Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 22
The country today crossed three million Covid-19 cases, doubling from 1.5 million cases in 25 days.
The day saw record new 69,874 infections with the Health Ministry's morning update putting the cumulative cases at 29,75,701, and toll reaching 55,794 with 945 deaths in a day.
2nd Russian vaccine shows promise: Report
Moscow: A Covid-19 vaccine developed by Russia's Vector State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology appears to be safe in early tests in humans, the media has reported. IANS
Data from states later in the day showed the total tally had gone past 30 lakh by night with recovery rate crossing 74 per cent on account of 22,22,577 patients who have been discharged so far.
Pandemic could end within two yrs: WHO
Geneva: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation, said the Covid-19 pandemic could be over within two years. PTI
Active cases as of today were 6,97,330 and made up 23.43 per cent of the total caseload, which means one in four persons infected with the virus are currently sick and three in four have recovered.
India took 15 days to move from 20 lakh to 30 lakh cases.
The two million case mark was crossed on August 7.
Meanwhile, cumulative recoveries in India have risen by 100 per cent over the past 21 days and the case fatality rate stands at 1.87 per cent in consistent declines.
The last 24 hours witnessed record 63,631 recoveries with those discharged exceeding the currently sick persons by over 15 lakh.Total recoveries rose from 10,94,374 on August 1 to 21,58,946 on August 21 - a 97.27 per cent rise.
Balram Bhargava, ICMR chief, said the rising number of cases was attributable to aggressive testing which was necessary for treatment and recovery.
The country today crossed the mark of 10 lakh tests a day. In 24 hours, India conducted 10,23,836 sample testing. India's cumulative tests stand at 3,44,91,073 samples.
India is testing 74.7 people per lakh population ndash; much higher than WHO's guidelines of testing 14 people per lakh population.
from The Tribune https://ift.tt/32f3rsJ
No comments:
Post a Comment