Dharavi reports a downward trend

Dharavi has reported a steep decline in the daily number of coronavirus cases and deaths since the past one month. From a doubling rate of 18 days in April, Dharavi has now come a long way and the doubling rate is pitched at more than 140 days at present. Also, the slum colony, which once reported more than 80 cases in a day, witnessed only eight new COVID-19 cases on June 26. The total number of persons who have tested positive in Dharavi till date is 2,218, however, 1,118 patients among them have been cured and discharged, and the number of active cases in the largest slum of Asia now reads as 1,019. Photo by Sachin Haralkar/ MMCL
‘Dharavi safer than hospitals’. As the case count of the slum cluster is going down, people who stay in the area have begun to return to their homes. A newborn baby got discharged from the Sion hospital and returned to Dharavi as the family felt that their home was safer than the hospital, which is one of the major centres for treating COVID-19 patients in the city. Photo by Sachin Haralkar/ MMCL
Even as the increasing COVID-19 numbers in the city, country and world have resulted into a grim atmosphere, the arrival of the newborn baby in the slum was a silver lining for the neighbours amid the dark clouds of the virus. The infant was welcomed by the young and old alike who rejoiced the arrival of a new life amid the several reports of deaths coming from across the city. Photo by Sachin Haralkar/ MMCL
Local doctors fight the virus. After recording 491 COVID-19 cases in April and 1,216 in May, Dharavi saw only 274 cases and six deaths in the first two weeks of June. The major role in containing the virus was played by Dharavi’s local general practitioners. These doctors — the frontline workers — not only decided to open their clinics but also started door-to-door screening voluntarily in a bid to contain the spread of the virus in the densely populated region. Photo by Sachin Haralkar/ MMCL
Dr Anil Pachanekar, aged 60, runs a clinic in Dharavi and has been practising medicine and examining patients since the past 35 years in the slum cluster. With a clinic located in a narrow lane, he attends to over 100 patients every day. According to him, he and other general practitioners in the area must have screened over 50,000 people in the various lanes of Dharavi. “We have a long-standing relationship with the locals and they are familiar with our faces. Maybe that’s why they were more comfortable listening to our advice and getting themselves screened,” Dr Pachanekar said. Photo by Sachin Haralkar/ MMCL

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India’s virus recovery rate rises, yet no respite from COVID-19 cases

With more COVID-19 patients recovering, the gap between the number of recovered cases and active cases has increased by 1,91,886
The recovery rate in India is fast picking up as on Wednesday it reached 61.53 per cent, and the gap between the infected and recovered too widened.
During the last 24 hours, 16,883 patients of novel coronavirus were discharged taking the cumulative figure of recovered cases to 4,56,830 so far while 2, 64, 944 are still under medical supervision.
With more COVID-19 patients recovering, the gap between the number of recovered cases and active cases has increased by 1,91,886 as on date.
India on Wednesday recorded a total 7,21, 417 COVID-19 cases overall out of which 22,752 were fresh cases.
The deaths so far in the country is 20, 642 out of which 482 fatalities occurred in the last 24 hours. Cases are picking up in southern states of Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh while the situation in Maharashtra and Delhi is slowly improving.
Maharashtra reported just 6,603 fresh cases as COVID-19 cases in Mumbai’s Dharavi come under control. However, Maharashtra still has the highest number of total cases – 2, 23, 724 — and highest numbers of deaths – 9448 out of which 198 were on Wednesday.
Delhi registered 2033 new cases and 48 deaths taking its total number of infected to 1, 04, 864 and 3218 deaths.
However, as cases pick up in Bihar, the state government has decided to put Patna, Bhagalpur and some other places under lockdown from July 9 to 16 during which only essential services shops will be allowed to remain open.
Economist Prof Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins University has pointed out that higher cases in India are due to lack of medical infrastructure and under testing.
“Even with its hard #Lockdown, #India now has the 3rd highest number of #COVID19 cases. No surprise. Just as I predicted: A #Modi #LockdownFailure. A lockdown does not make more #Hospital beds or #Tests,” he tweeted.
However, the union health ministry officials said that higher testing has led to more detection of cases which is helping in containing the situation.
“The number of samples tested for detection of COVID-19 is substantially growing every day. During the last 24 hours, 2,62,679 samples have been tested. The cumulative number of samples tested, as of now is 1,04,73,771. As a result, the tests per million today stand at 7180,” said health ministry officials.
The World Health Organisation has acknowledged emerging evidence of airborne spread of the COVID-19. The WHO said it would put out a new scientific brief within days.
To strengthen the Central government’s efforts to reduce COVID-19 mortality, AIIMS Delhi has started tele-consultation guidance to state doctors on COVID Clinical Management.
CIPLA has launched ‘CIPREMI’ the generic version of Remdesivir. The company CEO Nikhil Chopra said that the drug is amongst the lowest priced globally, and CIPLA aims to supply over 80,000 vials within the first month itself.
“To further ensure equitable distribution, CIPREMI will be available via Government and Hospital channels only. Cipla will also be donating some amount of the drug as part of its efforts to support the community in this time of need,” Mr Chopra said.

