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Chhattisgarh reports 427 new Covid-19 cases, 3 deaths

Chhattisgarh on Monday reported 427 new Covid-19 positive cases and three deaths, as per the state health department.

With these new cases, the tally of people infected with the virus in the state has climbed to 12,625 including 3,509 active cases, 9,017 discharges and 99 deaths.

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10 people held, challans to 1,800 vehicles for floutinng Covid-19 curbs in Noida

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Health officials are quitting or getting fired amid outbreak

Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health officials around the US have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.

 

The latest departure came Sunday, when California's public health director, Dr. Sonia Angell, quit without explanation following a technical glitch that caused a delay in reporting virus test results information used to make decisions about reopening businesses and schools.

 

Last week, New York City's health commissioner was replaced after months of friction with the Police Department and City Hall.

 

A review by the Kaiser Health News service and The Associated Press finds at least 48 state and local public health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired since April across 23 states. The list has grown by more than 20 people since the AP and KHN began tracking departures in June.

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Jharkhand's Covid-19 death toll rises to 189 with 11 more fatalities

Eleven more people succumbed to Covid-19 in Jharkhand on Monday, pushing the death toll to 189, a state government bulletin said.

 

A total of 531 fresh cases raised the tally in the state to 18,786, it said.

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President Kovind, Defence minister Rajnath Singh wish former President Pranab Mukherjee speedy recovery from Covid-19

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Bihar reports 21 more Covid deaths, 3,021 fresh cases

With 21 more Covid-19 patients succumbing to the disease, the death toll in Bihar reached 450 on Monday, while 3,021 fresh infections took the states coronavirus caseload to 82,741, a health department bulletin said.

 

A total of 31,754 positive cases was detected in just 10 days, as per the health departments data.

 

The number of total tests has also doubled in 10 days. The state had tested 5,48,172 samples till July 31 and the figure is 10,97,252 on Monday.

 

Similarly, the number of tests conducted per day has also witnessed more than three-fold rise during the period - from 22,742 to 75,346.

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Puducherry Agriculture minister tests positive for Covid-19, second from the Cabinet to get infected

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1,806 new Covid-19 cases found in Pune

Pune district reported 1,806 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking its count to 1,09,326 on Monday, while 52 more patients succumbed to the infection, a health official said.

 

The death toll rose to 2,504 with 52 more patients succumbing to the infection during the same period in the western Maharashtra district, he said.

 

Also, 1,499 patients were also discharged from hospitals, the official said.

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44 new cases take Sikkim's Covid-19 tally to 910

Sikkim on Monday reported 44 fresh Covid-19 cases, raising the Himalayan state's tally to 910, an official said.

 

Of the new cases, 36 were reported from South Sikkim and eight from East Sikkim, Director General-cum-Secretary, Health, Dr Pempa T. Bhutia said.

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Covid-19 fatality rate in Bengal highest among people over 75 years

At 13.89 per cent, the Covid-19 fatality rate in West Bengal is the highest among people aged above 75 years, the health department said in its bulletin.
 

In the age group of 61-75 years, the rate stands at 6.58 per cent, it said.
 

The department, however, did not mention the total number of Covid-19 deceased in the respective age groups.

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5 staffers test Covid positive; Meghalaya High Court to be shut till August 12 for sanitisation

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100 new cases reported in Manipur, in the last 24 hours. The state's total count now stands at 3,853

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Two more succumb to Covid-19 in Himachal, death toll 16

Two Covid-19 patients died in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla and Mandi districts on Monday, pushing the state's case fatalities to 16, officials said.
 

A 49-year-old man died at Indira Gandhi Medical College here, Shimla Chief Medical Officer Surekha Chopra said. He had been referred from Solan district's Baddi on August 8.
 

In Mandi, a 70-year-old man of died of Covid-19.
 

A resident of Jawahar Nagar, he was admitted to Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri Government Medical College with acute respiratory infection on Sunday, CMO Devendra Sharma said.

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Former President Pranab Mukherjee is on ventilator support at Army's R&R hospital: Report

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2,905 new Covid-19 cases reported in West Bengal, taking the total count in the state to 98,459