Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
India registers a Record of
Highest Single day recoveries
More than 1 lakh patients recovered in the last 24 hours
Posted On: 22 SEP 2020 11:29AM by PIB Delhi
In an
unprecedented surge, India has recorded the highest number of single day
recoveries.
More than 1 lakh
(1,01,468) new recoveries have been registered in the last 24 hours in the
country.
In another
landmark achievement, the trend of very high number of single day recoveries
has sustained for the past four consecutive days.
With this,
the total number of recoveries are nearly 45 lakh (44,97,867). This has
resulted in the Recovery Rate touching 80.86%.
79% of the new recovered
cases are being reported from ten States/UTs, viz.
Maharashtra, Karnataka , Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, Odisha,
Delhi, Kerala, West Bengal and Punjab.
Maharashtra
continues to lead with more than 32,000 (31.5%) new recovered patients. Andhra
Pradesh contributed more than 10,000 to the single day recoveries.
India’s
landmark achievement of recording the maximum number of recoveries has
positioned it as the top country globally.
The
continuous streak of very high level of recoveries in the country is a
testimony of the Centre-lad proactive and graded strategy of TEST TRACK TREAT.
The effective clinical management and treatment protocols issued by the Union
Government have been updated from time to time with the emergence of new
medical and scientific evidence.
The Union
Government has also allowed for rational use of ‘Investigational Therapies’
like Remdesevir, convalescent plasma and Tocilizumab. Adoption of measures such
as proning, use of high flow oxygen, non-invasive ventilation, and use of steroids
and anti-coagulants have resulted in a high recovery rate in COVID patients.
Other measures have supplemented the effective COVID management through
supervised home/facility isolation for mild/moderate cases, improved ambulance
services of for ferrying patients for prompt and timely treatment.
Ministry of
Health in active collaboration with AIIMS, New Delhi has been conducting the
'National e-ICU on COVID-19 Management' exercise which handholds ICU doctors of
State/UT hospitals through the Centers of Excellence. Held twice a week, on
Tuesday and Friday, these tele-consultation sessions have played a crucial role
in India's high recoveries and steadily declining case fertility rate. So far,
20 such National e-ICUs have been held covering 278 hospitals of 28 States/UTs
across the country.
The Centre
has been deputing multi-disciplinary teams to support and assist efforts of the
State/UT Governments. Regular high level review has ensured adequate
availability of medical oxygen in hospitals and health facilities across the
country. These have together have played a critical intervention role in
India’s high recoveries and maintained low Case Fatality Rate (CFR), which
currently stands at 1.59%.
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
India's has 17.7% of global
COVID-19 cases, while it also has highest share - 19.5% - of global recoveries:
Health Secretary
Member (Health), NITI Aayog calls for being a responsible citizen by following
COVID Appropriate Behaviours and wearing masks in the upcoming festive season
Most of the districts in Maharashtra have adequate facilities to deal with
COVID-19: Health Secretary
Posted On: 22 SEP 2020 6:55PM by PIB Mumbai
New Delhi/ Mumbai, 22 September
2020
India has recorded the highest
number of recoveries, that is, 44.9 lakh patients of COVID-19 have recovered
from the infection in India, by which the country's recovery rate crosses the
milestone of 80%. This apart, highest ever single day recovery of 1 lakh cases
has been recorded in the last 24 hours. At the same time, more than 6.5 crore
tests have been conducted around the country, 12 lakh tests conducted on a
single day. This has been stated by Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare, Shri Rajesh Bhushan in course of a media briefing on the actions
taken, preparedness and updates on COVID-19.
