Latest Live: Mandaviya Holds High-Level Meeting to Review Covid Situation
India’s Covid-19 tally climbed to 44,676,330 today with 131 fresh infections, while the number of active cases came down to 3,408, according to Union health ministry data. The toll due to the viral disease increased to 5,30,680 with three more fatalities, including two deaths reconciled by Kerala and one reported from West Bengal in the last 24 hours. The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections. The nation’s Covid-19 recovery rate increased to 98.80 per cent, according to the ministry’s website.
The health ministry held a high-level review meeting today to review the rising cases of Covid-19 in China and other countries and assess the situation in India. Government has also written to all states to ramp up genome sequencing and send all positive samples to designated Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium-INSACOG laboratories. In a letter to states, Rajesh Bhushan, health secretary said the public health challenge of Covid-19 persists around the world, with about 3.5 million cases reported weekly.
Elon Musk on Wednesday said that he will resign as CEO of Twitter CEO as soon as a successor is found. In a tweet, Musk said, “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.” On Monday, Musk held a poll on Twitter asking whether he should step down as chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. The billionaire is currently facing a myriad of issues ranging from banning journalists and other social media platforms amid Tesla stock nosediving.
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