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Coronavirus Update in india

India’s confirmed coronavirus cases, on Friday, crossed the 5,00,000 mark.
According to the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, India still stands at the fourth position with the U.S leading the table with 24,24,054 cases followed by Brazil with 12,28,114 cases and Russia with 6,19,936.
While publishing this article, India’s confirmed cases stood at 5,04,165 with several States sending their inputs. According to Union Health Ministry, India’s total cases stand at 4,90,401.
While the global death toll stood at 4,90,055, India’s toll is at 15,619.

Delhi recorded 3,460 fresh coronavirus cases on Friday, taking the tally in the city to over 77,000, while the death toll from the disease mounted to 2,492, authorities said.
On Tuesday, the national capital had reported the highest single-day spike of 3,947 cases.
On Wednesday, Delhi had eclipsed Mumbai as the city worst-hit by the pandemic in the country.
Sixty-three fatalities have been recorded in the last 24 hours, a Delhi health department bulletin said on Friday.
The bulletin said the death toll from coronavirus infection has risen to 2,492, and the total number of cases mounted to 77,240.
A central government team led by joint secretary in the health ministry Lav Kumar Agarwal visited Ahmedabad to take stock of the COVID-19 situation and measures the local authorities have taken to combat the pandemic, which is spiking with higher number of cases.
On Friday, Gujarat recorded 580 new COVID-19 infections and 18 new deaths, bringing its tally to 1772 deaths and 30158 cases. With 532 new discharges, total patients so far discharged are: 22038.
The team members visited micro containment zones in the city and sought to know the details about the measures the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has put in place to halt the spread of the virus which has infected over 20000 persons and killed 1399 persons so far.
Ahmedabad is the worst hit with highest mortality of above 5 % in the country.
After visiting the city, the team members held meetings with state government officials and members of the task force the state heal health department has set up to advise and help the state authorities in dealing with the highly infectious disease.
Meanwhile, the state continues to see upward trajectory of the disease with 580 new infections on Friday. There are now 6348 active cases out of which 61 are on ventilator support. — Mahesh Langa
Maharashtra recorded its highest single-day surge in Covid-19 cases yet on Friday, with 5,024 fresh cases taking the State’s total case tally to 1,52,765. 175 new deaths pushed the total death toll to 7,106. Of these, 91 were reported in the last 48 hours while 84 were from an earlier period, said State Health Department officials. Of the total case tally, 65,829 are active ones. As many as 2,362 patients were discharged today, taking the total number of recoveries till date to 79,815. With 1,297 new cases, Mumbai’s total case tally has reached 72,175. The city’s death toll has risen to 4,179. As many as 44 of the new deaths today were from Mumbai city, 14 from Pune district and a further 14 from Aurangabad among other parts of the state.
269789 Active Cases
476377 Cured / Discharged
21129 Deaths

