New Delhi [India], January 8 (ANI): India has reported 18,139 new cases of Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours taking the national Covid-19 case tally to 1,04,13,417 on Friday, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).
India s COVID-19 tally crosses 1.04 crore, over one crore people recovered ANI | Updated: Jan 08, 2021 23:07 IST
New Delhi [India], January 8 (ANI): India has reported a total of 1,04,13,417 COVID-19 cases, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Friday.
These include 20,539 people who have recovered from the deadly infection and 234 people who succumbed in the last 24 hours.
While 1,00,37,398 people have recovered from the novel coronavirus so far, 1,50,570 persons have lost their lives to the virus in the country.
There are 2,25,449 active coronavirus cases in India, as per the Union Health Ministry. Kerala, the worst affected state in the country, has reported 64,639 active cases.
Updated Jan 07, 2021 | 09:33 IST
Growing at around 3 per cent annually, the number of elderly age population will rise to 319 million in 2050, finds Health Ministry survey. About 75 million elderly in India suffer from chronic disease: World’s largest study on the aged | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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New Delhi: A survey has found that about 75 million people above 60 years of age in India suffer from a chronic disease. The findings of the first part of the world’s largest study on the elderly - Longitudinal Ageing Study of India (LASI, Wave 1) - released by the Health Ministry on Wednesday showed that about 40 per cent of th
Overall India has around 2,29 lakh active coronavirus cases (File)
New Delhi:
The Union Health Secretary wrote to the Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Bengal governments on Thursday to underline the need for strict vigil and prompt action to arrest the recent spike in coronavirus cases in each of the states. These four states account for 59 per cent of all active Covid cases in the country, the Health Secretary, Rajesh Bhushan, said in his letter.
The state governments were also warned against allowing testing rates to drop - particularly in light of the spread of a mutated (and considerably more infectious) strain of the virus - and to aggressively implement the Test-Track-Treat strategy deployed by other states.