Hyderabad: India's total recovered cases stand at 61,49,535. The difference between active cases & recovered cases is consistently increasing and stands at 52,87,682 today. India sustains trend of steadily declining active cases, active caseload only 12.10% of total positive cases, active caseload below 9 lakhs for the 4th consecutive day.
Delhi
New Delhi:Delhi authorities have stopped putting notices outside the homes of people infected with coronavirus because this has amplified the social stigma associated with the disease and in turn caused others to hide their illness, officials said on Monday.
Early on during the outbreak in the Indian capital, officials would paste a poster on the homes of people in quarantine after they had tested positive for the virus to make sure everyone in the neighbourhood was careful. It also deterred people from violating the quarantine.
Maharashtra
Mumbai: Overall coronavirus cases in Maharashtra - the country's worst-hit state where more than 15.2 lakh people have contracted COVID-19 till now - appear to be reducing, shows Maharashtra Health Ministry data.
Stating that coronavirus was spreading in Maharashtra's rural areas as well, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray recently warned that if people did not exercise caution Covid cases might go up indicating that he would have no option but to resort to another lockdown.
In a bid to contain the spread of Covid-19 ahead of the festive season, the Mumbai civic body on Monday launched a mass drive against those not wearing face masks and said it will penalise nearly 20,000 such citizens every day. The drive will continue for at least a month, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said, adding that he will himself monitor the situation every day.
97 police personnel tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking total cases to 25,079 in the force, including 2,205 active cases, 22,614 recoveries, and 260 deaths till date: Maharashtra Police