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Gangster and encounter

Wanted criminal Vikas Dubey’s close aide Amar Dubey, who was also involved in the ambush last week in which eight policemen were killed, was chased down and shot dead by the police in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.
Amar Dubey was number one on the list of 15 of Vikas Dubey’s aides being hunted by the police since the killing of cops in Kanpur during a failed raid.
Sources say Amar Dubey was married last week, days before the killings. Vikas Dubey was instrumental in the wedding.
Amar Dubey was reportedly in charge of Vikas Dubey’s security and travelled with him armed with a rifle. Reports also suggest that he was one of the main planners of the Friday ambush.
He carried a reward of Rs 50,000. On a tip-off, the Uttar Pradesh special task force tracked him down to a village in Hamirpur district. When the teams reached, they were fired upon.
“Acting on a tip-off, a team of the STF and local police surrounded Amar. He was injured in the firing and he died during treatment in a hospital,” senior police officer Shlok Kumar said. Two policemen were injured in the encounter, he added.
Last week, eight policemen were killed when police teams went to Bikru village in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur to arrest Vikas Dubey in an attempted murder case.
Vikas Dubey was allegedly tipped off by policemen in Chaubeypur and was waiting with an armed gang for the police teams in the early hours of Friday. When the police entered the village, they were surprised by firing from rooftops. Eight died on the spot.
Vikas Dubey, the notorious criminal with 60 cases of murder, rioting, kidnapping and extortion, escaped along with others involved in the firing. Dubey, who carries a reward of Rs 2.5 lakh, was spotted at a hotel in Faridabad near Delhi on Tuesday.
Earlier, two more aides of Vikas Dubey, Prem Prakash Pandey and Atul Dubey, were killed.
Vikas Dubey’s close relative Shama, neighbour Suresh Verma and domestic help Rekha and her husband Dayashankar Agnihotri, a key member of his gang, have been arrested by police.
All 68 policemen at the Chaubeypur Police Station have been removed and shunted to the reserve police lines as they are investigated over alleged links with Vikas Dubey.
The action followed revelations from a letter apparently written by Deputy Superintendent of Police Devendra Mishra, who was among the cops killed in the Kanpur shooting. In the letter written three months ago, Mr Mishra had told Anand Deo, then Senior Superintendent of Police in Kanpur, that Chaubeypur station officer Vinay Tiwari had watered down an FIR lodged against the gangster.
The letter circulated on social media suggested that Vinay Tiwari was close to Vikas Dubey and helped him. But UP police say there is no record of such a letter.

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Shortage of testing kit

Amidst the pandemonium of this pandemic, one thing has been constant. The shortage of testing kits. When COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic, the Indian Ministry of Health assured the citizens that they had stocked up on 1 lakh testing kits. And that they will order more when needed.
But as cases started booming in India, several cities reported an acute shortage of these testing kits. So what exactly happened here? Let’s get into it!

History
Let’s get a timeline to make things easier. The genome sequence of the virus was released on 11th Jan 2020. That same day, the Malaysian Institute of Medical Research released crucial information regarding the virus for countries to create testing kits. Countries like England, Germany, Russia and the US started the production of their own testing kits by the end of January. South Korea’s testing solution was given the nod on 4th Feb, followed by BGI in Wuhan on 5th of Feb.
In India, the first case was recorded on the 30th of January and only one lab had the facility to test for COVID-19. Right now, we have over 900 labs, both government and private throughout the country.

Partly, this was because we received faulty rapid testing kits from China and the government opted to use locally manufactured RT-PCR testing kits.

Types of Testing
COVID-19 testing involved detecting either the presence of the virus- SARS-COV-2 or the antibodies generated as a response to the virus.
Methods for testing current infection include qRT-PCR test (Real-time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Test), Isothermal Amplification assays, Antigen test and body imaging (CT Scans, X-Ray).
Past infections are tested by Serology tests. Different types of these include Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT), ELISA Test (Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), NA test (Neutralization assay) and CI test (Chemiluminescent immunoassay).
To make this simpler, RT-PCR testing is the most accurate amongst these tests but it takes a few hours and dedicated technicians to perform the test. Nucleic acid tests and other antigen tests are significantly faster. But their accuracy varies from manufacturer-to-manufacturer and several other variables.

