Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
India’s Case Fatality Rate (CFR) lowest at 2.15% since
1st Lockdown
Total recoveries nearly 11 lakh
More than 36,500 recovered in last 24 hours
Posted On: 01 AUG 2020 2:43PM by PIB Delhi
India continues to maintain the record of registering
and maintaining the lowest COVID-19 mortality rate at the global platform. The
Case Fatality Rate stands at 2.15% today and it is lowest since the 1st Lockdown started. It has been continuously reducing
from around 3.33% in mid-June.
This is a testimony to the focused, coordinated,
pre-emptive, graded and evolving “Test Track Treat” strategy and efforts of the
Centre along with the State/UT governments. Emphasis on early detection through
aggressive testing and effective clinical management of the hospitalized cases
have resulted in the continuously falling Case Fatality Rate indicating that
India has been able to successfully contain the fatality rate of COVID-19.
Along with the CFR been kept a low rate, the successful
implementation of effective containment strategy, aggressive testing and
standardized clinical management protocols based on a comprehensive Standard of
Care approach have resulted in a consistent addition of more than 30,000
recoveries/day.
The total number of recovered cases is nearly 11 lakh.
With 36,569 patients discharged in the last 24 hours, the total recoveries have
jumped to 10,94,374. The recovery rate stands at 64.53% amongst COVID-19
patients.
With such consistent increase in recoveries, the gap
between recovered patients and active COVID-19 cases currently stands at
5,29,271. Active cases (5,65,103) are under medical supervision.
The 3-tier hospital infrastrucutre with seamless patient
management has ensured prompt triaging and treatment. As on today, there are 1488 dedicated COVID Hospitals with 2,49,358 isolation
beds, 31,639 ICU beds and 1,09,119 oxygen supported beds, 16,678 ventilators.
3231 dedicated COVID Health Centres with 2,07,239 Isolation beds, 18,613 ICU
beds and 74,130 oxygen supported beds and 6,668 ventilators have also been
operationalised. Moreover, 10,755 COVID Care Centres with 10,02,681 beds are
now available to combat COVID-19 in the country. The Centre has also provided
273.85 lakh N95 masks and 121.5 lakh Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs) and
1083.77 lakh HCQ tablets to the States/ UTs / Central Institutions.
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
Riding on the heels of falling
Case Fatality Rate, the Union Government decides to permit exports of
ventilators
Posted On: 01 AUG 2020 4:53PM by PIB Delhi
The Group of Ministers (GOM) on
COVID-19 has considered and agreed to the proposal of the Ministry of Health
& Family Welfare allowing the export of made-in-India ventilators. This
decision has been communicated to the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT)
for further needed action to facilitate the export of indigenously manufactured
ventilators.
This significant decision comes
on the heels of India continuing to maintain a progressively declining low rate
of case fatality of COVID-19 patients, which currently stands at 2.15%, which
means that fewer numbers of active cases are on ventilators. As on 31st July 2020, only 0.22% of the active cases were on
ventilators across the country. Additionally, there has been substantial growth
in the domestic manufacturing capacity of ventilators. Compared to January
2020, there are presently more than 20 domestic manufacturers for ventilators.
The export
prohibition/restriction on ventilators was imposed in March 2020 to ensure
domestic availability to effectively fight COVID-19. All types of ventilators
were prohibited for export vide DGFT Notification No. 53 w.e.f 24.03.2020. Now
with export of ventilators having been allowed, it is hoped that domestic
ventilators would be in a position to find new markets for Indian ventilators
in foreign countries.
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