On Tuesday, 28 April, the Union Health Ministry and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) addressed the media on the state of COVID-19 in India.
“Our recovery rate from COVID-19 is 23.3 per cent, this is a progressive increase,” said Lav Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health.
The doubling rate of COVID-19 cases now stands at 10.2 days said the health ministry.
He adds, “The US’ FDA is looking at plasma therapy in an experimental sense as well.”
Aggarwal also spoke about their new guidelines for home isolation for “very mild or presymptomatic patients.”
On responding to a question about the alarming rise in healthcare worker infections, Aggarwal added that “all healthcare professionals need to take proper guidelines and precautions.”
However, he did not address the crux of the problem - the lack of PPEs that are putting frontline workers - and eventually, the rest of us - in danger.
Aggarwal added that the cases of reinfection need more data before making any conclusions.
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