New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry said Tuesday that Kerala, Delhi, West Bengal and Manipur has shown an increase in the number of coronavirus infection between October 3 and November 3. During the same period, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh reported a decline in the number of coronavirus infections, the Health Ministry added.
At a press briefing, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said there has been a continuous decline in average daily new COVID-19 cases as well as deaths for the last seven weeks. The average daily new cases of COVID-19 have declined from 90,346 recorded between September 16 and September 22 to 45,884 registered between October 28 and November 3, informed Bhushan.
“The average daily new deaths due to COVID-19 have declined from 1,165 recorded from September 16 to September 22 to 513 registered between October 28 and November 3,” Bhushan pointed out.
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“More than 11 crore COVID-19 tests have been conducted so far. The cumulative, weekly and daily positivity rate is constantly declining and stands at 7.4 per cent, 4.4 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively,” the health secretary said.
Asserting that a large part of India’s population was still susceptible to the coronavirus infection, NITI Aayog member (Health) V K Paul, who also heads the National Task Force on COVID-19, urged people to follow COVID-appropriate behaviour and asked people to get themselves tested if they observe any symptom of the viral disease.
“We are susceptible (to the virus) to a very large extent and the situation in America and Europe is showing (that). We don’t know the behaviour of virus completely. So, we need to save the gains that we have earned in our fight against the pandemic till now,” Paul said.