India’s COVID-19 cases cross 2 million
Health Ministry says recoveries have crossed 13.2 lakh and the case fatality rate is now 2.07%
The number of confirmed COVID19 cases in India crossed two million on Thursday, show data collated from various State health departments. As of 10.30 p.m. on Thursday, the figure stood at 2,025,197 with the addition of 61,996 infections, a daily high. The death tally has now increased to 41,649, with the addition of 907 deaths. Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh had not released data. The Health Ministry said India’s COVID19 recovery rate climbed to 67.62% as total recoveries crossed 13.2 lakh and the case fatality rate continue to slide to 2.07% on Thursday. The country tested a record 6,64,949 samples in 24 hours, the Ministry said. More than 6 lakh tests were done for the third successive day, it said. India registered 46,121 recoveries in the last 24 hours, with the total recoveries jumping to 13,28,336. Membercountries in the SouthEast Asia region, including India, have been asked by the World Health Organization (WHO) to maintain essential health services and accelerate resumption of disrupted services hit by the pandemic as an integral part of the COVID19 response. ‘Immense strain’ Issuing this direction on Thursday, the WHO said the pandemic had put immense strain on health systems across the SouthEast Asia region. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO SouthEast Asia region, in a virtual meeting with Health Ministers, said: “The pandemic has put immense strain on health systems across the SouthEast Asia region. The previous disease outbreaks have shown that disruption to essential services caused by an outbreak can be more deadly than the outbreak itself. We must fasttrack efforts and do all we can to avoid that happening, while continuing efforts to break COVID19 transmission chains”. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, participating in the meeting, said India had been able to achieve a growing recovery rate with the actual case load of the country now at 5,95,501 active cases. “The active cases as a percentage of total cases have seen a significant drop from 34.17% on July 24, 2020 to 30.31% currently,” he said. The Minister noted that States like Chhattisgarh continued with immunisation services even within the containment and buffer zones and delivered medicines for hypertension and diabetes.
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