India continues to witness a decline in the number of daily cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). On Tuesday, the country registered 55,342 new infections, the lowest in almost two months, according to figures released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Hours earlier, the ministry said that the daily average of Covid-19 cases in India has been declining for the past five weeks. “India shows a decreasing trend of average daily cases in the last 5 weeks,” the ministry tweeted and shared a graph showing the average daily figures for the week that began on September 9.
The country’s total number of cases has risen to 7,175,880 and the peak number of active cases comes from Maharashtra (2,21,637), followed by Karnataka (1,20,289), Andhra Pradesh (46,295) and Tamil Nadu (44,095). Active cases in the country which stood at 8,38,729 on Tuesday have remained below 9,00,000 since Oct. 9 and have consistently maintained the downward trend, the ministry said.
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Even as the number of victims of the disease has risen to 1,09,856, recoveries continue to raise hopes, as 6,227,295 people have recovered in home isolation or have been discharged from hospitals. The recovery rate is currently 86.36%.
As pharmaceutical companies around the world rush to introduce a vaccine against the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said the vaccine could be ready for registration by late 2020 or early next year at the earliest. .
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“As you know, we now have about 40 candidate vaccines at some stage of clinical trials, and 10 of them are in phase three, which are late-stage clinical trials, which will inform us about efficacy and safety. . So the best we could guess or predict, looking at when a test started and when you likely have enough data to send to regulators, is [at] from December 2020 to early 2021, ”said WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan, as quoted by the ANI news agency.
Meanwhile, the global infection count has surpassed 37 million and India ranks second after the United States, which has 7,804,047 confirmed cases.
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