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New Delhi : Altogether 23,077 people have been confirmed positive for COVID-19 in India while 723 persons have died due to the disease in the country. On the positive side, the number of patients cured/discharged had increased to 4,813 in India at 5 pm on April 24, 2020, a recovery rate of over 20.57%.
As on April 24, 2020, 15 districts in the country which earlier had cases have not reported any fresh case of Coronavirus for the last 28 days. Further, a total of 80 districts from 23 States/UTs have not reported any new cases for the last 14 days.
@CovidIndiaSeva twitter handle is also helping through real-time authentic health and public information provided by trained experts to swiftly answer the questions of citizens.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with Sarpanchs of Gram Panchayats throughout the country on April 24, 2020, through Video Conferencing, on the occasion of National Panchayati Raj Day 2020. During this event, the PM launched a unified e-GramSwaraj Portal and mobile application and Swamitva Scheme.
Addressing the Sarpanches, the Prime Minister said the Corona pandemic has changed the way people worked and taught a good lesson. He said the pandemic taught us that one has to be self-reliant always.
In some of the districts of the country, a number of violations of the lockdown measures have been reported, posing a serious health hazard and risk for spread of COVID-19, which is against general interest of public. These violations include incidents ranging from violence against frontline healthcare professionals, attacks on police personnel, violations of social distancing norms in market places and opposition to setting up of quarantine centres and so on.
The Centre has constituted Inter-Ministerial Central Teams, two for Gujarat and one each for Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. These teams would make on-spot assessment of situation and issue necessary directions to State Authorities for its redressal and submit their report to Central Government in larger interest of general public.
Out of 2,587 Principal/main Agricultural Markets in the country, 1,091 markets were functional at the beginning of the lockdown period on march 26, 2020, which has increased to 2,069 markets as on April 21, 2020. Arrival of vegetables such as Onion, Potato, and Tomato in mandis had increased by 622%, 187%, and 210% respectively on April 21 compared to March 16, 2020, according to a PIB release.
Drone operations in Varanasi, UP, have just commenced. The team will now extend similar capabilities to more cities across India. This forms part of a wider effort to use innovative technology, via Government-innovator collaboration, to reinforce Indian authorities’ fight against Covid-19.
Union Minister of State Dr Jitendra Singh said that in a novel experiment, possibly the first of its kind, DoPT had introduced a module for empowering frontline Corona Warriors through the learning platform https://igot.gov.in. What was envisaged to be an online medium to equip the frontline Corona Warriors with training and updates in coping with the Covid pandemic has proved to be a unique success story which would possibly be emulated in different forms in the times to come, he said.