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20,799 fresh covid-19 cases registered, a 9% decline from yesterday

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Mumbai: Covid-19 cases showed a decline since yesterday, the country reporting 20,799 fresh Covid cases, a drop of around nine per cent from yesterday’s 22,842 cases. About 180 deaths were recorded during the period, according to the Health Ministry.

India’s active cases account for less than 0.78 per cent of total infections — lowest since March 2020. The active case count stands at 2,64,458, the lowest in 200 days.

Maharashtra reported 2,692 new positive cases and 41 deaths while 2,716 patients were discharged, according to the state health department. The new infections pushed the state’s COVID-19 tally to 65,59,349. At least 1,39,207 people have died due to the virus, it said, adding that the state is now left with 35,888 active cases.

The national Covid recovery rate was recorded at 97.89 per cent, highest since March 2020. At least 26,718 recoveries in the last 24 hours took the number of total recoveries to 3,31,21,247.

The daily positivity rate – number of positive cases identified per 100 – stands at 2.10 per cent, less than 3 per cent for the last 35 days. The weekly positivity rate stands at 1.63 per cent.

A total of 90.79 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far under the Nationwide Vaccination Drive. More than 59 crore doses were administered in the first 103 days of the inoculation drive launched on June 21, 2021. Children between 12 to 18 years of age will be vaccinated against COVID-19 very soon, Dr Randeep Guleria, Director of All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, has said.

The coronavirus has killed at least 4,793,613 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019. The US is the worst-affected country with with 700,935 deaths from 43,658,032 cases, followed by Brazil 597,723 deaths (21,459,117 cases), India with 4,48,997 (3,38,34,702 cases), Mexico with 278,592 deaths (3,678,980 cases) and Russia with 209,918 deaths (7,586,536 cases).

From today, all British citizens arriving in India will face a mandatory 10-day quarantine irrespective of vaccination status, according to sources. The move is seen as a reciprocal measure over the UK’s hugely controversial similar rules for residents of several countries including India.

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Prime Minister Briefs President On Punjab Security Breach

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New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday expressed concern about the alleged security breach during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab on Wednesday. PM Modi met the President today and gave him a first-hand account of the security breach, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said.

A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) was held where the issue was discussed, people aware of the developments said.

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu also spoke to the Prime Minister about the incident and expressed his deep concern at the security breach. Naidu hoped that stringent steps will be taken to scrupulously adhere to established security protocol and ensure such a situation doesn’t recur in future, the Vice President’s Secretariat said on Twitter.

PM Modi was scheduled to address a rally in Ferozepur yesterday and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than ₹42,750 crore. But the event was cancelled because of the security breach. After landing at the Bathinda airport, the Prime Minister was heading to a memorial in Hussainiwala when a road he took was blocked by some protesters. This forced the PM’s convoy to spend about 15 -20 minutes on a flyover.

The Centre, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), security experts and former senior police officers all stressed on the dangerous precedent set by the incident, with both the Union government and the BJP pointing to lapses by the Punjab police and the state government, and alleging that dirty politics was at play.

“Today’s Congress-made happening in Punjab is a trailer of how this party thinks and functions. Repeated rejections by the people have taken them to the path of insanity,” tweeted Union home minister Amit Shah.

Union minister Smriti Irani asked if information about the PM’s route was leaked.

Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi expressed regret over the incident but rejected the BJP’s allegations.

“There was no prior information. I worked till 3am to convince farmers to clear all routes. All roads were cleared by Wednesday morning. Had they told us about the road travel in advance, we would have made proper arrangements,” Channi said at a press conference on Wednesday.

The Punjab government has formed a two-member panel to investigate the incident. A petition has also been filed in the Supreme Court, which will he heard on Friday.

Meanwhile, the Bhartiya Kisan Union Krantikari one of the 32 farm organisation took the responsibility of the blockade, the organisation was involved in the year-long protest against the now replead three farm laws.

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