India’s total recoveries cross the landmark milestone of 50 lakh in just 11 days, said Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday. The Ministry also informed that recovered cases have outpaced active cases by over five times.
Even though the number of new infections per day has fallen over the last few days, India is all set to become the second country after the United States to cross the six million Covid-19 case mark. Moreover, the number of deaths due to the disease is slowly inching towards the one-lakh mark.
Monday stats:
India’s Covid-19 tally galloped past 60-lakh
New cases- 82,170
Total cases- 60, 74,702,
Deaths- 1,039
Death toll- 95,542
Active cases- 9, 62,640
Recoveries- 74,893
Total recoveries- 50,
16,520
‘Punjab traces 7.6 contacts of each
Corona positive patient’
In a press communiqué issued, Punjab health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said that Punjab is far ahead from Himachal, Bihar and many states in terms of contact tracing.
To break the chain of Covid-19, the Health department (Punjab) has braced up its efforts for contact tracing drive under which 7.6 contacts of every Covid person have been traced and tested in the last week.
Sidhu said that tracing of contact persons (all household members, social contacts contact at workplace) and early sampling/testing are significant ways to curb further spread of the virus till vaccination hasn’t come.
To accomplish this target, District level teams (comprising various departments) designated by the Deputy Commissioners are working on war footing across the state, he said. A nodal officer of the rank of Additional Deputy Commissioner has reviewed the progress of teams deputed at urban zones. In addition to this, block level teams have also been formed under SDMs to cover rural areas coordinating with the respective Senior Medical Officer.
Sharing figures regarding contact tracing in the last seven days (September 20 to September26), Sidhu stated that Amritsar leads by tracing 9.7 contact persons of Covid patients. Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur follow Amritsar with 9.2 and 9.0, respectively. He said that nine districts, namely Gurdaspur, Patiala, Pathankot, Faridkot, Sangrur, Kapurthala, Mukatsar, Tarn Taran and Fatehgarh Sahib have also traced above 8 contacts of every corona positive patient. On Sunday, Punjab recorded 50 deaths and 1,458 Covid cases, taking the death toll to 3,238 and total case count to 1, 10,106.
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