India’s
death toll due to COVID-19 stands at 149,850; 38 UK returnees who tested
positive for the new variant of coronavirus have been isolated.
Key
points:
1.
Fresh 16,375 COVID-19 infections were recorded in India, with 201 deaths.
2.
Number of recoveries near 1 crore, at 99.75 lakh; active cases also declining.
3.
38 returnees from the UK test positive in India for the new variant of
SARS-CoV-2.
4.
the UK to go under a third nationwide lockdown, as infections surge at a record
pace.
India’s
COVID-19 tally goes past 1.03 crore, with new 16,374 infections:
India recorded 16,375
new Covid instances withinside the 24 hours finishing 8 am Tuesday, taking the
whole variety of infections to over 1.03 crore. Active instances also dropped
to 2.31 lakh, whilst recoveries persevered to upward thrust and stand at over
99.75 lakh.
Kerala
contributes the highest number of coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours:
An
overall of 201 deaths have been pronounced on Monday; the toll presently stands
at over 1,49,850. Results of a record cleansing exercising noticed Maharashtra’s
showed instances upward thrust through 4,875 on Monday, even though the day’s
upward thrust become simplest 2,765. Kerala pronounced
3,021 new instances.
India
records 38 UK returnees positive for the new mutation of coronavirus:
The Union Health Ministry stated on Monday 38 human beings have examined advantages for the brand new UK version of SARS-CoV-2 in India so far. It delivered that each one of them was stored in unmarried room isolation in unique healthcare centers through respective kingdom governments and their near contacts have additionally been positioned beneath neath quarantine. Comprehensive touch tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, own circle of relatives’ contacts, and others.
The
deadlier contagious version of COVID-19 forces a third lockdown in England:
British
Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered England into a
brand new countrywide lockdown to attempt to sluggish a surge in COVID-19 instances
that threatens to weigh down components of the fitness device earlier than a
vaccine software reaches a crucial mass. Johnson started a brand new, greater
contagious version of the coronavirus become spreading at outstanding velocity
and pressing motion to become had to sluggish it down.