nagar Haveli has reported two cases, while Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim have recorded one case each.
As many as '2,338 cases are being reassigned to states,' the ministry said on its website, adding that, 'Our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR'.
Statewide distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation, it said.
Kejriwal praises Sanjay Singh for helping migrants
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has praised AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and his wife Anita for providing migrants with food amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
Sharing a video posted on Anita's Twitter account where she can be seen distributing packets of food and masks to people in a bus ferrying labourers, Kejriwal said the AAP MP has also helped hundreds of migrant labourers return to their homes.
'Our Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh ji and his wife Anita ji are feeding food to the poor every day. He also helped hundreds of migrant laborers to return to their homes. Salute to his spirit and service,' Kejriwal said in a tweet.
Delhi cases cross 13,000-mark
The novel coronavirus death toll in Delhi rose to 261 on Sunday, while the number of infections climbed to 13,418 with 508 new cases, the government said.
A total of 6,540 patients have recovered, while 6,617 are undergoing treatment, according to a health bulletin.
The city has 86 containment zones.
On Saturday, the number of coronavirus cases in the city was 12,910 and fatalities 231.
Corporation workers sanitise a street in the Townhall Market amid concerns over Covid-19 outbreak, in Coimbatore, Sunday, May 24, 2020 PTI
54 more test positive in Uttarakhand, tally 298
Fifty four more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Uttarakhand on Sunday taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 298.
All the new patients had returned from outside, a state health department bulletin here said.
The maximum number of positive cases were reported from Nainital where 32 new patients were diagnosed with the infection on Sunday. Nainital has alone accounted for 117 Covid-19 cases so far.
Dehradun reported seven new cases, Almora five, Chamoli and Tehri Garhwal three each and Champawat and Pauri districts one each.
Out of 54 positive cases, one was confirmed by a private lab, the bulletin said.
India's economy has been severely hit by the lockdown and thousands of migrant workers across the country are returning to their home towns after losing their means of livelihood.
Thousands are even walking back to their homes due to lack of adequate transport facilities.
