Covid Challenge Not Over Yet, Says Govt; Urges All to be Watchful During Festive Season | Key Points

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Thursday said that the challenge of COVID has not ended yet and urged everyone to make continuous efforts to keep situation in control. "The challenge of COVID

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Updated: October 7, 2021, 5:10 PM IST

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New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Thursday said that the challenge of COVID has not ended yet and urged everyone to make continuous efforts to keep situation in control. “The challenge of COVID has not ended yet. To some extent, we say that we haven’t controlled the second wave of COVID. We need to make continuous efforts” Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry said.

While addressing the media, Lav Agarwal said that there are 28 districts including few in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam which have case positivity rate between 5% & 10% (high infection rate). There are 34 districts which are reporting weekly positivity rate of over 10%.

Lav Agarwal also informed that the overall positivity rate of the country was nearly at 1.68 per cent last week as compared to that of 5.86 per cent earlier. “On an average, 20,000 COVID cases have been recorded daily. Of these 56% cases were reported from Kerala last week” he said.

Here are the key takeaways from health ministry’s briefing:

• Lakshadweep, Chandigarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar and Sikkim have vaccinated 100% of its population with the first dose of vaccine.
• There are 28 districts including few in Arunachal Pradesh & Assam which have case positivity rate between 5% & 10%, that is, high infection rate. There are 34 districts which are reporting weekly positivity rate of over 10%.
• The challenge of COVID has not ended yet. To some extent, we say that we haven’t controlled the second wave of COVID. We need to make continuous efforts.
• There are 5 states – Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram and Karnataka which have over 10,000 active COVID cases.
• Overall positivity rate of the country was nearly at 1.68% last week as compared to that of 5.86% earlier.
• On an average, 20,000 COVID cases have been recorded daily. Of these 56% cases were reported from Kerala last week