So went on in #Covid_19india press briefing yesterday -In the light of sharp spike of cases of novel coronavirus (COVID19), @ICMRDELHI to release mathematical estimations of the best and the worst possible scenarios @businessline @srinivasanravi
which could play out over the next few months as far as the number of new cases are concerned. By Sunday evening, India had recorded 360 confirmed cases of COVID19, of which 24 recovered, 7 died. Spike of 124 cases as compared to the previous day.
According to academic estimate modelings, India could stare at cases running into few lakhs and few thousands of deaths. #Covid19India #Covid19India
@ProfBhargava said 80 per cent of those who will show COVID19 symptoms - dry cough will be alright with home-based situations and their symptoms will not worsen. 20 per cent of them will have exacerbated symptoms and discomfort of which only 5 percent will require hospitalization
All states have been asked to identify large empty or under-utilised hospitals to prepare separate COVID19 quarantine and isolation set-ups. “Delhi has identified National Cancer Institute in Jhajjhar run by All India Institute of Medical Sciences as a COVID19 hospital set up.
CMR labs have the capacity to run 60,000 to 70,000 diagnostic tests on a weekly basis, it has run 5000 tests weekly for 3 weeks since the outbreak begun. “We have till date tested 15000 samples,” @ProfBhargava @srinivasanravi #Covid_19india
60 private labs had approached ICMR for registrations and their capacities to handle COVID19 samples without it posing a bio-security hazard was being vetted. @businessline @srinivasanravi @ProfBhargava #Covid_19india #Covid19India
