Covid-19 in India: Daily deaths spike again

The daily rise in novel Coronavirus cases in India remained below 3 lakh for the fifth consecutive day with 259551 new confirmation in a single day according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday morningThe singleday tally of Covid19 casualties however jumped past 4000 again after a day of drop The total death toll climbed to 291331 with 4209 daily deaths The national case fatality rate increased to 112 per cent but the recovery rate improved to 8725 per centMeanwhile External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is set to visit the United States on Monday The fiveday trip is aimed at procurement of Coronavirus vaccines and raw materials to boost domestic productionIt will be the first visit by a senior Indian minister to the US after President Joe Biden assumed office in January Jaishankar is likely to press for further speeding up of the supply of raw materials from the US to boost vaccine production in India besides exploring the option of joint productionldquoIn Washington DC the Minister will hold discussions with his counterpart Secretary of State Antony Blinken He will also be meeting Cabinet members and Senior Officials of the Administration dealing with the bilateral relationshiprdquo the MEA saidMP lost 1L to Covid19 in 2 months Kamal NathMadhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Friday claimed that over 1 lakh people in the state died due to Covid19 in MarchApril this year and accused the BJP government of hiding the real count ldquoWe collected figures from cremation ground and graveyards in March and April and found that 127503 bodies arrived there and 102002 of these deaths were caused due to Covid19rdquo he said The state government however termed his claim as ldquofalse and misleadingrdquoSunderlal Bahuguna known for Chipko movement diesNoted environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna died of Covid19 at AIIMS Rishikesh on Friday He is survived by his wife Vimla two sons and a daughter Born on January 9 in Tehri district the 94yearold Padma Vibhushan awardee is considered the pioneer of the Chipko movement He also led the protests against Tehri dam construction Uttarakhand CM the Indian president and prime minister condoled his death He was a big critic of the RSSCentre comes to the rescue of Sambit PatraThe government has objected to Twitter using lsquomanipulated mediarsquo tag for tweets on an alleged Congress toolkit used to target the Centre over its Covid19 handling sources said Twitter tagged a tweet of BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as lsquomanipulated mediarsquo The Centre has asked Twitter to remove the lsquomanipulated mediarsquo tag as the matter is pending before law enforcement agency and said that the social media platform cannot pass judgment when the issue is under investigationAlso Read Real Covid19 death count across the world twice the reported figure WHOThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever