Surveillance system for COVID-19 in urban areas should be strengthened and strict perimeter control be maintained in containment zones with Section 144 enforced to ensure people remain in their dwelling units.
Joint Secretary of Health Ministry, Lav Agarwal, along with other government officials briefed media over COVID-19 situation in India.
The Ministry of Health and Family Affairs (MoHFW) has issued revised guidelines for the home isolation of patients with COVID-19 symptoms. The new guidelines are applicable for patients who have either very mild coronavirus symptoms or are in the pre-symptomatic phase. The Health Ministry has reiterated that those patients who fall into such category and have adequate self-isolation facility at their residence will have the option for home isolation.
The health ministry has decided to deploy central teams in 10 states that have witnessed or are witnessing high COVID-19 cases to assist their health departments to facilitate management of the outbreak.
Speaking about the importance of non-COVID-19 healthcare services, Health Ministry informed that they will also ensure people continue to receive such services at both government and private facilities.
Reviewing coronavirus situation in the country, Health Ministry informed that India saw the highest single-day spike so far, with 3,900 new cases and 195 deaths in last 24 hours. "Total number of positive cases of COVID-19 is 46,433.
Total number of positive cases of COVID-19 is 46,433. In last 24 hours there have been 3,900 new cases, 195 deaths and 1,020 people have recovered: Health Ministry
The Health Ministry on May 01 informed that a total of 1,993 COVID-19 positive cases were reported in last 24 hours across the country, taking the tally of confirmed coronavirus cases to 35,043.
Karnataka has over 500 positive coronavirus cases including 21 deaths while 229 patients have recovered. As per the health ministry, the state has three districts which have been indentified as red zones, 13 as organge and 14 have been declared as green zones with no coronavirus cases. Check complete list.
The health ministry has finalised the list of containment zones and decided all major metro cities across the country will remain as 'red zones' even after the lockdown ends on May 3. The ministry has divided 733 districts across India into red, orange and green zones.
The Joint Secretary of Health Ministry, Lav Agrawal, on April 30 briefed the 24 hours report of COVID-19 in the nation.
The Union Health Ministry in its daily press briefing on Thursday informed that the recovery rate of coronavirus cases in the country has improved from 13.06 per cent to 25 per cent in last 14 days.
The plasma therapy being employed in hospitals across the country to treat the symptoms of coronavirus might be producing encouraging results, but it is still in its experimental stages and hasn’t been approved by ICMR
Coronavirus in India: According to a new set of guidelines issued on Monday, the patient should be clinically assigned as a very mild case or pre-symptomatic case by the treating medical officer.
India has so far done testing of over 5,00,542 samples for the suspected coronavirus exposure out of which 21,797 people have tested positive for COVID-19 by 9 am on Thursday, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India's leading medical research lab.
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Till now, there are 18601 positive cases. So far, 3252 people have recovered including 705 people who recovered yesterday. This takes our recovery percentage to 17.48%: Health Ministry
Indian Council of Medical Research on Tuesday said that some variations were seen in rapid test kits and advised all stated to refrain from using rapid test kits for the next two days.
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Containment operations will be scaled down if no secondary positive case of COVID-19 is reported from a quarantine zone for at least four weeks after the last confirmed test has been isolated and all his contacts have been followed up for 28 days, the Union Health Ministry said.
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