In the last 24 hours, 1,553 COVID-19 cases and 36 deaths were reported in the country, the Health Ministry said in its daily media briefing on Monday.
Since yesterday there have been 1553 additional confirmed #COVID19 cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 17265. 36 more deaths also reported in the last 24 hours: Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry https://t.co/44l4tVNBMb pic.twitter.com/eE0H59PB3L
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Here are the key takeaways:
– So far, 2,546 people have been cured and the recovery rate is 14.75 %
– In the last seven days, doubling time is now 7.5 days which was 3.4 days before the lockdown: Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry.
– COVID-19 growth has declined in Odisha and Kerala. Doubling time is more than 30 days in these two states – Odisha – 39.8 days and Kerala – 72.2 days.
– The number of districts where no case has been reported in the last 14 days has increased to 59. Goa is now COVID-19 free.
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– Union Home Ministry wrote to Kerala government yesterday, expressing concerns over modified guidelines regarding lockdown issued by the later. Kerala has allowed some activities that violate the ministry’s instructions issued under the Disaster Management Act: MHA
– The Home Ministry has constituted six inter-ministerial teams to analyse major hotspots: Punya Salila Srivastava, Joint Secretary, Home Ministry
– The government has hiked MNREGA wages in the wake of COVIDー19 pandemic, the average increase is Rs 20
– Out of 100 coronavirus patients, 80% are asymptomatic or show mild symptoms: ICMR