Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : The Union Health ministry on Monday evening said 92 new cases and four deaths from COVID-19 have been reported in last 24 hours.
Addressing the media, a ministry official said, “We all should maintain social distancing. Even one person’s carelessness may lead to spread of coronavirus pandemic.”
The number of Covid-19 cases climbed to 1,071 in India on Monday, while the death toll rose to 29, according to the Union Health Ministry.
Technically, COVID-19 in India is still in local transmission stage, there has been no community transmission so far: Health Ministry.
As many as 38,442 tests for COVID-19 have been conducted so far; 3,501 of them done on Sunday: ICMR official said.
The number of active Covid-19 cases stood at 942, while 99 people were either cured or discharged and one had migrated, the ministry stated.
In its updated data at 10.30 am, it said two fresh deaths were reported from Maharashtra.
Thus, Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of eight Covid-19 deaths so far, followed by Gujarat (5), Karnataka (3), Madhya Pradesh (2), Delhi (2) and Jammu and Kashmir (2).
Kerala, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, West Bengal, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have reported a death each.
The total number of 1,071 cases includes 49 foreigners.
The highest number of confirmed cases of the pandemic has been reported from Kerala (194) so far, followed by Maharashtra at 193.
The number of cases has gone up to 80 in Karnataka, while Uttar Pradesh has reported 75 cases.
The number of cases has risen to 69 in Telangana, 58 in Gujarat and 57 in Rajasthan.
Delhi has reported 53 cases, while in Tamil Nadu, the number of positive cases is 50.
Punjab has reported 38 cases, while 33 Covid-19 cases have been detected each in Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.
There are 31 cases of the contagion in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by Andhra Pradesh (19), West Bengal (19) and Ladakh (13).
Bihar has 11 cases, while nine cases have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Chandigarh has eight cases, while Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand have reported seven cases each.
Goa has reported five coronavirus cases, while Himachal Pradesh and Odisha have reported three cases each. Puducherry, Mizoram and Manipur have reported a case each, the Health Ministry said.
Maharashtra and Bihar report deaths
Two more deaths in the country—one in West Bengal and another in Maharashtra—on Monday, but this has yet to be added to the Union Health Ministry’s tally.
Pune Mayor Murlidhar Mohol said aA 52-year-old COVID-19 patient died in the city on Monday, taking the death toll to nine.
The man was suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure and undergoing treatment at the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Mohol said.
“His samples turned out positive for coronavirus on March 22. He died on Monday at a hospital in Pune,” he said.
The man was on ventilator support. He died of multiple organ failure on Monday, Mohol said.
This is the first coronavirus death from Pune.
A woman infected with the coronavirus died at a state-run hospital in north Bengal on Monday, taking the total number of COVID-19 deaths in West Bengal to two, hospital sources said.
The 44-year-old woman from Kalimpong in Darjeeling district breathed her last around 2 am at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, where she was admitted.
She had recently returned from Chennai, where she had gone for the treatment of her daughter.
Her daughter and the doctor, who was treating the woman, have been quarantined at a centre, a health department official said.
Earlier, an elderly man from Kolkata had died from COVID-19 last week.
The total number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 21 in West Bengal, including the two deaths.
Prohibitory orders issued in Kottayam, day after migrant workers stage stir
Kottayam: Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC were issued in Kottayam district on Monday, a day after a village near Changanassery saw a massive protest by hundreds of migrant workers, violating the 21-day lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
District Collector P K Sudheer Babu issued the prohibitory orders as a measure “to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the district”, officials said.
The orders were issued following reports submitted by the district police chief and sub-divisional magistrate, stating that there were instances of public gathering in the district even after the government announced measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, officials said.
