New Delhi: Amid increasing Covid-19 numbers in India, the government has said the actual caseload of Covid-19 patients in the country is 3.31 lakh, or around a third (34.18%) of total 9.68 lakh cases detected so far.
According to the Union Health Ministry, it has been steadily declining. It said that the actual caseload of the disease has remained limited and manageable in the country due to proactive testing, tracking and containment measures.
Even with regard to the current Covid situation, two States — Maharashtra and Tamilnadu — constitute 48.15% of the country’s total active caseload. Ten states constitute 84.62% of the total active caseload.
According to the Ministry, the current caseload remains manageable because of “proactive measures of containment including house-to-house survey, perimeter control activities, timely contact tracing and surveillance of containment zones, aggressive testing and timely diagnosis of cases”.
Stating that te rising recovery rate that helped bring down mortality as well as active caseload, the government said from mid-June 2020 after crossing the 50 per cent mark in recovery rate, it said there is a steady increase in the number of recovered patients and decline in the number of active cases.