Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File
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Top officers from various ministries will participate in the meeting scheduled for 8 pm on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a review meeting with top officials over the COVID-19 situation and the ongoing vaccination exercise in the country, government sources said on Saturday. Top officers from various ministries will participate in the meeting scheduled for 8 pm on Saturday. The meeting comes amid a huge surge in COVID-19 cases across the country with reports pouring in from many states about the shortage of hospital facilities and essentials like oxygen supply. The prime minister has been holding meetings with chief ministers and officials on a regular basis to discuss the situation and take measures to curb the pandemic.
Coronavirus | India conducts the highest number of daily tests
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14.95 lakh samples studied; 2.10 lakh fresh cases and 1,070 deaths reported.
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14.95 lakh samples studied; 2.10 lakh fresh cases and 1,070 deaths reported.
As many as 14,95,397 samples were tested in India on Friday (results of which were made available on Saturday), the highest-ever number of tests conducted in a single day in the country. This is the second consecutive day the number of tests is crossing the 14-lakh mark. On September 24, 2020, 14,92,409 tests were carried out, which was the highest until the record was broken on Friday. A total of 26.49 crore samples have been tested in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
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The global death toll from COVID-19 passed three million on Saturday, with the pandemic already having killed more people than most other viral epidemics of the 20th and 21st centuries.
But there have been notable exceptions. The post-World War I Spanish Flu wiped out 50 million people, according to some estimates. And over the decades AIDS has killed 33 million.
Here are some comparisons:
In 2009, the
H1N1 virus, or swine flu, caused a global pandemic and left an official death toll of 18,500.
This was later revised upwards by The Lancet medical journal to between 151,700 and 575,400 dead.
That brings it close to
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 10, 2021 A nurse prepares the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine a public housing project pop-up site targeting vulnerable communities in Los Angeles, California. – Pfizer-BioNTech asked for authorization April 9, 2021 to use their Covid-19 vaccine on 12-15 year olds in the United States. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)The global death toll from Covid-19 passed three million on Saturday, with the pandemic already having killed more people than most other viral epidemics of the 20th and 21st centuries.
But there have been notable exceptions. The post-World War I Spanish Flu wiped out 50 million people, according to some estimates. And over the decades AIDS has killed 33 million.