Union health minister Harsh Vardhan (ANI photo)
NEW DELHI: Nine states and union territories have not reported any new Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours and the rate of doubling of cases has increased to 12.6 days, union health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday, even as the death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 2,415 and cases climbed to 74,281.
Vardhan, who also reviewed the preparedness of Punjab for managing Covid-19, said Daman and Diu, Sikkim, Nagaland and Lakshadweep have not reported any cases so far.
While the doubling time of cases in the past 14 days was 11, it has improved to 12.6 in the last three days, he said.
“Today, there are nine states and union territories that have not reported any cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours i.e. A&N (Andaman and Nicobar) Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa, Chhattisgarh, Ladakh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram,” Vardhan said, according to a statement.
As the death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 2,415 and the number of cases climbed to 74,281, registering an increase of 122 deaths and 3,525 cases in the last 24 hours till Wednesday 8 am, he said the fatality rate is 3.2 per cent and the recovery rate is pegged at 32.8 per cent.
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