India reports slight rise in Covid-19 cases with 3,720 infections
The daily positivity rate presently stands at 2.49 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate is at 3.46 per cent.
The daily positivity rate presently stands at 2.49 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate is at 3.46 per cent.
India recorded 3,325 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, 957 less than the count reported on Monday, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
With an alarming positivity rate of nearing 15 per cent covid-19 has already claimed 11 lives including a 15-yearold boy in the state during the last two weeks.
The State clocked 382 freshactive Covid-19 cases at a high7.1 percent test positivity TPR in the last 24 hours,said officials on Monday.
The active caseload stood at 53,720 which is 0.12 per cent of the total cases, the union health ministry said on Saturday.
The drill evoked huge nationwide response with ministers and senior officials reviewing the preparations and capacities of hospitals and facilities.
Haryana on Friday reported 407 fresh Covid-19 cases, the Health Department said in a bulletin.
Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj will hold a meeting with the officers and specialist doctors associated with the health department this afternoon
The country conducted 1,87,983 tests in the last 24 hours and so far a total of 91.07 crore tests have been done.
In a written reply to a query in the Rajya Sabha, Union Ayush Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said overall, 150 clinical, pre-clinical and epidemiological studies have been undertaken by the research councils and national institutes under the Ministry of AYUSH.
