Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) reported on Thursday reported that the country has maintained a steady rate of COVID-19 positive cases which is 3%-5% over the past month and half and has not shown a significant increase in the number of positive cases.
The country right now has 5,865 confirmed cases and 169 deaths. This includes 591 new cases and 20 deaths in the last 24 hours, Joint Secretary in the Union Health Ministry Lav Agrawal reported. He added that 473 people had recovered and been discharged till date.
The ICMR noted that 1,44,910 samples from 1,30,792 individuals had been tested till now. Of these, 5,734 samples tested positive till date. “Positivity rate ranges between 3%-5% with no major increase. On Wednesday, we tested 13,143 samples.” said ICMR official Manoj Murkehar.
The Indian Council of Medical Research notes that 1,44,910 samples from 1,30,792 individuals had been tested as on April 9.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday said the country has maintained a steady rate of COVID-19 positive cases — 3% to 5% over the past month and half — and has registered no significant increase in this trend so far.
The country currently has 5,865 confirmed cases and 169 deaths. This includes 591 new cases and 20 deaths in the last 24 hours, Joint Secretary in the Union Health Ministry Lav Agrawal said at the daily press briefing. He added that 473 people had recovered and been discharged so far.
The ICMR noted that 1,44,910 samples from 1,30,792 individuals had been tested as on April 9. Of these, 5,734 samples tested positive till date. “Positivity rate ranges between 3%-5% with no major increase. On Wednesday, we tested 13,143 samples,’’ said ICMR official Manoj Murhekar.
Dr. Murhekar informed that the Council was in the final stages of charting up a protocol for trial on convalescent plasma therapy, for which approvals have to be taken.
“In this therapy, plasma from a COVID-19 recovered patient is transfused into an infected severely ill patient so that the specific antibodies in the blood of the recovered patient can help fight the infection. This is done for very ill patients on ventilators and has given good results in some studies abroad,” he said.
State Health Departments reported that the nationwide death toll touched 205 on Thursday. The number of active cases as on
April 9 were 5,815. Maharashtra is leading the pack both in number of active cases (1,142) and number of deaths (97).Tamil Nadu reported 799 active cases, with 96 new cases, while Delhi has 683 active cases with more three deaths since Wednesday.
