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Over 150 doctors in Ahmedabad contract COVID-19; Fear of oxygen supply shortage grip MP and Maharashtra
Test shows almost 20% of the 5.34 crore population in Andhra now acquire “immunity” to Covid-19
Bengaluru: Karnataka’s health experts have stated that they will continue with plasma therapy claiming it to be effective in treating Corona patients, even as the Indian Council of Medical Research study has suggested to the contrary.
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Six months after State reported first Covid case, the number of active cases crossed one lakh in the state yesterday and touched 1,01,537. To address the issue of Covid test samples piling up in some districts and reports of government hospitals running out of oxygen supply, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has called for an inter-district coordination effort.
The fear of shortage of oxygen supply has also hit Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra as well. In Bhopal, staring at a shortage of oxygen supply as the Covid-19 graph climbs higher, the Madhya Pradesh government has announced setting up a new plant for manufacturing oxygen at Hoshangabad and other short-term measures to increase its import and in-house industrial production. The move comes days after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray directed all oxygen production units to curtail export of oxygen and store about 80 per cent of its production for the state’s requirements.
Meanwhile the Maharashtra government, in view of the World Health Organisation’s warning that COVID-19 cases will be on the rise in the coming days, has also decided to provide 80 per cent oxygen cylinders to hospitals and 20 per cent to industries. The state on Thursday had recorded its second-highest spike in coronavirus cases at 23,446, which took the case tally to 9,90,795. There were 2.61 lakh active patients, 69,456 of them in Pune district, followed by Thane with 28,460 and Mumbai with 26,629 active patients.The active case load of Covid 19 patients in the state was 18,433.
In neighbouring Gujarat, over 150 doctors in the state have tested positive for Covid-19. While over a hundred doctors in Rajkot were struck by the Coronavirus, more than 50 doctors working in AMC-run hospitals in Ahmedabad have been affected by it. There are a total of 1,800 doctors on Covid duty right now.
In the meantime, a sero prevalence study in Andhra Pradesh has revealed that close to 20 percent of the 5.34 crore population in Andhra Pradesh had acquired “immunity” to Covid-19, The survey findings reveal that 22.5 percent population in urban areas and 18.2 per cent in rural acquired immunity for Covid-19. Interestingly, the survey revealed that 90 to 100 per cent of the positives were asymptomatic.
The severity of COVID-19 pandemic spread in Kerala prompted an all-party meeting, convened by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, ask the Election Commission to defer the by-elections to two assembly seats. The leaders pointed out that there will be just three months for the elected legislators to work effectively as the present Assembly’s term ends in May 2021. The all-party meet also decided to request the state election commission to postpone the local has-self-government polls in November, in the wake of rising Covid cases. Industries Minister E P Jayarajan has tested positive for Covid-19. In all 3349 people had tested positive for Covid-19 in the state yesterday. At present, 26,229 patients are undergoing and a total of 2.04 lakh people under quarantine across the state. The death toll is 396.
Overall, in the last 24 hours, latest health ministry figures showed on Friday, a record 96,551 fresh confirmed cases of COVID-19 were registered across the country, the taking overall figures to 45,62,414. During this period 1209 deaths dues to the pandemic were also registered taking the total death toll because of Corona to 76,271 in the country. The Government claimed so far 35,42,663 persons had recovered from COVID-19.
– globalbihari bureau
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