New Delhi: The general COVID-19 situation is stabilising and the federal government will work in the direction of guaranteeing additional enchancment, the Union Health Ministry stated on Saturday.
The Joint Secretary at Health Ministry Lav Agarwal at a media briefing stated {that a} decline within the lively instances has been noticed because the final 12 days. On May 3, the lively instances had been 17.13 per cent, which has declined to fifteen.1 per cent and recovered instances stand at 83.8 per cent.
He stated the general positivity rate is lower than 20 per cent because the final 5 days and there’s a development of plateauing and lowering of instances.
The second COVID-19 wave has been lethal and wreaked havoc in a number of elements of the nation, whereas reporting over 4 lakh day by day coronavirus instances and greater than 4,000 fatalities on some days.
NITI Aayog member V Ok Paul echoed the claims saying the situation is stabilising and the federal government will work in the direction of guaranteeing additional stabilisation and fast decline of the pandemic
“It is evident that we can see a certain amount of stabilisation of the second wave of the pandemic. Some states have shown a clear pattern, in some states there are concerns and in some others there is a trend towards an increase. It is a mixed picture,” Paul stated.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry in its information stated 10 states account for 85 per cent of the whole coronavirus instances within the nation. Atleast 11 states have over one lakh lively COVID-19 instances, 17 have lower than 50,000 instances whereas eight have lively instances between 50,000 and one lakh.
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Bihar, Gujarat, Telangana, Goa and Chhattisgarh, that are recording a excessive variety of novel coronavirus instances, are additionally reporting decline within the variety of lively instances, Agarwal identified.
On Saturday, India recorded 3,26,098 COVID-19 instances that took the tally to 2,43,72,907, whereas 3,890 new fatalities pushed the loss of life toll to 2,66,207.
