India s daily infections drop below 300,000 Published: 11:26 AM, May 17, 2021
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India on Monday reported 281,386 new infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 4,106. The South Asian nation s total caseload is 24.97 million with the death toll at 274,390, health ministry data showed.
Covid numbers brought a heave of relief as the daily figures dropped below the 300, 000 mark for the first time in nearly a month.
In the last 24 hours, 2,81,386 new corona cases were reported lowest in 25 days, and 4,106 fatalities, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.
Faulty ventilators not a topic for politics, says Fadnavis
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Synopsis Maharashtra has got nearly 5,000 ventilators through PM CARES fund. Many of them were kept packed for nearly four months, so the faulty ones must be replaced quickly. This is not a topic to play politics on, the former chief minister said.
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Fadnavis said he had spoken to firms manufacturing medicines for the black fungus infection and the latter had ramped up production.
Maharashtra has received a large number of ventilators under the PM CARES fund and the ones that are faulty must be replaced without any politics being played on it, senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said on Monday. He was speaking to reporters after attending a review meeting with divisional commissioner Sunil Kendrekar.
Panaji (Goa) [India], May 17 (ANI): Former Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai on Monday urged Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to urgently utilise Rs 100 crores from MLA local area development fund for administering vaccines to people and ramping up the health infrastructure of the state.
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Telangana Government orders pause for second dose of Covaxin:- The second wave of coronavirus is leaving the country sleepless and when the government is trying hard to get a control in the number of cases, the spread turned out to be huge. The only way to control the cases is through mass vaccination but there is a huge shortage. Several people who received the first dose of vaccination in the country are yet to receive the second dose of the vaccination due to unavailability. On Sunday evening, the Health Department of Telangana announced that they paused the second dose of vaccination for Covaxin as there is no stock available in the state. G Srinivasa Rao, the Director of Public Health announced that there is no stock for Covaxin and they are yet to receive the doses from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.