Health Ministry does a U-turn on plasma treatment
Increasing doubling rate
” For the last 14 days, our doubling rate is 8.7, while for the last 7 days, it is 10.2 days. In the last three days, it is 10.9 days roughly,” Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan stated at an interaction with directors/ heads of Department of Bio-Technology, through video-conferencing. He included that no fresh case had been reported in 80 districts in last 7 days and 17 districts had no case in 28 days. “In 47 districts, no case has actually been reported in the last 14 days, while 39 districts have actually not reported a case considering that the last 21 days,” he stated.
Data from the State Health Departments put the across the country death toll at 1007 and the total variety of cases at 31,365, with 22,803 active ones. Maharahstra continued to report the maximum number with over 8,500 active cases.
Gujarat reported 226 new favorable cases, with Ahmedabad alone accounting for 164 in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of the afflicted people in the State to 3,774, a Health Department official stated. Ahmedabad reported its highest single-day deaths with 19 deaths, taking the overall death toll in the State to181
Interactive map of validated coronavirus cases in India
