Covid-19 patient on oxygen support at a temporarily converted isolation ward, New Delhi. (Credit: ANI)
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday recorded more than 3.79 lakh new cases of Covid-19 and over 3,600 daily deaths in the last 24 hours. As per Union health ministry data, more than 1.8 crore people have fallen ill due to the coronavirus with over 2 lakh succumbing to the pandemic. India saw a record single-day rise of 3,79,257 new coronavirus infections pushing the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 1,83,76,524, while active cases crossed the 30-lakh mark.
Registering a steady increase, the active cases have increased to 30,84,814 comprising 16.79 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has further dropped to 82.10 per cent.
April 29, 2021
Indians are “dropping dead like flies” and the one thing that the government had promised perhaps the only thing that can save the country right now has proven to be nothing more than a farce.
On April 19, around two weeks after the disastrous second wave of Covid-19 picked up pace in India, the Narendra Modi government calmed many nerves by announcing a “transparent, liberalised and accelerated” phase 3 of its vaccination drive that would make all Indian adults eligible to get the jab.
Over the last 10 days, even as the number of new cases rose sharply at over 379,000 on April 28 and thousands of Indians lost their lives as they ran from pillar to post in search of medicines and doctors, there was a ray of hope that come April 28, the registration for phase 3 will open, and the crisis will be brought under control.
Centre, States failed to prepare for predictable second wave, says International Commission of Jurists
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Follow judicial orders regarding medical care and vaccines, it says
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A health department worker takes the throat swab of a person for coronavirus test in Puducherry on April 29, 2021.
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Follow judicial orders regarding medical care and vaccines, it says
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on Thursday called on the Centre and the State governments to comply with court orders regarding oxygen supply, hospital beds and medicines for COVID-19, adding that the governments had failed to prepare for the second wave of the pandemic.