Mumbai: The Country’s Nightingale, Singer Lata Mangeshkar has been tested positive for COVID. Amid the positive results she has been hospitalized. The legendary singer is currently undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit (ICU) of Mumbai’s Breach Candy hospital.
Born on September 28, 1929, Lata Mangeshkar was honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Award and France’s highest civilian award, Officer of the Legion of Honour, besides numerous national and international awards. In 1974, the Guinness Book of Records ranked her as the most recorded artiste in the history. She had reportedly sung over 25,000 songs between 1948 and 1974.
She became a recipient of India’s highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna in 2001.
Maharashtra, one of the worst-hit states by the Covid pandemic, reported 33,470 new COVID-19 cases, which included 1,247 cases of Omicron variant, and eight deaths on Monday. Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic has started which will peak by January-end.
India has administered 152.89 crore vaccine doses till now. The country began administering a “precautionary” dose against the infection from Monday. More than 9 lakh healthcare and frontline workers and 60-plus citizens with comorbidities received their third Covid jab on the first day, the Health Ministry said.
In a new advisory, the government’s top medical body said contacts of COVID-19 patients, unless identified as high-risk, don’t need to be tested. It said asymptomatic individuals in community settings, patients who stand discharged as per home isolation guidelines, also patients discharged from a COVID-19 facility and individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travel need not be tested.
India is witnessing a hospitalization rate of 5-10 per cent in the third Covid wave, the government has said, adding that the situation is “dynamic and evolving and the need of hospital care may change rapidly”.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday called on states and Union territories to ensure there is no lapse in the preparation to battle Covid surge and stressed on maintaining a holistic synergy for seamless management of the pandemic.
The number of active cases at present stands at 8,21,446, which is 2.29 per cent of the total cases. The overall Covid case tally has increased to 3,58,75,790 while the death count rose to 4,84,213 in India.
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