The HM had said the daily growth rate of Covid-19 cases is declining each day and that it recorded the daily growth rate for newer cases at 3.24%
NEW DELHI| India’s number of coronavirus cases has jumped 936,181 and its death toll 24,209, Union health ministry data show on Wednesday.
There were 29,429 fresh COVID-19 cases, for the first time, and 582 deaths across the country in the 24 hours, Union Health ministry dashboard shows.
The health ministry had said on Tuesday the daily growth rate of newer Covid-19 cases is declining each day and that it recorded the daily growth rate for newer cases at 3.24%.
Rajesh Bhushan, the health ministry’s officer on special duty said, “If we see in the month of March, the daily growth rate of COVID cases was 31.28%, in May it was 9.27% and further reduced to 4.82% in May end and if we see the figures of July 12, the growth rate for newer cases is at 3.24%. There is a progressive decline in the daily growth rate of new cases.”
The number of those who have been curved of the viral disease has gone up to 592,031, taking the recovery rate to 63.23%. Between Tuesday and Wednesday morning, 20,572 patients were discharged from hospitals across the country. Bhushan also said that 86% of the total cases are confined to 10 states. Of these, just two states of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu account for about 50% of the cases.
“Maharastra and Tamil Nadu have 50% of the active caseload while Karnataka, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Gujarat, and Assam have 36% of active cases, respectively,” he added.
Maharashtra remains the worst-hit state due to coronavirus. Maharashtra has 267,665 infections and 10,695 deaths, there are 147,324 cases and 2,099 fatalities in Tamil Nadu.
Due to rising cases in the state West Bengal has extended the lockdown in 605 containment zones for another three days, till July 19. An order issued by the state’s home secretary on Tuesday also said that lockdown would be imposed in four towns of Malda, Raiganj, Siliguri and Cooch Behar in North Bengal from July 15.
The Tripura government has also announced a week-long “total lockdown” within one kilometre in rural areas and 0.5km in municipal areas on its border with Bangladesh from July 17. The Union Government informs there are 20 states and Union territories (UTs) which have a recovery rate percentage more than the national average.
Some of these states include Madhya Pradesh (73), Haryana (76), Tripura (71), Rajasthan (75), Delhi (80), Chandigarh (72), Chhattisgarh (76), Uttarakhand (79), Ladakh (UT) (87), Himachal Pradesh (76), Assam (64.87), Tamil Nadu (64.66) Uttar Pradesh (64), Odisha (67), Mizoram (64.94), Punjab (68.94), Bihar (69.09), Gujarat (70) and Assam (65). The health ministry has said testing is being increased every day and the laboratory network in the country further strengthened with 1,206 labs in the country.
It added, There are 22 states which are conducting more than 140 tests per day per million population.
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