Minimum Testing Requirement
As per the WHO, for a successful reopening of the economy, the total number of positive cases should be less than 10% of the tested numbers. But if you get a large number of positive cases, they might not be testing enough.

Mistakes Were Made
By late April, the entire world was going through a shortage of testing kits. This was caused due to shortages in the supply of reagents, the previous month.
When ICMR procured 5 lakh rapid antibody testing kits from two Chinese companies, they were proven to be faulty, showing less than 6% accuracy. This was the case in many states including Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. And as soon as this was found, the Indian government cancelled the entire order.
And this was a huge setback!

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US situation amid covid-19

Americans spent a glum Easter Sunday largely confined to their homes by the still-raging coronavirus pandemic as the U.S. death toll neared 22,000, with more than half a million confirmed cases nationwide.
With 42 states imposing strict stay-at-home orders most churches were shuttered, although many erected crosses outside or even offered drive-through services conducted by priests, pastors or ministers wearing latex gloves and surgical masks.
Other Americans turned to online church services to mark the holiest day in the Christian calendar. In Louisiana, the evangelical Life Tabernacle megachurch near Baton Rouge defied local government orders to shut down, holding its Easter Sunday service as planned, said Reverend Tony Spell.

In some states, attempts by authorities to clamp down on Easter services have sparked legal battles over the rights of government to prevent Americans from attending church, even under pandemic conditions.
On Saturday, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld an executive order barring more than 10 people from gathering for religious and funeral services. The decision, a victory for Democratic Governor Laura Kelly, followed an attempt by a Republican-led legislative body to overturn the order.
The United States, with the world’s third-largest population, has recorded more fatalities from COVID-19 than any other country, nearly 22,000 as of Sunday evening according to a Reuters tally.
Roughly 2,000 deaths a day were reported for the last four days in a row, the largest number in and around New York City. Even that is viewed as understated, as New York is still figuring out how best to include a surge in deaths at home in its official statistics. As the death toll has mounted, President Donald Trump mulled when the country might begin to see a return to normality.
The sweeping restrictions on non-essential movement now applied to most Americans have damaged the economy, taken a painful toll on commerce and raised questions over how long business closures and travel curbs can be sustained. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits in the last three weeks surpassed 16 million.
The Trump administration sees May 1 as a potential date for easing the restrictions, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Stephen Hahn, said on Sunday. But he cautioned that it was still too early to say whether that goal would be met.
“We see light at the end of the tunnel,” Hahn told ABC’s “This Week,” adding, “Public safety and the welfare of the American people has to come first. That has to ultimately drive these decisions.”
In the latest sign of the disruption wrought by the disease, one of the nation’s largest pork processing plants was shuttered after workers fell ill, and its owner warned the country was moving “perilously close to the edge” in supplies for grocers.
“It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running,” Ken Sullivan, chief executive of Smithfield Foods, said in a statement on Sunday.
Dozens of workers at a beef production plant in Greeley, Colorado, have tested positive for COVID-19, according to its owner, meatpacking company JBS USA. The union representing workers at the plant said two employees have died.
Conclusion
In recent days, public health experts and some governors have pointed to some hopeful signs that the worst of the pandemic might be past.
Fauci and other public health experts say widespread testing will be key to efforts to reopen the economy, including antibody tests to find out who has already had the disease and could be safe to return to work.
New government data shows a summer surge in infections if stay-at-home orders are lifted after only 30 days, according to projections first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by a Department of Homeland Security official.
Compared to yesterday’s data :- TOTAL CASES2,886,26744,361 New Cases* and TOTAL DEATHS129,811235 New Deaths*

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Politics over LAC

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to a forward post in Ladakh this morning and interacted with troops days after the June 15 border clash with China in which 20 soldiers were killed in the line of duty. “The age of expansionism is over, this is the age of development. History knows that expansionist forces have either lost or were forced to turn back,” he said, addressing soldiers during the visit that served as a morale booster for the forces and a powerful message to China, which has shown unrelenting aggression at the border with incursions seen in satellite images. “The weak can never accomplish peace, the brave do,” he asserted.

