Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
27 States/UTs have less than 20,000 Active Cases
10 States account for 78% of total Active Cases
Posted
On: 05 NOV 2020 11:52AM by PIB
Following the national trend, 27 States/UTs have less than
20,000 active cases.
10 States/UT account for 78% of the total active cases in the country. Maharashtra, Kerala,
The declining trend of the active cases is complemented by
the unbroken increase, day on day number of recovered cases. The total
recovered cases stand at 7,711,809. The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases has reached nearly 72 lakh (71,83,847). The national Recovery Rate has further improved to 92.20%.
55,331 COVID patients have recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours whereas the new
confirmed cases stand at 50,210.
82% of the
new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
50,210 new confirmed cases were recorded in the last 24 hours.
79% of the new cases are found concentrated in 10 States and UTs.
Kerala continues to be the State reporting a very high
number of new cases with more than 8,000 cases followed by
704 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours.
Of these, ten States/UT account for nearly 80% of the new deaths. More than 42% of new fatalities
reported are from
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Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
“Let’s end it by 2020”: Dr. Harsh
Vardhan exhorts Delhi to implement Prime Minister’s Jan Andolan successfully to
blunt the momentum of COVID by the end of the year
Rise in Positivity Rate across 6 districts key Point of Concern
Presses for mandatory testing of all RAT negative persons if they develop
ILI/SARI symptoms
Posted
On: 05 NOV 2020 5:17PM by PIB
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family
Welfare today interacted with Sh. Anil Baijal,Lt. Governor,
Lauding Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modifor starting the Jan Andolan to
make the last citizen aware of the virtues of wearing masks, physical
distancing and hand washing, Dr. Harsh Vardhan highlighted that the whole of
government approach has helped the country curb the COVID crisis effectively.In
this regard, he detailed about the role of scientists for repurposing drugs for
use in COVID and formation of bio-repository of such drug candidates. He urged
the officers to instil COVID appropriate behaviour among the masses and blunt
the momentum of the infectious disease by the end of the year, so that it loses
its potency.He also reiterated the government’s commitment to vaccinate 20-25
Crore citizens including those involved in frontline healthcare by mid-2021.
Comparing the COVID trajectory of
Dr. Harsh Vardhan expressed particular concern over the
surge in number of cases and thehigh positivity rate in the North, Central,
North East, East,
Dr. Sujeet Singh, Director, National Centre for Disease
Control (NCDC) apprised everybody present on the trajectory of COVID in the
various districts of
Sh. Anil Baijal noted that
Sh. SatyendarJain requested the Centre to increase the
number of ICU beds in AIIMS New Delhiand other Central Hospitals to augment the
present capacity which has come under strain.
Sh. Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretarynoted that
effective contact tracing is achieved by not only by tracing a large number of
contacts but also by completing the exercise within the first 72 hours itself.
He requested the Delhi Administration to shift patients requiring critical care
to the Defence Medical Hospital Facility in Dhaula-Kuan that has provision for
125 ICU beds.
Sh. Vijay Kumar Dev, Chief Secretary,
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