New Delhi: There are more than 2 lakh 86 thousand cases of coronavirus in the country. At the same time, more than 8 thousand people have lost their lives. Meanwhile, the Central Government has said on Thursday that community transmission is definitely not happening in the country. Balaram Bhargava, director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), said that there is a lot of debate about the word ‘community spread’. This has been claimed in the daily press conference of the Ministry of Health.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that the sero-survey shows that steps taken to control lockdown and infection have been successful in controlling coronaviruses. In the 83 districts where sero-survey was done, there is evidence of 0.73 percent of the population’s first exposure to corona virus.
Earlier, according to the data released by the Ministry of Health on Thursday morning, the number of people infected with this virus in India has increased to 2,86,579. In the last 24 hours, 9,996 new cases of corona have been reported and 357 people have died. For the first time in the country, such a large number of corona cases and deaths have occurred in 24 hours. So far 8,102 people have died, although 1,41,029 patients have also been successful in beating the disease. There has been a slight increase in the recovery rate. It has reached 49.21 percent.
According to the central government, 52,13,140 sample tests have been done so far. In the last 24 hours, 1,51,808 sample tests were done. This is still the largest number of sample testing in a day. Its patients are coming from all the states of the country. There are many states, which were freed from this epidemic, but due to the entry of migrants in the state, they again fell into this infection.
