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COVID-19: Daily recoveries continue to outnumber daily new cases
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Last Updated: Dec 30, 2020, 03:29 PM IST
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In a span of 24 hours, 20,549 persons were found to be COVID positive in the country. During the same period, 26,572 new recoveries were registered ensuring a drop in the active caseload, it stated.
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The ministry said that 79.24 per cent of the new cases are from 10 States and UTs.
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NEW DELHI: Daily COVID-19 recoveries in the country have been outnumbering daily new cases from the last 33 days, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
In a span of 24 hours, 20,549 persons were found to be COVID positive in the country. During the same period, 26,572 new recoveries were registered ensuring a drop in the active caseload, it stated.
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New Delhi [India], December 30 (ANI): A total of 20 persons in India have been found with the mutant variant of SARS- CoV-2 virus reported from the United Kingdom, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).
These include the six persons reported earlier three in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, two in CCMB, Hyderabad and one in NIV, Pune.
Government of India has constituted the INSACOG (Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium) comprising 10 labs (NIBMG Kolkata, ILS Bhubaneswar, NIV Pune, CCS Pune, CCMB Hyderabad, CDFD Hyderabad, InSTEM Bengaluru, NIMHANS Bengaluru, IGIB Delhi, NCDC Delhi) for genome sequencing. The situation is under careful watch and regular advice is being provided to the states for enhanced surveillance, containment, testing and dispatch of samples to the INSACOG labs.
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