Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
Active Caseload falls below 5 lakhs
Total Recoveries cross 80 lakhs, Cumulative Tests cross 12 crores
Posted
On: 11 NOV 2020 11:58AM by PIB
This also indicates a sustained trend of declining active
cases in the country. It assumes higher significance in the context of several
countries across the globe reporting a surge in the number of new cases.
This landmark achievement has been made possible by the
Centre's sustained, graded and targeted strategies, their effective
implementation by the States/UTs, dedicated and selfless service of doctors and
all other COVID-19 warriors.
27 States/UTs have less than 20,000 active cases.
Just 8
States/UTs have more than 20,000 cases; two states
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44,281 new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours while 50,326 active
cases have recovered in this period. This is the 39th Day of daily recoveries exceeding the
daily new cases.
Total Recoveries have thus also risen in the corresponding
period along with the difference between Total Recoveries and Total Active
Cases.
The Total Recoveries have crossed the 80L mark. The number
of total recoveries as on date is 80,13,783. The gap between
Recovered cases and Active cases has widened 75,19,126.The Recovery Rate has increased to 92.79%.
In another milestone,
The trend of daily low cases has been made possible by an
exponential increase in the testing infrastructure.
High testing has aided in early identification of the
infected population, thus preventing the transmission of the virus to the
non-infected.
The New Daily cases continue to be less than 50,000.
77% of the
new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
The top 10 States and UTs have reported 78% of the new cases.
Ten States/UTs account for 79% of the COVID fatalities. 512 case fatalities
have been reported in the past 24 hours. Total Case Fatality Rate stands at 1.48% and
continues its downwards trajectory.
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Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
Dr. Harsh Vardhan showcases
“Decentralized but Unified mechanism to provide Universal, Accessible,
Equitable and Affordable Health Care to one and all was the driving force
behind our Unique Response Strategy for COVID-19”
Posted
On: 11 NOV 2020 5:12PM by PIB
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family
Welfare digitally attended the BRICS Health Ministers Conference, here today
through Video Conference.
His official statement is as follows;
Excellencies,
Today we meet virtually after having experienced the
greatest health related challenge faced by the modern world & having
portrayed great resilience against this COVID-19 pandemic.
Before I proceed, I would like to express my sincere
gratitude to all the frontline workers – healthcare workforce, researchers,
policy makers, and many others – who made this journey possible, with risk to
their own lives.
I believe we continue to become stronger as we gain greater
awareness about emergency preparedness strategies in light of a global health
crisis. I feel honored to be a part of this integral discourse about increasing
global solidarity for ensuring Health Safety of all our citizens.
BRICS, represent some of the world’s fastest growing
economies & account for nearly 40% of the world’s population and thus, have
always had a great role to play in influencing the state of global health.
These five nations –
Excellencies,
This pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of
humankind to exigencies, making us realize the vital need to further strengthen
our healthcare systems
At the onset of pandemic and its spread in
While the Central government steered this movement with
constant monitoring and evaluation, providing handholding support to the states
to tackle this crisis holistically, our respective State governments also
undertook various unique strategies to keep their response mechanism agile and
vigilant. Our decentralized but unified mechanism to provide universal,
accessible, equitable and affordable health care to one and all was the driving
force behind our unique response strategy for COVID-19.
Several technological innovations were also leveraged in
our pandemic management efforts. While applications such as Arogya Setu and
ITIHAS facilitating rapid contact tracing and surveillance, the interactive and
dynamic COVID India Portal enabled real time tracking and monitoring. The iGOT
portal (Integrated Government Online Training) was also launched as a training
module for our frontline health workers.
We worked round the clock to boost domestic production and
expand our healthcare workforce, thus bridging major gaps in demand and supply
of essentials such as testing kits, PPEs, ventilators etc. Furthermore, an
“Aatma Nirbhar Bharat” movement has now been launched to become
self-sufficient in all our capacities.
Excellencies,
Our collective nations have had a rich history of
successfully tackling various disease outbreaks in the past decades with an all
inclusive and equitable approach. As emphasized in the BRICS Ufa Declaration
2015, we have to proactively work towards enhancing our strategic partnerships
and systems of knowledge exchange, building successful collaborations on the
basis of principles such as openness, solidarity, equality and mutually
beneficial cooperation.
Excellencies,
We need an aggressive roadmap and a strong show of
solidarity to curtail any present & future risks threatening safety and
wellbeing of millions of global citizens. There is also an impending need to
share reliable and accurate data and any lessons drawn in the course of
managing this Pandemic, to eliminate any threat of emerging disease outbreaks
& ensuring equitable and inclusive access to healthcare for one and all.
We have come quite far in the past few months and I am
confident that our respective nations will come out strong and resilient in the
management of COVID-19 and any such outbreaks in the future. Looking forward to
many fruitful collaborations with you all!
