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New Delhi, July 24
Even as India on Friday saw the highest single-day surge of 49,310 Covid cases, taking the disease load to 12,87,945, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said the death and infection rates in the country were among the lowest in the world.
The trend of the highest single-day recoveries also continued today with record 34,602 patients getting discharged or cured in the past 24 hours and the recovered persons exceeding the infected by 3,77,073. The cure rate now stands at 63.45 per cent with 8,17,208 patients cured or discharged. The case fatality rate has further declined to 2.38 per cent.
Rajesh Bhushan appointed Health Secretary
New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Rajesh Bhushan was appointed Health Secretary on Friday, according to a Personnel Ministry order. He would succeed Preeti Sudan, who was given a three-month extension in April and would demit office on July 31. Bhushan, a 1987-batch Bihar-cadre IAS officer, is on special duty in the Department of Health and Family Welfare under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He was named the OSD in April. — PTI
Speaking at the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Health Ministers' digital meeting today, Vardhan said: "India has so far reported 1.25 million cases and more than 30,000 deaths due to Covid. At 864 cases per million and less than 21 deaths per million of our population, India has one of the world's lowest infection and death rates. Our recovery rate stands at 63.45 per cent and mortality at 2.3 per cent."
No Herd immunity yet, says WHO scientist
London: WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Friday said the concept of "herd immunity" (masses developing antibodies against Covid-19) was still a long way off. She said more waves of infection would be required to get to a stage of natural immunity. PTI
Speaking on the health infrastructure during the lockdown and after, Vardhan said, "India didn't have a single manufacturer of personal protective equipment (PPE) and now the country has developed indigenous capacity to the extent that we can export quality PPEs." He said India's testing per million rose to 11,179.83 today with 1,54,28,170 samples tested so far.
Vardhan emphasised how the Indian traditional system of medicine had contributed substantially in boosting the immunity of general population. He proposed to establish an institutional mechanism within SCO to discuss cooperation in traditional medicine that has the potential to fulfil the WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023.
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