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Health Minister reviews availability of facilities across country amid surge India is currently reporting the sharpest growth rate of 7.6% in new COVID cases, which is 1.3 times higher than the growth rate of 5.5% reported in June 2020, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The Minister added that this is leading to an alarming rise in daily number of active cases and also a sharp growth of 10.2% in the number of COVID deaths. Dr. Vardhan chaired a high-level review meeting with Health Ministers of 11 States/UTs — Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Kera...

Hospital authorities said only emergency surgeries would be performed at the hospital till further orders. "In the meeting chaired by principal government medical college Srinagar, which was attended by all the heads of various departments of the college, it was decided that 12 wards would be designated as Covid wards in addition to the paid rooms at the hospital. "At present we have adequate supply of oxygen and other requirements to deal with COVID patients", said Nazir Chowdhary, superintendent of the hospital. The S.M.H.S. Hospital is the main secondary healthcare facility in Srinagar...

Read more about India records highest single-day deaths at 1,341; 2,34,692 new Covid cases on Business Standard. A record single-day rise of2,34,692 cases and 1,341 fatalities have pushed India's Covid-19 tally to 1,45,26,609 and the death toll due to the viral disease to 1,75,649

Odisha's COVID-19 tally mounted to 3,64,594 as 3,144 more people tested positive for the infection, while four more fatalities pushed the coronavirus death toll to 1,942, a health department official said. Of the new cases, 1,823 were reported from quarantine centres and 1,321 detected during contact tracing, he said. Sundargarh recorded the maximum number of fresh cases at 523, followed by Khurda (497), Nuapada (395), Bargarh (156), Sambalpur (149), Cuttack (140), Puri (129), Keonjhar (128) and Jharsuguda (119). The four fatalities were reported from Bolangir, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi and ...

Puducherry registered 715 fresh coronavirus cases during the last twenty-four hours ending 10 am on Saturday, raising the overall infection count to 47,108. Three more persons --two in Puducherry and one in Karaikal-- succumbed to death taking the toll to 705. While there were 4090 active cases, as many as 42,313 persons were discharged after recovery so far. Director of the Department of Health and Family Welfare services here, S Mohan Kumar said the 715 new cases were identified at the end of examination of 4,748 people and these patients were spread over Puducherry 567, Karaikal 88, Yan...