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NEW DELHI: Nine states and Union territories have not reported any new Covid-19 patients in the past 24 hours and the rate of duplication of cases has increased to 12.6 days, union health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday. Although the death toll is due, the novel coronavirus increased to 2,415 and cases rose to 74,281.
Vardhan, who also reviewed Punjab’s readiness to administer Covid-19, said Daman and Diu, Sikkim, Nagaland and Lakshadweep have reported no cases so far.
While the doubling time for cases in the past 14 days was 11, it has improved to 12.6 in the past three days, he said.
“Today, there are nine states and Union territories that have not reported any cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, that is, the A&N islands (Andaman and Nicobar), Arunachal Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa, Chhattisgarh , Ladakh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, “Vardhan said, according to a statement.
As the number of deaths from Covid-19 increased to 2,415 and the number of cases increased to 74,281, registering an increase of 122 deaths and 3,525 cases in the last 24 hours until Wednesday at 8 am, he said that the Mortality rate is 3.2% and recovery rate is linked to 32.8 percent.
However, a PTI count of numbers announced by different states and Union territories puts the total number of cases at 75,144.
There has been a delay in figures from the Union health ministry, compared to the number of cases announced by different states, which officials attribute to procedural delays in assigning cases to individual states.
In elaborating on the preparation of health infrastructure in the country, Vardhan said that 900 dedicated Covid-19 hospitals with a capacity of 1.79,882 beds (1,60,610 isolation beds and 19,272 intensive care units (ICU), 2,040 centers Dedicated COVID-19 health centers with 1, 29,689 beds (1,19,340 isolation and 10,349 beds in ICU) and 5,577 Covid-19 care centers with 4.93,101 beds are available as of now.
In addition, 8,708 quarantine centers are available so far, according to the statement.
The Center has also provided 78.42 lakh of N95 masks and 42.18 lakh of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to states, union territories and central institutions, Vardhan said.
The health minister added that as of Tuesday, 2.75 percent of Covid-19’s active patients were in the ICU, 0.37 percent with ventilators and 1.89 percent with oxygen.
Vardhan noted that test capacity in the country has increased to 1,00,000 tests per day and so far a total of 18.56,477 tests have been conducted for Covid-19 with 94,708 samples analyzed on Tuesday.
So far, 352 government and 140 private laboratories have been approved to test Covid-19, authorities said.
According to the statement, Vardhan during the meeting appreciated the steps taken so far by the Punjab administration regarding strict adherence to closure measures, meticulous follow-up of contacts, tracing people in containment areas and handing over to domicile of essential services, articles and medicines.
The number of active Covid-19 cases was 47,480, while 24,385 people recovered and one patient migrated, the Union health ministry said.
“Therefore, about 32.83 percent of patients have recovered so far,” said a senior ministry official.
The total of confirmed cases also includes foreign citizens.
A total of 122 deaths were reported as of Tuesday morning, of which 53 were in Maharashtra, 24 in Gujarat, 13 in Delhi, eight in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, four in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, two in Telangana and Uttar Pradesh and one in Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh and Puducherry.
Of the 2,415 deaths, Maharashtra tops the list with 921 deaths, Gujarat is second with 537 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh in 225, West Bengal in 198, Rajasthan in 117, Delhi in 86, Uttar Pradesh in 82, Tamil Nadu in 61 and Andhra Pradesh at 46.
The death toll reached 32 in Punjab and Telangana each.
Karnataka has reported 31 deaths due to respiratory illness, Haryana has recorded 11, Jammu and Kashmir 10, Bihar six and Kerala has reported four deaths.
Jharkhand, Chandigarh and Odisha have recorded three Covid-19 deaths each, while Himachal Pradesh and Assam have reported two deaths each.
Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and Puducherry have each reported one death, according to ministry data.
More than 70 percent of deaths are due to comorbidities, according to the website of the ministry of health.
The Indian Council of Medical Research in a statement said that so far nine hospitals have been approved to conduct randomized controlled clinical trials under the WHO ‘Solidarity Trial’ to find an effective treatment for the new coronavirus disease
Four treatment protocols – Remdesivir, a combination of Lopinavir and Ritonavir, Hydroxychloroquine, and Lopinavir and Ritonavir with Interferon beta-1a – will be evaluated during clinical trials in selected hospitals, including AIIMS in Jodhpur, Apollo Hospital in Chennai. , BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital based in Ahmedabad, and Chirayu Medical College and Hospital in Bhopal.
