New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: The Union Health Ministry in its daily press briefing on Monday said that a total of 85 districts from 25 states and UTs have not reported any fresh coronavirus case in the last 14 days.
It added that India's 16 districts which earlier had COVID-19 cases have not reported any new case in the last 28 days.
"16 districts in the country which earlier had cases have not reported any fresh cases since last 28 days. The three new districts which got added to this list are — Gondia in Maharashtra, Devangere in Karnataka & Lakhi Sarai in Bihar," said Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry.
The Ministry of Health also said that at the level of ICMR we have sufficient amount of kits as far as RT PCR test is concerned. Not only sufficient amount of kits are available but we have also parallelly ensured geographical adequacy.
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Talking about plasma therapy, Agarwal went on to say that stigma regarding the pandemic should be addressed through an intensive campaign. We've to understand that there is no risk of transmission from recovered patients. They, in fact, can be a potential source of healing for antibodies using plasma therapy.
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He added that we should avoid spreading misinformation and panic. No community or area should be labelled for COVID19 spread. In particular, healthcare and sanitary workers or police should not be targeted as they are there to help us.
The ministry added that there is a rise of 1,396 cases in the last 24 hours since Sunday morning taking the total number of COVID-19 cases to 27,892 in India.
The ministry informed that 6,184 patients of COVID-19 have recovered, which is 22.17 per cent of total cases in the country.
The Health Ministry said that no community or area should be blamed for COVID-19 spread and healthcare and sanitation workers should not be targeted.
Meanwhile, the central government said that cooked meals are being served to 1.5 crore people daily by the government, NGOs, and others as per data available on April 25.
(with ANI inputs)