Coronavirus India Live Updates: 92,596 cases, 2,219 deaths reported in last 24 hours in India

On Tuesday at the plaza located in Sector 17, Chandigarh. (Photo: Kamleshwar Singh) India’s Revised COVID-19 Immunization Policy: All You Need to Know On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that after several states faced difficulties in procurement and management, India would be able to handle COVID-19. Will move to centralized procurement of vaccines. Vaccine funding. This marks a change in the previous policy from May 1, when the Center asked states to buy 25% of the dose from the open market for vaccination for the age group of 18-44 years. Earlier (January 16 to April 30), the Center had procured and allocated vaccine doses to states for free immunization of three priority groups – healthcare workers, frontline workers and persons above 45 years of age. Agra hospital closed after owner’s video: ‘Mock drill… cut off oxygen supply’ The district administration on Tuesday ordered sealing of Shree Paras Hospital, a leading private hospital in Agra, after a purported video clip of its owner talks about it How the hospital cut off the oxygen supply to Kovid. -19 patients as part of a “mock drill” for five minutes to find out “who will die”.

He says 22 patients were “filtered out” because they “turned blue” during this “experiment”. Speaking to The Indian Express, Agra District Magistrate Prabhu Narayan Singh confirmed that the person seen in the video clip was the owner of the hospital, Dr Arinjay Jain. The incident is said to have taken place on the morning of 26 April, and the video was made on 28 April. While Jain talks about 22 patients who “turned blue”, Singh said four Covid-19 patients died on April 26 and three on April. 27. For the first time since March, Mumbai reported single-digit deaths on Tuesday with seven deaths due to Covid-19, the lowest in the last two-and-a-half months, as the city recorded seven deaths initially on March 20 Was. from the second wave of the pandemic. With this, Mumbai has increased the Kovid-19 toll by 15, crossed the 000 mark. Tuesday’s toll is the first time that Mumbai reported deaths in single digits during the second wave. The city’s total toll is now 15,006. On Tuesday, Mumbai reported 682 fresh Covid-19 cases – down from the daily case load of 900-1,000 cases a fortnight ago. While the total number of active cases is over 15,000, the positivity rate has remained steady below 3 per cent for the past few days. .