Union Health Ministry in the press briefing of April 17 conducted by Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry said New COVID-19 cases growth rate in India decreased by 40% and recovery rate is around 80%. The ratio between recovered COVID19 patients and deaths stands at 80:20 in India which is higher than the other counties.
Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry
He further added, before the lockdown, the doubling rate of COVID19 cases was 3 days. But according to data of the past 7 days, the doubling rate of cases now stands at 6.2 days. The doubling rate in 19 States, Union Territories are even lower than average doubling rate.
The doubling rate of COIVD-19 cases is lower than the national level in 19 states and UTs- Kerala, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Ladakh, Puducherry, Delhi, Bihar, Odisha, TN, Andhra Pradesh, UP, Punjab, Assam, Tripura etc
All our actions are focused on speeding up vaccine development. We are working on recombinant BCG, convalescent plasma therapy, monoclonal antibodies to fight COVID19.
He further informed that 1007 new COVID19 cases, 23 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
ICMR Report
This virus is in India is there from 3 months, the mutation doesn’t happen too quickly. Whatever vaccine comes out now, it will work in the future as well (if the virus mutates), said Dr Gangakhedkar, ICMR.
Dr Gangakhedkar, ICMR
ICMR will start its study on BCG vaccine next week. Till we don’t have definite results from this, we won’t recommend it even for health workers.
He further added that in Japan, to find one positive case, 11.7 persons are tested. In Italy that number is 6.7, in US its 5.3, in UK its 3.4. Here in India, we do 24 tests for one positive case.
The nationwide lockdown is showing its results slowly. The recovery rate in India is increasing and the death rates are decreasing. If the people of India will strictly follow the guideline of government in lockdown then we will soon win this battle.
