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After a lapse of nine days, the Union Health Ministry held its daily press conference on the COVID-19 20 May, along with officials of the Meteorological Department of India and of the Response Force of National Disaster, who were to inform on the progress of Cyclone Amphan.
On the 20th of May, when India registered a new daily high of the cases, 5,614, and 140 deaths, Lav Agrawal, deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, said that in India the recovery rate — the number of confirmed patients who had been cured or discharged as a proportion of the total number of cases — happened to be 40%. On May 4, when the Lock of safety of 3.0 started, India, the recovery rate was 26.59% and 15 April, when the Lock of safety of 2.0 started, was 11.42%.
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For a pandemic to be under control, those who recover each day should be more than those who are newly diagnosed daily.
However, India is one of the 11 countries that have more than a 1,00,000 cases, but it has less deaths — 3,316 — and only behind Russia 2,972. Only 2.94% of the Indians confirmed positive are in help of oxygen of 3% in Intensive Care Units and 0.45% in support of ventilation, Mr. Agrawal said.
However, this assessment contrasts with the high variability of the cases, and the mortality rates within India. Only four States of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Delhi — account for 70% of India’s burden of cases and 64% of the fatalities. The recovery rate of Maharashtra is only 26%, and in Gujarat, with 719 deaths, has a rate of mortality (deaths / confirmed cases) of 6%, which is almost double that of India in general, the case-fatality rate of 3.1%.
On May 20, the Indian Council of Medical Research (icmr) resumed its practice of disclosing the number of samples analyzed per day. This amounted to 1,08,121, and above all, their laboratories have tested 25,12,388 samples since the pandemic began.
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In absolute numbers, India could have carried out a large number of tests, but as a proportion of its population that is among the world’s stingiest testers.
For example, Russia, which has more than 3,00,000 cases and fewer deaths than the India has proven to 52,000 per million, the united States 38,000 per million and Spain with 64,000 per million. India has already carried out a 1,800 tests per million, despite having a population superior to that of these countries.
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Mr. Agrawal sought to highlight India’s relatively low lethality and low load cases, in comparison with other countries, with over a 1,00,000 cases. In this league of 11 countries, India has tested more than Iran, Brazil and Turkey.
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