COVID-19 pandemic in Uttarakhand

15 March: The first case was reported in March, in Dehradun when an Indian Forest Service official returned from Spain.[5]

19 March: 2 more IFS trainees tested positive.[6]

• As on 7 May, total number of cases in Uttarakhand is 72, including 46 active cases 1 death and 25 recoveries.[2]

• On 2 June 2020, total number of cases in Uttarakhand crossed 1000 mark.[7]
• As on 7 June, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 1350, including 809 active cases 13 deaths and 528 recoveries.[2]
• As on 11 June, total number of cases in was 1692, including 771 active cases 19 deaths and 895 cures.[2]
• As on 29 June, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 2809, including 662 active cases 39 deaths and 2108 recoveries.[2]

• As on 9 July, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 3258, including 534 active cases 46 deaths and 2650 cures.[2]
• As on 15 July, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 3785, including 754 active cases 50 deaths and 2948 recoveries.[2]
• As on 18 July, total number of cases is 4241, including 1108 active cases 52 deaths and 3081 recoveries.[2]
• As on 29 July, total number of cases is 6866, including 2983 active cases 72 deaths and 3811 recoveries.[2]

• As on 3 August, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 7762, including 3134 active cases, 90 deaths and 4538 cures.[2]
• On 11 August 2020, total number of cases in Uttarakhand crossed 10000 mark.[8]
• As on 12 August, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 10887. This includes 4020 active cases, 140 deaths and 6687 cures.[2]
• As on 19 August, total number of cases was 12961, including 4024 active cases, 164 deaths and 8724 cures.[2]
• As on 23 August, total number of cases was 15124. This includes 4389 active cases, 200 deaths and 10480 cures.[2]
• As on 25 August, total number of cases in the state was 16014. This includes 4545 active cases, 213 deaths and 11201 recoveries.[2]

• As on 1 September, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 20398, including 6042 active cases, 280 deaths and 14012 cures.[2]
• As on 7 September, total number of cases was 25436, including 7965 active cases, 17046 recoveries and 348 deaths.[2]
• As on 12 September, total number of cases was 30336, including 9781 active cases, 20031 recoveries and 402 deaths.[2]
• As on 16 September, total number of cases was 35947, including 11068 active cases, 24277 cures and 447 deaths.[2]
• As on 22 September, total number of cases is 42651, including 11831 active cases, 30107 recoveries and 512 fatalities.[2]
• As on 28 September, total number of cases was 47502, including 10066 active cases, 36646 recoveries and 580 deaths.[2]

• On 3 October 2020, total number of cases in Uttarakhand crossed 50000 mark.[9] As on 3 October, total number of cases in the state was 50062, including 8076 active cases, 648 deaths and 41095 cures.[2]
• As on 5 October, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 51991, including 8701 active cases, 42368 cures and 699 deaths.[2]
• As on 10 October, total number of cases was 54241, including 7321 active cases, 46186 cures and 734 deaths.[2]
• As on 19 October, total number of cases was 57944, including 5527 active cases, 51486 cures and 933 deaths.[2]
• As on 27 October, total number of cases was 60482, including 3865 active cases, 55610 cures and 1007 deaths.[2]

• As on 8 November, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 64706, including 3972 active cases, 59719 cures and 1016 deaths.[2]
• As on 23 November, total number of cases was 70990, including 4298 active cases, 65530 recoveries and 1162 deaths.[2]

• As on 2 December, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 75044, including 4955 active cases, 68838 cures and 1251 deaths.[2]
• As on 6 December, total number of cases was 77142, including 5223 active cases, 70634 recoveries and 1285 deaths.[2]
• As on 15 December, total number of cases was 82510, including 6089 active cases, 75049 recoveries and 1372 deaths.[2]
• As on 15 December, total number of cases was 82510, including 6089 active cases, 75049 recoveries and 1372 fatalities.[2]
• As on 23 December, total number of cases was 86842, including 5507 active cases, 79888 recoveries and 1447 deaths.[2]
• As on 30 December, total number of cases was 89434, including 4963 active cases, 82967 recoveries and 1504 deaths.[2]
• As on 31 December, total number of cases was 89748, including 4719 active cases, 83506 cures and 1509 deaths.[2]

• As on 5 January, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 91144, including 3717 active cases, 85883 cures and 1544 deaths.[2]
• As on 6 January, total number of cases was 91362, including 3515 active cases, 86298 cures and 1549 deaths.[2]
• As on 21 January, total number of cases was 93928, including 1876 active cases, 90547 recoveries and 1626 deaths.[2]

• As on 1 February, total number of cases in Uttarakhand was 94834, including 1081 active cases, 92105 recoveries and 1648 deaths.[2]

On 24 March, the Uttarakhand Police sealed the hotel where IFS officials were staying.[12] The Kanwar Yatra has been cancelled in view of the pandemic.[13] As of 8 June, there are 55 containment centres in the state.[14]

On June 14, the state government stated that it would screen the entire population of Uttarakhand in the next ten days.[15]

As of 8 June, 6,294 contact traces of 1,380 COVID-19 patients has been done in the state.[14] 1,30,000 people are reportedly in quarantine, of which most are in-home quarantine.[14]

24 March: State government takes control of all private hospitals which have more than 100 beds and reserved 25% of these for COVID-19 patients.[12]

The government has also approved Rs 578.34 lakh for an oxygen supply pipeline in the district and sub-district hospitals.[16]

According to the Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand Utpal Kumar Singh, there are 20,000 COVID-19 beds of which 243 are with ICU, and only 126 with ventilators.[14] It has been proposed that 150 ventilators are to be added.[17] However, the Government Doon Medical College, Dehradun has been declared a 'Centre of excellence for clinical management of COVID-19' in the state.[18] On 25 May, the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat had announced Rs 50 lakh for every hospital dealing with COVID-19 in the state.[19]

Primary Health Centres and Community Health Centres are experience a huge shortages of safety gear (PPE equipment) for health professionals.[20] ASHA workers and other health professionals at the frontline too have to spend money from their pocket to buy sanitisers, gloves and masks.[20] There is a dearth of staff and other medical professionals across urban and rural health care centres in the state.[20]

In view of the controversy[21] around people opposing the last rites of individuals deceased because of COVID-19, the Governor of Uttarakhand Baby Rani Maurya has asked the state government to find a solution. The Chief Minister has stated that the cremation of individuals is being carried out under the guidelines of the Union Government, and that officials have been directed to open electric crematoriums in Haldwani and Haridwar, apart from Dehradun.[22]

The state government has decided to audit every death related to the pandemic.[22]

On January 1 2021, the Drug Controller General of India, approved the emergency or conditional use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222 (marketed as Covishield).[24] Covishield is developed by the University of Oxford and its spin-out company, Vaccitech.[25] It's a viral vector vaccine based on replication-deficient Adenovirus that causes cold in Chimpanzees. It can be stored, transported and handled at normal refrigerated conditions (two-eight degrees Celsius/ 36-46 degrees Fahrenheit). It has a shelf-life of at least six months.

On 12 January, 2021 first batches of Covishield vaccine was despatched from the Serum Institute of India.[26]

On January 2, 2021, BBV152 (marketed as Covaxin), first indigenous vaccine, developed by Bharat Biotech in association with the Indian Council of Medical Research and National Institute of Virology received approval from the Drug Controller General of India for its emergency or conditional usage.[27]

On 14 January, 2021 first batches of Covaxin vaccine was despatched from the Bharat Biotech, albeit it was still in the third phase of testing.[28]