Covid Relapse Sets Off Viral Alarm In Delhi

Cop & 3 health workers test positive in last two weeks after being cured, more cases feared. Authorities rush to combat challenge, say weak immunity may be triggering re-infection

- Milan Sharma and Chayyanika Nigam

COVID PANDEMIC

45,720 new cases in India, total 12,38,635

1,129 more deaths, toll 29,861

1,041 new cases in Delhi, total 1,27,364

26 more deaths, toll 3,745

IMPACT

CM TO CRACK WHIP ON PLASMA BAZAAR

A day after India Today TV’s investigation revealed black-marketing of plasma in the Capital, CM Arvind Kejriwal assured strict action against culprits.

Patients show their hands decorated with henna on the occasion of Hariyali Teej, at CWG Village Covid Care Centre in Delhi on Thursday.

84 security & fire services personnel tested positive for Covid-19 at Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan but none had come into contact with Governor Banwarilal Purohit or senior officials, the state govt said.

₹1 lakh fine and two years in jail for those not wearing masks, and spitting in public places in Jharkhand.

15 lakh virus samples tested so far across India.

On July 16, a Delhi Police inspector tested positive for Covid-19, nearly a month after he had been cured of the deadly disease at Apollo Hospital.

In that week itself, a doctor from a hospital in Noida was found infected, 45 days after recovery.

A 50-year-old nursing officer from a Capital hospital tested positive around the same time, weeks after she had beaten the highly contagious coronavirus.

A nurse, who is working at a Delhi government hospital, was found infected this week, about a month after her recovery.

JUST WHEN CURVE WAS BENDING