Tag: Covid Deaths

The State Health Department of Odisha on Friday informed about the death of as many as two children due to Covid infection.

India's tally of COVID-19 infections rose by 39,097 in a day to reach 3,13,32,159, while 546 more people succumbed to the viral disease during the same period taking the death toll to 4,20,016 on Saturday, according to Union Health Ministry data.

The Health Ministry said the reporting of daily new cases and deaths in India follows a bottom-up approach, where districts report the number of cases and deaths to the state governments and to the Union Ministry on a continuous basis, missing out on the deaths is unlikely.

The Supreme Court had said the Centre failed to perform its statutory duty cast under Section 12 of the Disaster Management Act to issue minimum standards of relief for families of those people who lost their lives to Covid-19.

The COVID19 deaths declared every day do not reflect the concerned day’s fatalities, but are past numbers that have been audited. This information was shared by Odisha Family Welfare Director Bijay Panigrahi on Tuesday (July 6).

Opposition parties alleged that there are many irregularities between the Covid fatalities data furnished by Nabarangpur district Collector and Odisha Government’s Covid dashboard

Daily infections and fatalities in Odisha have shown no signs of decline in comparison to the trends observed in other states. Single-day cases once again went past the 3K mark while the state again witnessed the highest number of fatalities in a day.

The Supreme Court Monday reserved verdict on the pleas seeking directions that ex-gratia compensation of Rs 4 lakh be paid to the families of those who have died of COVID-19

The Centre has told the Supreme Court that all deaths with a diagnosis of COVID-19, irrespective of co-morbidities, are to be classified as deaths due to COVID-19.

Senior IPS officer from Odisha and State Vigilance Director Debasis Panigrahi lost his battle against Covid-19 complications while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Kolkata.

A petition has been filed in the Orissa High Court seeking a high-level independent audit of the Covid deaths in the State. Congress leader and petitioner Nishikanta Mishra has prayed before the HC to direct for a special assessment of the number of deaths in the State due to Covid-19 infections.

Odisha will witness a further fall in the rate of Covid infections in the next seven to ten days, State Health Services Director Bijay Mohapatra informed reporters today.

Odisha on Saturday recorded a slight dip in the number of daily Covid cases and the fatalities resulting due to the viral disease. As per the Health Department, the State has reported a total of 7729 new positives and 39 deaths in the last 24 hours. 

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The Covid crisis in Odisha has refused to relent as a record 42 persons succumbed in the last 24 hours. The state has witnessed more than 80 fatalities in just two days, even as the fresh Covid-19 cases continue to remain below 9K for the fourth consecutive day.