The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday provided the age profile – for the first time – of the positive cases of the contagious coronavirus in the country. As many as 42 per cent of the cases – the majority – so far belong to age group of 21 to 40 years. Nine per cent of COVID-19 patients are below the age of 20 years, while 17 per cent of cases are of those who are above the age of 60 years. 17 per cent of the coronavirus infected people in the country are between 41 to 60 years of age.
Lav Aggrawal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry, while briefing the media confirmed that 601 COVID-19 cases have been reported since Friday – the highest single day spike in number of positive cases that the country has witnessed so far.
As on Saturday morning, the cumulative figure of cases in the country had reached 2,902. Of these, active cases of the virus has jumped to 2,650, while 183 have been cured/discharged. The death toll in the country stood at 68.
Aggrawal added that the condition of 58 coronavirus infected patients as of now, from Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi, is critical.
Among the positive cases of infections, 1,023, or 30 per cent of total cases, are linked to the religious congregation organized by Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin’s Markaz at Delhi earlier last month, informed the Union Health Ministry. These cases are reported from as many as 17 states.
Official from Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed that nearly 22,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts quarantined so far.
Officials in Gujarat on Saturday confirmed that with ten more people testing positive for coronavirus, the state count has jumped to 105.
A woman died in Ahmedabad due to COVID-19, taking the death toll in the state to reach 10.
Indian Railways has begun preparation to resume all its services from April 15 after a 21-day suspension of its passenger trains in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, news agency PTI reported sources as saying.
According to media reports, the railways has issued a "restoration plan" to all its railway zones with a schedule of trains to be run, their frequency and the availability of rakes.
Maharashtra Health Department on Saturday confirmed positive cases of coronavirus infection in the state to jump to 537, after recording 47 fresh cases, according to ANI. Of these, 28 are in Mumbai and 15 in Thane district, among others.
Central Government on Saturday issues advisory asking people to wear ‘homemade face covers’ especially when they step out of their houses.
A 42-year-old man dies due to COVID-19 in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, officials confirmed on Saturday. With this the total number of deaths due to coronavirus in the state has reached 10.
A 65-year-old tribal allegedly beaten to death by police in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district on Saturday morning. The old tribal was on his way to buy ration. Family and locals demand action against police brutality.
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A coronavirus positive woman has given birth to a baby at the AIIMS here, news agency PTI reported official sources as saying. The sources added that the baby is “healthy and doing well as of now.”
According to doctors, this is the first baby to be born to a coronavirus infected woman in Delhi.
The baby’s mother who was nine-months pregnant had tested positive on Thursday after her husband, a senior resident doctor working in the department of physiology at AIIMS, was found to be infected with the virus.
Officials on Saturday confirmed eight fresh COVID-19 cases detected in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddha Nagar district. With this the total number of positive cases in the district alone has rose to 55.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday confirmed that 40 cases out of the total 445 in the national capital are positive cases of local transmission. He further informed that six patients have died due to COVID-19 till now in the national capital, of which five were above the age of 60.
Karnataka state government on Saturday said that there were 16 fresh cases of coronavirus in the state, taking the total count to reach 144 now.
The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday said that there were 74 fresh cases of coronavirus in the state, taking the total count to reach 485 now, making it one of the worst hit state by the outbreak.
The government has decided that all Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries are to get free COVID-19 testing and treatment at private labs and empaneled hospitals, according to a PTI report.
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