Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Recovery Rate climbs a new high of nearly 68%
Case Fatality Rate (CFR) continues falling, stands at 2.05% today
Posted On: 07 AUG 2020 12:20PM by PIB Delhi
India continues on the path of COVID-19 management
boosted by two significant achievements, continuously rising recovery rate
among the COVID-19 patients and Case Fatality Rate that has remained much below
the global average. While the former is at a record high of 68%, the latter has
touched a new low of 2.05%, thus ensuring low mortality among COVID-19
patients. These two in tandem have enabled a higher and rising difference (more
than 7.7 lakhs) between the number of recovered patients and active cases in
India.
The total recoveries have jumped to 13,78,105 with
recovery of 49,769 patients in the last 24 hours.
Ramped up hospital infrastructure and emphasis on
efficient treatment of hospitalized patients through the Standard of Care
incorporated in the Clinical Treatment Protocol issued by the Centre, have
effectively ensured improvement in the recovery rate. The average daily
recovered cases (7 day moving average) have increased from around 26000 cases
to 44000 cases in the last 2 weeks.
Sustained efforts by the Centre and State/UT governments
through focused & coordinated containment, widespread testing combined with
supervised isolation and effective treatment have together ensured the decline
in the percentage of active cases and rise of the percentage recovered cases.
There has been significant and sustained increase in the
number of daily new recovered cases too.
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
For the 4th successive day, India tests more than 6 lakh
samples in 24 hours
More than 2.27 crore total samples tested
Tests Per Million (TPM) continue to rise, stands at 16513 today
Posted On: 07 AUG 2020 7:05PM by PIB Delhi
In a testament to the consistent
and coordinated efforts of the Centre and the State/UT governments, India
continues its track record of testing more than 6 lakh COVID-19 samples each
day for the fourth successive day. Expanded diagnostic lab network and
facilitation for easy testing across the country have given a boost, and with
6,39,042 tests conducted in last 24 hours, India has done 2,27,88,393 tests
presently. The Tests Per Million (TPM) has seen a sharp increase to 16513.
The 7 day moving average in
daily tests conducted has significantly improved from around 2.69 lakh on 14th July 2020 to around 5.66 lakh on 6th August 2020.
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While the cumulative testing
rose from 1.2 crore on 14th July 2020 to 2.2 crore on 6th August 2020, the
positivity rate has seen a rise from 7.5% to 8.87% in the same period. Although
higher number of tests will push the positivity rate initially, but as the
Delhi experience has amply shown, it will eventually lower when combined with
other measures such as prompt isolation, tracking and timely clinical
management.
The graded and evolving response
has resulted in a testing strategy that steadily widened the testing net in the
country. To keep up with this strategy, the testing lab network in the country
is continuously strengthened which as on today consists of 1383 labs in the
country; 931 labs in the government sector and 452 private labs. These include:
• Real-Time RT PCR based testing labs: 701
(Govt: 423 + Private: 278)
• TrueNat based testing labs: 573
(Govt: 476 + Private: 97)
• CBNAAT based testing labs: 109 (Govt:
32 + Private: 77)
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
Health Ministry engages with Districts reporting Higher
COVID-19 Mortality
Advises them to adhere to measures suggested by Central Advisories &
Guidelines to prevent and reduce mortality
Posted On: 07 AUG 2020 8:52PM by PIB Delhi
Those districts that are reporting COVID-19 mortality
higher than the national and states’ average are a cause of concern. As part of
Centre-State coordinated strategy for effective containment and management of
the COVID-19 pandemic, a high level virtual meeting was chaired by Shri Rajesh
Bhushan, Health Secretary to engage with the district and State administration
to analyse the factors driving the high COVID-19 mortality in these districts
and devise ways and means to reduce the mortality.
These include 16 districts in four States viz. Ahmedabad
and Surat in Gujarat; Belagavi, Bengaluru urban, Kalaburagi and Udupi in
Karnataka; Chennai, Kanchipuram, Ranipet, Theni, Thiruvallur, Tiruchirappalli,
Tuticorin and Virudhnagar in Tamil Nadu; Hyderabad and MedchalMalkajgiri in
Telangana.Apart from the higher case mortality, these districts account for 17%
of India’s active cases, high daily new cases, low tests per million, and high
confirmation percentage. Principal Secretary (Health) and MD (NHM) from the four
States along with districtsurveillance officers, district collectors,
commissioners of the municipal corporation, Chief Medical Officers, and Medical
Superintendent of Medical Colleges participated in the meeting.
The districts were advised to ensure that the
advisories, guidelines and clinical treatment protocols issued by the Health
Ministry are adopted and effectively implemented to reduce the mortality among
COVID-19 patients and other preventable deaths among all sections of the
people, particularly those with co-morbidities, pregnant women, the elderly and
children.
