Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
Active Cases further slide below 3.4 lakhs today
22,065 daily New Cases recorded after 161 days
Posted
On: 15 DEC 2020 10:42AM by PIB
The new confirmed cases in the last 24 hours have fallen under 22,100. The daily new cases stand at 22,065 after 161 days. The new
added cases were 22,252 on 7th July, 2020.
With a high number of COVID patients recovering every day
and the sustained fall in the mortality rate,
In another achievement, the active cases have drastically
declined below
3.4 lakh. The total positive cases of the country are 3,39,820 and now comprise merely 3.43%of the total cases.
The slide in the active cases is supplemented by an
exponential rise in the recoveries. The total recovered cases have crossed 94 lakhs (94,22,636).The gap between active cases and recovered cases is continuously
increasing and stands at 90,82,816.
The national Recovery Rate has further escalated to 95.12%.
34,477 patients have recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours.
74.24% of
the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
73.52% of the new cases are from 10 States and UTs.
354 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours.
Ten States/UTs account for 79.66% of these.
Maharashtra and
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Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
National Family Health
Survey-5
District level factsheets constituting 342 districts of Phase I States/UTs
released
New focal areas in NFHS-5 include expanded domains of child immunization,
micro-nutrients to children, menstrual hygiene, frequency of alcohol and
tobacco use, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), expanded age ranges for
measuring hypertension and diabetes among everyone aged 15 years and above
Posted
On: 15 DEC 2020 12:00PM by PIB
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family
Welfare, Government of India, released the Factsheets of key indicators on
population, reproductive and child health, family welfare, nutrition and others
for 22 States/UTs of the first Phase of the 2019-20 National Family Health
Survey (NFHS-5) on Universal Health Coverage Day on 12th December, 2020.
These results are available on the Ministry’s website,
www.mohfw.gov.in. These 22 Phase-I States/UTs are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar,
Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur,
Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura, West Bengal, Andaman
Nicobar Island, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Jammu & Kashmir,
Ladakh and Lakshadweep. The fieldwork in the remaining 14 (Phase-II) States/UTs
is currently under progress.
The main objective of successive rounds of the NFHS is to
provide reliable and comparable datasets on health, family welfare and other
emerging issues. Four rounds of NFHS (1992–93, 1998–99, 2005–06 and
2015–16) have been successfully completed in
The state factsheet released include information on 131 key
indicators. The district level factsheets constituting 342 districts of theses
Phase I States/UTs that have been uploaded on 14th December, 2020 on the website of the
Ministry and has information on 104 key indicators. These important indicators
on population, health and family welfare, nutrition and others will help track
progress of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the country. Many
indicators of NFHS-5 are similar to those of NFHS-4, carried out in 2015-16 to
make possible comparisons over time. However, NFHS-5 that includes new focal
areas such as expanded domains of child immunization, components of
micro-nutrients to children, menstrual hygiene, frequency of alcohol and
tobacco use, additional components of non-communicable diseases (NCDs),
expanded age ranges for measuring hypertension and diabetes among all, aged 15
years and above, will give requisite input for strengthening existing
programmes and evolving new strategies for policy intervention.
The key results from the State/UT factsheets are as follows:
·
The Total Fertility Rates (TFR) has further
declined since NFHS-4 in almost all the Phase-1 States and UTs. The replacement
level of fertility (2.1) has been achieved in 19 out of the 22 States/UTs and
only 3 states viz. Manipur (2.2), Meghalaya (2.9) and
·
Overall Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR)
has increased substantially in most States/UTs and it is the highest in HP and
WB (74%). Use of modern methods of contraception has also increased in
almost all States/UTs.
·
Unmet needs of family planning have witnessed
a declining trend in most of the Phase-1 States/UTs. The unmet need for spacing
which remained a major issue in
·
Full immunization drive among children aged
12-23 months has recorded substantial improvement across States/UTs/districts.