In photos, PM Modi sat in a camouflage tent as he spoke to hundreds of soldiers seated at a distance from each other. Later, he delivered an address against the backdrop of the Zanskar mountains.
According to the Prime Minister’s office, he was at a forward location in Nimu, at a height of 11,000 feet. He reached there early in the morning by chopper from Leh, along with Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and Army Chief MM Naravane. “Interacting with our brave armed forces personnel at Nimu,” the PM posted.The PM’s visit “definitely strengthened the morale” of the soldiers, said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who was to travel to Leh yesterday but cancelled his trip.Personnel of the Army, Air Force and ITBP were present for the interaction. PM Modi also visited a hospital where several soldiers wounded in the clash are recovering.
A rattled China reacted to the visit. “India and China are in communication and negotiations on lowering the temperatures through military and diplomatic channels. No party should engage in any action that may escalate the situation at this point,” Zhao Lijian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, was quoted by news agency ANI as saying.
After weeks of simmering tension at the Line of Actual Control or the de-facto border with China, 20 soldiers including a Colonel were killed in action in the June 15 brawl with Chinese troops at the Galwan river valley. Army sources say the Chinese suffered 45 casualties.
Amid outrage on social media and calls for boycotting Chinese goods and businesses, the government this week banned 59 Chinese mobile phone apps including the wildly popular TikTok citing national security concerns.Chinese imports including raw materials vital to India’s huge pharmaceutical industry have reportedly been piling up at Indian ports due to more stringent border checks.Ministers also said India will no longer buy Chinese equipment for power stations and that Chinese construction firms will be barred from new road projects.
The Prime Minister’s visit is also seen to deliver a strong message to the opposition Congress and other critics that have been targeting the government on its handling of the China crisis. In almost daily tweets, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been demanding answers from the PM on Chinese incursions at the LAC.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a veiled swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday over Chinese intrusions at the LAC, saying while Ladakhis claim that China has taken their land, the PM says otherwise and someone is “lying”.

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Prime minister Modi visit to Ladakh

In photos, PM Modi sat in a camouflage tent as he spoke to hundreds of soldiers seated at a distance from each other. Later, he delivered an address against the backdrop of the Zanskar mountains.
According to the Prime Minister’s office, he was at a forward location in Nimu, at a height of 11,000 feet. He reached there early in the morning by chopper from Leh, along with Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and Army Chief MM Naravane. “Interacting with our brave armed forces personnel at Nimu,” the PM posted.
The PM’s visit “definitely strengthened the morale” of the soldiers, said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who was to travel to Leh yesterday but cancelled his trip.
Personnel of the Army, Air Force and ITBP were present for the interaction. PM Modi also visited a hospital where several soldiers wounded in the clash are recovering.
A rattled China reacted to the visit. “India and China are in communication and negotiations on lowering the temperatures through military and diplomatic channels. No party should engage in any action that may escalate the situation at this point,” Zhao Lijian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, was quoted by news agency ANI as saying.
After weeks of simmering tension at the Line of Actual Control or the de-facto border with China, 20 soldiers including a Colonel were killed in action in the June 15 brawl with Chinese troops at the Galwan river valley. Army sources say the Chinese suffered 45 casualties.
Amid outrage on social media and calls for boycotting Chinese goods and businesses, the government this week banned 59 Chinese mobile phone apps including the wildly popular TikTok citing national security concerns.
Chinese imports including raw materials vital to India’s huge pharmaceutical industry have reportedly been piling up at Indian ports due to more stringent border checks.
Ministers also said India will no longer buy Chinese equipment for power stations and that Chinese construction firms will be barred from new road projects.
The Prime Minister’s visit is also seen to deliver a strong message to the opposition Congress and other critics that have been targeting the government on its handling of the China crisis. In almost daily tweets, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been demanding answers from the PM on Chinese incursions at the LAC.

