Presenting an analysis of COVID-19 cases and mortality on the basis of age, it also said that 36 per cent of the fatalities reported are in the age group of 45-60 years, 11 per cent in the age group of 26-44 years and 1 per cent each among people aged 18-25 years and those below 17 years.
ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava on Tuesday said "irresponsible" people not wearing masks and maintaining social distancing are driving the coronavirus pandemic in India.
India's coronavirus case fatality rate has continued to see the downward trend as it dropped to 1.93 per cent, the Union health ministry said on Monday. It also said that India's COVID 19 case fatality rate is one of the lowest globally. Meanwhile, the country's recovery rate is nearing 72 per cent.
India reported as many as 65,002 new coronavirus cases and 996 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The country's coronavirus count has risen to 2,526,192 including 6,68,220 active cases, 18,08,936 discharged/migrated and 49,036 deaths.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held consultations with chief ministers of around 10 states on the coronavirus situation. Chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Punjab, Bihar, Gujarat, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh were invited for the virtual meet.
India's COVID-19 tally breached the 20-lakh mark on Thursday, while the recoveries surged to 13.70 lakh, according to data provided by the states and union territories.
Veteran CPI(M) leader from Bengal Shyamal Chakraborty died on Thursday. He was suffering from coronavirus. Chakraborty breathed his last at a hospital in Kolkata today.
Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu are among the six states that have recorded more than one lakh coronavirus cases each since the outbreak of the pandemic. Other states include Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. The country has recorded over 19 lakh cases and nearly 40,000 deaths due to the highly-infectious disease so far.
"On the 17th of July I was supposed to travel from Ludhiana to Mumbai, hence I got myself tested and came to know that I was corona positive," Jasleen wrote on Instagram.
More than 200 researchers, epidemiologists and public health professionals from India and abroad have urged government agencies to release data on registered deaths to understand the mortality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
The UK government on Wednesday announced an early access agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi Pasteur for an estimated 60 million doses of an experimental new vaccine being tested to combat COVID-19.
India coronavirus cases have crossed 14.83 lakh-mark taking confirmed cases tally to 14,83,157 including 4,96,988 active cases, 9,52,744 cured, discharged or migrated and 33,425 deaths, according to health ministry's figures released on Tuesday. The country has witnessed a single-day spike of 47,704 positive cases and 654 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Like many other countries, India is battling a huge health crisis. The coronavirus pandemic has claimed countless lives throughout the world so far. Amid such dark times, what gives India some hope is the falling fatality rate and improving recovery rate.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today launch high throughput (to make large scale repetition testing feasible) COVID-19 testing facilities via video conferencing.
The Centre on Friday advised nine states including Assam, Bihar, Telangana and Odisha to ramp up testing with special focus on containment zones, strictly implement containment plan, augment health infrastructure and ensure effective clinical management of COVID-19 cases.
India coronavirus cases have crossed 12.87 lakh-mark, taking confirmed cases toll to 12,87,945, including 4,40,135 active cases, 8,17,209 recovered and 30,601 deaths, according to health ministry's figures released on Friday.
For the first time in 49 days, Delhi has recorded less than 1,000 new cases of coronavirus suggesting that the national capital might have hit the peak. On Monday, Delhi saw a total of 945 new COVID-19 cases and the number of tests conducted too was the lowest in July, according to a health department bulletin.
Delhi seems to have hit COVID-19 peak, AIIMS Director Dr. Randeep Guleria said on Monday. "Certain areas have hit their peak. Delhi seems to have done so because the cases have declined significantly. Certain areas are yet to reach the peak. Cases are increasing in certain states. They will reach the peak a little later," he said at a press conference today.
After the US, which has carried out a record 42 million COVID-19 tests, India has done the second largest number of 12 million coronavirus tests, the White House has said.
India coronavirus cases have surged to 9.68 lakh-mark, taking confirmed patients toll to 9,68,876 including 3,31,146 active cases 6,12,815 recovered and 24,915 deaths, according to the health ministry's figures released on Thursday.
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