Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
India’s COVID-19 Recovery Rate climbs to 67.62%, as
total recoveries cross 13.2 lakh
Case Fatality Rate (CFR) continues to slide, improves to 2.07%
Posted On: 06 AUG 2020 2:37PM by PIB Delhi
The total recoveries of COVID-19 patients have jumped to
13,28,336 with 46,121 COVID-19 patients being discharged in the last 24 hours.
With such consistent increase in recoveries, the gap between recovered patients
and active COVID-19 cases has reached 7,32,835.
The recovery rate has continued its upward journey to
reach another record high of 67.62% amongst COVID-19 patients.
The actual case load of the country is the active cases
(5,95,501) which is 30.31% of the total positive cases. They are under medical
supervision either in hospitals or in home isolation.
The active cases as a percentage of total cases have
seen a significant drop from 34.17% on 24th July 2020 to 30.31% as on today.
Under the ‘Whole of Government’ approach, the public and
private sector resources are combined towards the COVID-19 response and
management under the Centre-led strategy. Focused implementation of “Test Track
Treat” strategy by the Union and State/UT governments, ramped up hospital
infrastructure and testing facilities, and emphasis on treatment of the
hospitalized patients through the Standard of Care protocol advised by the
Centre have effectively ensured that mortality of COVID-19 patients is contained.
As a result, the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) has been low when compared to the
global scenario and it has been progressively falling. The Case Fatality Rate
stands at 2.07% today.
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
Union Govt. releases Rs. 890.32 cr as II installment of
COVID-19 Financial Package to States/UTs
Posted On: 06 AUG 2020 1:00PM by PIB Delhi
Government of India has released Rs. 890.32 cr as the
second installment of the COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System
Preparedness Package to 22 States/UTs. These include Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,
Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat,
Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Dadra & Nagar Haveli
and Daman & Diu, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram,
Nagaland and Sikkim. The amount of the financial assistance is based on the
COVID-19 case load in these States/UTs.
As part of the ‘Whole of Government’ approach where the
Centre is leading the COVID-19 response and management, and supporting the
States/UTs through technical and financial resources, the COVID-19 Emergency
Response and Health System Preparedness Package was announced by the Prime
Minister. In his address to the nation on 24th March 2020, he said that "The Central
Government has provisioned 15 thousand crore rupees for treating Coronavirus
patients and strengthening the medical infrastructure of the country. This will
allow for rapidly ramping up the number of Corona testing facilities, Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE), isolation Beds, ICU beds, ventilators and other
essential equipment. Simultaneously, training of medical and paramedical
manpower will also be undertaken. I have requested the State Governments to
ensure that only healthcare is treated as their first and topmost priority now."
The financial aid as part of the second installment will
be used for strengthening of public health facilities infrastructure for
testing including procurement and installation of RT-PCR machines, RNA
extraction kits, TRUNAT & CBNAAT machines and BSL-II cabinets etc.;
strengthening of public health facilities infrastructure for treatment and
development of ICU beds; installation of oxygen generators, cryogenic oxygen
tanks and medical gas pipelines in public health facilities and procurement of
bed side oxygen concentrators etc.; and engagement, training and capacity
building of necessary Human Resources and incentives to healthcare workforce
and volunteers, including ASHAs, on COVID duties. Wherever necessary,
volunteers registered on the COVID Warriors portal may also be engaged for
COVID duties.
The first installment of Rs. 3000 cr was released in
April 2020 to all States/UTs to aid and enable them to ramp up testing
facilities, augment hospital infrastructure, conduct surveillance activities
along with procurement of essential equipment, drugs and other supplies.
As part of this package, States/UTs have been
strengthened with 5,80,342 isolation beds, 1,36,068 oxygen supported beds and
31,255 ICU beds. Also, 86,88,357 testing kits and 79,88,366 Vial Transport
Media (VTM) have been procured by them. As many as 96,557 human resource has
been added in the States/UTs and incentive has been given to 6,65,799 HR. The
package has aided provision of mobility support to 11,821 staff.
