Kalimpong and Jalpaiguri record no case in 14 days....No case in 47 districts across 23 states

TNN | Apr 19, 2020, NEW DELHI: The health ministry on Saturday said a positive trend was emerging in 23 states due to lockdown and containment measures against Covid-19 outbreak undertaken by the central and state governments.

Around 47 districts from 23 states have reported no cases of Covid-19 in the last 14 days. Besides, 22 new districts from 12 states — which had earlier reported some districts with not even a single case for 14 days — have joined the list by not reporting any cases in 14 days led by Covid-19 containment efforts.

(KalimNews: While addressing the press health ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal stated that The implementation of the Action Plan is yielding good results in 23 States/UTs across 47 districts. Kodaggu (Karnataka) is a new district that has been added to this list along with Mahe (Puducherry) that has not reported any fresh cases during the last 28 days. 
22 new districts in 12 States have not reported any fresh cases during the last 14 days, which include: 
Jalpaiguri and Kalimpong in West Bengal 
Lakhisarai, Gopalganj, Bhagalpur in Bihar 
Dholpur& Udaipur in Rajasthan 
Pulwama in J& K 
Thoubal in Manipur 
Chitradurga in Karnataka 
Hoshiarpur in Punjab 
Rohtak & Charkhi Dadri in Haryana 
Lohit in Arunachal Pradesh 
Bhardak, Puri in Odisha 
Karimganj, Golaghta, Kamrup Rural, Nalbari & South Salmara in Assam 
Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. 
As of now, the mortality rate for COVID-19 is of 3.3%. 
Further analysis of the data indicates that out of the deceased: 
14.4% of people are 0-45 years age group 
10.3% 45 -60 years age group 
33.1% 60-75 years age group 
42.2% are from 75 years and above age group.
The data shows that 75.3% of the cases belong to above 60 yrs age category. Also it is seen that 83% of cases had co-morbidities. This brings to fore the earlier highlighted facts that elderly people and people with co-morbidities are at higher risk.
A total of 14,378 confirmed cases are reported for COVID-19 in the country. As many as 1992 persons i.e. is 13.82% of total cases have been cured/discharged after recovery.)

The government, however, said the battle against the disease was a difficult one and a single case can play the spoilsport.

“Our field-level action is yielding positive results. Along with Mahe in Puducherry, Kodagu in Karnataka, too, has not registered any new case in the last 28 days. Besides this, 45 other districts in 23 states have not registered any new case in the last 14 days,” health ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal said.

He added that three districts — Patna in Bihar, Panipat in Haryana and Nadia in West Bengal — which had earlier not shown any positive cases had registered new cases underlining that even a single case makes a significant difference while dealing with a highly contagious disease.

Agarwal added that a total of 1,992 people have been cured of the disease so far, and the overall cure percentage stood at 13.8%. He said 991 new positive cases reported over the last 24 hours had taken the total number of infections to 14,378, including 48 new deaths, which raised the death toll to 480 in the country.