1919 COVID-19 hospitals, 21,800 ICU beds: Govt

April 17, 2020 16:35

The Union Health Ministry press briefing: -- In 19 states and Union Territories, COVID-19 case doubling rate is less than national average. These include Kerala, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Ladakh, Puducherry, Delhi, Bihar, Odisha, TN, Andhra Pradesh , UP, Punjab, Assam, Tripura etc .

-- Before lockdown, doubling rate of COVID-19 cases was about 3 days, but according to data in the past 7 days, the doubling rate of cases now stands at 6.2 days.

-- We have been witnessing average growth factor at 1.2 since April 1 which stood at 2.1 (average) between March 15 & March 13. Hence, there is 40 per cent decline in average growth factor even as we increased COVID-19 testings.

-- All our actions are focused on speeding up vaccine development. We are working on recombinant BCG, convalescent plasma therapy, monoclonal antibodies to fight COVID19.

-- 1007 new COVID-19 cases, 23 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. The ratio between recovered COVID-19 patients and deaths stands at 80:20.

- There are 1,919 dedicated COVID-19 hospitals with 1.73 lakh isolation beds, 21,800 ICU beds readied in India.

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