After spurt in Covid cases, govt mandates use of masks, sanitisers
Concerned with the rise in Covid-19 infection rates, Miss Banerjee alerted her administration in this regard during a cabinet meeting on Monday at the state secretariat.
Concerned with the rise in Covid-19 infection rates, Miss Banerjee alerted her administration in this regard during a cabinet meeting on Monday at the state secretariat.
The daily positivity rate stood at 0.15 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate stood at 0.14 per cent.
On the vaccination front, India has administered 41.20 lakh vaccine doses during the past 24 hours exceeding the total vaccination to 97.65 crore dozes through 96,46,485 sessions, said a senior officer of the Health Ministry.
President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the recommendation of the inter-agency Covid-19 task force to lift the current travel restrictions on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, reports Xinhua news agency.
The State’s recovery rate currently stands at 97.39% while active cases account for 2.05% of total positive cases registered in the State.
While 163 kids lost both their parents, 1,610 children lost one of their parents since the outbreak of pandemic in Odisha on 1 April, 2000, the report said.
Meanwhile the state reported 1,648 fresh infections at 2.36% Test Positivity Rate (TPR) in the last 24 hours.
The Khordha district, of which the capital Bhubaneswar is a part, registered the highest 401 cases in the last 24 hours, followed by Cuttack (382), Jajpur (292), Balasore (220), Mayurbhanj (174), Puri (161), Nayagarh (140), Bhadrak (136), Jagatsinghpur (131) and Angul (119).
The State’s recovery rate currently stands at 95.71% while the active cases account for 3.85% of total positive cases registered in the State.
The State on Tuesday logged below 3000-mark for the first time in the last two months while 38 fresh deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative death toll to 3,671.
