Home Ministry has directed all states and Union Territories to focus on effective measures to curb the spread of Covid
Mumbai,Mar 21(Agency) The Union Home Ministry has directed all states and Union Territories to focus on effective measures to curb the spread of Covid. In this regard, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla has written a letter to the Chief Secretaries of all the States on Saturday. The instructions should be strictly followed to prevent covid infection, he said. Bhalla also said that awareness should be created about the guidelines regarding Covid 19. It may noted that Maharashtra state one of the worst affected in country registered more than 27,000 cases and 92 deaths during the past 24 hours posing major challenge before the state government that how to tackle and break the chain of Covid pandemic.
However ,numbers of measures including traceing,testing, treatment and vaccination has been increased across the state as well as imposing partial lockdown,curfew among others restrictions in the state and awareness campaign through different ways . However the state chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has suggested that the Haffkin Institute should take the lead in covid vaccine production. The Chief Minister was speaking at a meeting held after inspecting the laboratory at Haffkin Institute in Parel, Mumbai on Saturday . Mr Thackeray already warn that if people will not follow the norms of Covid government has not option but to impose lockout in the state.
COVID-19: India reports 43,846 cases, 197 die
New Delhi, Mar 21 (Bureau) India on Sunday recorded a whopping 43,846 new cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours, pushing the country caseload to 1,15,99,130, while the death toll surged to 1,59,755 with 197 more fatalities. According to the Union Health Ministry, the active cases rose by 20,693 to stand at 30,9087. It is now 2.66 per cent of the total caseload. The past 24 hours saw 22,956 people recovering from the deadly virus, taking the total recovery count to 1,11,30,288, which is 95.96 per cent of the case tally. The fatality rate stood at 1.38 per cent. On the vaccination front, a total of 25,40,449 vaccine doses have been administered in the past day, mounting the total number of vaccinations to 25,40,449.