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India reported 40,715 cases of Covid-19, lower than infections recorded in the last two days, and 199 related deaths in the last 24 hours. The fresh infections and deaths have pushed the country’s infection tally to over 11.68 million and the death toll has now risen to 160,166. Sudden resurge in Covid-19 cases hasn’t proved to be a deterrent for a section of people as rules were seen flouted in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district where an event was organised for the promotion of movie ‘Yuvarathnaa’ in presence of actor Puneeth Rajkumar and other cast members. This comes even as the southern state has been tightening rules, making it mandatory for Maharashtra, Punjab and Chandigarh travellers to produce negative coronavirus report on arrival. Karnataka on Monday recorded over 1,445 new cases and ten fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 9,71,647 and the toll to 12,444.
On the other hand, in the northern state of Punjab, students of Guru Nanak Dev University and Khalsa College staged a demonstration in Amritsar, demanding reopening of colleges that have been closed due to sharp rise in Covid-19 cases. Many students were seen standing without masks. The state reported 2,319 fresh cases on Monday, taking the tally to 2,15,409, while 58 fatalities pushed the death toll to 6,382. This has promoted several schools and colleges in the state and Chandigarh to shut till March end. The situation seems to be quite grim here as Rajasthan government has dispatched a consignment of 10,000 doses of “life-saving” injection Remdesivir to the state. Rajasthan Health Minister Raghu Sharma said the number of positive cases has started increasing rapidly again in Punjab like other states of the country, therefore, the injection has been supplied to Punjab free of cost.
Meanwhile, the cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 4.72 crore with 19,65,635 doses being given on Monday, the Union Health Ministry said. A total of 4,72,07,134 vaccine doses have been given till 7 pm on Monday, according to a provisional report.
These include 78,30,626 healthcare workers (HCWs) who have taken the first dose and 49,30,888HCWs who have taken the second dose, 81,72,121 frontline workers (FLWs) who have received the first dose and 27,93,013FLWs who have taken the second dose. Besides 1,94,07,739 beneficiaries aged above 60 years and 40,72,747 beneficiaries aged 45 to 60 with specific co-morbidities have been administered the first dose.
“Total 19,65,635 vaccine doses were given till 7 pm on Monday, the sixty-sixth day of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination. Out of which, 17,55,110 beneficiaries were vaccinated for first dose and 2,10,525HCWs and FLWs received second dose of vaccine,” the ministry said, adding final reports would be completed for the day by late night. The 17,55,110 beneficiaries include 13,07,614 aged above 60 years and 3,34,367 aged 45-60 with co-morbidities.
The countrywide vaccination drive was rolled out on January 16 with healthcare workers getting inoculated and vaccination of the frontline workers started from February 2. The next phase of COVID-19 vaccination commenced on March 1for those who are over 60 years of age and for people aged 45 and above with specified co-morbid conditions.
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