Slowdown in rate of decline of average daily Covid cases ‘trigger of concern’: Govt
The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday stated that there was a slowdown in the rate of decline of average daily Covid cases, which is a “cause of concern”.
Addressing a presser Tuesday night, the ministry famous that there are 54 districts in 12 states and Union Territories, which reported over 10 per cent Covid positivity rate for the week ending July 26.
“The average daily new cases declined from 3,87,029 cases between May 5-11 to 38,090 cases between July 21- 27. In the past few weeks, there has been a slowdown/reduction in the rate of decline, which remains an area of concern,” joint secretary in the well being ministry, Lav Agarwal, stated.
The ministry additional stated that twenty-two districts in seven states have reported an rising development in daily Covid cases for the final 4 weeks and that is additionally a “cause of concern”.
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There are additionally eight districts, which have been witnessing a decline in positivity rate, however at the moment are seeing an increase in Covid cases, it stated, including that “we cannot take the situation for granted”.
The authorities talked about a examine by the Armed Forces Medical College that checked out 15 lakh docs and frontline staff and located that Covishield offers 93 per cent safety whereas there was 98 per cent mortality discount.
According to the information launched by the well being ministry on Tuesday, India recorded lower than 30,000 recent COVID-19 cases after 132 days whereas its energetic caseload fell under 4,00,000 after 124 days.
The information up to date at 8 am additionally confirmed that as many as 29,689 new coronavirus infections took the nation’s tally of COVID-19 cases to three,14,40,951 whereas 415 recent fatalities pushed the demise toll to 4,21,382.
The quantity of energetic cases dropped to three,98,100 and contains 1.27 per cent of the full infections. The nationwide COVID-19 restoration rate improved to 97.39 per cent, it acknowledged.
The quantity of energetic cases fell by 13,089 in a span of 24 hours, it stated.
The daily positivity rate declined to 1. 73 per cent. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.33 per cent, the ministry information acknowledged.
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