Govt urges Covid safety as states begin unlock

June 28, 2021 16:31

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan has strongly reiterated the importance of COVID appropriate behaviour as states unlock in a calibrated manner after a significant decline in active coronavirus cases as well as a steady increasing recovery rate.

Addressing the 29th meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 situation in the country, which he chaired, Dr Vadhan on Monday gave a snapshot of India's efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic at the outset.

"In the last 24 hours we have had only 46,148 cases making the active caseload decline significantly to 5,72,994 in the country. The recovery rate has been steadily increasing and stands at 96.80 per cent today. 58,578 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours," Vardhan said.

The Union minister pointed out that "Today is the 46th day in succession where our daily recoveries outnumbered new cases. Our case fatality rate has been 1.30 per cent, daily positivity rate at 2.94 per cent and weekly positivity rate also stands at 2.94 per cent which has been consistently below 5 per cent for 21 days now."

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