India beats back the deadly second wave
by Staff Reporter
26 May 2021
- India’s Active Caseload further declines to 24,95,591
- At 2.08 million Cases, the declining trend in new cases is maintained
- A decrease of 91,191 in Active Cases in the last 24 hours
- 2,43,50,816 total Recoveries across the country so far. Nearly 300,000 patients recovered during last 24 hours.
- Daily Recoveries continue to outnumber Daily New Cases for 13th consecutive day
- Recovery Rate further increases to 89.66%
- Highest ever 2.2 million Tests conducted in a single day
- Weekly Positivity Rate currently at 11.45%
- Daily Positivity Rate currently at 9.42%; less than 10% for 2 consecutive days
- Nationwide Cumulative Vaccination Coverage crosses landmark of 200 million
- 12 Oxygen Expresses with 969 MT of LMO beat tough weather & cyclone to take relief to the Nation from the Eastern States
India has recorded less than 3 lakh Daily New Cases for ten consecutive days now. 2,08,921 Daily New Cases were registered in the last 24 hours. Cumulatively, the Active Caseload has also now reduced to 24,95,591. Active Cases have decreased since the last peak on 10th May 2021. A net decline of 91,191is witnessed in the last 24 hours. It now comprises 9.19% of the country's total Positive Cases.
India’s Daily Recoveries continue to outnumber the Daily New Cases for the 13th consecutive day. 2,95,955 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours. 87,034 more recoveries during the last 24 hours as compared to the daily new cases. India’s cumulative recoveries have reached 2,43,50,816 today with the 2,95,955 patients who have recovered in the last 24 hours. The National Recovery Rate has grown further to touch 89.66%.
On another front, the highest ever single-day tests 22,17,320 were conducted in the last 24 hours in the country and cumulatively 33,48,11,496 tests have been done so far. The Weekly Positivity Rate is currently at 11.45% while the Daily Positivity rate has reduced and now stands at 9.42% today. It has remained less than 10% for 2 consecutive days now.
India has achieved a new milestone in its vaccination drive as the cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has exceeded 200 million under Phase-3 of the Nationwide Vaccination Drive. A total of 20,06,62,456 vaccine doses have been administered through 28,70,378 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today. These include 97,96,058 HCWs who have taken the 1st dose and 67,29,213 HCWs who have taken the 2nddose, 1,51,71,950 FLWs (1stdose), 83,84,001 FLWs (2nddose), 1,29,57,009 beneficiaries under 18-44 age group (1stdose), 6,20,88,772 (1stdose) and 1,00,30,729 (2nd dose) beneficiaries aged 45 to 60 years. 5,71,35,804 1stdose beneficiaries and 1,83,68,920 2nd dose beneficiaries of more than 60 years old.
India achieved a significant milestone in its ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive. On the 130th day of the drive, the cumulative COVID Vaccination Coverage crossed the 20 crore mark (with 20,06,62,456 doses including 15,71,49,593 first dose and 4,35,12,863 second dose of COVID-19 vaccines), as per data available at 07:00 AM today. India’s COVID-19 Vaccination drive, the world’s largest vaccination drive so far, was launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 16th January 2021. India is the second country after the USA to achieve this coverage in just 130 days. The USA took 124 days to reach the 20 crore mark.
The government of India has so far provided, both through the free of cost category and through direct state procurement category, more than 22 crore vaccine doses (22,00,59,880) to States/UTs.Of this, the total consumption, including wastages is 20,13,74,636 doses (as per data available at 8 AM today). More than 1.77 crore COVID Vaccine doses (1,77,52,594) are still available with the States/UTs to be administered.
Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Shri D.V SadanandaGowda announced that the additional 29,250 vials of Amphotericin- B drug, used in the treatment of Mucormycosis, have been allocated to all the States/UTs today. Earlier, additional 19,420 vials of Amphotericin- B were allocated on 24th May and 23,680 vials of the drug were supplied across the country on 21st May.
The government of India has been receiving international cooperation of COVID-19 relief medical supplies and equipment since 27th April 2021 from different countries/organizations. These are being promptly dispatched/delivered to the States and UTs. Cumulatively, 17,831 Oxygen Concentrators; 18,111 Oxygen Cylinders; 19 Oxygen Generation Plants; 13,489 ventilators/ BiPAP; ~6.9 L Remdesivir vials, ~12L Favipiravir tablets delivered/ dispatched through road and air, from 27th April 2021 to 25th May 2021.
Indian Railways is continuing its journey of bringing relief by delivering Liquid Medical Oxygen(LMO) to various states across the country. So far, Indian Railways has delivered more than 17945 MT of LMO in more than 1080 tankers to various states across the country. lt may be noted that 272 Oxygen Expresses have completed their journey so far and brought relief to various States. In a scale-up of operations which continued till late yesterday night, 12 Oxygen Expresses with 969 MT of LMO started their journeys from Cyclone hit the Eastern States and beat tough weather to take relief to the Nation. These 12 Oxygen Expresses include 3 trains for Tamil Nadu, 4 trains for Andhra Pradesh, and 1 each for Delhi region, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam & Kerala.
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