Following the Continuum of Care approach, as sincere
containment and surveillance efforts have a bearing on the case mortality,
States were advised to ensure optimum capacity utilization of testing labs,
increase tests per million population and reduce confirmation percentage, in
addition to ensuring timely availability of ambulances with target zero
refusal. States were also advised to analyze availability and need for
projected beds and oxygen, and plan in a timely manner. It was pointed out to
them to that it was critical to ensure good infection prevention and control
practices to control infection in the healthcare workers.
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
Dr Harsh Vardhan presides over signing of MoU between
CSIR and FSSAI for Collaborative Research and Information Dissemination regarding
Food and Nutrition
FSSAI awarded the Food Systems Vision Prize for its ‘Eat Right India’ movement
Posted On: 07 AUG 2020 5:38PM by PIB Delhi
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family
Welfare today presided the signing of MoU between Food Safety and Standards
Authority of India (FSSAI) under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) under Ministry of
Science & Technology, in the presence of Sh. Ashwini K. Choubey Minister of
State (HFW), here today. The MOU aims towards collaborative research and
information dissemination in the area of food and nutrition.
Congratulating both FSSAI and CSIR for this innovative
step that will merge the potential and faculties of both the premier
organizations, Dr Harsh Vardhan stated that this MOU will enable identification
of technologies and programs to be developed in the area of food safety and
nutrition research, along with recognition of innovative technologies available
with CSIR for deployment by the Indian businesses and/or for regulating
compliances. It will also seek collection of data regarding food consumption,
incidence and prevalence of biological risk, contaminants in food,
identification of emerging risks, their mitigation strategies and introduction
of rapid alert system. The two organisations will collaborate towards
strengthening the quality assurance of laboratory network across the country
aimed at development and validation of methods for reliable reporting on
quality and safety of food products, he stated.
Speaking on the MoU signed between FSSAI and CSIR, Dr.
Harsh Vardhan said “The MoU is a very significant step that will create a
brighter future for India seeking collaborative research and information
dissemination in the area of food & nutrition, and food and consumer safety
solutions in India. The collaboration between these two premier institutions of
India will contribute in fulfilling the vision of New Food System 2050.”
Dr. Harsh Vardhan also congratulated FSSAI on being
selected as one of the ten global organizations for the award by Rockefeller
Foundation, SecondMuse, and OpenIDEO for the ‘Eat Right India’ movement. The
award recognizes organisations that have developed an inspiring vision of the
regenerative and nourishing food system that they aspire to create by the year
2050. Dr Harsh Vardhan stated that the award is a strong recognition of
FSSAI’s holistic and path breaking approach towards food safety and nutrition.
It also provides the vision for its growth path, he added. He said that “the
vision of Health for All can be achieved through the twin measures of ensuring
physical exercise and choosing nutritious food in our daily lives. The ‘Eat
Right India’ vision is about creating a culture of safe, healthy and
sustainable food involving all stakeholders and leveraging technology in food
production, processing, distribution, quality and traceability and to empower
consumers to adopt right eating practices”.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan highlighted that the envisioned new
food system of 2050 will see a surge in demand for healthy, nutritious,
plant-based, local, seasonal and indigenous foods, produced organically. He
said it will also see an enhanced focus on climate-friendly food production
systems, conservation of land and water resources, reduction in food loss and
food wastage across the value chain, increase in small scale production units
for self-sustaining local economies, use of environment friendly packaging
alternatives, repurposing of waste.
Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey congratulated the recipients
of the highly respected Rockefeller Award. He said “The movement envisioned by
India will lead to a revival of traditional Ayurvedic wisdom in ancient food
practices, a variety of new employment opportunities to bring these measures
into practice and support local and rural economies, particularly for women
bringing about economic growth and gender equity.” The MoU with CSIR will
enable FSSAI to identify existing and novel technologies and programs, collect
data regarding food consumption, incidence and prevalence of existing emerging
risks, develop a rapid-alert system and strengthen the quality assurance
laboratory network for this purpose”, he added.
Sh. Shekhar C Mande, DG-CSIR, Sh. Arun Singhal, CEO,
FSSAI and other senior officials of FSSAI and CSIR were also present at the
occasion. Dr. Amulya K. Panda, Dr. Sudesh Kumar Yadav of Center of Innovative
and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB, Mohali), an autonomous body under DBT, Dr.
Addanki Vamsi Krishna, Scientist, DBT; and Directors of CSIR labs; Shri KMKS
Raghava Rao, Director, Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI,
Mysore), Dr. Alok Dhawan, Director, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research
(IITR, Lucknow), Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Director, Institute of Himalayan Bioresource
Technology (IHBT, Palampur), Dr. Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh, Director, National
Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST ,
Thiruvananthapuram), and Dr. Narahari Sastry, Director, North East Institute of
Science and Technology (NEIST, Jorhat) joined the meet digitally.
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