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- Published: July 24, 2020 21:43
New Delhi: A record number of 34,602 people affected with coronavirus have recovered in the past 24 hours. This is the highest number of recoveries in a single day since the outbreak of pandemic in the country.
With this, recovered cases of Covid-19 crossed 8 lakh mark and currently stands at 8,17,209. And the recovery rate improved to 63.45 per cent in the country.
The Government said, the highest number of 49,310 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the country within 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 12,87,945.
Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 4,40,135. In a single day, 740 deaths have been reported taking the nationwide toll to 30,601.
However, the case fatality rate is continuously declining in the country and it reached 2.37 per cent.
Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that a total of 3,52,801 tests of corona virus samples were conducted by the various laboratories within 24 hours.
34,602 Covid patients discharged in 24 hours; total recoveries cross 8 Lakh
The trend of highest ever single day recoveries of COVID-19 patients continues unabated. For the third day in a row, the last 24 hours have recorded another high with 34,602 patients recovering. This has significantly bolstered the total number of recovered patients to cross 8 lakh and currently stands at 8,17,208.
This has strongly boosted the recovery rate to reach a new high of 63.45% among COVID-19 patients.As a result of these constantly growing number of recoveries, the recovered patients outnumber the active cases (4,40,135 today) by 3,77,073.
This difference is showing a progressively growing upward trend. the recoveries are improving and case fatality is continuously falling, which currently stands at 2.38%.
More than 1.5 Cr COVID-19 samples tested so far
More than 1.5 crore COVID samples (1,54,28,170) have been tested, till now. In the last 24 hours 3,52,801 samples have been tested for COVID-19 identification.This translates to 11179.83 tests per million (TPM) for India, which has seen a steady increase since the adoption of this strategy.
The number of labs in the public and private sectors are seeing a progressive enhancement. There are 897 labs in the government sector and 393 private labs.(Total=1290)
Dr. Harsh Vardhan speaks on India’s Covid-19 containment strategy at SCO
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare digitally participated in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Health Minister’s Digital Meet today.
Explaining the steps taken by the government, he said a series of actions were initiated in a graded way that included issuing of travel advisories, point-of-entry surveillance, community-based surveillance, enhancement of laboratory and hospital surge capacities, wide dissemination of technical guidelines on managing different aspects of disease outbreak and communicating risk to the public.
The Union Health Minister spoke on the increase in testing capacity and health infrastructure during the lockdown and after.Dr Harsh Vardhan emphasized how the Indian traditional system of medicine has also contributed substantially in boosting the immunity of general population during COVID-19.He proposed the setting up of a new Sub Group on Traditional Medicine under the existing institutional meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Health Ministers.
Piyush Goyal calls for removing hurdles in access to medicines
Commerce and Industry Minister Shri PiyushGoyal has called for all nations to enhance transparency in their trade and build trust to prevent losing their role as a preeminent trade partner. Addressing the 10th BRICS Trade Ministers virtual Meeting yesterday, he said that for trade to play its part in the recovery process, all the partners must be trustworthy and transparent.
The Minister said that the ongoing crisis has exposed the world to vulnerabilities, forcing us to explore ways to support each other. He said that Trade can be an engine of reviving growth in such a scenario and this is premised on strengthening of the WTO based on its principles of openness, fairness, transparency, inclusivity, and non-discrimination. The Minister called for removing multiple hurdles in access to medicines at affordable prices created by the lopsided WTO rules for protecting intellectual property. He said that IPRs should not block access to critical medicines and other devices required for the treatment of the disease. Shri Goyal said that the pandemic has quite paradoxically provided us with a window of opportunity – to strengthen ourselves by building capacities, expanding manufacturing as well as plugging into the global value chains.
Restrictions on Public Procurement from certain countries
The Government has amended the General Financial Rules 2017 to enable imposition of restrictions on bidders from countries which share a land border with India on grounds of defence of India, or matters directly or indirectly related thereto including national security. Department of Expenditure has issued a detailed Order on public procurement.
As per the Order, any bidder from such countries sharing a land border with India will be eligible to bid in any procurement whether of goods, services (including consultancy services and non-consultancy services) or works (including turnkey projects) only if the bidder is registered with the Competent Authority. The Competent Authority for registration will be the Registration Committee constituted by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. Political and security clearance from the Ministries of External and Home Affairs respectively will be mandatory.
The Order takes into its ambit public sector banks and financial institutions, Autonomous Bodies, Central Public Sector Enterprises and Public Private Partnership projects receiving financial support from the Government or its undertakings. Relaxation has been provided in certain limited cases, including for procurement of medical supplies for containment of COVID-19 global pandemic till 31st December 2020.