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Galwan valley strike

China has built new structures near the site of a Himalayan border clash that left 20 Indian troops dead earlier this month, fresh satellite images suggest.
Bunkers, tents and storage units for military hardware are visible in an area where last month there were none.
Fighting between the nuclear-armed powers over their disputed frontier has prompted alarm. Chinese casualties were also reported but not confirmed.
The latest images were published as the sides hold talks to defuse tensions.
The fresh satellite images, dated 22 June, are from space technology company Maxar. The structures which appear to have been built by China overlooking the Galwan River were not visible in aerial photographs earlier in June, Reuters reported.
Neither India nor China has commented.
The clash in the Galwan Valley, in the disputed Himalayan territory of Ladakh, took place on 15 June, weeks after high-level military commanders from both nations agreed to “peacefully resolve the situation in the border areas in accordance with various bilateral agreements.”
Since the clash, and amid spiralling rhetoric, the two nations have tried to publicly calm tensions.
A statement released by the India’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said that India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi “reaffirmed that both sides should sincerely implement the understanding on disengagement and de-escalation that was reached by the senior commanders on 6 June”.
Ajai Shukla, a leading Indian defense analyst, tweeted that “there is a large Chinese camp in the Galwan Valley, 1.5km into the Indian side of the LAC [Line of Actual Control]”.
Local media have also quoted sources in the Indian army as saying that the additional build-up by China seemed to have taken place between the 15 June clash and commander-level talks prior to that.
Satellite imagery from May shows no structures in the disputed area near where the clashes took place.
Former Indian diplomat P Stobdan, an expert in Ladakh affairs, told the BBC the construction was “worrying”.
“The [Indian] government has not released any pictures or made a statement, so it’s hard to assess. But the images released by private firms show that the Chinese have built infrastructure and have not retreated,” he said.

The clash presents Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with one of his biggest foreign policy challenges as he faces accusations his government was ill-prepared. Last Friday he sought to downplay what happened, denying there had been any Chinese incursion into Indian territory.

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59 Chinese app banned

The government banned 59 Chinese mobile applications, including top social media platforms such as TikTok, Helo and WeChat, to counter the threat posed by these applications to the country’s “sovereignty and security,” it said in a press release late on Monday. ShareIT, UC browser and shopping app Clubfactory are among the other prominent apps that have been blocked amid rising tensions between India and China following clashes at the border two weeks ago.

The government said the applications are engaged in activities “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, security of state and public order.” The ban has been imposed under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act read with relevant provisions of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules 2009, it said. The government also cited complaints about data on Indian users being transferred abroad without authorization.

The move could come as a blow to China’s Digital Silk Route ambitions, eroding the valuation of the companies. It could also lead to more countries following India’s cue and acting against these apps, sources told ET.

A top official said the government had considered all aspects before taking the decision. “These apps have been there for a long time, and there are some privacy and security issues with them including risks of data going out of the country,” said the person.

The statement from the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) said it had received complaints from various sources, including several reports about the misuse of some mobile apps for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers outside India.
Analysts said the move will impact the Chinese apps.

“From a tactical perspective, it puts enormous economic pressure because these apps were heavily reliant on Indian markets. From a legal perspective, it is sound because grounds like national security are difficult to challenge in a court of law,” said Santosh Pai, partner at Link Legal, who tracks Chinese investments in the country. “If this is going to be the new state of affairs, we need to see whether Indian apps will fulfil the need or American apps will take market share.”

Investors in Indian social apps say that competition will come down due to the ban on Chinese apps.
“The competitive threat will go down. But a lot of apps in India are inspired by the deft engineering of Chinese apps. Overall the ecosystem’s ingenuity will slow down,” said Deepak Gupta, founding partner at WEH Ventures, which has invested in Indian video blogging platform Trell.
Here’s the few apps that are banned

TikTok
Shareit
Kwai
UC Browser
Baidu map
Shein
Clash of Kings
DU battery saver
Helo
Likee
YouCam makeup
Mi Community

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