India has recorded highest recoveries of Covid patients for the consecutive third day – the last 24 hours registered 34,602 recoveries, bolstering the total number of recovered patients to 8,17,208. The recovery rate now stands at 63.45% , as per the ministry of health and family welfare.
The current number of active coronavirus cases in India stands at 440135 while 30601 have died due to the virus.
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan participated in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Health Minister’s Digital Meet at Nirman Bhawan today. The meet was chaired by Mr. Mikhail Murashko, Minister of Health of the Russian Federation. The ongoing COVID crisis was the key topic of discussion.
Dr. Harsh expressed his condolences at the loss of lives across the world due to COVID 19 and then talked about the steps taken by the government, “A series of actions were initiated in a graded way that included issuing of travel advisories, point-of-entry surveillance, community-based surveillance, enhancement of laboratory and hospital surge capacities, wide dissemination of technical guidelines on managing different aspects of disease outbreak and communicating risk to the public. The consecutive lockdowns provided India with much required time and opportunity to build up on technical knowhow, laboratory capacities, hospital infrastructure and also to build up its pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions.”
He also elaborated on the result of the lockdown: “India has so far reported 1.25 million cases and more than 30,000 deaths due to COVID. At 864 cases per million and less than 21 deaths per million of our population, India has one of the world’s lowest infection and death rate. Our recovery rate stands at 63.45% whereas our mortality at 2.3%.”