India’s count of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) stood at 7.4 million on Saturday after 62,212 new infections were reported across the country in the past 24 hours, data from the Ministry of Health showed. Union. Deaths from Covid-19 infections rose by 837 to 112,998, the Health Ministry said.
There were 70,816 coronavirus disease patients who were cured between Friday and Saturday, bringing the number of recoveries in the second most affected country to 6,524,595, according to the Health Ministry dashboard at 8 a.m. The national recovery rate is now 87.78%
The health ministry has said that India continues to report one of the lowest deaths per million people, which was 81 on Friday. It is sad that there are fewer than 1,100 deaths since October 2. “These results are driven by 22 states / UT that have shown better performance and are reporting even lower deaths per million compared to the national average. The fatality rate has fallen continuously. At the current figure of 1.52%, it is the lowest since March 22, 2020, ”he said in a statement on Friday.
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He also said that there has been a strong focus of the Center not only on containing the spread of the coronavirus disease, “but on reducing deaths and saving lives by providing quality clinical care to critical and severe COVID patients.”
“Collaborative efforts by the Union and state / UT governments have resulted in the strengthening of health facilities throughout the country. 2212 Dedicated COVID hospitals provide quality healthcare. The Central Government has also issued the standard of care guidelines incorporated into the Clinical Treatment Protocol that has guaranteed the standardized quality of medical care for all COVID patients in government and private settings, ”he added.
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There are 795,087 active cases in the last 25 hours, the Health Ministry dashboard also showed, as the gap between recovered and active cases has exceeded 5,729,508. The recovered cases are eight times more than the active case now, which according to the ministry are “continuously sliding”.
On Friday, 78% of recovered cases were concentrated in 10 states and Union territories, with Maharashtra alone contributing the most with more than 13,000 recoveries in a single day. And 79% of the new cases were from 10 states and Union territories on Friday. Maharashtra continued to be the state that reported a very high number of new cases with more than 10,000 cases, followed by Karnataka with more than 8,000 cases.
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Of the 895 deaths on Friday, almost 82% are concentrated in 10 states and territories of the Union of Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Odisha and Delhi, said the Ministry of Health. More than 37% of the new deaths reported are from Maharashtra with 337 deaths, it added.
Thirteen states and Union territories are reporting deaths per million residents more than the national average.
India is the second most affected country in the world after the United States, which has 8,048,724 cases of the coronavirus disease. Globally, 39,266,777 people have contracted the viral disease and 1,103,509 have died, according to the Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 tracker.
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