Shri Bhushan further stated,
India's share of global COVID-19 cases is around 17.7%, while it also shares
the highest - 19.5% of the recoveries from the infection that happened around
the world. "This is a matter of satisfaction and shows that the country's
standard treatment protocol formulated on the basis of inputs by scientists and
treating doctors and discussions held with different stakeholders and the its
implementation by various State and UT Governments is yielding results. It is
also the outcome of the responsibility, hard-work and sacrifice of the
health-care workers in the country", said the Health Secretary. Early
detection of cases, followed by isolation, seamless hospitalization has also
contributed towards achieving highest recoveries and "all this has been
possible because of an exponential increase in testing infrastructure in the
country", added Shri Bhushan. While 1 crore tests were done by 1100 labs
in the country on 7th July, it increased to 3 crore tests by 1600 labs on 3rd
August and 6 crore tests were done on 17th September by 1776 government and
private labs taken together. "A substantial amount of credit for this
achievement goes to the leadership shown by ICMR and the prompt participation
in testing by the private sector labs", also stated the Health Secretary.
It has also been noticed that
new recoveries have exceeded new cases in the country over the last four days.
In this connection, the Health Secretary ruled out certain apprehensions that
have been raised about having less testing in some states and informed that
more than 8 lakh tests were done every day in the above stated period
(September 19-22, 2020). The Health Secretary also said that India still
figures amongst the countries having lowest cases and also deaths per million
population. This apart, less than one-fifth of total cases are active in the
country.
In the presentation given by the Health
Secretary, it is also seen that Maharashtra has the maximum number
of daily cases which has been around 21,000 in the week between September 16-22.
The top 7 states in terms of daily cases are Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra
Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and West Bengal.
Dr. V.K.Paul, Member, NITI Aayog
said, the overall situation in the country remains under control. Dr. Paul
said, mostly kits manufactured in India are being used for testing. While
certain tests have been adapted, new testing methods have also been developed
in India, which reflects the country's technological prowess. Dr. Paul said, we
have to be more careful and maintain social distancing at this stage of the
pandemic. He called for being a responsible citizen by following COVID
Appropriate Behaviours in the upcoming festive season. He urged mediapersons
and media platforms to take the message of compulsorily wearing a mask, across
to every person and every corner of the country as this is going to act as a
social vaccine till a vaccine becomes available. Further, science and estimates
has shown that pandemic can be controlled up to 36-50% in this manner. Almost
80-85% persons in the country are susceptible to the virus, stated Dr. Paul. He
also urged to follow social distancing and avoid large gatherings in public
places particularly in view of the festive season that is approaching.
Dr. Paul also stated that
non-COVID health programmes like various national missions and immunization
programmes and related matters like emergency services as well as reforms like
that in the sphere of medical education are being given due
importance by the Government.
Dr. Paul informed that a new
programme called 'District Residency Programme' has been notified, under which
postgraduate medical student undergoing training shall be termed as a 'District
Resident' and such 2nd year and 3rd year students will be posted for 3 months
in district hospitals as a part of their medical course curriculum. This is a
big reform that will promote contextual training for future specialist doctors
while also improving specialized health-care service delivery in districts,
stated Dr. Paul. This scheme will be implemented with the new joining batch of
post-graduate medical students in 2020-21.
In reply to a media query about
rising COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra, Health Secretary stated, most of the
districts in Maharashtra have adequate facilities. There is frequent and rapid
exchange of technical assistance between Centre and the Maharashtra Government.
Centre is also providing PPEs, N-95 masks, HCQ, ventilators and other
assistance to the Maharashtra Government.
In the context of a media query
about the COVID-19 situation in Punjab, Health Secretary said, the information
of augmented hospital facilities must be pro-actively put in public domain.
State Governments have a big role to play in this matter, stated Shri Bhushan.
In reply to a media query about
oxygen availability, the Health Secretary stated that certain decisions were
taken in this regard in course of three meetings with states in the last week.
The decisions include free inter-state and intra-state movement of vehicles
containing oxygen cylinders, allowing oxygen-tankers to enter within
city-limits even in daytime, inter-ministerial control room for supply of
oxygen related matters at the level of Centre and formation of such control
rooms at the level of states, micro-level management of oxygen at the level of
states and hospitals/care centres and monitoring at the level of states to
prevent oxygen hoarding and overpricing.
In reply to a query on
healthcare workers who have laid down their lives in the fight against
COVID-19, the Health Secretary stated, 62 insurance claims under PM's Pandemic
Response Package for health care workers have been settled, while more than 130
are being processed by the New India Assurance Company.
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