Vardhan, who also reviewed Punjab’s readiness to administer Covid-19, said Daman and Diu, Sikkim, Nagaland and Lakshadweep have reported no cases so far.
While the doubling time for cases in the past 14 days was 11, it has improved to 12.6 in the past three days, he said.
“Today, there are nine states and Union territories that have not reported any cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, that is, the A&N islands (Andaman and Nicobar), Arunachal Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa, Chhattisgarh , Ladakh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, “Vardhan said, according to a statement.
As the number of deaths from Covid-19 increased to 2,415 and the number of cases increased to 74,281, registering an increase of 122 deaths and 3,525 cases in the last 24 hours until Wednesday at 8 am, he said that the Mortality rate is 3.2% and recovery rate is linked to 32.8 percent.
However, a PTI count of numbers announced by different states and Union territories puts the total number of cases at 75,144.
There has been a delay in figures from the Union health ministry, compared to the number of cases announced by different states, which officials attribute to procedural delays in assigning cases to individual states.
In elaborating on the preparation of health infrastructure in the country, Vardhan said that 900 dedicated Covid-19 hospitals with a capacity of 1.79,882 beds (1,60,610 isolation beds and 19,272 intensive care units (ICU), 2,040 centers Dedicated COVID-19 health centers with 1, 29,689 beds (1,19,340 isolation and 10,349 beds in ICU) and 5,577 Covid-19 care centers with 4.93,101 beds are available as of now.
In addition, 8,708 quarantine centers are available so far, according to the statement.
The Center has also provided 78.42 lakh of N95 masks and 42.18 lakh of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to states, union territories and central institutions, Vardhan said.
The health minister added that as of Tuesday, 2.75 percent of Covid-19’s active patients were in the ICU, 0.37 percent with ventilators and 1.89 percent with oxygen.
Vardhan noted that test capacity in the country has increased to 1,00,000 tests per day and so far a total of 18.56,477 tests have been conducted for Covid-19 with 94,708 samples analyzed on Tuesday.
So far, 352 government and 140 private laboratories have been approved to test Covid-19, authorities said.
According to the statement, Vardhan during the meeting appreciated the steps taken so far by the Punjab administration regarding strict adherence to closure measures, meticulous follow-up of contacts, tracing people in containment areas and handing over to domicile of essential services, articles and medicines.
The number of active Covid-19 cases was 47,480, while 24,385 people recovered and one patient migrated, the Union health ministry said.
“Therefore, about 32.83 percent of patients have recovered so far,” said a senior ministry official.
The total of confirmed cases also includes foreign citizens.
A total of 122 deaths were reported as of Tuesday morning, of which 53 were in Maharashtra, 24 in Gujarat, 13 in Delhi, eight in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, four in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, two in Telangana and Uttar Pradesh and one in Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh and Puducherry.
Of the 2,415 deaths, Maharashtra tops the list with 921 deaths, Gujarat is second with 537 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh in 225, West Bengal in 198, Rajasthan in 117, Delhi in 86, Uttar Pradesh in 82, Tamil Nadu in 61 and Andhra Pradesh at 46.
The death toll reached 32 in Punjab and Telangana each.
Karnataka has reported 31 deaths due to respiratory illness, Haryana has recorded 11, Jammu and Kashmir 10, Bihar six and Kerala has reported four deaths.
Jharkhand, Chandigarh and Odisha have recorded three Covid-19 deaths each, while Himachal Pradesh and Assam have reported two deaths each.
Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and Puducherry have each reported one death, according to ministry data.
More than 70 percent of deaths are due to comorbidities, according to the website of the ministry of health.
The Indian Council of Medical Research in a statement said that so far nine hospitals have been approved to conduct randomized controlled clinical trials under the WHO ‘Solidarity Trial’ to find an effective treatment for the new coronavirus disease
Four treatment protocols – Remdesivir, a combination of Lopinavir and Ritonavir, Hydroxychloroquine, and Lopinavir and Ritonavir with Interferon beta-1a – will be evaluated during clinical trials in selected hospitals, including AIIMS in Jodhpur, Apollo Hospital in Chennai. , BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital based in Ahmedabad, and Chirayu Medical College and Hospital in Bhopal.
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