Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
India continues its streak of shedding Active Caseload
as Daily Recoveries continue to outnumber Daily New Cases
Daily New Cases continue to lessen with only 16,375 new positives Recorded in
the Last 24 hours
Total number of people infected with New Strain stands at 58
Posted On: 05 JAN
2021 11:32AM by PIB
This
is made possible by daily recoveries outnumbering daily new cases for 39 days in a streak. Against 29,091 people who recovered in the just concluded 24-hour window,
The
daily new cases in
The
total number of cases infected with the new strain of the novel Coronavirus
first reported in the
20
new cases have been identified at NIV Pune.
The
INSACOG labs at NCBS InSTEM, Bengaluru, CDFD Hyderabad, ILS Bhubaneswar, and
NCCS Pune have so far found no mutant virus.
No. |
Institute/Lab |
Under |
Persons detected with new COVID strain |
1 |
NCDC New |
MoHFW |
8 |
2 |
IGIB New |
CSIR |
11 |
3 |
NIBMG Kalyani (Kolkata) |
DBT |
1 |
4 |
NIV Pune |
ICMR |
25 |
5 |
CCMB |
CSIR |
3 |
6 |
NIMHANS Bengaluru |
MoHFW |
10 |
TOTAL |
58 |
The
positive samples are being tested at 10 INSACOG labs across the country (NIBMG
Kolkata, ILS Bhubaneswar, NIV Pune, NCCS Pune, CCMB Hyderabad, CDFD Hyderabad,
InSTEM Bengaluru, NIMHANS Bengaluru, IGIB Delhi, NCDC Delhi) for genome
sequencing.
All
these persons have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care
facilities by respective State Governments. Their close contacts have also been
put under quarantine. Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for
co-travellers, family contacts and others. Genome sequencing on other specimens
is going on.
The
situation is under careful watch and regular advice is being provided to the
States for enhanced surveillance, containment, testing & dispatch of
samples to INSACOG labs.
A
total of 29,091cases have
recovered in the last 24 hours.
82.62% of the new recovered cases
are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
Ten
States/UTs have contributed 80.05% of the new
cases.
70.15% of the 201case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours are
from Ten States/UTs.
14.42% of new fatalities reported
are from
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