New Delhi, May 3: With an increase of 2644 cases in last 24 hours, total number of COVID-19 positive cases in India, on Sunday, reached 39,980.
“So far, a total of 10,632 people have been cured. In the last 24 hours, 682 patients were found cured. This takes our total recovery rate to 26.59 per cent”, said an official communiqué from Ministry of Health.
Meanwhile, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said that India has crossed over 10 lakh tests till date and are performing over 74,000 tests in a day presently.
“Government has distributed around 20 lakh PPE kits all over India and supplied medicines to more than 100 countries world over”, he said while visiting Lady Hardinge Medical College to review status of COVID-19 management.
During the visit the Union Minister visited the Director’s office, emergency, OPD, sampling center, COVID block- critical areas on ground and first floor, Red zone area and changing facility for doctors & health workers.
Dr Harsh Vardhan was satisfied to notice that the doctors and health staff manning the facility were provided special bathing, changing and spray facility for disinfecting themselves at Oncology building, the specialised COVID-19 facility.
He lauded the hospital administration’s efforts of regularly talking to its front line health personnel twice a day to deal with the situation effectively.
Dr Harsh Vardhan urged the people to observe the extended period of lockdown 3.0, till May 17, 2020, in letter and spirit and treat it as an effective intervention to cut down the chain of transmission of COVID-19.
He also urged the countrymen not to ostracise the doctors treating COVID-19 patients and not to stigmatise the patients who have won the battle against the deadly virus.
