COVID-19: 35,043 Reported Coronavirus Cases, 8,30,201 Samples Tested So Far

NEW DELHI: A total of 35,043 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the country so far. As per the Health Ministry, 8889 patients have recovered after treatment and discharged from the hospitals, while 1147 patients have died.

Briefing media in New Delhi on Thursday, a Health Ministry official said recovery rate has improved from 13.06 per cent to above 25 per cent in 14 days which is a positive sign.

The doubling rate of novel coronavirus is now 11 days compared to 3.4 days before lockdown.

States whose doubling rate is better than the national average are Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Punjab.

States whose doubling rate is between 20 to 40 days include Karnataka, Ladakh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, and Kerala.

Assam, Telangana, Chattisgarh, and Himachal Pradesh have a doubling rate of above 40 days.

Testing Increasing With Each Day:

The fatality rate is 3.2 per cent and comorbidities were found in COVID-19 patients in 78 per cent of the deaths.

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that a total of 8,30,201 samples of COVID-19 have been tested by the various government and private laboratories in the country so far.

Meanwhile, ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for COVID-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories.

As of now, 292 government laboratories and 97 private laboratories’ chains have been given the approval to conduct the test for COVID-19.

from League of India