Kerala hospitals to screen nonCOVID19 wards
Any visitor or patient could have virus, says CM Pinarayi Vijayan; Karnataka, Telangana & A.P. add over 15,000 cases in a day
After a gap of two days, Kerala slipped back to the 1,000
plus cases a day pattern registering 1,167 new cases of
COVID19 on Tuesday.
Over 81% of new cases –
949 – were locally acquired
infections. Source of infection could not be ascertained
in 55 cases.
The cumulative casestouched 20,896, of which thecurrent number under treatment in hospitals was 10,093.
Four deaths were reported
on Tuesday taking the toll to
67.
COVID19 was taking a toll
on all major hospitals, turning many institutions into
disease transmission hubs.
So far, over 500 health care
workers tested positive,sending the workforce in many institutions into quarantine. On Tuesday, 33 of them
were affected.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan asked hospitals to take
precautions in nonCOVID
sections. When community
transmission was intense,
any patient or person coming to a hospital should be
treated as a potential carrier.
A day after passing onelakh COVID19 cases, Andhra
Pradesh again reported 7,948
fresh cases and 58 deaths on
Tuesday. The overall tally
rose to 1,10,297 and the
death toll to 1,148. There
were 56,527 active cases, the
Health Department said.
The State tested 62,979
samples in a day and the positivity rate of 17.49 lakh tests
was 6.20%.
Guntur’s death toll
crossed 100 with 11 new
deaths. Kurnool reported 10
deaths, and Visakhapatnam
nine.
Availability position of
beds for COVID19 patients in
private hospitals was made
available by Telangana’s Health Department on Tuesday, along with containment
zones in Greater Hyderabad.
COVID19 cases were put
at 57,142 as 1,610 more tested
positive as of Monday. A total
of 15,839 samples were tested in a day. The new cases included 531 from GHMC, 172
from Rangareddy, 152 from
Warangal Urban and 113 from
Medchal Malkajgiri.
There were 13,753 active
cases and 480 had died.
There were 8,479 people under home or institutional isolation.
With 102 deaths reported
on Tuesday, Karnataka’s
death toll touched 2,055, and
the State added 5,536 new
cases. The total was 1,07,001.
Bengaluru Urban reported
1,898 cases and 40 deaths.
88 deaths in T.N.
A total of 6,972 persons tested positive for COVID19 and the deaths of 88 persons, including a fiveyearold child,
were recorded in Tamil Nadu
on Tuesday. Of the new cases, 1,107 were in Chennai.
The State’s COVID19 tally
touched 2,27,688, of which
57,073 were active cases. Besides, 4,707 persons were
discharged from hospitals,
taking the total number of
those discharged to 1,66,956.
The State’s toll increased to
3,659.
(With inputs from Vijayawada, Hyderabad, Chennai
and Bengaluru bureaus)
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