Drug arrest: Pamela blames BJP leader
Kolkata: BJP’s youth-wing leader Pamela Goswami, arrested in a drugs case, on Saturday demanded the arrest of party colleague Rakesh Singh, accusing him of conspiracy, and sought a CID probe into the matter. She was held with around 90 gram of cocaine.
Daily Covid-19 cases in the country climbed to about 14,000 after nearly 22 days, taking India’s tally to 1,09,77,387, while the recoveries surged to 1,06,78,048, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday.
A total of 13,993 new cases were registered in a span of 24 hours. Deaths in the last 24 hours were recorded at 101 according to the data updated at 8 am showed.
On January 29, 18,855 daily cases were recorded.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,06,78,048 which translates to a national recovery rate of 97.27 per cent and the case fatality rate stands at 1.42 per cent.
The active caseload remained below 1.5 lakh. There are 1,43,127 active cases of Covid infections in the country which comprise 1.27 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
India’s Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
According to the ICMR, 21,02,61,480 samples have been tested up to February 19, with 7,86,618 samples being tested on Friday.
The 101 new fatalities included 44 deaths from Maharashtra, 15 from
Kerala and 8 from Punjab.
A total of 1,56,212 deaths have been reported so far in the country, including 51,713 from Maharashtra followed by 12,451 from Tamil Nadu, 12,287 from Karnataka, 10,897 from Delhi, 10,242 from West Bengal and 8,712 from Uttar Pradesh.
The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.