India records over 34,000 fresh corona cases in a day

India records over 34,000 fresh corona cases in a day

Country also logged the highest 3.61 lakh Covid-19 tests on Friday

FPJ News ServiceUpdated: Sunday, July 19, 2020, 01:17 AM IST
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A medic collects data of patients at CWG Village COVID-19 Care Centre in New Delhi on Saturday. | PTI

New Delhi: India recorded a spike of 34,884 novel coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and 671 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally to 10,38,716 cases with a death total of 26,273, the Health Ministry's data stated on Saturday.

India also recorded the highest 3.61 lakh Covid-19 tests on Friday as against 3.33 lakh the previous day even as the cumulative total of the tests conducted since March reached 1.34 crore, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) reported on Saturday.

As many as 18,994 patients were cured in the past 24 hours but comparatively 16,219 were hospitalised, raising the total persons in the hospital at 3.59 lakh. The recovery rate dipped to 62.94% of the total infected as against 63.33% on the previous day as those cured and discharged stood at 6.54 lakh.

New Delhi (ANI): With one million people getting affected by COVID-19, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) is of the view that community spread has started and the situation is pretty bad. While speaking to ANI, Dr VK Monga, the Chairman of IMA Hospital Board of India said, "This is now an exponential growth. Every day the number of cases is increasing by more than around 30,000. This is really a bad situation.”

There are so many factors connected with it but overall this is now spreading to rural areas. This is a bad sign. It now shows a community spread."

According to the latest update by the Union Health Ministry, the total confirmed cases reached 10,38,716. There are 3,58,629 active cases and 6,53,751 cured/discharged/migrated. A total of 26,273 deaths have been registered to date.

Dr Monga further said, "Cases are penetrating down into towns and villages where it will be very difficult to control the situation. In Delhi, we were able to contain it, but what about interior parts of the country in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Goa, Madhya Pradesh (which may be the new hotspots)?" "All these issues are very important and the state governments should take full care and seek help of the Central government to control the situation," Monga said.

As many as 1,34,33,742 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till July 17. Of these 3,61,024 samples were tested on Friday, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.

ICMR is ramping up testing facilities regularly. At present, 885 government laboratories and 368 private laboratory chains are conducting COVID-19 tests across the country.

"This is a viral disease that spreads very fast. To contain the disease there are only two options. Firstly, 70 per cent population contracts the disease and gets immune, and other is getting an immunisation," stated Monga.

Vaccination, being the greatest hope to contain COVID-19, India's two indigenous vaccine makers would be starting human trials soon.

"There has to be phases of trials then human trial, then efficacy and side effects. Also, importantly it has to be seen how long this immunity will last because most of the patients are unable to go beyond three months of immunity," said Dr Monga.

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