Health Ministry refutes reports claiming India's COVID-19 death toll 'undercounted'
India | July 14, 2021 13:53 ISTAs per the ministry, as many as 4,11,408 lives have been claimed by the coronavirus since it broke out early last year.
As per the ministry, as many as 4,11,408 lives have been claimed by the coronavirus since it broke out early last year.
The MHA submitted for recording of Covid-19 deaths, that there is a statutory mechanism in place either by way of an Act of Parliament or guidelines having the force of mandate and the law.
India on Wednesday recorded 3,82,315 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 3,780 deaths due to the infection. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry, the country saw a total of 3,38,439 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery toll to 1,69,51,731.
Even as the second wave has caused havoc in the country, the government on May 05 said the third wave is inevitable, while also calling for advance preparations for future spikes in the pandemic. "A phase three is inevitable, given the higher levels of circulating virus but it is not clear on what time scale this phase three will occur.
India on Monday recorded 3,82,315 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 3,780 deaths due to the infection. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry, the country saw a total of 3,38,439 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery toll to 1,69,51,731. The total cases of COVID-19 in India have now mounted to 2,06,65,148, with 34,87,229 active cases, the data showed. The total death toll in the country is now at 2,26,188. A total of 16,04,94,188 people have so far been vaccinated against COVID-19 in India.
The head of the World Health Organisation is calling the recent surge in coronavirus in India “beyond heartbreaking” and says the UN agency has dispatched critical supplies to the subcontinent, including thousands of portable oxygen machines that help patients breathe.
India on Monday recorded 3,52,991 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 2,812 deaths due to the infection. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry, the country saw a total of 2,19,272 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery toll to 1,43,04,382. The total cases of COVID-19 in India have now mounted to 1,73,13,163, with 28,13,658 active cases, the data showed. The total death toll in the country is now at 1,95,123. A total of 14,19,11,223 people have so far been vaccinated against COVID-19 in India.
India on Monday recorded 3,52,991 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 2,812 deaths due to the infection. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry, the country saw a total of 2,19,272 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery toll to 1,43,04,382. The total cases of COVID-19 in India have now mounted to 1,73,13,163, with 28,13,658 active cases, the data showed. The total death toll in the country is now at 1,95,123. A total of 14,19,11,223 people have so far been vaccinated against COVID-19 in India.
Kalawati Bhuria, a Congress MLA in Madhya Pradesh, died at a private hospital here early on Saturday while undergoing treatment for coronavirus
The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday said there is a provision of giving Rs 50 lakh ex-gratia to families of all government, corporations, and other department employees who died due to COVID-19 while working for prevention and treatment of the virus.
The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus.
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the world, it seems a far-off dream.
In the 24-hour period, the country recorded 412 new deaths, taking the total number of fatalities to 1,41,772. The fatality rate stands at 1.45%. The total number of active cases has reached 3,72,293.
The total coronavirus cases mounted to 97,35,850 while the death toll climbed to 1,41,360 with 402 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
India's COVID-19 caseload has gone past 92 lakh with 44,376 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 92,22,217.
According to the ICMR, over 13.17 crore samples have been tested up to November 22 with 10,75,326 samples being tested on Saturday.
Based on its current trajectory, America is hurtling towards an ominous coronavirus death toll of more than 400,000 by next spring, according to the new projections by a predictive model used often by data crunchers in Donald Trump's White House coronavirus task force.
With focussed strategies and calibrated measures, India has sustained its global position of being the country with one of the lowest COVID-19 cases per million and reported deaths per million, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
Brazil has said it registered 290 more Covid-19 deaths, raising the death toll to 150,488.
Thirty-eight new deaths on Monday took Andhra Pradesh's COVID death toll past the 6,000-mark to 6,019.
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