For Two consecutive days, the nation has reported 4 lakh plus Covid-positive circumstances. On Friday, 4.14 lakh positive circumstances have been reported when 4.12 lakh persons tested positive for the virus on Thursday. Daily new circumstances have been expanding at 1% in the last seven days. The quantity of deaths on Friday was 3,915.
The union overall health ministry on Friday advised states to prioritize beneficiaries of the second dose to make sure completion of the suggested vaccination schedule. States have been asked to utilise supplies of the Covid-19 vaccine via the government of India channel in a 70:30 ratio for the second dose and initially dose respectively.
The government has till date administered 16.50 crore doses of the Covid-19 vaccine and out of this 13.21 crore have been initially doses and 3.29 crore have been second doses. A total of 11.8 lakh persons in the 18 to 44 years age group have received their initially doses. Till date, only 3.29 crore persons had received two doses.
Health ministry officials expressed concern more than the trend of rising circumstances in Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Odisha and Uttarakhand. At 48.5%, Goa had the highest positivity price in the nation. Haryana, Puducherry and West Bengal had 30% plus price of positivity. There have been 24 states with more than 15% positivity.
Maharashtra was nonetheless the quantity one state with 6.41 lakh active circumstances followed by Karnataka at 5.17 lakh circumstances, Kerala at 3.91 lakh and Uttar Pradesh at 2.59 lakh active circumstances. Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Haryana and Bihar have one lakh plus day-to-day circumstances. However, Maharashtra was amongst the states displaying a continued decline in day-to-day new circumstances which had come down from 65,447 on April 26 to 58, 164 on May 7. Delhi, also, was displaying decline in day-to-day circumstances.