Covid cases are increasing in Punjab, Haryana & Rajasthan: Health Ministry

Addressing a press conference on the state of covid-19 in the country, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said, on average, there were 43,152 covid-19 cases that were reported every day.

Yogita S.
Published on: 1 Dec 2020 11:41 AM GMT
Covid cases are increasing in Punjab, Haryana & Rajasthan: Health Ministry
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New Delhi: The Health Ministry has shared some information about the corona virus in the country. The biggest thing was said that the cases of corona are increasing once again in Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana. The Health Ministry has appealed to the people to wear masks in crowded areas. Also take care of distance and wash hands frequently.

Approx 44 thousand new cases came everyday:

At the same time, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday that the number of cures after covid-19 infection in November was more than average cases. Addressing a press conference on the state of covid-19 in the country, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said, on average, there were 43,152 covid-19 cases that were reported every day in November. In comparison, the number of people recovering everyday was 47,159.

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Apart from this, it was reported that more than 14 crore covid-19 tests have been done in India so far and the national positivity rate is 6.69 percent. Bhushan said that the positivity rate in the country on November 11 was 7.15% and on December 1 it has increased to 6.69%.

He said that even today, India has the lowest number of cases per million people in big countries of the world. There are many countries where there are eight times more cases per million people than India. Our death per million is the lowest in the world.

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After a total of 88,47,600 people became infection free in the country, the recovery rate of patients increased to 93.81 percent. The death rate from Corona is 1.45 percent. The number of people under treatment in the country for the 20th consecutive day is less than half a million.

According to the data, 4,46,952 people are currently being treated in the country. This is 4.74 percent of the total cases. In India, the number of infected people had crossed 20 lakh on 7 August. 30 lakh on 23 August and 40 lakh on 5 September. At the same time, the total cases had crossed 50 lakh on 16 September. 60 lakh on 28 September, 70 lakh on 11 October, 80 lakh on 29 October and 90 lakh on 20 November.

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Yogita S.

Yogita S.

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