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Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
Dr. Harsh Vardhan reviews COVID
situation and public health measures with Chief Ministers, Health Ministers and
senior State officials of 7 States
“Prime Minister’s Jan-Andolan advocating COVID Appropriate Behaviour sums up
the best available strategy to contain COVID”
“Need for heightened caution during the Festive and Winter seasons to not
squander the gains made so far”
“COVID Appropriate Behaviour is the most potent Social Vaccine”
Posted
On: 11 NOV 2020 4:29PM by PIB
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family
Welfare today interacted with Chief Ministers, State Health Ministers and
Principal Secretaries/ Additional Chief Secretaries of 7 States though video
conferencing. These States included Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Mizoram,
Tripura Meghalaya and
Sh. T. S. Rawat, Chief Minister (Uttarakhand) who also
oversees the State’s Health Ministry, Sh. N. Biren Singh, Chief Minister
(Manipur), Sh. Rajesh Tope, Health Minister (Maharashtra), Dr. R. Lalthangliana,
Health Minister (Mizoram), Sh. Vishwajit Pratapsingh Rane, Health Minister
(Goa), Sh. Ratan Lal Nath, Minister of School Education, Higher Education, Law
and Parliamentary Affairs (Tripura) participated virtually.
Dr Harsh Vardhan has recently held a review meeting with
Highlighting the State specific areas of concern that would
require focussed attention, Dr. Harsh Vardhan noted that although the active
cases have come down in
Dr Harsh Vardhan deeply appreciated the relentless and
dedicated services of the several COVID warriors and the frontline workers who
have handled the situation on the ground with grit and determination without
showing signs of fatigue. He further stated that as on date, there were only
4.09% of active cases on Oxygen Support, 2.73% of active cases in ICU and a
minute 0.45% of active cases on Ventilator Support. He however impressed upon
the need to be vigilant in the coming winter and the long festive season which
could threaten the gains made against COVID-19.
To stop the chain of transmission, he stressed upon the
importance of Jan-Andolan initiated by Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi ji. “Prime
Minister’s latest address, only 10 minutes short, advocating COVID Appropriate
Behaviour, aptly sums up the best available strategy to contain COVID.”
Elaborating on steps taken by the government to promote Jan Andolan among the
masses, he added that “COVID Appropriate Behaviour is the most potent Social Vaccine.”
Dr Harsh Vardhan advised the States to focus on
higher testing especially in districts with higher positivity; mandatory
testing of symptomatic negatives by RAT; focus on high risk groups and
vulnerable populations for SARI/ILI surveillance which can give indication of
infection; increase the contact tracing of close contacts of positive cases;
proper follow up and monitoring of those in home isolation, especially the
vulnerable groups. He also highlighted the importance of widespread IEC
campaigns so that people in home isolation can reach hospitals in time for
effective clinical management, and efforts to be made to reduce deaths in the
first 24/48/72 hours which was high in many States/districts. He also indicated
towards the need for higher testing in areas such as Bazaar, market places,
work places, places of gatherings.
The Chief Ministers and State Health Ministers shared a brief snapshot of the
actions taken for containment, surveillance and treatment of the COVID positive
cases along with best practices of their States. Sh. Rawat, CM, Uttarakhand
stated that they have mounted a comprehensive multimedia IEC campaign for
encouraging COVID appropriate behaviour. Challans have been given to 1.4 lakh
for faulting on Social Distancing, and 4.5 lakh on mask negligence. In the
later case, the defaulters were given 4 masks each to promote mask wearing
behaviour. Sh. Rajesh Tope informed about the 'My Family My Responsibility'
campaign in the state of
Sh. Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary advised the
States to focus on three areas that include the need to suppress and break the chain
of transmission; keeping mortality less than 1%; and the need for prolonged
behaviour change. To ensure these, he advised for quick and aggressive testing,
targeted testing at market-places, workplaces, religious congregations which
have the potential to become super-spreader events; followed by quick tracing;
all close contacts to be traced in the first 72 hours; at least 10 persons to
be traced for every positive person; increase the proportion of tests through
RTPCR against RAT; and to mandatorily test symptomatic negatives from RAT tests
by RTPCR. For ensuring the second point, he advised quick hospitalization,
ensuring adequate infrastructure in hospitals, focus on avoidable deaths in the
first 24/48/72 hours; focus on vulnerable population groups; and review
hospital wide fatality figures. To ensure adherence of COVID appropriate
behaviour, he advised strong campaigns involving MPs, MLAs and local
influencers.
Smt. Arti Ahuja, Addl. Secretary (Health), Sh. Lav Agarwal,
Jt. Secretary (Health), Dr S K Singh, Director (NCDC) and other senior
officials of the Ministry were present in the meeting.
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