India Cross 1 Million COVID-19 Cases!
With the highest spike in new COVID-19 cases of nearly 35000 in the last twenty-four
hours India crossed the 1 million or 10 lac mark. Although the number of deaths
was also the highest at 687 in the same period the overall death rate further deceased
to around 2.5% with a little more than 25000 deaths so far. The number of
recovered patients is almost 6,50,000, recovery rate reaching almost 65%, which is really the silver-lining in the
nation’s fight against the killer virus. This means that the number of active infections
still hovers around 300000 which is not a cause of great worry for the national
healthcare infrastructure as we have maintained earlier also, provided the
spike does not get out of control in near future. The states, mostly contributing
to the rising number of new cases, are Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi,
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar (showing
an increasing trend in recent days), Gujarat, Odisha and Assam.
At various points of the Coronavirus invasion in India it seemed that the
peak has been reached in Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu due to declining
trends shown; however, the figures proved to be fluctuating—showing decreased
numbers for one or two days and then rising again, even crossing another
landmark of high new cases, instead of persisting with a steady decline thus
flattening the curve. This, we pointed out earlier too, is mainly because of
COVID tests being ramped up all over the country which is still going on, and
the phenomena of Unlock plans being implemented in almost all fields of
activity in most places and the scattered lockdowns of various duration in
various places/regions being imposed haphazardly, alarmed by heavy spikes. It must
be said that the national lockdown was not taken seriously both by the people
and the governments of several states, and now, they must understand that
imposing lockdown whenever cases rise is not the solution at all. The solution
that has been continuously advised by the World Health Organization amounts to
enforcement of strict norms like wearing masks and social distancing at all times
and everywhere once out of the homes. The strict restrictions must be followed
not only India, but all over the globe till a safe and a complete vaccine is discovered
and efficiently distributed.
Meanwhile, the state of Assam has taken an initiative, the first of its kind in the country, of inviting
recovered COVID patients from other states to come to Guwahati as state guests
and donate their blood plasma to the plasma bank set up there. The state’s Health
Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, disclosed
this in a press conference in Guwahati yesterday. Plasma collected from one recovered
COVID patients can help treating and possibly curing two serious COVID patients,
the minister added. He further said that Assam is the only state in the country
that offers totally free COVID tests in all labs and free stay and food at the
government quarantine centers. Dr. Sarma paid rich tributes to the doctors and
healthcare workers of the state who are working day and nights to save lives,
getting infected with the virus in the process and not only coming back to dedicated
work again after the treatment, but also donating their blood plasma to save
more lives. As per the latest information Odisha has made plasma therapy
treatment absolutely free in the state.
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