Coronavirus In India: According to the Union Health Ministry, 42,625 new cases have been reported in India in the last 24 hours. At the same time, 36,668 people were discharged. 562 people have died in this period.
New Delhi. The sequence of ups and downs in the finding of new cases of Coronavirus in India is going on in the country. On Tuesday, where the decline in infection cases reached 30 thousand after 6 days, on Wednesday, more than 42 thousand new cases have come. According to the Union Health Ministry, 42,625 new cases have been found in India in the last 24 hours, while 36,668 people have been discharged. 562 people have died in this period. After the update in the figures, the total number of cases has gone up to 3,17,69,132. At the same time, the number of people who have recovered from the infection has gone up to 3,09,33,022. The death toll due to Covid has reached 4,25,757. It was told that there are currently 4,10,353 active cases in the country. Talking about vaccination, so far 48,52,86,570 people have been vaccinated. Out of this, 62,53,741 doses have been given in the last 24 hours.
The ministry said that 29,43,889 people in the age group of 18-44 were given the first dose of the vaccine and 3,87,076 people in this category were given the second dose. Since the start of the third phase of vaccination, 16,34,85,422 people in 37 states and union territories in this age group have been given the first dose and a total of 98,23,204 people have been given the second dose, the ministry said. In Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh, people in the age group of 18-44 have been given more than one crore doses of the vaccine.
The ministry said that more than 10 lakh beneficiaries in the age group of 18-44 in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Kerala, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal have been given anti-COVID-19 vaccines. the dose has been given. On the 200th day of the vaccination campaign, a total of 62,53,741 doses of vaccine were given. The ministry said that 40,41,132 beneficiaries were given the first dose and 11,10,759 beneficiaries were given the second dose.
Covid-19 'reproductive' number more than one in eight states: Government
Earlier on Tuesday, the government said that the 'reproductive number' showing the spread of Covid-19 is one in eight states including Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu and Kerala is more than. The 'reproductive number' or 'R value' refers to how contagious a disease is, that is, how many more cases can be caused by one case. A number above one or below indicates a slow spread of the virus, while any number above one indicates a rapid spread. Health Ministry Joint Secretary Luv Agarwal said in a press conference that the global pandemic is still far from over and as far as India is concerned, the second wave is still not over.
He said that in 44 districts of 12 states and union territories, the weekly infection rate of coronavirus has been more than 10 percent for the week ended August 2. He said that 18 districts in six states, including Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh, have seen increasing new daily cases of Covid in the last four weeks. Agarwal told that last week, 49.85 percent of the total cases of coronavirus infection were reported from Kerala.
The government told - how the pace of vaccination increased
The government also said that the total number of vaccines for Kovid-19 administered in July is more than twice that of the vaccines given in May. Dr. VK Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog said, 'Delta form is widespread in our country and is a major problem. The pandemic is still raging and we are concerned that the R numbers are rising in some states, indicating that the virus wants to spread and we must stop it.'
Elaborating on how the pace of vaccination has increased, Agarwal said that India has crossed the 300 million mark in 159 days. After this, it took 24 more days to reach the figure of 40 crores and 40 crore doses were given in 183 days and 45 crore doses were given in another 11 days. Aggarwal said that seven states, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal have given more than three crore doses.