Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor, who fought COVID-19 in September 2020, has reportedly contracted the deadly virus again.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), on Wednesday, sealed Arjun’s Mumbai residence after he tested positive for coronavirus. Currently, the sanitisation work of his building is under process. However, Arjun has not issued any statement regarding his diagnosis yet.
Prior to the day, Arjun’s cousin Rhea Kapoor shared that she has tested positive for COVID-19.
Taking to her Instagram Stories, Rhea wrote, “Yes I am positive for COVID in spite of being super careful. But this is the nature of the pandemic. Not sure why my or anyone’s private health information is news or gossip. This information should only be for the government and medical bodies so that they can do their job and not on gossip sites. It’s invasive and weird.”
Rhea Kapoor and her husband, Karan Boolani have tested positive for Covid-19. They too, are under quarantine. Arjun’s girlfriend, Malaika Arora will get tested as well.
According to reports, Arjun’s sister Anshula Kapoor, who turned a year older today, has also contracted the virus.
India’s Active Caseload is presently at 77,002. Active cases constitute 0.22% of the country’s total Positive Cases, which is lowest since March 2020.
The testing capacity across the country continues to be expanded. The last 24 hours saw a total of 11,67,612 tests being conducted. India has so far conducted over 67.52 Cr (67,52,46,143) cumulative tests.
While testing capacity has been enhanced across the country, Weekly Positivity Rate at 0.68% remains less than 1% for the last 45 days now. The Daily Positivity rate reported to be 0.79%.
The daily Positivity rate has remained below 2% for last 86 days and below 3% for 121 consecutive days now. The recovery of 7,347 patients in the last 24 hours has increased the cumulative tally of recovered patients (since the beginning of the pandemic) to 3,42,51,292.
Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.40%, highest since March 2020.
Sustained and collaborative efforts by the Centre and the States/UTs continue the trend of less than 15,000 Daily New Cases that is being reported for last 62 days now.
9,195 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours.
With the administration of 64,61,321 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 143.15 Cr (1,43,15,35,641) as per provisional reports till 7 am today. This has been achieved through 1,52,69,126 sessions.