India recorded 18,732 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking its total to 1,01,87,850. This is the lowest daily count in nearly six month...
India recorded 18,732 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking its total to 1,01,87,850. This is the lowest daily count in nearly six months, according to NDTV. As many as 97,61,538 people have recovered from the infection so far.
Around 2.78 lakh are active cases, the health ministry said. A total of 1,47,622 people have died of the coronavirus in the country, with 279 of those deaths reported in 24 hours, the data showed.
The National Task Force on Covid-19 on Saturday held a meeting to discuss testing, treatment and surveillance strategies, in view of the emergence of a new variant strain of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom.
The task force concluded that there was no need to change the existing treatment protocol in view of mutations emerging in the strain, a release by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated.
The health ministry, which took into consideration the recommendations of the experts, said that since Indian Council For Medical Research had always advocated the use of two or more gene assays for testing Sars-CoV-2, it was unlikely to miss infected cases using the current testing strategy.
At the same time, it was emphasised that since the new strain is believed to cause increased transmissibility of the virus, it...
