- Chandigarh: The Administrator, UT Chandigarh, directed that Principal Secretary Health to examine the proposal, if instead of only self-quarantine, the Administration should go for self-home quarantine, which will restrict the movement of visitors from outside from roaming around in different parts of the city unnecessarily. The Administrator also desired that Adviser may examine, if the persons who violate self-quarantine instructions could be penalized by putting them in institutional Quarantine Centres.
- Punjab: Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister said that the state government will soon rationalize the private treatment cost for the COVID patients to make it affordable. He urged the private hospital managements to rise to the occasion and come forward with rational and reasonable cost of the treatment for the COVID-19 patients. He reiterated that the government has no intention to make the private hospitals suffer any losses, but at the same time, it cannot allow the loot of the helpless patients by being slapped bills to the tune of lakhs of rupees for a few days of stay in the hospital.
- Kerala: In an affidavit filed in the Kerala High Court, State government has taken a firm stand and said that Covid test should be done on expats before flying to Kerala. State issues order saying that the services offered to guest workers including institutional quarantine facilities will not be extended to expatriates who have returned to the state. In the wake of increasing number of Covid cases in the state, the government has decided that only 50 percent of attendance should be present in government offices at a time; other 50 percent should be working from home. 97 new cases of Covid-19 and 89 recoveries were reported in the state yesterday. 1,358 patients are undergoing treatment and a total of 1,27,231 people are under observation across the state.
- Tamil Nadu: Intense 12-day lockdown enforced in Chennai and three neighbouring districts from today. State Higher Education Minister KP Anbazhagan tests positive for Covid-19.With Covid-19 stretching resources, the state government has come up with a proposal to reduce pension of doctors. College guest lecturers appeal to Tamil Nadu government to pay salary on time during pandemic. 2141 new cases, 1017 recoveries & 49 deaths reported yesterday. 1276 cases from Chennai. Total cases: 52334, Active cases: 23065, Deaths: 625, Discharged: 28641,Active cases in Chennai: 16067.
- Karnataka: State Covid Task force approves the revised the cost of treatment for Covid in private hospitals recommended by eight member committee and referred the revised rates to the state cabinet for ratification. In an attempt to stem Covid-19, BBMP has formed citizen quarantine squads which would ensure that those in home quarantine are complying with rules. Meanwhile BBMP has set up call centre to help with the process of removing unnecessary data from the quarantine watch app. 210 new cases, 179 discharges & 12 deaths reported yesterday. Total positive cases: 7944, Active cases: 2843, Deaths: 114, Discharges: 4983.
- Andhra Pradesh: CM launches Tourism Control Rooms across the state, along river fronts and beaches, for safe boating. AP signs MoU with IGY Immunologix India Private Limited for setting up of vaccine manufacturing unit at Pulivendula (Kadapa). 376 new cases after testing 17,609 samples with four deaths reported during last 24 hours, 82 discharged. Total cases: 6230, Active: 3069, Recovered: 3065, Deaths: 96.
- Telangana: Covid-19 cases rise, but containment zones shrink across Telangana. While the government is tight-lipped about the monitoring of these zones, there is shift in the policy and no new containment zones are being created despite a huge spike in the cases. Total cases till now 6027; Active cases 2,531; Recovered 3301.
- Maharashtra: The current count of COVID19 patients in the state of Maharashtra is 1,20,504, with the addition of 3,752 new cases reported during the last 24 hours. Mumbai reported 1,298 cases. Amidst demand for oxygen surging in hospitals due to rising number of corona virus cases in Mumbai and the current facilities unable to meet the requirements, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is in the final stage of completing installation of huge liquid oxygen tanks at 20 places, including key civic-run hospitals-KEM, Nair, Sion-and at jumbo facilities. Platforms to install the cylinders have been constructed and the installation process will be completed next week.
- Gujarat: Total cases of COVID-19 detected so far have reached up to 25,660 with 510 new cases reported during the last 24 hours. Also, 22 patients have lost their lives taking the total death toll of COVID-19 in the state up to 1,592. Following the discharge of 389 patients on Thursday, the total number of patients recovered from COVID-19 has gone up to 17,829. Out of 6,239 active cases in the state, conditions of 6,178 are stable while 61 patients are on ventilator support. Out of 510 new cases, the maximum 317 cases reported from Ahmedabad alone. Also, 82 new cases reported from Surat and 43 cases have been reported from Vadodara. More than two lakh 6 thousand persons in the state have been kept under home quarantine as a precautionary measure.
- Madhya Pradesh: 182 new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours taking the state tally to 11,426. However, the number of active cases stands at 2308. The number of cases in Indore, the worst-hit district in the state, has risen to 4191.Constant improvement in the situation of the pandemic is being recorded in the state. The Recovery rate of the state has become 75.5 per cent, whereas the recovery rate of the country is 53 percent. Moreover, the doubling rate of corona in the state has become 43.2 days. Six districts of the state have become corona free and 24 districts have less than 10 active cases.
- Chhattisgarh: 82 positive cases have been identified on Thursday, taking the state tally of COVID-19 to 1,946. Also, 46 patients have recovered, taking the total number of recoveries to 1202, while there exists 735 active cases.
- Rajasthan: 84 new cases of COVID 19 have been reported in the state today, taking the state tally of coronavirus infection to 13,626. The COVID-19 recovery rate has gone up to more than 77 percent. 10,582 patients have been recovered so far while 323 persons have died due to corona infection in the state.
- Goa: 49 new positive cases have been reported during the last 24 hours, taking the state tally of COVID-19 to 705. The active cases are numbered at 596.
- Arunachal Pradesh: In Arunachal Pradesh, total 17,501 samples have been collected for COVID19 test. 92 active cases,11 persons discharged and results for 1756 cases are awaited.
- Assam: Assam completed 2,58,797 COVID19 tests under Assam Targeted Surveillance Programme today in order to contain the spread of COVID19, said State Health Minister.
- Manipur: In continuation of the crackdown against violators of lockdown norms, Manipur State Police detained 459 persons and 350 vehicles across the State. Rs 59,200 was collected as fine.
- Mizoram; 8 COVID19 patients discharged from Zoram Medical College, Aizawl. Total cases 130 and 121 active cases in the State.
- Nagaland: All Institutions Heads of Schools (both Government and Private) in Nagaland asked to take necessary steps to make children and parents aware about safe use of internet and online threats by means of SMS, online teaching & other means.
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