India logs dip in day-on-day active Covid-19 cases, count below 7 lakh for 2 days

India’s lively caseload of the coronavirus illness (Covid-19) continued to stay beneath 700,000 for the second consecutive day, with 80% of the full new instances being reported from 10 states.

The lively instances now comprise solely 8.71% of the full positive instances of the nation, suggesting that the illness has registered a downward development.

There has been a progressive dip within the day-on-day lively instances through the previous few weeks, with the nation’s lively Covid-19 caseload standing at 6,80,630 until midday on Saturday.

“The declining trend of the active cases is complemented by the unbroken rising number of recovered cases. The total recovered cases have crossed the 70 lakh mark and stand at 70,16,046. The national recovery rate has further improved to 89.78%,” the Union well being ministry mentioned in a press release.

Professor M Vidyasagar, from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, who headed the 10-member authorities committee that just lately made projections about Covid-19 instances and deaths in India, says in his report that the cumulative variety of lively instances might fall beneath 40,000 instances by finish of February subsequent 12 months.

“From about 10 lakh active cases that were reported around mid September, the current active case load has dropped to about 7 lakh, which is a drop of 30% in about a month. So, the numbers are declining.”

“There is a caveat though that all Covid-19 appropriate precautions such as wearing a mask, maintaining hand hygiene and observing physical distancing must be observed without fail. Any form of laxity can result in resurgence of cases,” added professor Vidyasagar.

The whole variety of Covid-19 instances in India are 78,13,542 as on date.

“The continuous decline in active cases is a result of the successful test, treat and track strategy of the Union government that is being implemented in states. The change in the active cases across the states and Union Territories has been varied, indicating different stages in their fight against the global pandemic,” mentioned a well being ministry assertion o Saturday.

The variety of new deaths reported in a day has additionally seen a pointy decline, from about 1,000 new deaths in a day a few month in the past to 605 reported on Saturday. With that the full variety of individuals having succumbed to Covid-19 in India to date stand at 1,17,946.

“The current numbers seem to suggest there is a decline in the disease graph but as we have seen globally this disease have seen multiple peaks. Many countries are seeing the second wave of the disease, and with temperatures dropping and probability of intermingling of people high because of the festive season, it remains to be seen how the virus behaves,” mentioned Dr Vivekanand Jha, government director, George Institute for Global Health India.

“This is a new virus and there is a fair amount of uncertainty involved,” he added.