{"id":323530,"date":"2020-05-29T04:33:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323530"},"modified":"2020-05-29T04:33:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:33:33","slug":"covid-19-cases-in-india-rise-to-165799-death-toll-at-4706","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-cases-in-india-rise-to-165799-death-toll-at-4706\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases in India rise to 1,65,799, Death toll at 4,706"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"India\u2019s COVID-19 cases has risen to 1,65,799 with 4,706 fatalities. There are 89,987 active cases while 71,105 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maharashtra has highest number of COVID-19 cases \u2013 59,546, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 19,372, Delhi \u2013 16,281 and Gujarat \u2013 15,562.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cabinet Secretary yesterday held a meeting with Municipal Commissioners, District Magistrates of 13 COVID-19 hit cities to take a review of the situation.\u00a0 Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories concerned attended the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

The meeting bears significance as these 13 cities are considered to be the worst Coronavirus affected locations and constitute about 70 per cent of the positive cases in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 13 focus cities are Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi \/ New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata \/ Howrah, Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Jaipur, Jodhpur, Chengalpattu and Thiruvallur (Tamil Nadu).<\/span><\/p>\n

The measures taken by the officials and the staff of the municipal corporations for the management of COVID-19 cases were reviewed in the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

The central government has already issued guidelines on management of COVID-19 in urban settlements.<\/span><\/p>\n

Highlights of this strategy include work on high risk factors, indices such as confirmation rate, fatality rate, doubling rate, tests per million people etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

Centre has stressed that containment zones are to be geographically defined based on factors like mapping of cases and contacts and their geographical dispersion. This would enable in demarcating a well-defined perimeter and enforcing the strict protocol of lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Municipal corporations can decide if residential colonies, mohallas, municipal wards or police-station areas, municipal zones, towns can be designated as containment zones, as required.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cities were advised that the area should be appropriately defined by the district administration and local urban body with technical inputs from local level.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India\u2019s COVID-19 cases has risen to 1,65,799 with 4,706 fatalities. There are 89,987 active cases while 71,105 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Friday. Maharashtra has highest number of COVID-19 cases \u2013 59,546, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 19,372, Delhi \u2013 16,281 and Gujarat \u2013 15,562. Cabinet Secretary yesterday held a meeting with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323532,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323530\/revisions\/323532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}