Vikrant Shekhawat : May 22, 2021, 06:10 PM
NEW DELHI: The Union health ministry on Saturday said that the Covid-19 situation is stabilising in the country with positivity rate, daily cases and active cases reducing. However, states like Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and 3 other states are reporting a high number of deaths.Here are the key points:There are only 7 states that are reporting more than 10,000 cases & 6 states with 5,000-10,000 cases.There are six states that are reporting a high number of deaths-- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, UP, Punjab and Delhi.Pandemic is stabilising in most parts of the country.The Covid positivity rate and active cases in the country is going down.There are more than 93 districts where declining case positivity is being noted.Covid-19 positivity rate has declined from 24.83% on May 10 to 12.45% on May 22.Though there is overall decline in case burden but Covid-19 positivity rate is still over 10% in 382 districts.Eight states have more than 1 lakh active Covid-19 cases while 18 states have over 15% positivity rate.Children can spread Covid-19 but they almost always have mild infection and mortality is very very low in them.Covishield wastage has reduced from 8% on March 1 to 1% now while Covaxin wastage has decreased from 17% to 4% in same period.So far there's no consensus at the level of World Health Organisation (WHO) over vaccine passports. Discussions are on if vaccinated people are allowed to travel. As of now, as per the WHO guidelines & guidelines by countries, people with negative Covid test reports are being allowed to travel.While talking about treating patients infected with black fungus, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, said that Amphotericin B was available in the country in limited supply. Its availability & supply is now being increased. Ministry of pharma is coordinating with the ministry of health for providing licenses to 5 additional manufacturers.