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New Delhi : The total number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) confirmed cases reached 39,980 in India on May 3, 2020, evening, an increase of 2,644 confirmed cases since May 2, 2020. Coronavirus death toll increased to 1,306 on May 3 evening while the number of patients cured/discharged jumped to 10,886 in the country including 2,000 in Maharashtra, 1,341 in Tamilnadu, 1,256 in Delhi, 1,121 in Rajasthan, 798 in MP, and 689 in UP. This takes the recovery rate to 26.59%.
The COVID-19 death toll jumped to 521 in Maharashtra, 262 in Gujarat, 156 in Madhya Pradesh, 65 in Rajasthan, 64 in Delhi, 43 in UP, 33 each in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, 29 in Tamilnadu, 28 in Telangana, 25 in Karnataka, 20 in Punjab, 4 each in Bihar, 8 in J&K, Haryana, and Kerala, and 3 in Jharkhand. One death each has been reported from Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Meghalaya, Assam.
Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on May 3, 2020, visited Lady Hardinge Medical College to review status of COVID-19 management. He visited the Director’s office, emergency, OPD, sampling center, COVID block- critical areas on ground and first floor, Red zone area and changing facility for doctors & health workers.
Dr Vardhan was satisfied to notice that the doctors and health staff manning the facility were provided special bathing, changing and spray facility for disinfecting themselves at Oncology building, the specialised COVID-19 facility. He lauded the hospital administration’s efforts in talking to its front line health personnel twice a day to deal with the situation effectively, according to a PIB release.
Dr Vardhan urged the people of India to observe the extended period of lockdown 3.0 (till May 17, 2020) in letter and spirit and treat it as an effective intervention to cut down the chain of transmission of COVID-19. He urged the countrymen not to ostracize the doctors treating COVID-19 patients and to not stigmatize the patients who have won the battle against COVID-19.