On Tuesday, the Health Ministry gave a press conference on the current state of the corona virus in the country. The Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Health stated that with each lockdown the percentage of people recovering from infection in our country has increased. Love Aggarwal said that compared to other countries of the world, we have far fewer cases of infection. Apart from this, we are also in a better position in terms of mortality. We are busy doing a fair amount of testing.Love Aggarwal said that 60,490 patients have been completely cured since Kovid 19. The recovery rate was 7.1 percent in March, which has now increased to 41.61 percent. ICMR Director General Dr Balaram Bhargava also arrived at the press conference.

• The recovery rate was around 7 percent when the first lockdown was imposed.
• It increased to 11.24 per cent in the second lockdown and 26.59 per cent in the third lockdown.
• At present, the recovery rate of patients has reached 41.61 percent.
• The situation in our country is much better than other countries of the world.
• The death rate in the world so far has been 4.4 per lakh population, while the country has lost 0.3 people per lakh population.We have 10.7 cases per lakh population.
• The country has also improved in terms of mortality. Earlier the death rate was 3.03 percent, which has now increased to 2.87.
• The Health Ministry said that 50 percent of the deaths from infection occurred in the elderly. The central government is taking full care of the health of the elderly.
• There are 612 labs in the country today, which are testing the corona virus. There are 430 government labs and 182 private labs in the country.
• The country is currently averaging 1.1 lakh tests a day.

Use caution with the use of hydroxychloroquine

• Health workers working to fight the corona virus have been asked to take hydroxychloroquine.
• But some people are suffering from dizziness and vomiting due to its consumption.
• In this regard, ICMR said that due to taking empty stomach medicine, such problem is coming.
• Therefore, always take this medicine only after eating something.
• An ECG should be performed during treatment: ICMR
• However, we have to keep using PPE. We have no relief in that.