India’s population is comparable to the top 15 countries with COVID19 cases but the former have 34 times more cases as compared to India and 83 times more deaths
Though number of Coronavirus Disease (COVID19) cases in India are rising, the country has not down badly on a global comparison scale. India’s population is comparable to the top 15 countries with COVID cases but the former have 34 times more cases as compared to India and 83 times more deaths, government has said.
Compared to the global scale, where there are 62.3 cases per lakh, India still has only 7.9 cases/ lakh population. Similarly, for mortality per lakh population,while the global average rate is 4.2, India’s figure is pegged at 0.2. The total number of cases in India touched 106750 on Wednesday with 5611 cases being reported in the last 24 hours. 140 more deaths took the total to 3303 even as 42297 people were cured.
About 2.9% of all active cases require Oxygen support; about 3% require ICU support and 0.45% of the active cases under management require ventilator support
Through a graded, pre-emptive and pro-active approach, Government of India is taking several steps along with the States/UTs for prevention, containment and management of COVID-19. These are being regularly reviewed and monitored at the highest level.
India has been relatively able to decelerate the pace of COVID-19 and the impact can been seen in the data of COVID-19 cases. The relatively low death figures represent timely case identification and clinical management of the cases. The focus on clinical management and recovery has resulted in the improvement in the recovery rate.
More than 39.6 % of the confirmed cases have recovered bringing the total to 42,298
recoveries, as of today. This is a reminder that the disease is curable and the clinical
management protocols adopted by India are effective. It is observed in the recovery data that about 2.9% of all active cases under management require Oxygen support; about 3% of the active cases under management require ICU support and 0.45% of the active cases under management require ventilator support. India has concurrently been focusing on upgrading COVID dedicated health infrastructure.
