Early detection, management improved recovery rate: Centre

NEWDELHI: Early detection and a timely clinical management of Covid-19 cases have resulted in increasing daily recoveries, with the recovery rate of coronavirus patients crossing 60 per cent in the country on Friday, the Union health ministry said.

The recovery rate of Covid-19 patients stands at 60.73 per cent, the ministry said as the number of India’s coronavirus cases soared by over 20,000 in a day for the first time, taking the country’s tally to 625,544, while the death toll due to the disease climbed to 18,213 with 379 new fatalities.

“Early detection and timely clinical management of Covid-19 cases have resulted in increasing daily recoveries. During the last 24 hours, a sharp rise of recoveries was observed with 20,033 Covid-19 patients having been cured, taking the cumulative figure to 379,891,” the ministry said in a statement.

Presently, there are 227,439 active coronavirus cases in the country and all are under medical supervision, it added.

A high-level review meeting

› Coordinated efforts at all levels...for prevention, containment and management of Covid-19 are showing good results with a consistently increasing gap between recoveries and active cases

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on Covid-19 preparedness was held by the cabinet secretary with the states and Union territories on Friday, the ministry said.

“Coordinated efforts at all levels of government for prevention, containment and management of Covid-19 are showing good results with a consistently increasing gap between recoveries and active cases,” the ministry said.

Meanwhile, the ministry was all praises for Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in Karnataka who, it said, have emerged as a “crucial pillar in the state’s success” in combating

Covid-19.

Acknowledging and praising their work, the ministry said they have been actively participating in household surveys in the state, screening inter-state passengers, migrant workers and others in the community for symptoms of the infection, “Around 42,000 ASHAs have emerged as a crucial pillar in the state’s success” in combating Covid-19, the ministry said.

“Recognizing the increased vulnerability of certain population groups to Covid-19, in a onetime survey to identify households with the elderly, persons with co-morbidities, and immune-compromised individuals, about 1.59 crore households were covered,” the ministry said in a statement.

ASHAs regularly monitor such high-risk groups in their area with periodicity of follow-up visits varying from once a day in the containment zones to once every 15 days in other areas, it said. ASHAs are trained female community health activists selected from the village itself and accountable to it. They are trained to work as an interface between the community and the public health system.