In a fresh update, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 scenario worldwide is worsening!
WHO said this exactly two days after the global tally touched the ‘highest so far’ at 136,000.
The Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there is a little hope across nations. However, the new concern is around ‘complacency’.
“More than 100,000 cases have been reported on nine of the past 10 days. Yesterday, more than 136,000 cases were reported — the most in a single day so far,” WHO noted in its latest release.
The global organization also informed that the rate of spread through asymptomatic carriers is rare.
“We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing. They are following asymptomatic cases, they are following contacts, and they are not finding secondary transmission onward. It’s very rare. Much of that is not published in the literature,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the global body’s technical lead for Covid-19, said in a statement.
Surprisingly, this statement contradicts the warnings by healthcare professionals, who have been claiming that ‘asymptomatic spread’ is a concern.
Globally, there are 7 million COVID-19 positive cases at present, with the US reporting the highest number (1.9 million), followed by Brazil (707,412), Russia (476,043), and the UK (288,834).
The virus has claimed 397,000 lives as per the latest figures and 3.1 million have recovered.
COVID-19 Scenario in India
India is in the fifth position with 267,046 positive cases, 130,451 active cases, a similar number of recoveries, and 7,473 deaths.
With India lifting lockdown restrictions, experts are expecting a further rise in cases in the country very soon.
Continuing with ‘9,000 cases per day’ trend for a week, the country saw close to 10,000 cases (9,987) and 337 deaths in the last 24 hours.
- Delhi Closer To 30K Mark
In a significant update, the Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has remained self-isolated after developing COVID-19 symptoms- sore throat and mild fever. Kejriwal will be tested for COVID-19 today.
With 1,007 new cases and 17 deaths in the last 24 hours, New Delhi’s COVID-19 positive cases tally reached 29,943, closer to the 30,000 mark.
- 99% ICU Occupancy in Mumbai
Mumbai, the worst-affected Indian city, reported 99 percent occupancy of ICU beds and 94 percent occupancy of ventilators across public and private hospitals.
According to government officials, hospitals are not following the protocols that recommend admission of only symptomatic patients, leaving room for critical patients.
In a first such meet since May 15, 2020, the Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan called for a video conference with Group of Ministers today at 10 AM.
