After nearly 100 days, India reported 44,111 new COVID-19 infections, with the active caseload dropping below 5 lakh.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported 44,111 new COVID-19 infections in India in the last 24 hours on Saturday (July 3, 2021).
With this, the country’s active caseload has fallen below five lakh after nearly 100 days, and now stands at 4,95,533.
In India, there were also 738 new coronavirus-related deaths and 57,477 recoveries. So far, 4,01,050 people have died and 2,96,05,779 people have been discharged in the country.
The national weekly positivity rate is now 2.50 percent, while the daily positivity rate and recovery rate are both 2.35 percent and 97.06 percent.
In response to the increased number of COVID-19 cases reported by these states, the Centre dispatched multi-disciplinary teams to Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Manipur earlier on Friday. These teams will assist them in their efforts to provide targeted COVID response and management, as well as effectively combat the pandemic.
A clinician and a public health expert make up the two-person high-level team sent to these states.
“The teams will visit the States immediately and monitor the overall implementation of COVID-19 management, particularly in testing, including surveillance and containment operations; COVID Appropriate Behaviour and its enforcement; availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen, and so on,” the Health Ministry stated.
The central teams will also assess the situation and make recommendations to the respective state governments on public health activities.
To date, over 34 crore vaccine doses have been administered in India. It should be noted that the Health Ministry approved the vaccination of pregnant women against COVID-19 on Friday.
