Covid-19: Active cases rise by 2,977 in last 24 hours

Indiarsquos active Covid19 cases increased by 2977 to 411189 in a span of 24 hours according to the governmentrsquos data updated on Monday morningThe Union health ministry added 39361 new cases and 416 fatalities The daily test positivity rate TPR rose past 3 per cent after 35 daysThe daily positivity rate has increased to 341 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 231 per cent according to the ministry The national Covid19 recovery rate was recorded at 9735 per centBharat Biotech laggingThe Centre had on June 26 told the Supreme Court that efforts were on to vaccinate Indiarsquos entire adult population against by December 31 of this year The country would need 186 to 188 crore doses to inoculate 9394 crore people aged 18 years and above said the Centre It added that 516 crore of those doses will be made available by July 31However as of the government data available on June 26 only 4351 crore people have been vaccinated so far Moreover approximately only about 10 crore of them have received both the shotsAccording to a Reuters report citing an analysis of government data on Monday Bharat Biotech has not been able to increase its production of the Covaxin antiCoronavirus shot The country could meet the Julyend target of administering 516 crore doses by tripling the daily vaccinations to 14 crore However Bharat Biotech would not be able to meet the governmentrsquos expectation of receiving 6 crore to 7 crore Covaxin doses monthly from July or AugustThe company said it would be able to deliver 25 crore doses in July and 35 crore doses in August Reuters cited Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviyarsquos statement in Parliament last weekGambhir drug hoarding case No stay on proceedingsThe Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the proceedings against BJP MP Gautam Gambhirrsquos foundation in a case relating to illegal procurement and distribution of Covid19 medicines A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah said people were running around for medicines and drugs and suddenly a trust comes and says we will give you medicines ldquoThis is not done We do not want to say anything but we also have our ears to the groundrdquoThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever