COVID-19 Update: India ranks 2nd in COVID-19 cases Worldwide
As announced by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India’s death toll crosses 71,000 as more than a hundred deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
It has been six months since the coronavirus outbreak and the number of cases has surpassed 42, 04,614 in India. Now India is behind the USA which has registered 6.29 million COVID positive cases.
As per the COVID- 19 vaccine updates, “The Serum Institute of India (SII) paused clinical trials of AstraZeneca-Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate until the British drug maker restarts the process. The world’s biggest vaccine manufacturer in terms of volume said, “the situation is being reviewed and are pausing India trials for now”.
Till now, Brazil has registered 4.14 million cases with the official death toll being 126,650, as per the ministry data.By recording more number of fresh cases than Brazil, India has taken the second position after the US due to this highly infectious virus.
As per the Latest Updates of Covid 19 Vaccine, “the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said, “the Case Fatality rate (CFR) has reduced by 2% and is being on a continuous decline. Earlier, its CFR was 2.15 percent on August 1 and came out to be 1.72 percent on September 6”.
India’s five states are being accounted for more than 60 % of the total COVID cases in the country. Maharashtra is on the top, followed by Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu.The Health ministry stressed that more of the deaths occurred in older adults.
Although updates about COVID-19 continue evolving, one thing has not changed yet. The elder ones are still at high risk of developing this severe illness and death from coronavirus.
8 out of 10 COVID deaths being reported in the United States includes adult aged 65 years and older.
The most underlying conditions associated with the COVID-19 hospitalizations and death include a weakened immune system, type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, sickle cell disease, obesity, chronic kidney disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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