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New Delhi : Twenty-two new districts in 12 States have not reported any fresh cases during the last 14 days. They include Lakhisarai, Gopalganj, and Bhagalpur in Bihar; Dholpur & Udaipur in Rajasthan; Pulwama in J&K; Thoubal in Manipur; Chitradurga in Karnataka; Hoshiarpur in Punjab; Rohtak & Charkhi Dadri in Haryana; Lohit in Arunachal Pradesh; Bhardak and Puri in Odisha; Karimganj, Golaghta, Kamrup Rural, Nalbari & South Salmara in Assam; Jalpaiguri and Kalimpong in West Bengal; and Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
The implementation of the Action Plan is yielding good results in 23 States/UTs across 47 districts. Kodaggu (Karnataka) is a new district that has been added to this list along with Mahe (Puducherry) that has not reported any fresh cases during the last 28 days.
A total of 14,378 Coronavirus confirmed cases have been reported for COVID-19 in the country. As many as 2,014 persons have been cured/discharged after recovery. Coronavirus death toll has increased to 488 in India.
As of now, the mortality rate for COVID-19 is of 3.3%. Further analysis of the data indicates that out of the deceased:
- 14.4% of people are 0-45 years age group
- 10.3% 45 -60 years age group
- 33.1% 60-75 years age group
- 42.2% are from 75 years and above age group
The data shows that 75.3% of the cases belong to above 60 yrs age category. Also it is seen that 83% of cases had co-morbidities. This brings to fore the earlier highlighted facts that elderly people and people with co-morbidities are at higher risk, according to a PIB release.