NEW DELHI: As against the global average of 6.04, India has one Covid-19 death per lakh population which is one of the lowest in the world, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday, and credited timely detection of cases, extensive contact tracing and effective clinical management for the low mortality rate.
Till date, 14,011 people have died in India due to the viral infection with 312 fatalities reported in 24 hours till Tuesday 8am, while 14,933 new instances of the disease took the total caseload to 4,40,215.
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- Nearly 3000 of the 50,000 ‘Made in India’ ventilators sanctioned under the PM CARES fund to help Covid-19 patients have been manufactured and over 1,300 have been delivered to various states, an official statement said on Tuesday.
- On May 14, the PM CARES Fund Trust had decided to allocate Rs 3,100 crore for the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and the amount was to be used, among other things, to purchase ventilators and caring for migrant workers.
- The Indian Council of Medical Research informed that over 71 lakh Covid-19 tests were conducted by various laboratories across the country, including 1,87,223 tests on June 22. so far, 71,37,716 tests have been conducted.
- The Ayush ministry has asked yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved to provide at the earliest the composition and other details of the medicine it claimed is for the treatment of Covid-19, and ordered the firm to stop advertising the product until the “issue” is examined. Patanjali Ayurved has launched the ‘˜Coronil and Swasari’ medicine with the claim that it has discovered a cure for Covid-19.
- The Centre and the CBSE informed the Supreme Court that an expert body is in the process of taking the final decision “very shortly”, hopefully by Wednesday, on whether to scrap the remaining exams of Class XII scheduled from July 1-1