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Press briefing on the actions taken, preparedness and updates on #COVID19

🗓️ Today (June 4, 2021)
🕓4.00 PM
📍 National Media Centre, New Delhi

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A positive trend is noted as continuous decrease in cases taking place over the last 28 days since India reported a peak in cases on 7th May

Almost 68% decline in cases since then

Around 66% cases are coming from 5 states

- Jt. Secretary, @MoHFW_INDIA

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Almost 63% decline in avg. cases recorded at peak

Decline from 3.89 lakh daily cases in 1st-7th May to 1.45 lakh in 29th May-4th June

Progressive decrease in Districts reporting high cases

Now 257 Districts reporting >100 daily cases, down from 538 districts

: @MoHFW_INDIA

✅Decrease in active cases by more than 21 lakhs since the peak on 10th May (decline by 56%)

✅74,707 more recoveries vis a vis new cases in last 24 hours

✅32 States have recorded more Recoveries than reported Daily cases in last 24 hours

: Jt. Secretary, @MoHFW_INDIA

Consistent increase in recovery rate observed since 3rd May when it was 81.8% to 93.1% as on date,

Case positivity is also steadily declining, from 21.62% between 30th Apr-6th May, to 7.27% between 28th May-3rd June

Decreasing trend in positivity in all states

- @MoHFW_INDIA

Larger number of Districts are now reporting less than 5% case positivity

The count increased from 92 districts (week ending 7th May) to 377 districts (week ending 3rd June)

Efforts on containment is reducing positivity

: Jt. Secy, @MoHFW_INDIA

#COVID19 #Vaccination Coverage:

✅22.41 crore vaccine doses given till date

✅2.42 crore people in the age group 18-44 yrs have received the first dose

✅15.86 crore doses given to people aged >45 yrs

: Jt. Secy, @MoHFW_INDIA

Consistent improvement in pandemic situation, data on positivity is encouraging. We are continuing to enforce very-high level of coverage in testing. Now, India has 20,519 #COVID19 cases per million population. World average at 22,181, is still higher than us: Dr Paul, @NITIAayog

#COVID deaths per million:

India is 245 per million population in terms of deaths, world average is 477 per million population

: Dr. V.K. Paul, Member (Health), @NITIAayog

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This (improved) situation has resulted from strong action taken by the people of India, States, Union Govt, districts, municipalities, villages, panchayats, communities and families, above all: Dr. V.K. Paul, @NITIAayog

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Appreciate what is working - we are back to wearing masks more diligently. Testing is more generous. Have imposed restrictions in many districts. There are no crowds/gatherings. This has helped us in containing the Pandemic, it is not automatic decline: Dr. V.K. Paul, @NITIAayog

If we reverse this process (lower guard against #COVID19), the situation can again become unacceptable. If our discipline, containment measures,vaccination scale up, preparedness slackens, the situation can again go into a difficult phase & earlier will be the next wave: Dr. Paul

We have to buy time to ensure that we achieve a high coverage of our vaccination. We also have to continue to enforce the tools of testing, tracking, isolation, wearing mask, containment, self-discipline, avoiding gathering, system preparedness: Dr. V.K. Paul, @NITIAayog

The current situation (decling COVID cases) is a result of combined efforts and this has to be continued in a calibrated away for us to open up; but at the same time we should not allow the virus to overtake us: Dr. V.K. Paul, Member, @NITIAayog

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17.2 Crore people have received atleast one dose of vaccine in India; US is at 16.9 crore

We have overtaken the US in terms of number of people in our country who have received atleast one dose of vaccine

- Dr. V.K Paul, Member (Health), @NITIAayog

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We have covered 43% of 60+ population with one dose of vaccine

Elder the citizen, higher priority for vaccination is for that person, purely because higher the age, higher the risk of an adverse outcome

37% covered in 45+ age group

: Dr. V.K.Paul, Member (Health), @NITIAayog

Stating this, Dr. Paul, Member (Health), @NITIAayog appealed for speed in vaccination of senior citizens and conversely, senior citizens should take the vaccine

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Sero-survey shows that children, particularly those aged till 10-12 yrs, had been infected in the same proportion as adults during the first wave. But, 2-3% of them required hospitalization. It means children mostly have asymptomatic infection: Dr. Paul

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