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We have started screening these passengers brought here from Nashik in the special train. After that, they will be sent to their respective towns in different buses,” the official said.

Against the same, the present availability is about 19,398. Out of the total orders placed, 59,884 ventilators have been ordered to domestic manufacturers and imports are to the tune of 1,000 ventilators,” he said.

With these new patients, the number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 45 in Jajpur district which emerged as a “new hotspot”. “Contact-tracing and follow-up action is being done,” they said. The officials said 55 people have been cured and the number of active cases now stands at 98 in the state.

Compared to Western nations where the virus has claimed more lives, the trajectories of most Asian countries, including India, have been flatter. Yet, with new infections declining, the worst may be over for several European countries. In many Asian countries, new infections are still rising.

Gujarat’s capital city Ahmedabad recorded the highest single-day fatality count with 20 deaths, and a spike of 250 new cases. The city’s total number of deaths have reached 185. With this, the number of coronavirus cases in Gujarat reached 5,054 after 333 cases were reported on Saturday

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106 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Rajasthan on Saturday, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 2,772. The toll rose to 68 as six persons succumbed to the disease, ANI quotes the Rajasthan Health Department as saying.

Still, at the current rate of compounded growth, the number of cases could rise to 75,000 in the next nine days. If this trajectory continues beyond that period, it could overwhelm India’s hospital capacity and strain an already overburdened health system.

Gujarat has the second most number of active cases (4,096), followed by Delhi (3,123). At 1,979 active cases, Madhya Pradesh has the fourth-highest number of active cases, closely followed by Uttar Pradesh (1,939). The top five states together account for 72 percent of the active cases nationally, and the top ten states account for 92 percent of all cases.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired a meeting to discuss strategies as well structural reforms in the financial sector in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. At the meeting attended by the Finance Minister, HOme Minister and senior officials, Modi discussed strategies and interventions to support MSMEs and farmers, enhance liquidity and strengthen credit flows, said a statement. “The Prime Minister also stressed on the need to strengthen major structural reforms undertaken in the past and new structural reforms in the areas of corporate governance, credit markets and infrastructure sectors were also discussed,” it added.

So far, 499 districts have confirmed cases in the country. Mumbai (9,302 cases) has reported the most number of cases nationally among all districts, followed by Ahmedabad (4,076) in Gujarat. Chennai (1,725) in Tamil Nadu, Indore (1,611) in Madhya Pradesh, and Pune (1,536) in Maharashtra are the other leading districts. These top five districts now account for 41 percent of confirmed cases in the country.

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India’s total COVID-19 confirmed cases rises to 37,336 out of which 26,167 cases are still active. 9,950 patients have been cured or discharged so far while the death toll has risen to 1,218 and one patient was moved out of the country.

23:39 (IST) Coronavirus in Maharashtra Latest Updates Case count in Thane rises to 1,108 Thane district in Maharashtra recorded 97 coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the count to 1,108, with Navi Mumbai accounting for 39 of the new cases, PTI quotes health officials as saying. Two people died of the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of deceased to 31, they said.