More than two-third of children are fully immunized in all the States and UTs
except Nagaland, Meghalaya and
On comparing NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 data, the increase in full
immunization coverage is observed to be expeditious in many states
and UTs; in 11 out of the 22 states/UTs, the increase was to the tune of over
10 percentage point and in another 4 states/UTs between 5 to 9 percentage point
over the short span of 4 years. This can be attributed to the flagship
initiative of Mission Indradhanush launched by the government since 2015.
·
There is increase in the per cent of women
receiving the recommended four or more ANC visits by health providers in many
States/UTs. This percentage has increased in 13 States/UTs between 2015-16 to
2019-20.
·
Institutional births have increased
substantially with over four-fifth of the women delivering in institutions in
19 States and UTs. Institutional delivery is over 90 per cent in 14 out
of the total 22 Sates and UTs. Almost 91% of districts recorded over 70%
institutional deliveries of births in the 5 years preceding the survey.
·
Along with an increase in institutional
births, there has also been a substantial increase in C-section deliveries in
many States/UTs especially in private health facilities.
·
Sex ratio at birth has remained unchanged or
increased in most States/UTs. Majority of the states are in normal sex ratio of
952 or above. SRB is below 900 in Telangana, Himachal Pradesh,
·
Child nutrition indicators show a mixed
pattern across states. While the situation improved in many States/UTs, there
has been minor deterioration in others. Drastic changes in respect of
stunting and wasting are unlikely in a short period.
·
Anaemia among women and children continues to
be a cause of concern. More than half of the children and women are anaemic in
13 of the 22 States/UTs. It has also been observed that aanaemia among pregnant
women has increased in half of the States/UTs compared to NFHS-4, in spite of
substantial increase in the consumption of IFA tablets by pregnant women for
180 days or more.
·
For both women and men, there is a lot of
variation in the high or very high random blood glucose levels across
States/UTs. Men are more likely to have slightly higher blood glucose levels in
the range of high or very high compared to women. The percentage of men with
high or very high blood glucose is highest in Kerala (27%) followed by
·
The percentage of households with improved
sanitation facility and clean fuel for cooking has increased in almost all the
22 States/UTs over the last four years (from 2015-16 to
2019-20). The Government of India has made concerted efforts to provide
toilet facilities to maximum households through Swachh Bharat Mission, and
improved household environment through Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in the
country. For instance, the use of cooking fuel has increased more than 10
percentage point in all the States and UTs during the last 4 years with over 25
percentage point increase in states of Karnataka and Telangana.
·
Women’s empowerment indicators portray
considerable improvement across all the States/UTs included in Phase 1.
Considerable progress has been recorded between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 in regard to
women operating bank accounts. For instance, in the case of
It may also be stated that recurrent floods in Kerala
during the time of survey as well as the previous year may have affected the
utilization of maternal care services and hence, it may have some
unusual/unexpected trend in some of maternal care indicators for some of the
districts. In Tripura from the 4 districts which were previously existing at
the time of NFHS-4, 8 new districts were formed which were covered in NFHS-5.
This could have led to compositional changes of the population thereby, being
one of the factors impacting negatively the levels of some of the indicators of
the state. It should also be noted that while interpreting and comparing the
trends for smaller States/UTs where sample sizes are small proper caution needs
to be taken.
The fieldwork in the 14 States/UTs in Phase-II was launched
in January 2020. At the time of national lockdown (at the end of March, 2020),
around 38% of the fieldwork was completed in these States/UTs. With the easing
of lockdown, the field operations have resumed from mid-November, 2020 in these
States/UTs. Keeping in view of the prevailing COVID-19 situation, a lot of
planning and preparations have been carried out in terms of the necessary
revisions in the survey protocols and protective measures to resume fieldwork
in Phase II States/UTs. Field work is expected to be over by February/March,
2021 and key indicators for second phase States/UTs will be available around
May, 2021. The national level indicators including most of the SDG health
indicators are expected to be available by June/July, 2021.
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