-TheCitizen.in Improved antenatal care in Meghalaya A recent report submitted on March 20 to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from the state of Meghalaya showed that 877 newborns, and 61 pregnant women died during the pandemic. The pregnant women decided against hospital delivery out of fear of contracting Covid. A decade ago, infant mortality in Meghalaya was the same as the all-India average, at 47 deaths per 1000 births. While it has...
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Active Covid-19 cases dip to 1,11,472 in India
-PTI/ The Telegraph The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.00 per cent, according to the ministry With 10,273 people testing positive for coronavirus in a day, India's total tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 4,29,16,117, while the active cases dipped to 1,11,472, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,13,724 with 243 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily Covid-19 cases...
More »Left Mumbai to be with our family, say migrants on PM Modi's statement in Parliament -Mustafa Shaikh
-IndiaToday.in Some of the migrant workers said that they left Mumbai during the first Covid-19 outbreak to be with their respective families. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "Congress crossed all limits during the first wave of the infection. The party (Congress) gave free train tickets to migrant workers to leave Mumbai...As a result, the Covid spread rapidly in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.” India Today TV spoke to...
More »COVID-19: Three States Had 3.5L Excess Deaths, and the Ex Gratia May Elude Many -Tapasya, Harshitha Manwani and Mayank Aggarwal
-TheWire.in/ The Reporters' Collective * Excess deaths in Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh were over 12-times the corresponding official COVID-19 death toll until early January 2022. * Data from across the country suggests governments are undercounting COVID-19 deaths by the lakhs, possibly to avoid the charge of epidemic mismanagement. * As a result, facilitated by disparate protocols, poor record-keeping and red-tape, thousands of families haven’t received the compensation they are due. Last year, just as...
More »COVID-19: India’s total case tally reaches 3.95 crore
-The Hindu Tamil Nadu reports most number of deaths at 46, Punjab follows with 39 and West Bengal 37 The country recorded 2,34,650 new COVID-19 cases on Monday. The total number of infections has reached 3.95 crore and the active cases have crossed the 22.4-lakh mark. Please click here to read more. ...
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