New Delhi: Amid the H3N2 scare, India on Sunday (March 19, 2023) recorded a single-day rise of greater than 1,000 contemporary Covid-19 cases after 129 days. According to the Union well being ministry information up to date at 8 am, a complete of 1,071 contemporary coronavirus cases have been reported within the county in a span of 24 hours, whereas the dying toll elevated to five,30,802 with three newest fatalities — one every reported in Rajasthan and Maharashtra and one reconciled in Kerala.Â
The variety of lively Covid-19 cases in India additionally jumped to five,915.
The lively cases now comprise 0.01 per cent of the whole cases, whereas the nationwide COVID-19 restoration price has been recorded at 98.8 per cent.
According to the well being ministry information, the an infection tally now stands at 4,46,95,420.
The quantity of people that have recuperated from the illness surged to 4,41,58,703, whereas the case fatality price was recorded at 1.19 per cent, the information mentioned.
According to the ministry’s web site, 220.65 crore doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered within the nation up to now below the nationwide coronavirus vaccination drive.
Covid-19 might be over as a public well being emergency of worldwide concern this 12 months: WHO
Earlier this week, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned that the Covid-19 pandemic, which has up to now claimed greater than seven million deaths globally, could seemingly find yourself being as public well being emergency of worldwide concern this 12 months and pose a seasonal flu menace.
“I`m confident that this year we will be able to say that Covid-19 is over as a public health emergency of international concern,” Ghebreyesus informed a media briefing.
“And I think we`re coming to that point where we can look at Covid-19 in the same way we look at seasonal influenza,” he added.
The WHO chief mentioned that Covid will proceed to pose a menace to human well being.Â
It will flip right into a “virus that will continue to kill, but a virus that is not disrupting our society or disrupting our hospital system”, he mentioned.
He added that the virus could develop into extra transmissible however not trigger extreme illness.
“We declared a global health emergency to spur countries to take decisive action, but not all countries did,” he mentioned on Friday.
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“Three years later, there are almost seven million reported deaths from Covid-19, although we know that the actual number of deaths is much higher.”
He famous that for the primary time, the weekly variety of reported deaths over the previous 4 weeks has been decrease than the time the virus was declared a pandemic.
Yet greater than 5,000 deaths have been reported per week.Â
It is “too many for a disease that can be prevented and treated”, the WHO chief mentioned.
