Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
Positivity Rate and Daily Fatalities continue with sustained Decline
Posted
On: 09 NOV 2020 11:00AM by PIB
For the second day, new cases reported in the last 24 hours
did not cross the 50,000 mark. 45,903
persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in
the last 24 hours. New daily cases continue to trend downwards with the success
of Jan-Andolan promoting COVID appropriate behaviour.
The trend of recoveries outnumbering new cases has continued for the 37th Day with 48,405 cases recovering in the last 24 hours.
This trend has continued to shrink the active caseload of
The Recovery Rate has also been boosted with the trend of
recoveries exceeding new cases. It presently stands at 92.56%. Total Recoveries today stand at 79,17,373. The gap between Recovered cases and Active
cases has steadily widened to74,07,700.
79% of the new recovered
cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
79% of the new cases are
from 10 States and UTs.
490 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours. Fatalities have continued to decrease with less than 500 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours.
Of these 490 new deaths, ten States/UTs account for nearly 81%. More than a quarter (25.51%) of mortalities reported in the last 24
hours is from
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Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
Dr. Harsh Vardhan reviews COVID and
public health measures with Health Ministers and senior State officials of 9
States
Stresses on giving impetus to Prime Minister’s Jan Andolan
“COVID Appropriate Behaviour still best bet against COVID and it is no Rocket
Science”
Posted
On: 09 NOV 2020 4:01PM by PIB
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family
Welfare today interacted with the State Health Ministers and Principal
Secretaries/ Additional Chief Secretaries of 9 states. These states included
The States/ some districts in the States have been reporting a rise in the number of cases, high average daily cases on a seven day average, decline in testing, high rate of mortality within the first 24/48/72 hours of hospitalisation, high doubling rate, higher death among the vulnerable population groups.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan started by reminding everyone that the
country had stepped into the 11th month of the pandemic with the first meeting
on COVID being held on 8th of January. Restating his concern that the coming
winter and the long festive season pose a significant risk that could threaten
the gains made collectively till now against COVID-19, he said, “We all need to
bemore vigilant for the entire festive season that started with Dussehra and
would continue onto Diwali, Chhat Puja, Christmas and then onto Makar Sankranti
in the next year. Respiratory virus also spreads rapidly in the winter months.”
Sharing the nation’s journey through COVID, he spoke how
the country increased the numbers of labs from one in NIV, Pune in January to
2074 today thereby increasing the testing capacity to 1.5 million per day. He
also mentioned about the increased number of general, oxygenated and ICU beds
at each level of COVID care hierarchy. He informed everyone that of the total
active cases, only 0.44% are on ventilator support,2.47% are in ICU and just
4.13%occupy oxygen supported beds. He also added that
Briefing the audience about his recent interaction with
State Health Ministers and senior health officials of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya
Pradesh, Gujarat,
Dr. Sujeet K Singh, Director, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
apprised everybody on the trajectory of COVID and the Public Health Response
efforts/interventionsin the respective States. He highlighted the issues and
regions/districts of continued concern.
The State Health Ministers shared a brief snapshot of the actions taken
for containment, surveillance and treatment of the COVID positive cases. They
also highlighted the best practices being followed.
ShriRajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretaryrequested all the States to focus on ten key areas to contain COVID and gain an upper hand over its trajectory: increasing testing; targeted testing at market-places, workplaces, religious congregations which could have the potential to become super spreaders; increasing the share of RT-PCR in testing; compulsory testing of symptomatic RAT negatives; completion of contact tracing within the first 72 hours; tracing of an average of 10-15 contacts per new case detected; promotion of health seeking behaviour to curb the percent of deaths within the first 24-72 hours of hospitalization; conduct of hospital wise death analysis every day and intervene, if necessary, to bring mortality below 1%; protection of vulnerable groups such as those above 60 years of age and those with co-morbidities; promotion of COVID appropriate behaviour through Behaviour Change Campaign where elected representatives of panchayati raj institutions, urban local bodies, MPs, MLAs and local influencers appeal to people to follow COVID appropriate behaviour.
Smt. Arti Ahuja, Addl. Secretary (Health), Sh.Lav
Agarwal,Jt. Secretary (Health) and other senior officials of the Ministry were
present in the meeting.
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