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PM Modi chairs high level meeting amid increasing cases of Covid 19

Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a high-level review meeting on the status of Covid-19 and preparedness in the public health sector. Home Minister Amit Shah, Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of State for Health Bharti Praveen Pawar, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, ICMR’s Rajiv Behl, VK Paul from NITI Aayog, Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, PMO officials and others were present in the meeting.

For the last few days, an increase in the cases of corona is being seen in the country. According to the data released by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday morning, 1134 new cases have been confirmed. After this the number of active cases has increased to 7026.

According to the data released by the Union Health Ministry, 4 crore 46 lakh 98 thousand 118 cases of Covid-19 have been registered in the country so far. On Tuesday (March 21), one patient each died due to the corona epidemic in Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and the southern state of Kerala. After this, till now the death toll from Covid has reached 5 lakh 30 thousand 813.

What do the figures of the Ministry of Health say?

According to the information given by the Union Health Ministry, the daily positive rate is currently 1.09 percent and the weekly positive rate is 0.98 percent. The number of people recovering from corona is increasing continuously. Now the recovery rate in the country has increased to 98.79 percent. While the death rate remains at 1.19 percent. At the same time, active cases comprise 0.01 percent of the total infections.

According to the information available on the website of the Ministry, under the nationwide vaccination campaign, about 220.65 crore doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccines have been given so far.

Increasing cases of corona raised concern

On Tuesday, there were 699 new cases of corona in the country, while 2 people died during this period. That is, 435 more new cases of corona have been reported in the country on Wednesday as compared to Tuesday. According to the data released by the Ministry of Health, 662 people have defeated Corona in the last 24 hours.

After the arrival of new cases, the number of active cases of corona has increased to 7026 in the country. In this way, a rise of 466 has been recorded in the number of active cases in the last 24 hours.

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