Govt: Covid-19 fatalities in India mainly due to late-reporting hospital patients.
Key sentence:
- Deaths occur mostly because patients arrive late at the hospital, claim government experts.
- India’s disease trajectory indicates that both the number of new deaths and new cases registered daily have been gradually decreasing.
- India recorded fewer than 20,000 new cases on Monday after nearly 173 days.
- As there have been several waves of disease already, there is absolutely no need to lower our guards yet.
Compared to other nations, fewer patients die in India because of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), and deaths occur mostly because patients arrive late at the hospital, claim government experts.
The death count per million:
Currently, the nation’s deaths per million population related to Covid-19 stands at 106, although global estimates indicate that 216 patients per million population die from Covid-19 in contrast.
As Dr VK Paul stated during media briefing:
The number of deaths is low, and our research indicates that most of the positive cases, which are serious, are later in the hospital, when their condition has begun to deteriorate quite a bit.
“In order to avoid risks, it is important to get tested as well as seek medical help in time,” said Dr VK Paul, in Tuesday’s Covid-19 update media briefing.
India’s disease trajectory indicates that both the number of new deaths and new cases registered daily have been gradually decreasing.
Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary stated:
In India, we are currently seeing 7,300 cases per million population, as well as global estimates, show 9,600 cases per million population being registered. “Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary, said, “That goes on to demonstrate that the nation has managed to contain the disease very well.
A summary of the statistics from the past seven days on Covid-19 cases per million indicated that the average daily new cases decreased from about 46,000 between 4 to 10 November to around 24,000 around 16 to 22 December during the week.
Decline in cases:
India recorded fewer than 20,000 new cases on Monday after nearly 173 days, and the Ministry of Health credits the steady decline in numbers as well as deaths to sustained ground-level efforts by both central and also state governments.
As Senior health ministry stated:
Expert teams have been sent to states recording a higher caseload to help governments handle the situation on the ground. Experts should check for areas that require special attention and prepare mitigation plans accordingly.
All that has succeeded in getting the numbers down overall, and the outcome is here for all to see,” said a senior health ministry official.
Having said that, as there have been several waves of disease already, there is absolutely no need to lower our guards yet. Together with people observing Covid-appropriate actions, the monitoring and other steps will continue, which is absolutely important to reduce the transmission rate,” the official added.
