A boy reacts as a healthcare worker takes a swab from him to test for coronavirus at Urban Health care Centre in Ahmedabad on July 21, 2020. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji
Health Ministry explained that these CGRs will include presentation of clinical cases by physicians directly involved in their management.
India’s COVID-19 deaths per million population continues to be among the lowest in the world, the Union Health Ministry reiterated on Tuesday, adding that it is now focused on collecting data and understanding the medical complications that recovered COVID-19 patients are reporting.
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“We are getting complications including compromised and stressed respiratory function besides cardiac, renal and ophthalmological complaints. This is an area we are working on,” Rajesh Bhushan, OSD, Health Ministry told a press conference.
Mr. Bhushan reiterated that India’s case fatality rate has now fallen from 3.36 % on June 17 to 2.43% on July 21 with 10 States doing better (in terms of case fatality rate) than the national average.
“Aggressive testing over a prolonged period of time has en