WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday expressed his concern on the current situation in India and said, the situation in India, where Covid-19 cases have surged, is “beyond heartbreaking”, and the World Health Organization is sending extra staff and supplies there to help fight the pandemic.
Tedros told a briefing, “WHO is doing everything we can, providing critical equipment and supplies, including thousands of oxygen concentrators, prefabricated mobile field hospitals and laboratory supplies.”
To provide help and support the effort to fight the disease, the WHO has redeployed 2,600 staff members from other programmes in India, he said, citing figures provided last Friday.
However, in a marginal fall in India’s daily caseload of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), 323,144 new cases were detected across the country in the last 24 hours that took the total infection count in the country to 17,636,307, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare dashboard showed on Tuesday morning.
This is for the sixth straight day when more than 300,000 fresh infections were reported in the country, on April 22, since the country first topped the 300,000 mark when 314,835 cases tested positive. This is also the lowest single-day rise of more than 300,000 cases after the one on April 22.
India saw 2,771 deaths in the last 24 hours due to coronavirus disease which took the total death toll to 197,894 or 1.12% of the national tally, the ministry’s dashboard showed.
Talking about the total discharges 251,827 more people recovered from the infection, taking total recoveries to 14,556,209 or 82.53% of the overall caseload, as per the ministry’s data. New active cases, meanwhile, witnessed a significant fall of 68,546, taking total active cases to 2,882,204 which is 16.34%.
