Glimpses of how Indians are coping with the pandemic.
We cannot predict tomorrow, Health Minister Mandaviya said.
A total 77,65,966 people have recuperated from COVID-19 so far, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.32 per cent, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.49 per cent.
There is no immediate need for imposing lockdown or additional restrictions in Mumbai as the bed occupancy rate, oxygen requirement and number of Covid-19 deaths are low, municipal commissioner Iqbal Chahal said on Friday.
Niclosamide, a drug on the World Health Organisation's list of essential medicines, has been used to treat tapeworm infestation for more than 50 years. The oral antiviral drug was also used to treat patients during the SARS outbreak of 2003-04.
India saw record 4,529 fatalities due to coronavirus in a single day pushing the COVID-19 death toll to 2,83,248, while 2,67,334 fresh infections were recorded taking the total tally of cases to 2,54,96,330, according to the Union health ministry data.
The number of active cases remained below 5 lakh for the sixth consecutive day. There are 4,65,478 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country as on date which comprise 5.26 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
Less than 50,000 new cases of the coronavirus infection have been reported in the country in a span of 24 hours, whereas the daily new recoveries have exceeded 54,000.
The number of active cases has reduced to 17,13,413, accounting for 6.02 per cent of the total number of cases.
The number of active cases remained below 5 lakh for the fifth consecutive day.
This is the sixth consecutive day that COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 45,000.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7.
'The USA crossed 50,000 deaths in 23 days, Brazil in 95 days and Mexico in 141 days. India took 156 days to reach this national figure'
The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients was recorded at 64.44 per cent, while the fatality rate was at 2.21 per cent.
With 1,73,195 cases, Maharashtra has the highest number of active cases.
'And they are going to be milder because we are dealing with the vaccinated and are much richer in terms of the immune response in the population.'
'It might get worse. We don't really know what is it that is resulting in the high value of R now.'
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