India COVID-19 trend: Least new cases, rising recoveries |
In welcome news, India`s Health Ministry has said on 13th October that India`s trajectory of daily Covid-19 cases has been witnessing a downward trend over the last five weeks. In a statement on social media, the official word is that India is showing a trend of declining average daily cases over the past 5 week. On Twitter a statement with graph showed the daily average figures from the week starting September 9. Government states that the average daily cases between September 9 and September 15 were 92,830. This number came down by 2000 plus to 90,346 between September 16 and September 22. The falling trend continued with 83,232 average new cases between September 23 and September 29. Again, next two cycles showed the average dropped to 77,113 and 72,576. The ministry also pointed towards the declining number of active cases. After a month, on October 9, active cases fell below the 900,000-mark and have steadily followed a downward slope since. On 12th October, there were 861,853 active cases of COVID-19, while the total case load in the country stood at 7,120,538. Over 100,000 people have died of the infection in India during the last over 6 months. The recovery figures are positive. So far 6,149,535 have recovered from the viral infection in home isolation or have been discharged from hospitals. India`s Health Ministry also put out a separate Tweet message saying that that sustained testing efforts was responsible for the encouraging results.
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