Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Highest single day recovery for the third consecutive
day - 34,602 COVID patients discharged in last 24 hours
Cumulative COVID Recoveries cross 8 Lakh
Case Fatality Rate is 2.38% and progressively falling
Cumulative COVID Recoveries cross 8 Lakh
Case Fatality Rate is 2.38% and progressively falling
Posted On: 24 JUL 2020 3:26PM by PIB Delhi
The trend of highest ever single
day recoveries of COVID-19 patients continues unabated. For the third day in a
row, the last 24 hours have recorded another high with 34,602 patients
recovering. This has significantly bolstered the total number of recovered
patients to cross 8 lakh and currently stands at 8,17,208. This has strongly
boosted the recovery rate to reach a new high of 63.45% among COVID-19
patients.
As a result of these constantly
growing number of recoveries, the recovered patients outnumber the active cases
(4,40,135 today) by 3,77,073. This difference is showing a progressively
growing upward trend.
The State/UT efforts are bolstered
by the Central teams of experts sent to high case-load areas and through
strategic discussions held by Central Government through VCs with State and
District officials. With the dedicated efforts of healthcare workers, the
recoveries are improving and case fatality is continuously falling, which
currently stands at 2.38%.
The sustained rise in number of
recoveries is the result of a well formulated and executed strategy of
containment of COVID-19 by the State/UT governments under the guidance of Union
Government. It primarily focuses on early detection through aggressive testing
along with house-to-house surveys, contact tracing and surveillance of SARI/ILI
cases to actively search for cases in the highly vulnerable categories. This is
followed by effective containment plans and efficient clinical management
through the ramped up three-tier health infrastructure and well executed
Standard of Care Protocol. These have successfully aided in effective treatment
in the hospitals and through home isolation which in turn has ensured that the
hospitals remain unburdened for critical patients.
For all authentic & updated
information on COVID-19 related technical issues, guidelines & advisories
please regularly visit: https://www.mohfw.gov.in/ and @MoHFW_INDIA.
Technical queries related to
COVID-19 may be sent to technicalquery.covid19@gov.in and other queries on
ncov2019@gov.in and @CovidIndiaSeva .
In case of any queries on
COVID-19, please call at the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare helpline
no.: +91-11-23978046 or 1075 (Toll-free). List of helpline numbers of
States/UTs on COVID-19 is also available at
https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/coronvavirushelplinenumber.pdf.
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Accelerated increase in lab infrastructure continues to
drive the ‘Test Track and Treat’ strategy
More than 1.5 Cr COVID-19 samples tested so far
More than 1.5 Cr COVID-19 samples tested so far
Posted On: 24 JUL 2020 3:22PM by PIB Delhi
More than 1.5 crore COVID samples (1,54,28,170) have
been tested, till now. In the last 24 hours 3,52,801 samples have been tested
for COVID-19 identification.
This translates to 11179.83
tests per million (TPM) for India, which has seen a steady increase since the
adoption of this strategy.
The rise in TPM has been achieved with a steady rise in
the number of labs (1290 so far), and efforts by the Centre and State/UT
governments to facilitate wide-spread testing through an array of options.
The RT-PCR labs are the backbone
of the latest testing strategy prescribed by ICMR. The number of labs in the
public and private sectors are seeing a progressive enhancement. There are 897
labs in the government sector and 393 private labs. The details are as follows:
• Real-Time
RT PCR based testing labs: 653 (Govt: 399 + Private: 254)
• TrueNat based testing labs: 530
(Govt: 466 + Private: 64)
• CBNAAT based testing labs: 107
(Govt: 32 + Private: 75)
For all authentic & updated
information on COVID-19 related technical issues, guidelines & advisories
please regularly visit: https://www.mohfw.gov.in/ and @MoHFW_INDIA.
Technical queries related to
COVID-19 may be sent to technicalquery.covid19@gov.in and other queries on
ncov2019@gov.in and @CovidIndiaSeva .
In case of any queries on
COVID-19, please call at the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare helpline
no.: +91-11-23978046 or 1075 (Toll-free). List of helpline numbers of
States/UTs on COVID-19 is also available at
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Dr. Harsh Vardhan speaks on India’s novel COVID
containment strategy at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Health
Minister's Digital Meet
India proposes to set up a Sub-Group on Traditional Medicine under the existing Institutional Meetings of the SCO Health Ministers to fulfil the WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023
India proposes to set up a Sub-Group on Traditional Medicine under the existing Institutional Meetings of the SCO Health Ministers to fulfil the WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023
Posted On: 24 JUL 2020 4:33PM by PIB Delhi
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family
Welfare digitally 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.
At the outset, Dr. Harsh Vardhan expressed his
condolences at the loss of lives across the world due to COVID 19. Speaking of India’s
political commitment to contain the pandemic, he spoke how the Prime Minister
has “personally monitored the situation and ensured a pre-emptive, pro-active
and graded response to prevent the deadly virus from spreading.”
He explained 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.”
Speaking on the result of the lockdown he said that
“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%.”
The Union Health Minister spoke on the increase in
testing capacity and health infrastructure during the lockdown and after. He
further spoke on logistics: “India didn’t have a single manufacturer of
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and now the country has developed
indigenous capacity in the past few months to the extent that the country can
export quality PPEs. Similar scaling up was also done for achieving other
indigenous capacity and reducing the demand & supply gap for ventilators
and medical oxygen.”
He also elaborated on the innovative use of information
technology in virtually every aspect of COVID management “Aarogya Setu app and
ITIHAS, a cellular-based tracking technology are used for surveillance and
identification of potential clusters of disease, RT-PCR app for testing,
facility app for managing information on admitted patients and hospital bed
capacities, all integrated with a single COVID portal.”
Dr Harsh Vardhan emphasized how the Indian traditional
system of medicine has also contributed substantially in boosting the immunity
of general population during COVID-19. He pointed out that “there is currently
no institutional mechanism within SCO to discuss cooperation in Traditional
Medicine that has the potential to fulfil the WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy
2014-2023 and also reinforce the effective implementation of the Joint
Statement on cooperation in combating epidemics signed at the Qingdao Summit in
2018.” “This is in spite of such Complementary Medicine Systems being widely
practiced in all Member States of our SCO”, he added. He therefore proposed the
setting up of a new Sub Group on Traditional Medicine under the existing
institutional meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Health
Ministers.
Dr Harsh Vardhan called upon all member nations to rise
in this time of crisis and mitigate the effect of COVID on health and economy.
He ended his speech by congratulating all the frontline staff dealing with the
pandemics and
called them “no less
than God for humanity”.
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