New Delhi, Aug 11: The country on Tuesday saw a drastic drop of 8463 cases, recording 53,601 cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the stock of 10 most-affected states of the country.
On Monday, the country had reported 62,064 cases. Health experts, across the nation, termed this drop as a ‘hope amidst despair,’ after the peninsular nation witnessed a long spell of massive single-day spikes.
The Prime Minister spoke to the Chief Ministers and representatives of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Punjab, Bihar, Gujarat, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh via video-conferencing, to discuss the current situation and plan the strategy for tackling the global pandemic.
He said that if the virus was defeated in these states, the entire country would emerge victorious in this battle.
Containment, contact tracing and surveillance are the most effective weapons in this fight, Mr Modi added.
‘People have become aware and are ably assisting these efforts, as a result of which, we have been successful in using home quarantine so effectively,’ said the Prime Minister.
The fresh cases include BJD Khandapada MLA and Editor of Odia daily Sambad Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, as well as famous Urdu poet Rahat Indori.
However, the country’s COVID recovery rate improved to 69.80 per cent, after 47,746 patients were cured or discharged in the past 24 hours, according to the Health ministry data.
So far, the total number of patients, who have defeated the disease, stand at 15,83,490.
The active case load on the country at present was 6,39,929, while 45,257 people have succumbed to the virus with 871 fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours.
