Covid-19: Health Ministry says 62% of active cases are from 5 States

Out of total active cases of Coronavirus, 62 per cent come from only five states, a Health Ministry’s release said on September 7. Maharashtra tops the list with 26.76%, followed by Andhra Pradesh (11.30%), Karnataka (11.25%), Uttar Pradesh (6.98%) and Tamil Nadu (5.83%).

Besides, five States - Maharashtra (21.6%), followed by Andhra Pradesh (11.8%), Tamil Nadu (11.0%), Karnataka (9.5%) and Uttar Pradesh (6.3%) - are contributing 60% of total Covid-19 cases in the country.

On a continuous upward trajectory, India’s total recovered cases have crossed 32.5 lakh on September 7, with 69,564 patients being discharged in the last 24 hours. This has resulted in the Recovery Rate touching 77.31%.

The Health Ministry has taken various calibrated and focussed actions within the umbrella strategy of TEST, TRACK and TREAT. This have enabled early identification of cases through aggressive and wide scale testing.

Better ambulance services and seamless point-to-point management of patients to facilitate their timely hospitalisation before their health deteriorates has led to a high number of COVID-19 patients recovering and being discharged from the hospitals.

This has also resulted in the declining Case Fatality Rate, which stands at a new low of 1.70%. Supervised isolation in homes and facility settings, following effective Standard of Care protocol, has hugely aided recovery of mild and moderate cases.

In the last 24 hours, Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest recoveries with 11,915 newly recovered cases. Karnataka and Maharashtra saw 9575 and 7826 recoveries while Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh witnesses 5820 and 4779 new recoveries, respectively. These 5 States together contributed 57% of the recoveries in the last 24 hours.