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  • India reports 18,987 fresh cases of COVID-19, active caseload lowest in 215 days

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: India logged 18,987 fresh coronavirus cases, taking the infection tally to 3,40,20,730 on Thursday, while the national COVID recovery rate increased to 98.07 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data.

    The death toll climbed to 4,51,435 with 246 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed. The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 30,000 for 20 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 109 consecutive days now.

    The active cases have declined to 2,06,586, the lowest in 215 days, comprising 0.61 per cent of the total infections while the national COVID recovery rate was recorded at 98.07 per cent, the ministry said. A decrease of 1067 cases has been recorded in the active Covid caseload in a span of 24 hours.

    A total of 13,01,083 tests were conducted on Wednesday, taking the number of cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 58,76,64,525. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,33,62,709, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.33 per cent.

    The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.46 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.44 per cent, according to the Health Ministry. Over 96.82 crore COVID vaccine doses have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive.

    India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20 lakh-mark on August 7, 2020, 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.

    India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23. The 246 new fatalities include 123 from Kerala and 49 from Maharashtra.

    A total of 4,51,435 deaths have been reported so far in the country, including 1,39,670 from Maharashtra, 37,916 from Karnataka, 35,833 from Tamil Nadu, 26,571 from Kerala, 25,089 from Delhi, 22,897 from Uttar Pradesh and 18,935 from West Bengal.

    The ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities. “Our figures are being reconciled with the Indian Council of Medical Research,” the ministry said on its website, adding that state-wise distribution of figures is subject to further verification and reconciliation.

  • Union Health Minister chairs 28th GoM, says India’s COVID-19 recovery rate improving

    By ANI
    NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) Dr Harsh Vardhan chaired the 28th meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Monday and said that India has 14,01,609 active Covid cases. He added that the country’s recovery rate is climbing and stood at 93.94 per cent now.

    “The country reported its first Covid case on January 30, 2020. Till now we have reported 2,89,09,975 cases in the country out which 2,71,059,180 people have recovered. Today we have 14,01,609 active cases in the country. A couple of weeks back we had over 37 lakhs active cases in the country. Our recovery rate is climbing up which is right now 93.94 per cent,” Vardhan said.

    “In the last 24 hours, we have the least number of cases in the last 61 days which is 1,00,636 cases, 1,74,399 recoveries were reported. Our fatality rate is 1.20 per cent,” the minister said.

    He said that a total of 23,27,86,482 vaccine doses have been administered to various categories of people in the country.

    “Between 18- 44 years of age, we have given the 1st dose to 2,86,18,514 peopleand second dose to 1,68,00,302 people. As of today morning, 1,43,01,409 doses are still available with the states. 36.64 crore tests have been done in the country. Yesterday we did over 15 lakh tests despite it being a Sunday,” he further said.

    “The daily positivity rate is declining and is at 6.34 per cent, which is less than 10 per cent for the 25 th consecutive day. There are 15 states where the positivity rate is greater than 10 per cent. 83 per cent of active cases are in 10 states. Seven states Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Gujarat have less than 1000 cases,” added.

    “We know RNA viruses have the potential for frequent mutations and can affect disease transmission and severity. We had established 10 national labs and we have done 30,000 sequencings. Recently we added 18 more labs taking to a total of 28 labs for genome sequencing,” the Minister said.

    Union Ministers Hardeep S Puri, S Jaishankar, Ashwani Kumar Choubey and several others attended the meet.

    Union Health Minister also informed about the key presentations that are to be held in the meeting

    “Dr V K Paul will do a presentation on latest vaccination status, future plans and about what is being done about vaccination of children and up-gradation of infrastructure around paediatric wards. The way forward of handling Covid appropriate behaviour in the society will be addresed in the presentation,” he said.

    “We will have another presentation by Girdhar, Aramane, MoRTH secretary. He is going to brief us about the availability of oxygen and about the ongoing project for putting up various PSA plants in the country. Amit Khare, secretary of Information and Broadcasting will also do a presentation,” he added. 

  • Country’s recovery from COVID-19 first sign that Atmanirbhar Bharat is working: S Jaishankar

    By ANI
    VIJAYAWADA: The country’s recovery from coronavirus due to the early steps taken by it was the first sign that Atmanirbhar Bharat was working, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar here on Saturday.

    “When coronavirus hit us, this country — like many other countries of the world– was completely unprepared. We had hospitals, clinics, but nobody had thought of treatment for Coronavirus, nobody had dedicated centres for it. Very few people made masks, nobody had PPE kits,” Jaishankar said at a conference here.

    He said that after a few months since then, today, India is one of the world’s biggest producers of PPE and the biggest producers of masks. “We have 25 companies that are making ventilators. We’re making for ourselves. We’re making for the world. We set up 16,000 centres to deal with the Coronavirus (pandemic),” the External Affairs Minister said.

    He said that Jaishankar hailed the Centre’s decision to impose an “early lockdown.” It was a health response for something which was unprecedented. “The result is, we have one of the lowest case-fatality rates in the world, we have one of the highest recovery rates in the world,” he said adding that India’s recovery from the pandemic was the “first sign” of Atmanirbhar Bharat working.

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    “I cite to you the (country’s) Coronavirus recovery, as the first sign of Atmanirbhar Bharat working. I believe that if we can do what we’ve done against a terrible disease if we put our minds on how to build this country, how to take it to a higher level, we’re capable of doing it. Today we have the leadership. Today we have the vision. We have that plan in the Budget and I think we have the self-belief and self-confidence that we are capable of it,” Jaishankar said.

    India on Saturday registered a record by crossing the landmark 20-crore total cumulative COVID-19 tests. Out of 20 crore total tests the country has conducted 7,40,794 tests in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.

    The country’s total active caseload continued to follow a consistent downward slope. It has dropped to less than 1.5 lakh (1,48,590) today and is the lowest in eight months. The present active caseload now consists of just 1.37 per cent of India’s total positive cases. The country has seen less than 100 fatalities (95) in the past 24 hours.

    The total number of vaccinated beneficiaries surpassed 54 lakh (54,16,849) under the countrywide COVID-19 vaccination exercise, as per today’s record till 8 am. The number of beneficiaries being vaccinated every day has shown a consistent and progressive increase.