Covid-19 Bulletin: Top Corona News of the Day, Do’s and Don’ts of fighting the pandemic

New Delhi: India today recorded highest spike in Covid-19 cases as 8,380 cases were reported, taking the country’s corona count to 1,82,143, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country — 1,82,143 — includes 89,995 active cases, 86,984 cured/discharged/migrated and 5,164 deaths. However, recovery rate has shown remarkable improvement. Today, it has climbed upto almost 48%.

Union Minister today lauded the pharmaceutical industry for standing up to challenge in such troubling times and said that India is emerging as the ‘Pharmacy of the world’.

Recovery rate improves to 47.76%

In the last 24 hours, 4,614 patients were found cured. A cumulative total of 86,983 people has been cured. This takes the total recovery rate to 47.76%. The number of cases under active medical supervision as of today is 89,995.

New Guidelines to fight COVID-19 to be effective from tomorrow

Union Ministry of Home Affairs has issued new guidelines to fight COVID-19 and for phased re-opening of areas outside the Containment Zones. The guidelines would come into effect from June 1, 2020 and would be effective till June 30, 2020. The current phase of re-opening, Unlock 1, will have an economic focus. The new guidelines have been issued based on extensive consultations held with States and UTs. Lockdown measures would continue to be implemented strictly in the containment zones. These will be demarcated by the State/ UT Governments, after taking into consideration the guidelines issued by the Health Ministry. Within the containment zones, strict perimeter control shall be maintained and only essential activities allowed. All activities that were prohibited earlier would be opened up in areas outside Containment Zones in a phased manner, with the stipulation of following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), to be prescribed by the Health Ministry

Piyush Goyal lauds Pharma industry

Commerce and Industry Minister Shri PiyushGoyal today interacted with the captains of the Pharmaceutical industry, and Pharma Associations, through the Video Conference. During his interaction, Shri Goyal lauded the pharma industry for making India proud, by rising to the occasion during the Covid crisis.

He said that India has been recognized as the ‘Pharmacy of the World’, as over 120 countries got some essential medicines, during the last two months, including 40 of them getting them in the form of grant, free of cost. The whole world appreciated India’s gesture, and this has swelled India’s goodwill and reputation. The Pharma industry received accolades from the Minister for their extra-ordinary performance, in ensuring that the Country did not face any type of shortage of medicines during this period.

Indian Navy Commences Next Phase of Operation “SamudraSetu”

The next phase of Operation “SamudraSetu” to repatriate Indian citizens from overseas will commence on 01 June 2020.In this phase, Indian Navy Ship Jalashwa will repatriate 700 personnel from Colombo, Republic of Sri Lanka to Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu and subsequently repatriate another 700 personnel from Malè, Republic of Maldives to Tuticorin.Indian Navy has already repatriated 1,488 Indian nationals from Malè to Kochi during the previous phase of operations.

e-booklet launched on DARPG achievements on 1 year of Modi govt 2.0

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Jitendra Singh said that the DARPG had lived upto Prime Minister’s vision of Good Governance and adopted the mantra of Reform, Perform and Transform in letter and spirit. Dr.Jitendra Singh said that success of the systemic reforms undertaken by DARPG was witnessed in the COVID 19 pandemic period where in several Ministries/ Departments could work from home without disruption in work by using e-Office and timely redressal of 0.87 lac COVID 19 Public Grievances in a record average time of 1.45 days/ grievance.