Addressing the media on Monday afternoon, Union Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agrawal stated India is in continuous efforts to control the pandemic and to a great extent, the nation has been successful.
Speaking at the media conference, Lav Agrawal said that "till now, 11,706 people have been cured. In the last 24 hours, 1074 people have been cured. This is the highest number in terms of cured patients noted till date."
Joint Secretary continued with Coronavirus updates from across the country where he mentioned that India has reported a decent recovery rate. " Our recovery rate is now 27.52%. Total number of Covid-19 cases is now 42,533," said Lav Agrawal.
He added that though the recovery rate is commendable, yet the states and country as whole need to maintain self discipline and follow norms of social distancing otherwise cases of Coronavirus will spike to an uncontrollable level.
In pandemics such as Covid-19, historically it has been noted that if social distancing is not respected when social mobility is allowed, chances of disease transmission increase rapidly once restrictions are eased," Union Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agrawal said.
Briefing the media about on aspirational districts, Amitabh Kant, Chairman of Empowered Group 6 stated as of now, there are about 610 cases of Covid-19 in 112 aspirational districts which is considered fairly low at less than 2 per cent of the national level of infections. Of these, six districts have reported first case after April 21."
As of now, more than 42,000 people have been affected by novel Coronavirus. India has 29,453 active cases. While 11,706 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals, 1,376 people have lost their lives in the country till now.