Action taken on field level yielding positive results
A total of 14,378 confirmed cases are reported for COVID-19 in the country. As many as 1992 persons i.e. is 13.82% of total cases have been cured/discharged after recovery.The implementation of the Action Plan is yielding good results in 23 States/UTs across 47 districts. Kodaggu (Karnataka) is a new district that has been added to this list along with Mahe (Puducherry) that has not reported any fresh cases during the last 28 days. 22 new districts in 12 States have not reported any fresh cases during the last 14 days
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991 fresh confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the country in the last 24 hours taking the total number to 14,378. Out of these, 1,992 patients have recovered and have been discharged from the hospitals, while 480 patients have died.
Briefing media in New Delhi, Health Ministry Spokesman said that mortality rate in the country is around 3.3 per cent due to COVID-19 infection. He said, as per age-wise analysis, it was found that 14.4 per cent death has been reported in age group of 0 to 45 years, 10.3 per cent in the age group of 45 to 60 years, 33.1 per cent between 60 to 75 years and for 75 years and above, the death per cent is 42.2 per cent.
He also informed that 83 per cent death cases had co-morbidity. The Health Ministry official said that the action taken on the field level is yielding positive results as Mahe in Puducherry and Kodagu in Karnataka have not registered any new case in last 28 days.
Besides this, 45 other districts in 23 states have also not registered any new case in last 14 days. The official also informed that 4,291 COVID-19 cases are connected with a single source in Nizamuddin Markaz cluster.