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New Delhi : The recovery rate is Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in India is improving continuously and has reached 40.32%. A total of 45,299 patients have been cured including 3,002 COVID-19 patients during last 24 hours. India currently has 63,624 active cases. Of the active cases, only approx. 2.94% of the cases are in ICU. The case mortality rate in India is 3.06%, which is much lesser in comparison to the global case mortality rate of 6.65%.
An analysis of the deaths indicates 64% deaths in males & 36% in females. In terms of age distribution, 0.5% deaths are reported in less than 15 years age group, 2.5% in 15-30 years age group, 11.4% in 30-45 years age group, 35.1% in 45-60 years age group and 50.5% in people above 60 years. Further, 73% of the death cases had underlying co-morbidities.
The period of the lockdown has been gainfully utilised to ramp up the health infrastructure in the country. As on May 21, 2020, 26,15,920 samples have been tested while 1,03,532 samples were tested in the last 24 hours through 555 testing labs (391 in the government sector and 164 private labs).
ICMR is conducting a community based sero-survey to estimate the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Indian population. In collective efforts of Central as well as State Governments, as many as 3,027 dedicated COVID Hospitals and COVID Health Centres along with 6,50,930 COVID Care Centres have been identified. Additionally, more than 2.81 lakh isolation beds, more than 31,250 lakh ICU beds, and 1,09,888 oxygen supported beds have already been identified in Dedicated COVID Hospitals and COVID Health Centres.
Also, Government of India has supplied 65.0 lakh PPE coveralls and 101.07 lakh N95 masks to the States. Nearly 3 lakh PPE coveralls and 3 lakh N95 masks are now being manufactured per day by domestic producers although they were not produced in the country earlier.
In addition, the Government is consulting and involving epidemiologists actively at all levels in order to combat COVID-19. The National Task Force (NTF) for COVID-19 constituted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has held 20 meetings since mid March 2020 and has systematically and effectively contributed towards the scientific and technical response to the pandemic.
A team of researchers from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), an autonomous Institute under the Department of Science &Technology (DST), Government of India, along with collaborator from IISc Bengaluru have developed a heuristic predictive model for COVID-19 that provides short-term predictions about the evolution of the disease and the medical needs that are generated as a consequence.
In a unique outreach initiative, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar will talk to Community Radios in the country on May 22, 2020, at 7 pm. The talk will be simultaneously broadcast on all Community Radio stations of the country. Listeners can also tune in to FM Gold (100.1 MHz) to listen to the Minister at 7:30 pm in Hindi and at 9:10 pm in English. The move comes as Government makes earnest efforts to reach all sections of the country for COVID related communication. There are around 290 Community Radio stations in the country. The talk is aimed at harnessing their power to reach the people in the remote corners of India, according to a PIB release.