India on Thursday recorded its highest-yet daily rise of 83,883 new coronavirus cases as health officials flagged increases in average daily deaths in Delhi and Karnataka and high positivity rates among healthcare workers in six states.
Health ministry has urged states to check on hospital infection control practices and on the appropriate use of PPE.
The new cases have raised the country’s total number of lab-diagnosed cases to over 3.85 million, of whom over 2.97 million have recovered, 815,538 patients are under medical supervision and 67,376 have died, 1,043 over the past day.
“What we need ideally is a ward-by-ward analysis of new infections within cities — that will give a clearer picture of what is happening,” said Dileep Mavalankar, director of the Indian Institute of Public Health, Ahmedabad, and an infectious disease epidemiologist.
“In Dharavi, the number of new cases has fallen sharply,” Mavalankar said.
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