As India Crosses 56,000-Mark, No New COVID Case Reported From 13 States, UT's In Last 24 Hours
In what could be a good sign for the country, 13 states and Union Territories, including Kerala, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir, have not reported any new case of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
In what could be a good sign for the country, 13 states and Union Territories, including Kerala, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir, have not reported any new case of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said that 3,561 new coronavirus cases have been reported and 1,084 patients have recovered in 24 hours since Wednesday morning, he asserted that ¡°in comparison with other countries, India is in a better state as the fatality rate is 3.3 percent and recovery rate is 28.83 percent.¡±
Of the total 35,902 active cases, 4.8 percent patients are in ICU, 1.1 percent on ventilators and 3.3 percent are on oxygen support. The health minister reviewed the preparedness and containment measures for the management of Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal, and said 180 districts across the country have not reported any new instance of the respiratory infection in less than seven days.
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In the last seven to 13 days, another 180 districts had no fresh cases. News agency PTI quoted Vardhan as saying that as many as 164 districts have not registered any new case in 14-20 days, while 136 districts have not reported any case of coronavirus infection in the last 21 to 28 days.
The 13 states and Union Territories which have not reported any new case in the last 24 hours are Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Mizoram, Manipur, Goa, Meghalaya, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Daman and Diu, Sikkim, Nagaland and the Lakshadweep Islands have not reported a single case till date, he said.
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"Covid-19 testing capacity has increased. As many as 95,000 tests are being conducted daily in 327 government and 118 private laboratories. Cumulatively, 13,57,442 tests have been done so far," the minister said.
Vardhan said that the country currently has 821 dedicated COVID-19 hospitals with 1,50,059 beds (1,32,219 isolation and 17,840 ICU beds) and 1,898 dedicated health centres with 1,19,109 beds (1,09,286 isolation and 9,823 ICU beds) along with 7,569 quarantine centres.