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Dr Harsh Vardhan interacts with
WHO Regional Director and Health Ministers of South East Asia Region
“India accordingly prioritized availability of essential health services while
simultaneously managing COVID-19 pandemic”
Posted On: 06 AUG 2020 3:37PM by PIB Delhi
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister
for Health and Family Welfare joined a virtual meeting of the Regional Director
of WHO for South East Asia (SEA) Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh with Ministers for
Health of the member states of the region. The meet was focused on maintaining
essential health services and public health programmes in the context of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
At the outset, Mr. Roderico
Ofrin (WHO) informed the ministers of the logistic support provided by WHO
during COVID-19 and Shri Sunil Bahl (WHO) apprised them of WHO’s programme for
vaccine development and policy of allocation.
Dr Harsh Vardhan spoke about
India’s tryst with COVID-19. He highlighted how “India had been preparing for
the pandemic as soon as China informed WHO on 7th January”. Earlier viral outbreaks like the Avian
Influenza, H1N1pdm09 Influenza, Zika and Nipah had provided institutional
memory in “designing containment and management strategies using ‘whole of
government’ approach”, he added. “India’s proactive and graded multi-level
institutional response to COVID made it possible to have very low cases per
million and deaths per million in spite of having a high population density and
low fractional GDP spending and per capita doctor and hospital bed availability
as compared to other developed countries”, he pointed out.
On the efficacy of the Lockdown,
Dr. Harsh Vardhan expanded how it was “effective in slowing down the rate of
growth of cases and gave the government time to augment the health
infrastructure and testing facilities.” He added that “From one lab in January,
India has 1370 labs today. Indians anywhere can access a lab within 3 hours
travel time.33 of the 36 States and UTs exceed WHO’s recommendation of testing
140 people per million per day.” He also stated that the Containment Strategy
has been successful in that 50% of the cases are from three States and 32% of
the rest are from seven States. The spread of the virus thus has been contained.
He also stated that DRDO built
make-shift hospitals capable of housing 1000 patients, with an additional 100
ICU beds were built in a record ten days. In addition, the other activities
included training of the trainers at national level; States, District &
facilities-level training; web-based training on ventilator management by
AIIMS, New Delhi; mock drill for Corona preparedness in all hospitals across
country; telemedicine facilities at AIIMS Delhi helped identify the root causes
of mortality and made high-impact interventions possible that significantly
curbed the mortality rate from 3.33% (18th June) to 2.11% (3rd August).
Dr. Harsh Vardhan spoke of the
telemedicine practice guidelines published on March 25, 2020 highlighting how
India leveraged technology to provide essential medical services during
COVID-19; first of its kind web-based National Teleconsultation Service online
OPD service (Patient to Doctor ) in the world which has completed 71,865
consultations so far completed; tele-medicine services (Practitioner to
Practitioner consultation) in 150,000 Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs); the
online training platform iGOT for medical practitioners and skill enhancement
of all levels of frontline workers etc; mobile apps such as Aarogya-Setu and
ITIHAS which have aided in checking the spread of infection without obstructing
medical care.
The Union Health Minister stated
that as a strategy, India divided its facilities into COVID and Non-COVID
facilities. This helped in better management of the severe from the moderate
and mild categories of patients, and ensured that the hospital facilities were
un-burdened to ensuring effective treatment of the hospitalised cases. This has
helped to keep India Case Fatality rate below the global average. Today it has
touched 2.07%, he stated.
Dr Harsh Vardhan also mentioned
about the other measures taken by India. He stated that the best practices from
the States/UTs were uploaded for cross-learning on the National Health Innovation
Portal (NHInP). Mentioning some best practices, he stated that the States like
Chhattisgarh continued with immunization services even within the containment
& buffer zones and delivered essential medicines of Hypertensive and
Diabetes patients to homes. Telangana tagged every pregnant woman with an
ambulance to ensure safe and institutional delivery. Thalassemic and Dialysis
patients were also transported using ambulances for availing timely services.
Odisha & West Bengal separated infrastructure and HR for COVID and
non-COVID essential health services, thereby ensuring their optimum
utilisation. Andhra Pradesh and Uttarakhand filled all the vacancies of all
critical HR in public healthcare system during the pandemic. States such as
Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala provided non-essential health services
through tele-consultation using eSanjeevaniOPD facility.
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