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Updated: May 1, 2020 7:26:26 am
On April 18, when the death toll was 488, a similar analysis by the Ministry of Health revealed that 42.2 percent of deaths occurred in the age group over 75 years. (Representative image)
OF THE 1,075 novel coronavirus deaths (COVID-19) nationwide as of Thursday, nearly half of the patients were under the age of 60. This marks a change from April 18, when less than 25 percent of deaths occurred in this age group.
On the other hand, people over the age of 75 now account for just 9.2 percent of deaths, a sharp drop from the previous 42.2 percent.
Before May 3, when the shutdown is scheduled to end, the Union’s secretary of health, Preeti Sudan, has asked secretaries of state to “expand” the criteria for the red, orange and green zones, and designate areas according to your evaluation. According to the revised criteria, he said, green areas are districts that have not reported a new case in 21 days, compared to the previous 28 days. In her letter, she listed 130 red, 284 orange, and 319 green districts.
“Districts were previously designated as critical zones / red zones, orange zones, and green zones, primarily based on reported cumulative cases and the doubling rate. As recovery rates have increased, districts are now being designated in various areas, duly expanding the criteria. This classification is multifactorial and takes into account case incidence, duplication rate, scope of evidence, and surveillance comments to classify districts. A district under the green zone will be considered if there are no confirmed cases so far or if there has been no case reported from the last 21 days in the district, ”Sudan wrote.
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States and UTs that have 10 or more districts in the red zone include Delhi, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
Meanwhile, according to the latest data released by the Union Ministry of Health, 14 percent of COVID-19 patients who died were under the age of 45, 34.8 percent were between the ages of 45 and 60, the 42 percent were between 60 and 75 years old, 9.2 percent were over 75 years old. This means that 48.8% of the deceased were under the age of 60.
On April 18, when the number of deaths was 488, a similar analysis carried out by the Ministry of Health revealed that 42.2 percent of deaths occurred in the age group over 75 years, 33.1 percent in 60 -75 years, 10.3 percent in 45-60 years, and 14.4 percent under 45 years. So only 24.7 percent of the deceased were under the age of 60.
While the case fatality rate is 3.2 percent, 78 percent of those who died had comorbidities, compared to 83 percent on April 18, and 65 percent were men.
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In the past 24 hours, 1,823 new cases and 67 deaths were reported. While the total case count is now 33,610, approximately 25 percent have recovered (8,372). A total of 8,30,201 samples have been tested so far.
The national doubling time has now increased to 11 days, it was 3.4 days before closing. The doubling time is even longer in various states and territories of the Union (UT). In Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Punjab, the doubling time is 11-20 days. In Karnataka, Ladakh, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Kerala, it is 20-40 days; in Assam, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh it is more than 40 days; in Himachal Pradesh, it is more than 191 days.
At the cremation place in Lucknow.
Following a letter from Sudan to states earlier, the Ministry of Health reiterated in a statement that hospitals must guarantee essential services other than COVID. “On April 20, a guidance note was issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to allow the provision of essential health services during the COVID-19 outbreak. This includes providing essential services for child and reproductive health, immunization, communicable diseases like tuberculosis, leprosy and vector-borne diseases, as well as non-communicable diseases like cancer and dialysis, “he said.
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The ministry said reports that private hospitals “hesitate to provide critical services like dialysis, blood transfusion, chemotherapy and institutional deliveries to their regular patients” are “unacceptable”.
“States / UTs are also advised to follow the guidelines regarding COVID-19 tests issued by ICMR on April 17. The protocol should be widely disseminated to health care providers and the tests for COVID-19 should be according to protocol, “he said.
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At the daily briefing, the joint secretary of the Ministry of Health, Lav Agarwal, said that adequate availability of hydroxychloroquine has been ensured at ground level. He reiterated that rapid tests, which have been stopped after reports of variable precision, have a limited role in surveillance. “ICMR is working with states to finalize how this should be used on the ground. As for diagnosis and treatment, the RT-PCR test is the best option, “he added.
Agarwal said that while the country is part of the WHO’s Multi-Country Solidarity Trial for Potential Treatments for COVID-19, the trial was removed from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in the US. USA It is inconclusive and India will wait for more studies before taking a call on the drug.
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