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New Delhi : Coronavirus (COVID-19) death toll shot up to 2,109 in India on May 10, 2020, with 128 new deaths being reported from different parts of the country since the last update issued by Union H &FW Ministry on May 9, 2020.
Maharashtra alone accounts for 779 deaths due to Coronavirus followed by Gujarat with 472 deaths. Madhya Pradesh (MP) has reported 215 deaths while 171 persons have died due to the disease in West Bengal. Rajasthan has reported 106 deaths while UP has reported 74 deaths and Delhi 73 deaths.
The COVID-19 death toll is 44 each in Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu, Punjab 31, Telangana and Karnataka 30 each, J&K and Haryana 9 each, Bihar 6, Kerala 4, Jharkhand 3, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Assam & Chandigarh 2 each, Uttarakhand and Meghalaya 1 each.
The number of Coronavirus confirmed cases has jumped to 62,939 in India while the number of patients cured/discharged has increased to 19,357 in the country from 17,846 on May 9, 2020. This takes the recovery rate to 30.76 %.
The public health facilities dedicated for COVID-19 case management are categorised into three categories. As on May 10, 2020, altogether 7,740 facilities in 483 districts have been identified in all the States/UTs that include hospitals and facilities of the State/UT Govts as well as the Central Govt. There are 6,56,769 isolation beds, 3,05,567 beds for confirmed cases, 3,51,204 beds for suspected cases, 99,492 Oxygen supported beds, 1,696 facilities with Oxygen manifold and 34,076 ICU beds.
Union Law and Justice Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on May 10 held an interaction with the team of law officers. The Minister specially emphasised that addressing such a serious pandemic throws up complicated and sensitive nature of challenges, which the governance system has responded and it will be appropriate that this decision-making process of the Government of India and the state governments are trusted. Prasad said that during these challenging times overzealous PILs needs to be avoided.
Punjab : Class X students under the Punjab School Education Board will not have to take any exams and will be promoted on the basis of their performance in the pre-Board exams, Punjab Chief Minister announced. The state government has decided to promote all students of Classes V to X under the Punjab School Education system to the next class without any examination, in the light of the unprecedented COVID crisis, which has led to prolonged lockdown/curfew, the Chief Minister disclosed. For Class XI and XII students, the state will go by the decision of the Central Government, according to a PIB release.
Maharashtra: The total numbers of cases in Maharashtra rose to 20,228 on May 10 with 48 new deaths after 1,165 fresh infections were reported in the last 24 hours. Mumbai alone has reported 12,864 cases and 489 fatalities so far.
Gujarat: Director of AIIMS Delhi Dr Randeep Guleria, on a visit to Ahmedabad, has said that late hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients due to fear of stigma and higher prevalence of co-morbid conditions like diabetes, hypertension, heart and kidney disease were key reasons behind the high number of Civid-19 deaths in Gujarat. The states tally of positive cases is 7,747.
Karnataka: Over 76% of Covid-19 patients in State are asymptomatic. Random sample survey ordered in the wake of rising Covid-19 cases.