670 COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours: Health Ministry
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India has reported 670 COVID-19 case fatalities in the past 24 hours, with ten States/UTs accounting for almost 86% of the instances. More than 38% of the new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra (256 deaths), and Delhi follows with 66 new deaths, famous a launch issued by the Health Ministry, on Friday.
“79% of the new cases are from 10 States and UTs. Maharashtra is reporting a very high number of new cases with more than 10,000 cases followed by Kerala with more than 9,000 cases,” added the Ministry.
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As per knowledge launched on Friday of the new recovered instances, 80% are concentrated in 10 States/Union Territories, with Maharashtra contributing the most variety of over 11,000 recoveries in a single day.
“Less than 50,000 new cases have been reported in the country in the last 24 hours whereas the daily new recoveries have exceeded 54,000. India is reporting new recoveries more than the daily new cases successively for the last five weeks now. 54,157 COVID patients have recovered and [been] discharged in the last 24 hours whereas the new confirmed cases presently are pegged at 47,638,” stated the Ministry.
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Measles, polio
Meanwhile, UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) have issued an pressing name to motion to avert main measles and polio epidemics as COVID-19 continues to disrupt immunisation providers worldwide, leaving hundreds of thousands of susceptible kids at heightened danger of preventable childhood ailments.
A launch issued by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated: “COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on health services and in particular immunization services, worldwide. But unlike with COVID, we have the tools and knowledge to stop diseases such as polio and measles. What we need are the resources and commitments to put these tools and knowledge into action. If we do that, children’s lives will be saved.”
“We can’t permit the struggle towards one lethal illness to trigger us to lose floor in the struggle towards different ailments. Addressing the world COVID-19 pandemic is important. However, different lethal ailments additionally threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids in a few of the poorest areas of the world. That is why at this time we’re urgently calling for world motion from nation leaders, donors and companions. We want extra monetary assets to soundly resume vaccination campaigns and prioritize immunization techniques which are important to guard kids and avert different epidemics apart from COVID-19,’’ famous Henrietta Fore, UNICEF government director.
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